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Micro Trends

Intelligent Gaming

Content creators are looking to different forms of media as a way to contextualise and intellectualise video games.

Gaming : Ubisoft : Video Games

Big Ideas

Four key themes from Web Summit 2018

At this year's Web Summit, loneliness emerged as the next frontier in health and wellness, while technology companies showed how they are working t...

Technology : Health & Wellness : Retail

Daily Signals

No-frills lingerie and the rise of Chinese football fandom

Everlane counters overly sexualised underwear, Manchester United combines football and manga, ASOS champions diverse sizing.

Retail : Fashion : Finance

Daily Signals

Friday’s headlines including a retail model based on social media data

In today’s daily digest: The future of online grocery shopping, HBO enables users to influence tv narrative, a mixed-reality fashion experience and...

Fashion : Media : Food & Drink

Design Directions

Dutch Design Week 2016: Design Directions

At this year’s event, bold aesthetic treatments weredictated by challenging visions of the future, from technological utopias to alternativerealities.

Dutch Design Week 2016

Markets

Indian Nuptials Re-imagined

From the rise of wed-tech to eco-conscious ceremonies and higher levels of customisation, consumers are saying ‘I do’ to a new kind of Indian wedding.

India : Indian Wedding : Wedding Ceremony

Micro Trends

Archi-tainment

A new generation of transformative structures focused on next-level entertainment experiences are set to influence commercial, public and third spa...

Design : Architecture : Spatial Design

Macro Trends

Recuperative Living

In the aftermath of Covid-19, consumers’ collective concerns about hygiene, wellbeing and immunity will drive new directions in beauty and wellness...

Beauty : Health : Wellness

Daily Signals

Chanel’s Lipscanner digitises beauty discovery

The luxury brand has unveiled a new mobile app, Lipscanner, which uses augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate at-hom...

Beauty : Technology : Retail

Micro Trends

Friend Bots

Brands are combining artificial intelligence with anthropomorphic design to create robots that offer friendship on demand.

Neo-Kinship : Kuri : Gatebox

Daily Signals

The new normal: Forum celebrates the steady rise of luxury

London – Yesterday The Future Laboratory welcomed delegates from around the world to its London HQ, where it presented key trends and insights...

Luxury Futures Forum : The Future Laboratory : London

Big Ideas

Three Takeaways from VivaTech 2023

At Europe’s biggest start-up and tech event, VivaTech (14–17 June, Paris), AI was unsurprisingly the dominating topic, but also notable were new au...

Technology : Design : Retail

Macro Trends

The Synthocene Era: Merging Human and Machine Intelligence

As AI redefines our understanding of intelligence, we begin to enter The Synthocene Era, an age in which the lines between what is natural and what...

Technology : Artificial Intelligence : Society

Macro Trends

Neo-Tolkienism

There is a something afoot, a cultural shift that has been rumbling in the undergrowth of society for the past 10 years and is finally roaring to ...

Futuretainment : Storytelling : Fantasy

Markets

Gen Z in Kenya

From Silicon Savannah to the streets of Nairobi, Kenya’s Gen Z are rewriting the rules of power, protest and purpose for governments and brands.

Youth : Technology : Gen Z

Micro Trends

The New Creatorverse

Content creators are evolving into multimedia powerhouses, building immersive IP eco-systems, retail ventures and employee-driven content to secure...

Influencer : Creator Economy : Content Creators

Trend Tracker

Beyond Retail

Beyond Retail was put to paper (or screen) in 2010, but is more of a constant, continuing study of the future of retail, how consumers are chan...

The Convergence Economy : Retail : Store Of Tomorrow

Macro Trends

Neo-kinship

As the nuclear family disappears and more fluid and complex forms of kinship take its place, technology is not only helping to run the househol...

Neo-kinship : Artificial Intelligence : Family

Macro Trends

Community Commerce

A new wave of decentralised retail concepts are transforming e-commerce as consumers look for alternative ways to access and exchange products and ...

Retail : Media : Entertainment

Micro Trends

Cloud Gaming

A new era of gaming is on the horizon, fuelled by big brand data centres, digital communities and on-demand services.

Media : Gaming : Leisure

Big Ideas

Speculating on the future at Dutch Design Week 2018

At this year’s show, designers positioned AI as a self-reflective tool, made technology more intuitive and devised alternative food supply chains.

Dutch Design Week : Media : AI

Big Ideas

Nicolas Le Moigne on the future of luxury design

The head of MAS in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship at École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) on why high-end brands should invest in augmente...

Luxury : Design : Technology

Big Ideas

Istanbul Design Biennial 2016: Review

Foregoing the outdated model of trade show-like design biennials, co-curators and intellectual heavyweights Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley purs...

Istanbul Design Biennial 2016 : The Dislocated World : Are We Human?

Markets

Gastro Gaming Market

Joining forces with video game publishers, food and drink brands are turning to gaming to offer tastes, skins and experiences that are transcending...

Food & Drink : Gaming : Food

Big Ideas

CES 2016 Review: Part 2

Part two of our CES show review looks at how the conference has evolved to become more than a place for eager technologists to show off their lates...

CES : International CES : FFZero1

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