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Dutch Design Week 2025: Slowing AI and fostering empathy

The 25th edition of Dutch Design Week has kicked off in Eindhoven with this year’s anniversary theme being Past, Present, Possible. The purpose of ...

Dutch Design Week : DDW : Global Events

Daily Signals

Stat: Sustainability remains on the CEO agenda despite decline

A new report from Bain & Co shows that while CEOs are using fewer public sustainability statements, they are increasing action and linking sust...

Sustainability : Leadership : ESG

Micro Trends

Mood-matching Fashion

Emotionally attuned styling and shopping tools are reshaping fashion discovery, helping consumers to move away from keyword and product searches to...

Retail : Technology : Fashion

Micro Trends

Future Five 2026: Future Spaces

As bleeding-edge technology creates almost limitless possibilities for the design of real-world spaces that merge the physical and digital realms, ...

Future Spaces : Retail : Technology

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Craftsmanship Safeguards

As forecast in our Luxury Recrafted and New Codes of Luxury macrotrend reports, brands are becoming taste-makers and patrons of the arts by investi...

Luxury : Fashion : Design

Big Ideas

Viva Technology 2025: Decoding a Decisive Moment for Tech

At VivaTech 2025, AI took centre stage – but conversations about climate, care and connection revealed where the future of tech must lead: human-fi...

Technology : Artificial Intelligence : Retail

Markets

ADHD and the Attention Economy

Soaring ADHD diagnoses are fuelling demand for non-medicinal interventions, with therapeutic gaming, functional music and non-invasive nerve stimul...

Design : Health & Wellness : Technology

Daily Signals

Alzheimer’s awareness ad turns the loading icon into a metaphor for memory loss

Alzheimer Foundation’s latest campaign harnesses a universally frustrating digital metaphor – the buffering or loading icon – to evoke the heartbre...

Advertising : Health : Alzheimer's

Daily Signals

Foresight Friday: Fiona Harkin, director of foresight

Every Friday, the Future Laboratory team offers an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and viral moments we’re all talking about. Here...

Foresight Friday : Fragmenting Societies : Misinformation

Big Ideas

TheIndustry.fashion Summit 2025: Fashion’s Next Frontier

At the inaugural TheIndustry.fashion summit in London, sector leaders gathered to assess the future of fashion and its evolution in the face of rap...

Retail : Global Events : Fashion

Viewpoints

Cyberchondria and Its Cure

The democratisation of medical knowledge – and the spread of fake news – has opened the doors to a new kind of cyberchondria. Jay Topham, co-founde...

Design : Technology : Health

Markets

Dark Tourism Market

Dark tourism is on the rise as more travellers seek out sites of historical tragedy, offering solemn opportunities for reflection, education and re...

Travel & Hospitality : Dark Tourism : Historical Events

Big Ideas

SXSW London 2025: Gaming and Brand Strategy

From Minecraft’s chicken jockey strategy to Adidas’ direct-to-avatar commerce, LS:N Global unpacks the best insights on gaming from the inaugural e...

Technology : Pop Culture & Media : Youth

Big Ideas

LuxePack Monaco 2025: Luxury Packaging’s Era of Accountability

Evolving beyond its functional and desirable roles, packaging now stands as a marker of environmental credibility, material intelligence and ethica...

Packaging : Luxury : Innovation

Markets

Luxe Comfort Foods

Comfort food is getting a luxurious makeover, as nostalgic and fast food favourites are being re-imagined with gourmet flair into playful, premium ...

Luxury : Food : Hospitality

Markets

Public Transport Futures

A new era of public transport is taking shape. From AI-powered networks to free travel trials and zero-emission fleets, the future of mobility is s...

Transport : Public Transport : Travel

Macro Trends

Optimised Odysseys

Travel has entered a redefining age in which every element must be optimised, from planning to presence, to deliver truly purposeful, personalised ...

Travel & Hospitality : Technology : Sports & Leisure

Big Ideas

Parasocial Relationships in 2030

A togetherness deficit and the age of distrust have made the presumed intimacy of parasocial relationships with celebrities programmable and moneti...

Youth : Pop-culture & Media : Retail

Markets

Collaboration Culture

Successful brands are evolving from authoritative voices to co-creative partners. They are collaborating with audiences, creators and peers to shap...

Fashion : Sports & Leisure : Beauty

Big Ideas

NRF 2025 Retail’s Big Show Europe: Unified Commerce and Community Nuclears

From AI-powered stores to hyperlocal partnerships, NRF 2025 Retail’s Big Show Europe revealed how data, culture and community are converging to def...

Retail : Technology : Fashion

Design Directions

Human by Design

As flawless, AI-generated aesthetics spread across industries, human-made content is gaining value. Meet the creatives embracing messy, nostalgic a...

Design : Branding : Advertising

Markets

Intimate Fantasy Escapism

Intimate fantasy roleplay is shifting to become an increasingly mainstream practice. Driven by growing fandoms, it represents a search for belongin...

Youth : Pop-culture & Media : Society

Micro Trends

EQ-Beauty

AI is redefining personalised beauty, shifting from data-driven logic to emotionally intelligent tools that bring empathy, intuition and expert car...

Beauty : Technology : AI

Micro Trends

Future Five 2026: Identities

It’s a turbulent time for identity around the world. While expressions of spirituality and sexual desire are becoming normalised elements of modern...

Youth : Identities : Society

Markets

Digital Clout Dining

A new wave of Indian restaurants is reshaping fine dining through limited-access menus, founder storytelling and digital scarcity, transforming mea...

Food & Drink : India : Travel & Hospitality

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