Behaviours

Everything you need to face your future consumer with confidence, including the latest ethnographic research, generational insight, consumer-related stats and overarching human needs.

Paradigms 2024: Future of Branding

Brand storytelling and the evolving definition of creativity were hot topics as well-known and emerging designers gathered in Rome to determine the future of branding

Markets

The Rise of Inclusive Travel 

From inclusive cultural learning to accessible work and play, successful travel design must have people with disabilities at the forefront

Markets

State of Luxury: Singapore

Rising disposable income and affluence amongst Singaporeans, along with high-spending international business and leisure travellers, are boosting Singapore’s luxury outlook

Big Ideas

Paris Fashion Week SS25

Cutting through the chaos and overwhelming nature of fashion month, we distil the key insights from Paris Fashion Week

Big Ideas

Material Matters 2024

Material Matters 2024 edition didn’t disappoint in highlighting innovative material intelligence

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Travel & Hospitality

The future of the travel and hospitality sector is a challenging one, but those brands and services that allow individuals to enjoy the human quali...

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Drink

The beverage industry will increasingly see a wave of decolonisation, with new spirits brands emerging from regions like Africa and countries like ...

Drink : Sustainability : Packaging

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Future Forecast 2023: Food

The post-Covid rush to be out, meet people and eat out has faded, dampened by rising living costs and global financial turmoil, which is set to con...

Food : Sustainability : Technology

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Health & Wellness

Our mental wellbeing has become just as important as our physical wellbeing. In 2023, both brands and their physical spaces will increasingly addre...

Health : Wellness : Technology

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Beauty

In 2023, the beauty sector will simultaneously embrace hyperphysical experiences and the growing potential of digital and dual-reality identities.

Beauty : Wellness : Technology

Markets

Grandpeers Market

In a mindset shift among older consumers, grandparents are becoming grandpeers, sharing platforms with their grandchildren and keen to collaborate.

Society : Technology : Health

Big Ideas

Retail’s New UX Sustainability Hubs

As consumer demand for value-driven retail increases, a new wave of Hyperphysical Stores offering sustainability-focused customer experiences are c...

Retail : Sustainability : Fashion

Big Ideas

Supermarkets in 2050

In just 30 years, we can expect supermarkets to facilitate bio-hacking, offer store-grown personalised foods and provide planet-friendly recommenda...

Food : Health : Wellness

Markets

State of Luxury: South Korea

With rising wealth and digital fluency in its younger demographics, South Korea is well positioned as one of Asia’s most exciting and innovative gr...

Luxury : Fashion : Art

Big Ideas

Five Innovators Empowering Football Activism

With the 2022 FIFA World Cup under way, change-makers are using football as a platform for protest and progress.

Youth : Sports & Leisure : Society

Markets

Gen Z Digital Wellness Market

Digitally native Generation Z go online to learn, play, socialise, but also to heal and open up, and this is giving rise to platforms supporting we...

Youth : Wellness : Mental Health

Big Ideas

Five Luxury Fashion Brands Advancing Biotechnology

Luxury fashion houses are increasingly recognising the potential of biotechnology and experimenting with bio-textiles for a more sustainable future.

Fashion : Technology : Luxury

Markets

Perimenopause Care-munities Market

Shifting attitudes are transforming the perimenopause into a force for collective health, highlighting the life stage as interconnected with, and s...

Women's Health : Health And Wellness : Society

Big Ideas

Dutch Design Week 2022: Designing a Better Future

Creatives at Dutch Design Week 2022 confronted the critical topics of today to envisage a better tomorrow.

Dutch Design Week 2022 : Society : Technology

Markets

Women’s Health: India

India’s women’s wellness and femtech industry is coming of age, giving rise to activist brands and new opportunities for women’s health.

Health & Wellness : Society : Womens Futures

Big Ideas

Dutch Design Week 2022: Expedition Æqualis by Dutch Invertuals

We round up the five best research projects exhibited at design collective Dutch Invertuals’ Expedition Æqualis, which aims to rebalance society’s ...

Dutch Design Week 2022 : Society : Sustainability

Markets

Teen Fashion Market

Brands are re-imagining teen fashion with engaging activations spanning physical retail and the metaverse as the sector undergoes a global resurgence.

Youth : Fashion : Retail

Markets

Perimenopause Wellness Market

New approaches to the perimenopause are being defined by self-directed and personalised lifestyle choices, with holistic health solutions encompass...

Health & Wellness : Society : Sports & Leisure

Big Ideas

Why Brands are Building Archives

Once the domain of museums and libraries, consumers and collectors are building – and selling – their own archives. Now, brands are looking for a w...

Luxury : Fashion : Technology

Behaviours

Emerging Youth: The Philippines

A locally aware and globally minded Filipino youth culture is emerging and ready to lead the country into the future.

Youth : Technology : Web3