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Micro Trends

Scent Retail Futures

Luxury fragrance retail is turning to AI and immersive experiences to provide bricks-and-mortar customers with curated and personalised scent disco...

Perfume : Fragrance : Retail

Big Ideas

Six Tech Brands Developing DIY Repairable Devices

Spurred on by growing right-to-repair movements, tech brands are slowly meeting consumers’ long-standing demands for DIY repairable devices.

Mobile Phones : Sustainability : DIY

Big Ideas

Web Summit 2021: The Future of Tech is Post-Purpose

We’ve just lived through our most online period in history. Here’s what Web Summit predicts will come next, from brand obsession to metaverse scept...

Technology : Media : Digital

Markets

Athletic Tourism Market

Combatting sedentary lifestyles, travel industry leaders are making a play for active travellers by placing sports and fitness at the heart of thei...

Travel : Hospitality : Hotel

Micro Trends

Repurposed Resorts

With rural villages becoming vacant and city homes lying empty, hoteliers are turning empty buildings into tourism opportunities.

Hospitality : Travel : Architecture

News

The key innovations at MoneyConf 2018

At Web Summit’s MoneyConf 2018, discussions focused on the importance of blockchain technology, whether cryptocurrency has a future and how the ban...

Finance : FinTech : Chatbots

News

Re-imagining barber shop interiors and finding new female role models

Crisp’s evolution of the barber shop, United Visual Artists imagine New York as an installation, Amazon opens model homes showcasing Alexa.

Beauty : Technology : Female Futures

News

An Asian take on alcohol alternatives, hotel mini-bar offers CBD-infused products

Hakkasan caters for the Party-totallers, The Standard updates its room service offerings, Slerp gives the power back to brands.

Drinks : Hospitality : Food

News

An online olfactory journey, H&M Group ventures into streetwear

Deciem introduces its fragrance line, Snapchat sheds its social media origins, Limeaide evolves HR through artificial intelligence.

Beauty : Retail : Finance

News

Redefining luxury and a healthier approach to supplements

Selfridges examines what luxury is, eBay targets a low-spending consumer, Beth Bentley, founder of Young Gums, explores what it means to be a Mille...

Luxury : Wellness : Retail

News

The shifts in consumer mindset set to shape the future of food and drink

In today’s daily digest: The key stories and trends from The Future Laboratory’s Food and Drink Futures Forum, hosted yesterday at our London he...

Food : Drinks : Hospitality

News

MIA’s fashion collaboration and other stories

In today’s daily digest: Toyota aims safety app at parents, Allure magazine shuns the term ‘anti-ageing’, the rise of US cannabis tourism and oth...

Fashion : Retail : Automobile

News

Bleach London’s ethically minded make-up range and other stories

In today’s daily digest: Bleach London’s vegan make-up, refugee camps adopt mobile money, Cabin brings bus travel to the fore, and other top stories.

Beauty : Travel : Advertising

Design Directions

Wireframe Architecture

Alongside the typical tropes of luxury interior design emerges a new, nonchalant aesthetic. Geo-lux finishes are replaced with brightly coloured la...

Interior Design : Luxury Retail : Storey Studio

Design Directions

Sonos 101G

The new Sonos flagship store challenges retail conventions by encouraging consumers to kick back and relax.

Sonos : Flagship : Retail

Big Ideas

Summer 2015 Fancy Food Show

Challenging flavours, turbocharged ingredients and bacon mania stood out as exhibitors from around the world presented streamlined branding and e...

Summer Fancy Food Show : Skillet : Coolhaus

Design Directions

Wabi Sabi

Notions of transience and imperfection, which dominate Japanese aesthetic tradition, are giving rise to a new design direction in packaging that ...

Wabi Sabi : Packaging : Estudio Yeyé

Markets

Airport Retail

Airport retail has been transformed by exponential numbers of passengers travelling overseas. As consumers spend more money than ever while in t...

Airport : Heathrow : Mintel

Micro Trends

Discovery Grocers

Online grocers are putting personalisation at the heart of their offering, from curated shopping baskets to SMS advisers.

Retail : Food : Technology

Viewpoints

Malleable living

A flexible mindset isn’t just for work – it’s also for the home, family and everything in between, according to Annie Auerbach, author of new book ...

Health And Wellness : Society : Workplace

Micro Trends

Accessible Gaming

While the mainstream gaming industry has long ignored disabled people, a host of new technologies are enabling brands to adapt to their every need.

Gaming : Entertainment : Accessibility

Big Ideas

How mobility is transforming last-mile delivery

Autonomous driving technology promises to have a transformative impact on how we receive our purchases.

Retail : Delivery : Automotive

News

Facebook shows its caring side while Google drives AR interaction

Panasonic builds a branded city, Universal Everything visualises sound in VR, why cricket farming needs to become more efficient.

Digital : Advertising : Technology

Big Ideas

Why fashion magazines need to change

Katy Lassen and Simone Konu, founders of London-based digital platform Also Journal, on challenging current beauty ideals and their ambition to be ...

Fashion : Apparel : Female Futures

Big Ideas

Brand Innovation Debrief: WeWork

A series of new initiatives by WeWork highlight how the sharing economy start-up is moving beyond co-working spaces and into the realms of educatio...

Health : Wellness : Placemaking

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