Forward Thinking

Forward Thinking 2024

Our latest annual Forward Thinking series looks ahead to the coming 12 months, exploring seven visual trends set to shape the year, examining the rise of analogue design techniques, surveying how graphic design for sport is transforming, and seeing how emerging technology might impact creative projects, plus offering a handy creative survival guide to get the year started right.

Supported by AKQA.

Forward Thinking 2023

Our third annual Forward Thinking series looked toward to a new era of design on the horizon, to uncover the trends and topics, worries and wonders that might be in store for the creative community in 2023.

Forward Thinking 2022

As we embarked on a new year full of potential and hope in 2022, the second edition of Forward Thinking looked at the global creative industry’s ambitions and predictions for the 12 months ahead.

Forward Thinking 2021

The first edition of Forward Thinking launched after the tumultuous year that was 2020, and looked to explore how creatives might face the fresh start of 2021 with (cautious) optimism, bolstered by its strengthened community.

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