Editorial
Editorial
Soft Design
Aesthetic Experience at the Intersection of Materials, Technology and Interaction
Hot of the press by Routledge in 2025, soft Design explores an emerging design language of emotional aesthetics that merges emotive and sensory design with ancient and new technology to create multidimensional and multisensorial experiences.
soft Design integrates tangible and intangible expression of the aesthetic experience with scientific research. Chapters span the physical, hybrid and digital realms discussing varied topics such as Biodesign, thermal comfort, spatial materiality, responsive architecture, soundscapes, geometry and Biogeometry, digital materiality, artificial intelligence and language, and the age of Meta, among many others.
Chapters also include featured interviews with Lachlan Turczan, Tarun Raj, and Mario Carrillo to bring the design concepts to life. While leveraging advanced technology, soft Design is an encompassing approach to aesthetics, advocating for wellbeing, neuroinclusivity, synchrony with nature, and stronger alignment with the entire sensorial spectrum of the human experience.
CMF Design
The Fundamental Principles of Colour, Material & Finish Design
With 3 sold out editions since its debut in 2016, CMF Design is a best-seller book globally and the best-selling title in Frame Publishers’ history.
Introducing the CMF process and detailing the areas of colour, finish and material design, this book is a valuable source of information about this emerging professional discipline and its fundamental principles. The discipline of CMF design focuses on designing and specifying colours, materials and finishes to support both functional and emotional attributes of products.
Only when the perfect balance between visual beauty and functional performance is achieved, can a product provide a consistent and successful user experience. The work in CMF design combines aesthetics and practical knowledge of materials and technologies with intangible human perceptions of value. While this area of design expertise is increasingly in demand, consumer product manufacturers have an enhanced awareness of its great potential for diversifying product portfolios to create a sense of novelty and higher value propositions.