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Your on-tap, flexible design team.
Hiring an in-house team is no small investment. Gaël Blake Design makes perfect business sense, enabling you to tap into the best expertise as needed for commercial flexibility and access top talent when you need it.
With services ranging from trend forecasting to product design, we offer a unique end-to-end package that helps our clients gain a competitive advantage.
Design Trends: Innovation & Inspiration
We embrace innovation and are passionate about staying at the forefront of design trends. We draw inspiration from many resources to create fresh, cutting-edge designs that inspire both our clients and their customers – while still having a timeless appeal.
We make it our mission to stay up to date with the latest interior design trends by attending the best design shows and keeping up to date with the latest industry launches. Our goal is to provide you with valuable insight into what’s new and what’s next.
We understand the importance of staying ahead of the competition and remaining relevant.
Our Trend process:
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We keep up with industry news, track the latest product launches, and gather insights from leading trend publications. We also visit top home and interior retail stores regularly.
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In pursuit of what’s new and what’s next, we regularly attend the hottest interior design shows to provide you with on-the-pulse trend insight.
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We are experts in extracting the most relevant research and insights for your business. We build unique trend packs full of visual inspiration, including an overview of mood, referenced colour palettes, key materials, and focused ideas to inspire your product development.
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Our trend presentations will bring to life the overall vision and guide your business on how to apply the trend insights to design a seasonal collection or art direct your whole brand.
We can also host collaborative workshops bringing to life the research and inspiring your business.
Explore our tailored design process
Design Strategy
Having a design strategy that aligns with your business objectives can help you plan ahead and keep the creative process focused. We can work with you to generate key objectives to clarify your aspirations.
We offer specialist advice on range planning, rationalising your essential offer and identifying key opportunities in order to reach new audiences.
Product Design
We aim to inspire, creating designs that will be loved and become the backdrop to real lives.
Let us own the process for you - from the idea ,sketch, manufacturing to showroom, and everything in between. We will work with you to drive ideas into quality-designed products that your customers will love.
How it works: Our design process
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Identify the project goal and agree on the creative direction.
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from initial sketch ideas to full 3D CAD designs/ renders.
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We collaborate to agree on the right design concepts to take forward.
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Agree on product materials/finishes, prepare technical drawings, and issue detailed brief packs.
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We can connect you to our global network of suppliers and manufacturers, helping bring our design concepts to life.
We also can work with you helping liaise directly with your manufacturers.
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From initial sample to final product sign off and everything in between. We support throughout the initial prototype to preparing for final approval.