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These vivid textiles weave in climate data

Design studio Raw Color is capturing complex climate data through colourful knitted textiles.

Sustainability : Design : Fashion

Big Ideas

What Will 2022 Hold for Travel?

From the return of China’s tourism economy to decarbonising the industry, experts made key predictions for 2022 at this year’s World Travel Market ...

Travel : Hospitality : Sustainability

Big Ideas

Dutch Design Week 2021: Envisaging a Better World

This year’s Dutch Design Week reveals components to construct a better society, from preventative care techniques to nature-inclusive solutions.

Design : Sustainability : Society

Daily Signals

A one-man factory rethinks sneaker manufacturing

The Pixel Shoe project by Israeli designer Tidhar Zagagi harnesses the versatility of PU foam to create custom-made footwear moulded in the shape o...

Retail : Fashion : Design

Big Ideas

Exhibition: Objects for a New Kind of Society

At Dutch Design Week 2021, Dutch Invertuals and The Future Laboratory are together examining how design will shape our experience of future cities.

Design : Technology : Place Making

Viewpoints

Designing for the future’s Equilibrium Cities

The Future Laboratory and creative network Dutch Invertuals are exploring how design can foster Equilibrium Cities – urban zones where collective o...

Design : Sustainability : Creatives

Daily Signals

A bathhouse heated by the Cloud

Lucas de Ruiter’s conceptual project, Bathing in the Cloud, imagines the excess thermal energy generated by data centres as a sustainable heat sour...

Technology : Design : Dutch Design Week

Communities

Diet Hackers

Consumers entering a post-functional relationship with food and drink are seeking to build resilience and find balance.

Communities : Food And Drink

Daily Signals

Ikea’s virtual rewilding experience for homebodies

Ikea is running a series of masterclasses, live talks and interactive experiences as part of Dutch Design Week, through a concept dubbed the Virtua...

Health : Wellness : Sustainability

Markets

Off-price Retail Strategies

To counteract the surplus stock resulting from Covid-19 closures and slower spending, brands are innovating with new off-price retail strategies th...

Retail : Pricing : Luxury

Micro Trends

Low-impact Interfaces

To cut the carbon emissions of our online consumption, designers are exploring how to simplify UX and UI design to be greener and more energy-effic...

Technology : Sustainability : Design

Micro Trends

Moral Commerce

In the wake of Black Lives Matter, consumers are seeking brand allies and making shopping decisions informed by their socio-political values.

Retail : Finance : Sustainability

Daily Signals

Christopher Raeburn’s new collection is entirely circular

The designer is not creating any new garments for London Fashion Week’s digital event.

Fashion : Retail : London Fashion Week

Markets

Makers Market

As craft culture and the hobby renaissance build momentum, retail opportunities abound for a wave of consumer businesses founded by makers.

DIY : Retail : Craft

Macro Trends

Post-purpose Brands

Pushing back against purpose-washing and jumping on the bandwagon, brands will embrace imperfection and focus on betterment. With more intuitive te...

Retail : Branding : Purpose

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

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

Death Positivity Market

Dying is driving new wellness conversations as brands work to transform end-of-life planning through more progressive and positive funer...

Wellness : Society : Security

Viewpoints

Immersive VR journalism

Designers Jim Brady and Ward Goes on how virtual reality journalism will enable the public to experience and question how emphatic the news really is.

Technology : Media : Alternative News

Viewpoints

The dawn of the emo-algorithm

Neuroscientist-turned-designer Vera van der Burg attempts to eradicate AI bias by training machines to prioritise human emotions over our data sets.

Artificial Intelligence : Technology : Design

Big Ideas

Five key themes from Web Summit 2019

Web Summit shifted its focus to people and the planet, and the ways in which technology can be a force for good at a time when citizens are warier ...

Technology : Web Summit : Web Summit 2019

Big Ideas

Diets for an evolving planet

The Eatelier founder Katinka Versendaal on creating speculative gastronomy to translate complex research into sensorial food experiences.

Culinary Technology : Food & Drink : Climate Change

Daily Signals

Dutch Design Week 2019: Exowombs and brain stimulators

VPRO speculates on how our lives might radically change in 2039.

Design : Speculation : Media

Big Ideas

Imperceptible realities at Dutch Design Week 2019

Meet the designers unravelling the hidden side of our technological systems, questioning territory ownership and daring to lay bare the amount of j...

Dutch Design Week : Media : Technology

Daily Signals

Dutch Design Week 2019: A future of brand-sponsored food

In 2040, grocery shoppers might be presented a choice: purchase products with advertising from commercial brands or pay more for stripped-back pack...

Design : Food : Advertising

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