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Bubble Design

Using childish shapes to evoke jovial, more carefree mentalities

Implications - Shapes and symbols that appealed to us as children evoke a sense of play we often miss in our earnest adult lives. Integrating forms like bubbles into design speaks to this innate desire, forming a subconscious affinity for the product, and creating an emotional bond with the consumer.
Trend Themes
1. Childish Shape Design - Designers are using shapes and symbols that appealed to our childhood sense of play, creating emotional bonds with consumers.
2. Interactive Advertisements - Campaigns that involve the target audience in their delivery create an added level of involvement and improve message retention.
3. Sustainable Materials in Design - Products made from eco-friendly and sustainable materials are gaining popularity due to consumers' interest in being money and eco-conscious while also expressing their personal style.
Industry Implications
1. Design - Designers can incorporate elements of childishness and playfulness in their work, creating emotional connections or a sense of nostalgia among consumers.
2. Advertising - Using unconventional techniques, interactive advertisements break through the clutter and improve engagement with the target audience.
3. Fashion - Young and trendy consumers appreciate sustainable and eco-friendly materials in fashion pieces, making them a popular choice among designers and brands alike.
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329,494 Total Clicks
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Jan 08 — Sep 08
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Featured Examples

Popping Fashion
Popping Fashion
BubbleBody Wedding Dress
Nobody can resist bubble wrap. It’s practical and fun to play with. So why not design some clothes made from this fun material? BubbleBodyWear is for those who enjoy touches… or crave... MORE
Interactive Bubble Wrap Ads
Interactive Bubble Wrap Ads
Shiatsu Massage Poster
I love interactive campaigns that involve the target audience in their mechanism and delivery. This Kofukan Shiatsu massage campaign is a great example of simple yet creative hands-on advertising that… MORE
Champagne Inspired Buildings
Champagne Inspired Buildings
The Bubble Windows of Dubai's Pixel Tower
Where else but Dubai would you get a champagne inspired tower? The 18-story Pixel Tower by James Law Cybertecture, which is planned for Dubai's Waterfront, is inspired by the moving bubbles in a champagne… MORE
Guerrilla Gardening
Guerrilla Gardening
'Bloom' Seed Spreading by Bicycle
The ‘Bloom’ bicycle device, an entry in the Design21: Power to the Pedal competition, did not win the contest but the judges wanted to give a ‘shout-out’ to the designers anyway, and I can see… MORE
Saliva Art
Saliva Art
Spit Photogram Prints
Artist and instructor, Jessica Jane Julius, tries to make something socially disgusting like "discarded body fluid" into something beautiful. She shines light through her saliva onto light sensitive… MORE
Bubble Baubles
Bubble Baubles
Sabine Lang Jewelery
This summer, ‘Bubbles’ could be the perfect beach accessory; they’re fresh, subtle and airy. Sabine Lang’s collection of frothy jewelery includes earrings, necklaces and... MORE
Bubble Photography
Bubble Photography
Jason Tozer's Mystery Planets
Perhaps these photographs look like some weird and wonderful unexplored planets, however, they are not. Initially I thought they were marbles, but as I scrolled though the stunning spherical shapes I realized… MORE
Bubble LEDs
Bubble LEDs
White Balloons Lamp
LEDs produce more light per watt than incandescent bulbs. This is an LED white balloon (light emitting diodes) lamp which is very, very attractive. The lamp is made of polypropylene which is a plastic… MORE
Urban Olfactory Installation
Urban Olfactory Installation
AIR Lets You Smell Helsinki, Budapest, Paris.
This urban olfactory installation is by far one of the most phenomenal travel-related concepts I've seen. Think for a second what Italy might smell like, or Bombay or Amsterdam. No, it's not the smell… MORE
Giant Gum Bubbles
Giant Gum Bubbles
Big Babol Ads
I must have invested hours as a kid trying to blow big, pink bubbles with my chewing gum. I could blow small ones, and every once in a while I managed a big one, but it never lasted long enough to be captured… MORE