LS:N Global

Big Ideas

World Retail Congress 2024: Let’s Get Hyperphysical

From Primark to Nike and Printemps, the World Retail Congress analysed how retailers are seducing passers-by with innovative in-store experiences a...

Retail : Design : Luxury

Markets

Sports Tourism Market

There’s an increasing demand for performance-enhancing and remedial holidays catering for fitness and sport enthusiasts who want professional, best...

Sports : Wellness : Entertainment

Big Ideas

The rise of retail’s third-space storefronts

Brands are commodifying outdoor space to create retail destinations that blend into the urban fabric while fostering play, exploration and community.

Retail : Architecture : Design

Micro Trends

London 2015 Safari

In a perpetual battle to be considered the best city in the world, London shone brightly in 2015 with a range of new retail, hospitality and well...

London 2015 Safari : The Convergence Economy : The Optimised Self

Trend Tracker

The New Sublimity

Identified by LS:N Global in 2012, The New Sublimity macrotrend charted a widespread consumer movement away from busy, hyper-connected, digital ...

Suffocation : Spiritualism : Sublime

Design Directions

Flux Culture

Third-stage globalisation and hyper-connectivity are changing the way consumers construct their identities. They are using a myriad of global in...

Time : Privacy : Hyper-Connectivity

Communities

Kindred Diners

This community is on a quest to make eating convivial, pleasurable yet thoughtful, building local communities around – and inspired by – food and d...

Food : Drink : Social

Macro Trends

Reformation Generation

Marking a new era of collaboration between brands and Generation Z, opportunities are arising to re-assemble, decentralise and decolonise our outda...

Youth : Media : Technology

Design Directions

Future Noir

An emerging design direction combines the dystopian mood of game environments and the anarchic qualities of Netstalgic graphics to construct fictio...

Faction Marketing : Netstalgia : Novembre

Viewpoints

Towards Ecology-first Economics

Dutch professor Kees Klomp on society’s economic delusion and how we can reconfigure the system to create a better future.

Society : Sustainability : Economics

Markets

Gen Z Digital Wellness Market

Digitally native Generation Z go online to learn, play, socialise, but also to heal and open up, and this is giving rise to platforms supporting we...

Youth : Wellness : Mental Health

Daily Signals

A t-shirt that captures pollution and skincare made from mushrooms

Kloters aims to reduce pollution with smart clothing, Moon Juice revives skin with mushrooms, Reebok podcast celebrates women’s streetwear community.

Fashion : Beauty : Technology

Daily Signals

AKQA imagines future job roles while Proverb offers wellness advice for men

Amazon wants to make magazines shoppable, Qii lets consumers drink their way to better oral hygiene, why brands need to focus on women’s streetwear.

Beauty : Wellness : Retail

Big Ideas

How extreme escapism has moved into hospitality

Travel and hospitality innovators are tapping into the experiential nature of immersive theatre to offer next-level escapism.

Travel & Hospitality : Luxury : Experience

Big Ideas

Inside 3D Printing 2014

The second Inside 3D Printing show, held on 2–4 April in New York, showed that the technology has come far in the short space of a year.

Inside 3D Printing : New York : 3D Printing

Micro Trends

Hong Kong Safari

As part of the world’s emerging economic superpower, Hong Kong bristles with energy.

China : Ngau Tau Kok : G.O.D And Starbucks

Big Ideas

Five Ways Restaurants are Exploring Extremes

From one-ingredient meals to psychedelic soundtracks, dining spaces are giving guests moments to remember through extreme eating experiences.

Food : Drink : Design

Big Ideas

IHT Luxury Conference 2012- Overview

Rome – The promise of Africa as a producer and consumer of luxury goods is now a reality, according to fashion designers and business leaders ...

Louis Vuitton : Ethical Luxury : Kim Jones

Markets

Craft Beer Market: US

A controversial shift from bottles to cans is part of a strategy to further fuel increases in sales of craft beers in a falling market.

Microbrews : Craft Beer : Cans

Markets

Halal Food Futures

A growing Muslim population, fast-expanding retail ranges and interest in ethical food alternatives are driving growth and innovation in the halal ...

Food & Drink : Retail : Travel & Hospitality

Communities

Self-Quants

Inspired by how useful data can be in measuring, monitoring and reducing the amount of energy we use and how much money we spend, a few digital pio...

Nike : Matthew Miller : Up

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: July

The seventh instalment of our Futures 100 Innovators spotlights the people making wellness accessible to everyone, creating a more inclusive tech s...

Futures 100 Innovators : F100 : Health And Wellness

Markets

Accessible Retail Market

Retailers are investing in the accessibility of their physical and digital channels to support the needs of disabled and neurodiverse shoppers.

Retail : Inclusivity : Implicit Inclusivity

Design Directions

Lost & Found Hotel Room

You’re booked on your summer city break. You are ready to immerse yourself in the local culture. You have bought the Wallpaper* city guide and read...

Hotel : Six Degrees Architects : Lost And Found

Communities

Untethered Luxurians

Challenging what it means to be wealthy, this community has chosen a lifestyle that prioritises freedom and self-fulfilment over a settl...

Luxury : Travel : Hospitality

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