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Communities

Deprogrammers

Rejecting traditional education, this global youth community are using digital platforms, virtual tools and DIY content to educate, teach and liber...

Youth. : Youth : Media

Design Directions

Milan Salone 2016: Design Directions Part 1

Designers presenting at this year’s Salone explored a tongue-in-cheek, flamboyant aesthetic that elevated plastic finishes and bright synthetic mat...

Milan Salone 2016 : Dan Adlešič : ECAL

Design Directions

Dutch Design Week 2015

At this year’s Dutch Design Week, designers tested and challenged perceptions of the material world.

Design Academy Eindhoven : Materials : Virtual World

Macro Trends

Beyond Retail

Over the past 10 years, we have seen the growth of online retail and the pop-up store. The coming decade will see them evolve into new immersive sp...

Value-nomics : Pop-up : Experience

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

Self-tanning Market

Negative associations with reality tv stars and unpredictable results have limited the market scope of fake tans, but new innovations in texture, s...

Beauty : Retail : Branding

Daily Signals

A healthy convenience store, botox and beverages

The Goods Mart champions smarter eating, Christopher Hanna medical spa offers fillers and cocktails, Xbox translates real moves into gaming language.

Food : Technology : Beauty

Daily Signals

LS:N Global selects the most noteworthy exhibits at Dutch Design Week

In today’s daily digest: A round-up of LS:N Global’s top five exhibitions at Dutch Design Week 2017.

Design : Technology : Wellness

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Health & Wellness

Our mental wellbeing has become just as important as our physical wellbeing. In 2023, both brands and their physical spaces will increasingly addre...

Health : Wellness : Technology

Macro Trends

The Convergence Economy

Look to retail spaces, products, hospitality and entertainment these days and, increasingly, there’s one distinctive theme: it’s difficult to tel...

The Convergence Economy : Beth Bentley : ShopperTrak

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: May

The fifth instalment of our Futures 100 Innovators spotlights people ungendering beauty, addressing ADHD through design and diversifying Web3 spaces.

Futures 100 Innovators : F100 : Health & Wellness

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: February

We uncover the next 10 innovators to watch as part of our Futures 100 Awards, which highlight those brands, businesses and people innovating for ch...

Futures 100 Innovators

Big Ideas

World Retail Congress 2023: Resilient Retail Futures

World Retail Congress 2023 in Barcelona explored how innovators are embracing purpose, transformation and resilience in the aftershock of global cr...

Technology : Retail : Sustainability

Daily Signals

Prada weaves a futuristic vision and the NHS's new AI doctors

Prada’s Nylon Farm celebrates its heritage, UCLH partners with the Alan Turing Institute to bring AI to hospitals, Porter magazine dedicates whole ...

Technology

Daily Signals

Tom Ford store combines technology with beauty, and other stories

In today’s daily digest: Breve phone helps you forget, East of England Co-op reduces waste, Re:scam tackles cybercrime, and other stories.

Technology : Retail : Beauty

Markets

Connected Cars

The technology in cars and computers is merging, but driverless vehicles, remain some way off.

BMW : Driverless Cars : Audi

Viewpoints

The future of luxury lies in escapism

Author and analyst Erwan Rambourg is positively bullish about what lies ahead for the sector, sharing insights from his latest book, Future Luxe.

Luxury : Travel : Health & Wellness

Daily Signals

Trying to save the physical store and celebrating African food

The Future Laboratory explores how brands can save physical retail, Jambo! elevates African cuisine, Facebook creates new VR experiences.

Retail : Food : Technology

Big Ideas

SXSW Interactive 2014 - Part 1

The idea still seems unlikely: every year, for five days in March, a mid-size city in Texas is transformed into the world’s undisputed hub for cr...

SXSW : SXSW Interactive : SXSWi

Viewpoints

Creating a Metaverse Wine Community

Crurated is re-inventing the way collectors buy, store and enjoy wine – offering lessons in neo-collectorship for other sectors. Founder and CEO Al...

Wine : Crurated : NFT

Macro Trends

Pleasure Revolution

With every second of our free time colonised by the cult of busyness, future consumers will turn away from a life of relentless productivity and sh...

Leisure : Workplace : Wellness

Markets

The Sexuwellness Women’s Market

The women’s sexual wellness market is undergoing a revolution, fuelled by technology, personalised products and shifting consumer demographics. Mee...

Sexual Health : Sexual Education : Digital Intimacy

Trend Tracker

Gen Viz

In 2016, LS:N Global coined the term Gen Viz to describe Generation D’s insatiable appetite for visual-first content, their hacker tendencies, DIY ...

Gen Viz : Teenagers : Generation D

Daily Signals

American Apparel is relaunched with price segmentation and other stories

In today’s daily digest: Lush adopts Bitcoin, Mazda revolutionises the petrol engine, how airlines are engaging Millennials and other top stories.

Retail : FinTech : VR

Design Directions

Watermelon Sugar

Designer Pamm Hong has created a speculative platform that visualises a user’s browsing history as an abstract creature.

Online Identity : Algorithms : The Sharded Self

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