What Inspiration Can Exhibitors Draw From Trends Across Materials?
Inspiration from trends across materials:
What Inspiration can Exhibitors draw from trends across materials?
In the full report, explore tangible exhibition ideas for the pharmaceutical, aerospace and aesthetic beauty industries.
Ready to see how these trends can transform your industry exhibits?
1. Textiles
2. Plastics
3. Wood
4. Glass
5. Ceramics
Textiles
Textiles offer a flexible medium to bring forward storytelling and amplified creative expression.
Someone Somewhere, worked with Adidas and a local Mexico based social enterprise, to bring heritage and craftmanship to sports attire. The football shirt shown in the top left is created for the Mexican national team, featuring artisan-embroided details.
Image credit: Someone Somewhere x Adidas
Plastic
Driving innovation to make planet-positive products, creatives are looking at how plastic can be re-used, turning waste into resource.
TileGreen, take plastics that are difficult to recycle and classed as waste, and turn them into pragmatic solutions for other industries. These tiles shown top left used to be single-use plastic bags that are now a concrete alternative in the construction industry. They can be used for roofs, paving tiles, and brick and beams.
Image credit: TileGreen
Wood
The rustic quality of the materials keeps textures, knots, defects and varying colourways as defining features of nature at play.
University of Struttgart blends flax fibre and wood to create a bio-based construction, demonstrating how timber consumption could be reduced by leveraging other fast-growing natural materials.
Image credit: Yves Saint Laurent Beauty
Glass
Sustainability goals in the beauty industry are centred around reducing waste and collecting data on the manufacturing process.
Forever Studio lean into a feminine direction. This is created through gentle pink tints and floral detailing paired with opulent cuts.
Image credit: Forever Studio
Ceramic
The rustic and raw beauty that comes with ceramics, is the reason it’s featured in this month’s trends analysis.
Jacopo Lupi creates an AquaArida tabletop, crafted from irregular cut stoneware tiles, top middle.
Image credit: Jacopo Lupi
Key Learnings
Materials for Inspiration
By borrowing inspiration from the various material trends, exhibitors in pharmaceuticals, aesthetic beauty, and aerospace can elevate their booth designs into experiential and educational destinations. Textiles, ceramic, and wood are not just having a popular moment - they’re materials intrisic to individuals’ lives that can spark the imagination at your exhibition stand to create a lasting impressions.