Explore five major design anniversaries being celebrated in 2025 and find fresh inspiration for your design research.
Whether you’re gathering graphics on Google Images, identifying ideas on Insta or pulling pictures together on Pinterest, it’s easy to get stuck revisiting the same wells of design inspiration so often that they run dry. One simple way to bring fresh direction to your design research sessions is to look at creative brands celebrating major anniversaries this year.
Investigating a source you wouldn’t normally look at will give you new influences to draw upon and help you make unexpected but fruitful connections. Here are five major design anniversaries being celebrated in 2025, along with suggestions for places to start should you choose to research a movement, brand or product in more detail.29 April 1925 saw the opening in Paris of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, a seven-month expo that showcased contemporary design. The ‘Arts Décoratifs’ in the name came to be shorthanded as Art Deco, and a movement was born. Primarily focused on three-dimensional objects (architecture, interiors, furniture and jewellery) over paintings and posters, Art Deco explored the tension between the efficiency of industrial manufacturing and the human desire for beauty. Designers would explore ways to make items both functional and aesthetic – frequently through the use of premium materials, from exotic woods and mother-of-pearl to manmade chrome and steel. Purely decorative elements like patterns weren’t rejected outright, but they’d often be starkly geometric or minimalist to suggest mechanical efficiency.is celebrating 100 years of Art Deco in Liverpool this March, with tours of local Art Deco landmarks and a Centenary BallSega was a constant presence in my youth, which was intertwined with the early history of video games. I can still remember the kinetic charge I felt when I saw the first Sonic games on a friend’s MegaDrive – that overwhelming mix of speed and colour.Daily design news, reviews, how-tos and more, as picked by the editors.Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors The company’s roots actually reach back into the slot machine market of the 1940s and 1950s, but Sega became incorporated in 1960; its name is a contraction of ‘Service Games’, one of the firms it bought in its early days. After importing and distributing slot machines, jukeboxes and pinball tables, Sega started to create its own mechanical games, which naturally led it into the nascent videogame industry of the late 1970s. Early hits included Head On and the all-time classic Frogger. Sega swiftly moved into hardware, manufacturing both arcade machines and home game consoles. After a few early attempts, most notably the Master System, its breakthrough console was the MegaDrive (marketed as the Genesis in the US). Respectable sales on launch exploded when the first Sonic game was bundled with the device. Subsequent consoles like the Saturn won devoted followings but failed to ignite the mass market, and 1999’s Dreamcast proved to be Sega’s final console before it shifted into developing games forand PC. You can still relive Sega’s glory days with its MegaDrive/Genesis Mini consoles, which package dozens of classic games in compact versions of its biggest seller – we have Play some of Sega’s best games, including the original Sonic, Crazy Taxi and Super Monkey Ball, on your phone. Take a look atWith its immediately recognisable geometric patterns, the Spirograph drawing kit is a fond childhood memory for many, but the distinctive look of its graphics still feels futuristic. It’s so compelling to try different combinations of wheels and frames, just to see what comes out once you’ve twirled your pen around a few times. Spirograph was the invention of British engineer Denys Fisher, who used the proceeds of his firm’s components contracts with NATO to develop his first prototype, with the help of Meccano pieces. He showed Spirograph at 1965’s Nuremburg Toy Fair, and sales took off from there. You can still get the original Spirograph templates (with putty to hold the frames in place, rather than the pins used in early sets) or choose from a variety of extended versions. After the success of Spirograph, Denys Fisher Toys expanded into other activities for kids and families, including a roster of board games based on 1970s TV series like On The Buses, and its licensed edition of that other classic of childhood creativity, Etch A Sketch.Computers had already begun to supplant traditional animation techniques by the mid-1990s: Disney’s The Rescuers Down Under, celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2025, heavily used computers to replicate the cel-based animation look, and 3D software was regularly being used to create animation shorts. But 1995’s Toy Story was produced with a whole new level of ambition altogether, and transformed how animators use computer
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