If you missed this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week 2024 – fear not, we’ve pulled together our top five special moments and takeaways from an eventful three days of talks, workshops and tours. Milliken’s Berry Street Showroom was a celebration of colour, pattern and floral abundance as we welcomed hundreds of people through the doors to experience the launch of Milliken’s latest carpet tile and plank collections. With colourful insights and inspirational pattern, the packed programme was designed to stimulate all the senses.

Tracing Landscapes, originally launched in 2018, has proved to be one of Milliken’s most popular carpet tile collections. Leap forward 6 years’ and so much has changed in the world of work and colour trends that Milliken’s design and marketing team decided to take a fresh look at the collection and relaunch it with a new palette of colours.

Painted Garden is a British designed and made carpet plank collection. Milliken’s in-house design team took as their starting point elements of the art and nature to create a delicate imaginative  result.

Millitron® patterning technology has been evolving since it was first engineered over 50 years ago and revolutionised the world of commercial flooring. Today, the patented carpet design system is a high-tech, digital colour placement process which, in its latest incarnation, is opening up exciting new possibilities for Milliken’s global design team.

Making the office a place where people really want to be can prove challenging for many employers in today's hybrid-working landscape. Creating a physical environment where they feel stimulated, will thrive, feel mentally positive and consistently productive can go a long way to achieving this.

As the V&A prepares to close its doors and the last of its visitors hold their golden tickets to catch the final dates, the Christian Dior – Design of Dreams exhibition must have been its most successful exhibition to date. Standing alongside the Alexander McQueen – Savage Beauty exhibition of 2015, it marks the public’s obsession with fashion, history, brands and the snowball effect of our must-see culture.

What better place to seek out and support new design talent than at New Designers 2019. Milliken’s Senior Designers, Claire Kimble and Helen Lloyd spent an inspiring day perusing the work of some of the most talented graduate design students from across the country.

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London Design Festival celebrates and promotes London as the design capital of the world. Over the course of the eight days, there are numerous design districts throughout London that hold hidden gems within curated design venues, all opening their doors to the public, presenting exhibitions, installations, talks and statement design products all designed to inspire. This year’s Design Festival immersed us with installations that were interactive, designed for the landscapes and environments they sit within and products that were as much about the environment as they were good design.

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The b-word ‘biophilia’ has become the latest buzzword to enter the vocabulary of architects and designers alike as we’re slowly seeing the transformation of workspaces changing from grey to green with the introduction of plants, foliage and living walls.

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It could be said that we explore colour throughout our daily lives. Living with and through colour affects all that we are as individuals. 

Our personalities, our mood, our thoughts, what we eat, how we feel, our choices and sometimes our desires. Colour creates memories, ideas, perceptions, it plays with light, pattern, shape and form.