How Contemporary Latine Culture is Influencing Kids Product Design for 2025

Our 2025 Macro Trend, Colourful Revolt, focuses on the celebration of diversity. This vibrant trend reflects a growing desire for a wider range of voices in children’s storytelling. As a result, children’s products serve as important visual cues, offering both windows into different cultures and mirrors for self-reflection, allowing young audiences to appreciate and celebrate global diversity. 

The cultural influence of this trend will reach far beyond 2025, but in the coming year, we will see specific design elements and narrative shifts that shape how children engage with global storytelling. As Latin America emerges as a key source of inspiration, how can designers and creators celebrate contemporary Latine culture with authenticity, vibrancy, and nuance? 

As explored in our Spring Summer 2025 trend, Market Street (originally published in 2023), children are introduced to the vibrant and artisanal design of Latin America.  

The hustle and bustle of food markets provides a familiar setting for children around the world. Roaming stall-lined streets, immersive play experiences mimic the sensorial qualities of the market. Through this exploration, little ones are introduced to the tactile textures of new and unusual fruits. 

Placing authentic artisanship at the forefront of design, products pair traditional weaving and building techniques with bold, contemporary forms and vibrant colour. Hand-built ceramics and papier-maché techniques inspire shape for play, feeding and decor items, with glossy surfaces highlighting their unique imperfections.

Sun-Soaked Summer Shades 

Dopamine-inducing brights are paired with bursts of fresh and juicy pastel hues to create energising combinations. Deep, rich, earthy tones signify the continued importance of naturally derived colours, harmonising with saturated hues and offering trans-seasonal appeal. 

Graphic Weaves 

Displaying a variety of artisanal techniques, graphically decorated woven surfaces inspire everything from lighting and storage to toys and trinkets.  

Vibrantly coloured strands intertwine with layers of yarns, rattan, repurposed plastics, and acrylic-coated papers, creating intriguing textured surfaces; perfect for small hands to explore. Bold blocks of colour, along with vivid grid, stripe, and zig-zag patterns, form distinctively dynamic designs. Woven amorphous structures are brought to life with hairy trims, stacked geometric blocks or hand-painted abstract characters.

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