Design

For designers looking to add good vibes to any project, the Karma Collection may be just the thing to add lively or calm energy to a space, depending on the design vision. Karma’s whimsical colorations work in perfect harmony with one another, with warm complementing cool.

We’ve noticed something happening in the contract textile world that is delightful and exciting. Fabric designers are drawing from the deepest parts of what makes us human to create designs that are destined to last and feel fresh as long as the fabrics themselves.

New from the Arc-Com Design Studio, the award-winning Foundation Collection featuring INCASE Crypton Technology is an example of the kinds of thoughtful, conceptual performance textiles we’re seeing for 2018. We’re calling the trend “full circle architecture,” where concepts from historical architecture are transformed into fabric that in turn get installed inside new architecture. […]

In the groundbreaking book, Textile Technology and Design: From Interior Space to Outer Space, contributing essayist Alexa Griffith Winton explores the evolving role of textiles as “an interstitial interface” in the context of contemporary design practice “in which advanced computational and fabrication technologies combine to create textiles capable of both reacting to their surrounding environs and responding to their inhabitants.”

One of the most exciting trends in contract fabric is a move toward intense, distinctive colors and exciting patterns. This new trend breaks through all of the myths about design limitations with contract performance fabrics.

A profile of one of the industry’s most prolific and proficient product designers also reviews the Stacy Garcia Textiles Composition Collection.

Crypton offers tips and solutions for building a portfolio and social feeds with great architectural and design photography and other visual assets.

The latest on diversity and inclusiveness in design from around the web. New furniture and lighting, new AIA policies, and delightfully diverse scalies.

Five design-minded Instagram accounts to follow if you want to be inspired. Crypton seeks out the best of architecture, design, art and inspiring ideas.

Performance textile experts, Crypton, impart their renowned technology to a NEW line of Architex contract fabrics that tell a story of community.