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Daily Signals

PepsiCo makes flavoursome water while Salon combats ad-blocking

Unilever threatens to pull Facebook and YouTube advertising, Bikini Berlin opens design-focused food court, retailers disillusioned with in-store t...

Drinks : Health : Food

Micro Trends

Digital Display Futures

Online visual merchandising faces structural challenges as customers simultaneously seek aspirational relatability, quality and entertainment.

Visual Merchandising : Retail : E-commerce

Micro Trends

Secondary Waste Retail

New retail systems are professionalising the waste sector, transforming it into a consumer-facing currency and future new economy.

Retail : Fashion : Sustainability

Daily Signals

A celebration of female explorers and Bobbi Brown expands into wellness

The North Face demonstrates diversity in outdoor sports, Bobbi Brown rethinks healthy edibles, Lunya develops performance sleepwear.

Retail : Wellness : Food

Big Ideas

Why beauty brands need to invest in connected devices

Guive Balooch, global vice-president of L’Oréal’s Technology Incubator, and Yves Béhar, designer and founder of Fuseproject, on the brand’s new min...

Beauty : Technology : Health & Wellness

Big Ideas

SXSW Overview 2012

Founded in 1987, South By Southwest (SXSW) began as a festival focused on music. In 1994, it added film and multimedia components, and in 2011 it a...

Nike : Pointburst : FedEx

Viewpoints

Financial branding doesn’t need to be boring

Mervyn ten Dam, founder of Dutch creative agency Achtung! discusses B2B brand identities and why it’s vital to appeal to the mindsets of tomorrow’s...

FinTech : Advertising : Branding

Design Directions

Greenhouse by Joost

Smack dab in the middle of the city, amidst sandstone and zinc, a garden grows. A greenhouse, really – a self-sustaining structure that has visitor...

Greenhouse : Joost : Green

Viewpoints

Upstream’s Fashion Remix

Upstream, the world’s first fashion streaming app, believes that blending Gen Z’s love for clothes, music and community can and will disrupt online...

Fashion : Retail : Youth

Big Ideas

SXSW Interactive 2015: Part 1

In 2015, SXSW Interactive featured exuberant debates about technology, from synthetic biology to retail disruption and emerging media and storytel...

SXSW : Synthetic Biology : Virtual Reality

Micro Trends

Relationship Games

Players and developers are exploring gaming’s potential to build positive, meaningful relationships between boys and men.

New Masculinity : Media : Entertainment

Design Directions

Fendi

How should an established company known for its handmade leather goods update its offering for the 21st century and appeal to a new generation of c...

Craft : Gibson Guitars : Moritz Waldemeyer

Big Ideas

Five Retailers Embracing Hyperphysical Store Design

Retailers are tapping into elevated store design concepts to create memorable and meaningful customer experiences.

Retail : Architecture : Design

Daily Signals

This floating church connects communities

Architecture studio Denizen Works has redesigned a narrowboat as a mobile religious space for the local community in east London.

Religion : Faith : Belief

Micro Trends

Sustainable Spending

New digital tools are helping shoppers evaluate the sustainability of their purchases and providing more ethically viable options.

Finance : Retail : Sustainability

Micro Trends

Boutique Altruism

Philanthropy has quietly been undergoing a makeover. Say goodbye to the tokenistic tropes of charity, a new wave of brands is using altruism as a c...

Philanthropy : Ethical : Transparency

Big Ideas

Urban Outfitters thinks big with new Herald Square store

Fresh after the opening of Brooklyn concept store Space Ninety 8, Urban Outfitters has opened an even larger store in Herald Square in Manhat...

Urban Outfitters : New York : Millennials

Big Ideas

Shanghai store marks Lane Crawford's return to China

Shanghai store marks Lane Crawford’s return to China

Concept Store : Personal Stylist : Mutlichannel

Micro Trends

Viva Mexico

Mexican restaurants once conjured up an image of sombreros, cacti, maracas and moustachioed waiters singing mariachi songs. But now a new wave of r...

Mexican : Mezcal : Artisanal

Viewpoints

How Atelier is creating anti-fragile beauty supply chains

Nick Benson, co-founder of beauty manufacturing network Atelier, on connecting with the creator economy and using data to strengthen supply chains.

Beauty : Manufacturing : Sustainability

Viewpoints

Gen Z are shaking up the elitist art world

The art world is on the cusp of major change. Here’s how Paul Hill, the 22-year-old founder of Strada, is empowering the next generation of artists...

Youth : Luxury : Art

Markets

Emerging Youth: South Korea

In a patriarchal society dominated by tradition, young South Koreans are choosing to forge their own paths rather than conform to antiquated a...

Youth : South Korea : Beauty

Daily Signals

Japanese restaurant offers diners a memento and other stories

In today’s daily digest: Selfridges’ charity pop-up, blockchain retail at New York Fashion Week, libraries prove popular among Millennials and othe...

Retail : Food : Drink

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

Design Directions

Right Angle Studio

From city guides to cinemas and restaurants, Australian creative studio Right Angle seems to have a finger in every pie. But the broad va...

Design : Urban : Australia

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