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Big Ideas

How technology is transforming the luxury car-buying process

Automotive brands are using technology to meet luxury consumers’ demands for higher levels of engagement, personalisation and convenience.

Luxury : Automotive : Technology

Viewpoints

Gen Z Perspectives: US

Yale graduate Tarek Ziad unpacks the phenomenon of cottagecore and what’s driving Generation Z’s whimsical fascination with rural living.

Youth : Workplace : Digital

Big Ideas

Virtual sonic worlds are the next branded experiences

The Spatial Sound Institute is a research centre created by technology platform and artistic collective 4DSOUND. John Connell, researcher in reside...

Media : Digital : Retail

Design Directions

Lucy Hardcastle: Creative Direction

Creative director Lucy Hardcastle uses a cross-disciplinary approach to achieve a hyper-real aesthetic that blurs the boundaries between the physic...

Lucy Hardcastle : Motion Graphics : Revelation Brands

Big Ideas

The Download: Milan Fashion Week spring/summer 2025

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

Milan Fashion Week : Bottega Veneta : Max Mara

Markets

Phy-gital retail technology: Social Interaction

Retailers are using social media and interactive elements in their stores to entertain, entice and inspire customers. LS:N Global explores some of ...

Facebook : Taste-graph Commerce : Mobile

Macro Trends

Enlightened States

The experience economy is pivoting towards personal transformation as the public imagination looks inwards, favouring self-discovery over shared sp...

Experience : Wellness : Leisure

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

Big Ideas

Life House is a Silicon Valley-backed luxury hotel

Co-founder and CEO Rami Zeidan on how this nascent technology-driven hotel chain will unite guests and locals to create a community around luxury s...

Luxury : Travel : Technology

Daily Signals

Tech Futures Forum 2015

London – Blockchain, s-commerce and the IM Crowd were big talking points at LS:N Global’s Tech Futures Forum 2015 in partnership with EMC².

Tech Futures Forum 2015 : Technology : Trends

Big Ideas

FutureFest 2015

For its second edition, Nesta’s FutureFest explored the future of food, thrills and money.

Cryptocurrencies : Morgaine Gaye : Thrill Laboratory

Big Ideas

IMM Cologne

Cologne – More of a trading fair than a design festival, this year’s IMM Cologne avoided any ostentation or lavish launches. Furniture-makers and i...

Furniture : Pure Village : User-friendly

Daily Signals

Insights from an un-conference: IAM Weekend 18

At IAM Weekend 18, speakers brought a critical eye to our relationship with the internet, technology and digital mediums.

Digital : Technology : Internet Culture

Macro Trends

Generation D

They can’t imagine a world without computers, mobile phones and the internet. They skitter, haul, mod and hack. Natural born multi-taskers, they pa...

Gen D : Teenagers : Youth

Big Ideas

Five innovators modernising food and drink

From chef collectives to innovative designers, discover the next generation of talent digitising, democratising and diversifying food and drink.

Food : Drinks : Media

Micro Trends

Wild Things

As iPhones, apps and augmented reality take over the world, a growing band of people are disconnecting from the comforts of consumerist society. We...

Downsizing : Digital Detox : Outdoor

Micro Trends

NFT-ainment

The emergence of animated NFT characters is generating profit for owners through entertainment productions that bring their investments to life.

Technology : Media & Entertainment : Finance

Big Ideas

A social app for increasing urban wellness

Rachael Donalds, founder of Biosay, on how technology can help to reduce stress levels by visualising environmental aggressors.

Health & Wellness : Technology : Biosay

Big Ideas

Cannes Lions 2014 Show Report Part 2

In Part 2 of LS:N Global’s report from the 61st Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, we examine how brands are adapting to a rapidly ...

Cannes Lions : Advertising : Digital Billboards

Big Ideas

Six Smart Glasses Innovations With Eyes on the Future

Meet the innovators redefining the wearable tech market with smart glasses that blend fashion, functionality and AI to transform daily life with in...

Design : Technology : Smart Glasses

Viewpoints

The Great Concert Comeback

Between silver chrome cowboy hats and a supercharged local economy, foresight analyst Simar Deol unveils how live concerts are serving much more th...

Entertainment : Music : Media

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: Shortlist

We present the shortlist for our Futures 100 Innovators Awards, featuring the 10 leading innovators, disruptors and change-makers across 10 industr...

Futures100 Innovators

Micro Trends

Fulfilment Furnishings

The global pandemic has shifted people’s priorities to focus on home furnishings that place wellbeing at the fore, in both physical and digital sce...

Health : Wellness : Workplace

Design Directions

New Consciousness

Responsibility is being rebranded. As businesses apply long-term thinking, a vibrant visual landscape is emerging that inspires action and optimism.

Sustainability : Long Term Thinking : Visual Communication

Micro Trends

Future Five: Identities

As part of our Future Five 2024 report, we explore the shifts in identity that are all-important in understanding the consumer of tomorrow.

Identities : Future Five : Topics

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