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Micro Trends

Eco-ambitious Retail

Brands are self-imposing sustainability goals on their businesses that – while initially financially impactful – validate them as fundamental to fu...

Retail : Sustainability : Brand 2020

Viewpoints

Evrythng’s quest to make a trillion products traceable

Niall Murphy, CEO and co-founder of Evrythng, is on a mission to give every item manufactured each year a unique ID that will bring benefits to bra...

Retail : Technology : Traceability

Markets

Loyalty Market

As consumers become less loyal, brands are looking to personalisation, cryptocurrencies and mobile-based initiatives in an effort to redefine custo...

Retail : Digital : Technology

Big Ideas

Copenhagen Fashion Summit 2017: Top five take-outs

The summit served as a call to action for the fashion industry.

Fashion : Retail : Luxury

Micro Trends

Open-source Sustainability

Open-source platforms are providing materials insight and education for designers, developers and architects to make their output more eco-fr...

Design : Materials : Sustainability

Macro Trends

Whole-system Thinking

As the boundaries between modern society and nature begin to blur, consumerism is becoming more integrated with our living world. As this shift u...

Anthropocene : Consilience : Life Sciences

Viewpoints

Aquaponics is changing the farm-to-table conversation

Jason Green, CEO of aquaculture pioneer Edenworks, examines how fish waste and plant microbiomes are revolutionising agri-tech produce.

Food : Sustainability : Technology

Daily Signals

Is rice starch a sustainable alternative to plastic?

London – Maria Kurian has re-engineered ecological materials to create alternatives to plastic that only last for as long as they are used.

Sustainability : Packaging : Design

Markets

Food Waste Innovation

From food-sharing to upcycling, the growing need to create innovative and sustainable solutions to food waste presents a range of opportunities.

Food : Retail : Sustainability

Big Ideas

Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna 2015: Part 1

Asian Innovation, Inclusive Messaging and For Benefit Beauty were just some of the emerging trends and new product opportunities on show at this ye...

Cosmoprof : Bologna : Beauty Show

Big Ideas

Future textiles will be made from seaweed and dissolving thread

The winners of H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award 2018 are pioneering circular processes in the fashion supply chain, using materials from a...

Fashion : Sustainability : Circular Economy

Design Directions

The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home

Online publisher Lost My Name is back with its most ambitious personalised picture book to date.

Personalisation : Books : Picture Book

Viewpoints

Amanda Ross : Fashioning hospitality

W Hotels Worldwide fashion director Amanda Ross talks about fashioning hospitality.

W Hotels : Hotels : Amanda Moss

Macro Trends

Eco-venience Retail

Accelerating e-commerce and demands for expedited delivery are forcing a new framework that puts eco-conscious practices at the centre of retail op...

Retail : Sustainability : Technology

Viewpoints

Fashion’s feminism problem

The fashion industry’s false appropriation of feminism is trivialising the cause and revealing its own hypocrisy.

Feminism : Dior : Fashion

Daily Signals

Future Forecast 2017: Beauty and Wellness

As the year comes to an end, LS:N Global examines the nascent trends and behaviour patterns that will be shaping the beauty sector over the next 12...

Future Forecast : 2017 Trends : Beauty

Big Ideas

How fashion is giving female inmates a future

Fashion brand Carcel works with female prisoners to produce premium clothing. Founder Veronica D’Souza discusses how its support and training will ...

Fashion : Female Futures : Carcel

Markets

Convenience Culture: Part 1

The meaning of convenience in relation to food is changing. LS:N Global examines the drivers that are shifting expectations of what fast, on-the-go...

Convenience Culture : Delivery : Food & Drink

Markets

Fashion Futures 2017: Strategies for change

From collaborating with innovators outside the industry to addressing the growing digital skills gap, innovative fashion brands are driving real ch...

Fashion : Digital : Sustainability

Macro Trends

The Immortal Brand

Brands and consumers are no longer satisfied by instantaneous gratification. Can we really plan in years, decades – even centuries?

The Age Of The Long Near : Evernote : Long Now Foundation

Daily Signals

Air China’s gourmet in-flight food and other stories

In today’s daily digest: Turing, Air China, Morrisons, Ikea, connecting with consumers outside of London and building around Amazon’s infrastructure.

Food : Travel : Retail

Design Directions

Juicero

The Juicero Press is a home cold-press juicing system that offers convenience to California’s health-conscious consumers.

Juicero : Farm-to-glass : Cold-press Juice

Big Ideas

Four key themes from CES 2019

Key talking points from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas included the next generation of AI, embedding transparency into technolo...

CES 2019 : Technology : Artificial Intelligence

Big Ideas

Key themes from Techfestival 2019

From citizens reclaiming data to positive endings, this year’s event was a global pledge to improve the future relationship between humans and tech...

Media : Technology : Dislocated World

Micro Trends

Auckland Safari

Auckland is a city experiencing an exciting period of transformation driven by a rising population, an optimistic business climate and a growing ...

Auckland Safari 2015 : New Bricolage Living : Whole-system Thinking

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