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Daily Signals

Amazon augments the hair salon experience

E-commerce giant Amazon is venturing into the beauty space with a branded salon to trial digital haircare products and services.

Beauty : Technology : Algorithmic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Five Apps Introducing the Next Generation of Dating

Dating apps are evolving beyond the swipe, with new entries looking to align more closely with Gen Z’s relationship priorities and digital behaviou...

Youth : Media & Entertainment : Technology

Big Ideas

The Destinations Living our Slow Tourism Future

Decelerated tourism is rapidly becoming a reality, as destinations adjust their travel marketing and take tactical approaches to protecting their l...

Travel : Hospitality : Sustainability

Daily Signals

DS & Durga launches humorous fragrance campaign and other stories

In today’s daily digest: Uniqlo’s airport vending machines, Facebook tackles fake news, Royal Mail shocks with identity fraud ad and other top stor...

Advertising : Retail : Digital

Design Directions

NO_THING

NO_THING shows how projection-mapping can turn the built environment into an interface.

Interface : Milan Expo : Interaction

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

Design Directions

Vectorism

Prompted by the powerful convergence of art and science, as we identified in our Re-enlightenment Rising macrotrend, and by consumers’ ubiquitous e...

Digital : Graphics : Coding

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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