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Buried landlines: the end of the home phone?
Buried landlines: the end of the home phone?
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Cultured Waste
As consumers tire of separating authentic sustainability claims from greenwashing, designers are using culture and heritage to cut through the noise.
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Certified Skincare
Beauty brands are turning to a series of labelling innovations to communicate radical transparency about ingredients, sustainability and clinical e...
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Inside Generation Z’s identity crisis
UAL students Nicole Angus and Nadine Gan, 21, and graduate Lucas Antunes, 23, discuss why cynicism, truth and self-education define today’s youth.
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Video Dating Futures
As users demand more authenticity when seeking romantic connections, dating apps are pivoting towards video-first formats.
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The essential Milan Salone 2018 Debrief
Designers at this year’s Milan Salone del Mobile Internazionale stayed away from political messages, instead focusing on issues such as pollution, ...
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Re-engineering Indulgence
Treat foods are being redeveloped – and redefined – by biotech brands who are using science to create better foods without foregoing flavour and pl...
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Hybri’s AI models hint at phygital intimacy
Richard Donczi, president of Realic, on blurring the boundaries between real-world experiences, human desire and virtual relationships.
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Civic Ads
As society struggles with climate change, rising homelessness and unsafe infrastructure, brands are turning to advertising as a force for good.
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The digital studio driving fashion’s open-source future
Jimmy Herdberg, co-founder of Swedish fashion studio Atacac, on how digitising the design and manufacturing process can foster more meaningful rela...
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Honouring Indian individuality and democratising luxury fashion
Facebook focuses on Indian youth, Entireworld makes luxury garments accessible, Juicebox offers sex and relationship advice to a wider audience.
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Sci-rides
Creatives in the automotive industry are constructing emotive, high-contrast imagery that references graphic novels and depicts the cars of today a...
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Maxime Guyon
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The E-motional Economy
Design Directions
4NewsWall
Targeting members of Generation D with an appetite for current affairs, the first GIF-based news service has been launched by Channel 4 News.
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Flat Age Men's skincare
The men’s prestige skincare market is being boosted by Flat-Agers spending on targeted anti-ageing products.
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Resonate New Media Festival: Five of the best
Resonate New Media Festival, in its second year, presented an impressive roster of world-class artists at the cutting edge of technology in art, mu...
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Alt Group: Graphic Design
Alt Group is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Auckland, New Zealand. It was founded by Ben Corban and Dean Poole in 2000 and now employs ...
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Monochrome
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Curb Media
When he started natural media company Curb Media two years ago, many people thought Anthony Ganjou was mad.‘We went into meetings saying,...
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Moving African Fashion Forward
Fashion business consultant Ramata Diallo sits down with LS:N Global to unpack what’s new and next for the African fashion industry.
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Elevating Travel Narratives
AboundStudio’s founder James Huntly discusses design’s role in creating meaningful brand narratives that reflect travellers’ changing values and de...
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Assarée wants investors to take aim at dirty gold
Wealth advisory service Assarée is setting a new standard in gold investing. CEO Anouk Hilti-Zingg and head of communications Nathalie Widmer discu...
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Form Us With Love: Interior Design
Form Us With Love: Interior Design
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Trad-Modern
Men are increasingly concerned with sartorial style, connoisseurship and grooming, as seen in our New Gents tribe, creating a desire for packaging ...
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Multi-channel Retail
The future of retail will be inline, according to speakers at the World Retail Congress in Berlin last week. That is, a mix of online, offline and ...
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Daily Signals
Stat: Violence increasingly seen as an acceptable tool for change
The 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals a seismic shift in public sentiment, with worldwide trust in institutions crumbling and grievance replacin...
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Foresight Friday: Fiona Harkin, director of foresight
Every Friday, we wrap up the topics, issues, ideas and viral moments everyone’s been discussing. This week, director of foresight Fiona Harkin welc...
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