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Sponsorship Futures

Current estimates show that despite recession and the ensuing collapse in advertising expenditure, worldwide spending on sponsorship and related ac...

Sponsorship : Emotional Economy : Red Bull

Markets

AI Optimism Market

Pushing back on doom, dive into the AI boom’s potential to make consumers healthier, more productive and equal.

AI : Creativity : Technology

Micro Trends

Membership Retail

A wave of apparel brands are shunning mass selling in favour of membership models, in turn reducing product waste and cultivating stronger communit...

Retail : Memberships : Loyalty

Big Ideas

Five Future Home Scenarios for 2050

As the climate crisis escalates, our population ages, and the way we live is reshaped by new technologies and materials, our homes will look very d...

Society : Sustainability : Health And Wellness

Markets

Asian Urban Farming Market

Concerns about food security, climate change and loss of livelihood are re-affirming urban farming as a model for sustainable living in Asia’s me...

Sustainability : Urban Farming : Food

Markets

Chocolate Market

Despite climate change threatening supply chains, the chocolate sector is thriving, with product innovation fuelling regional flavours and free-fro...

Food : Sustainability : Supply Chains

Markets

Modest Wear Market 2019

Beyond luxury apparel, fashion brands and retailers are winning over modern Muslim customers with new iterations of modest clothing.

Fashion : Sport : Leisure

News

M-commerce goes bricks-and-mortar, interactive typography made for AR

Depop helps users grow their brand, Sensei prioritises nutrition over yield of crops, Nike creates a retail destination for women.

Retail

Markets

Global Spirits Market

The landscape of the global spirits market reveals changing consumer tastes, highlighting the desire for more premium products and sophisti...

Drinks : Alcohol : Spirits

Markets

Tech Market: Part 2

How are artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and virtual reality technologies reshaping consumer lives?

Digital Culture : AI Learning : VR

Communities

Shanghai Singles

Unmarried women in their late twenties or older are often derogatorily called sheng nu or ‘leftover women’ in Chinese society, implying that they’v...

The Girly Girl : Dafang Chai : The Multi-Tasker

Communities

Beauty Mavericks

The Beauty Mavericks have gone their own way, creating their own products and services to cater for their specific beauty needs.

Inclusive Beauty : Neutral Culture : Curl Power

Markets

Food Austerity Innovators

Global events are causing widespread disruption to the food sector, with innovators and start-ups helping to assuage rising prices and abating supp...

Food : Drink : Society

Markets

Emerging Youth: AfroLATAM

Despite historical socio-economic disadvantages, Black Latin Americans are making themselves heard through a unique sense of unity and resilience.

Youth : Media : Workplace

Big Ideas

Five Ways Sports Fandom is Going Virtual

As sports events are revived, brands are bouncing back with immersive digital innovations that bring fans closer to their teams than ever before.

Media : Technology : Sports

Markets

Emerging Youth: Poland

Despite living under an ultra-conservative government, Polish youth are gaining the strength to fight for feminist and LGBTQ+ rights by increasingl...

Youth : Nightlife : Activism

Big Ideas

Design Miami/ 2014 Preview

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Design Miami/ fair promises an incomparable selection of international galleries.

Art Basel Miami Beach : Jonathan Muecke : Neo-Kitsch

Communities

Delhi Revivalists

A creative mela, or festival, is taking off in New Delhi’s Hauz Khaz Village. Alternative designers, fashionistas and foodies are putting their own...

Food : Tea Room Traditionalist : Typo-Preservist

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Luxury

Luxury is once more becoming exclusive, guilded and hyper-curated. It is also about assets that can be traded and traced in digital as well as phys...

Luxury : Fashion : Retail

Markets

Premium Homeware Market

Following a year of pandemic nesting, premium brands are seizing upon homeware to elevate comfort and style, and bring artisanal goods home.

Luxury : Retail : Design

Communities

Diet Hackers

Consumers entering a post-functional relationship with food and drink are seeking to build resilience and find balance.

Communities : Food And Drink

Big Ideas

An Uncertain Future

In the run-up to the General Election, four diverse British consumers from across the country discuss how a year of sociopolitical upheaval has aff...

General Election 2017 : An Uncertain Future : Brexit

Big Ideas

Frieze London 2016: Top 10

Artists at Frieze London 2016 explored the links between third-stage globalisation, new forms of media technology and political turmoil.

Frieze London 2016 : The Dislocated World : Turbulent Teens

Design Directions

Möbius Design Studio: Visual Communication

As part of a new wave of design talent across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the all-female Möbius Design Studio is paving the w...

Dubai : MENA : Graphic Design

Viewpoints

The youth voices of Intersectional Environmentalism

With one-size-fits-all sustainability goals excluding people of colour, Gen Z are combining social justice with environmental activism.

Youth : Sustainability : Intersectionality

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