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Micro Trends

Uncorked Wine

For many people, choosing a wine is anything but black and white. A new variety of wine branding is working to change that.

Wine : Labels : Connoisseurs

Micro Trends

Expansionist Brands

At present, a key focus for many multinational brands is working out how they can enter and succeed in emerging markets. Most have yet to consider ...

Emerging Markets : Local Brands : Localism

Macro Trends

Post-purpose Brands

Pushing back against purpose-washing and jumping on the bandwagon, brands will embrace imperfection and focus on betterment. With more intuitive te...

Retail : Branding : Purpose

Markets

Third Space Retail

Brands are reshaping stores into branded third-space hubs, providing sanctuaries for creativity, community and culture.

Retail : Third Spaces : Community

Big Ideas

Cannes Lions 2013 Report: Part 1

Cannes – When rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs appeared at the world’s most prestigious advertising festival last week to discuss his new music platf...

Advertising : Dove : IBM

Micro Trends

Street Sport Rebels

Women across the world are taking to the streets and engaging in urban sports as a means of activism and self-empowerment.

Youth : Wellness : Female Futures

Daily Signals

Inclusive gaming and fashion blurs with dating

Xbox caters for the physically impaired, Helmut Lang facilitates online dating, Iceland pledges to plastic-free packaging.

Technology : Fashion : Food

Macro Trends

Post-growth Society

As our obsession with economic growth proves to be unsustainable, brands, institutions and consumers are seeking new metrics of progress.

Post-growth Society : GDP : Economics

Daily Signals

Milan Design Week daily recap: Creativity in cities and Tortona highlights

On day two, The Future Laboratory headed to Tortona Design District, which housed notable exhibitions from Ikea, Superstudio and Base.

Design

Markets

Banking the Unbanked

With about 2bn unbanked people worldwide, there is an opportunity and a need for brands to use advances in technology to create more inclusive fina...

FinTech : Digital : Banking

Micro Trends

Anti-social Sanctuaries

Reclaiming their liberation, affluent consumers are paying a premium for travel and dining services that promise total seclusion.

Luxury : Hospitality : Travel

Daily Signals

Nissan customers profit from surplus energy and more top stories

In today’s daily digest: the meaning behind the term ‘cage-free’, luxury platform offers personalised space, zine explores disenfranchisement and m...

Advertising : Food & Drink : Retail

Markets

Luxury Travel Futures Market – Overview

We are living in one of the most affluent eras the world has ever known. A new kind of wealth is being formed and defined, simultaneously cr...

HNWIs : UHNWIs : Wealthy

Podcasts

Podcast: Leila Fataar on Building Culture-Led Brands

In the latest episode of Back to the F**kture!, Leila Fataar, founder of Platform13 and author of Culture-Led Brands, discusses how brands can stay...

Podcast : Back To The F**kture : Culture

Podcasts

Podcast: NASA Harvest's Dr. Catherine Nakalembe

The Future Laboratory co-founder Martin Raymond speaks with Dr Catherine Nakalembe, Africa programme director at NASA Harvest, scientist, remote se...

Podcast : Society : Back To The F**kture

Viewpoints

Why we travel – and maybe why we shouldn’t

Next time a consumer has the impulse to travel, they should think twice about their reasons why, and their impact, says Bani Amor.

Travel : Culture : Spirituality

Micro Trends

Chat Fiction

Our smartphone addiction is informing a new way of reading.

Digital : Youth : Media

Daily Signals

Dutch Design Week 2015: Tree reconfigured

Eindhoven – Studio Thomas Vailly has ripped a Pinus Pinaster tree apart to create alternative man-made objects.

Dutch Design Week 2015 : Studio Thomas Vailly : Raw Material

Micro Trends

3DIY Culture

With free access to information, and a new norm of open-sourcing, a new type of DIY culture is on the rise. This is 3DIY – Design/Download/Do-It-Yo...

Design : Puma Creative Factory : Thing-O-Matic

Markets

Neighbourhood Tourism Market

With the hospitality sector forced to accept a long-term drop in tourism, it's turning its attention towards local citizens.

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

Viewpoints

Immigrant populations will drive the future of tech

Anne Kjaer Riechert, co-founder of the ReDI School of Digital Integration, on rethinking the narrative around displaced people and the opportunitie...

Technology : Digital : Integration

Big Ideas

Georgina Johnson on the fashion industry’s mental health problem

The designer and founder of The Laundry discusses the industry’s damaging culture of overwork and why fashion education needs to be refo...

Fashion : Retail : Wellness

Big Ideas

The tech being developed to address Bitcoin’s failings

As Bitcoin fails to live up to many of its promises, emerging technologies aim to address the cryptocurrency’s shortcomings and usher in a new era ...

Finance : FinTech

Viewpoints

Neil Gershenfeld : A new industrial revolution is on the way

Professor Neil Gershenfeld, MIT, talks about a new industrial revolution that is on the way.

Brandtocracies : Neil Gershenfeld : Center For Bits And Atoms

Big Ideas

Cannes Lions 2014: Design, Cyber, Product Design, Press and Radio awards

The third series of Cannes Lions awards marked out the compelling and beautifully crafted.

Cannes Lions 2014 : Digital Marketing : Product Design

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