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Ramaa Mosley on why you should hire a teenage director

The founder of youth advertising and production agency Adolescent on why brands should look to teenage directors to reinvigorate their visual campa...

Youth : Entertainment : Advertising

News

Bleach London’s ethically minded make-up range and other stories

In today’s daily digest: Bleach London’s vegan make-up, refugee camps adopt mobile money, Cabin brings bus travel to the fore, and other top stories.

Beauty : Travel : Advertising

Design Directions

The Net Set

Fashionistas worldwide have been invited to join an elite community platform that offers a fresh source of shopping inspiration.

The Net Set : Social : App

Micro Trends

Digital Detox Destinations

With the aim of finding a solution to the incessant bombardment from our digital devices, people are swapping their screens for bucolic scenes, see...

Travel : Analogue : Mindfulness

Macro Trends

New Bricolage Living

Identity used to be something that you were born with. Age, race, gender and nationality were firmly fixed and determined your place in the world....

Third-stage Globalisation : Life-lodging : Connectivity

Big Ideas

IFA Berlin Review

Internet-connected television and innovations in 3D tv took centre stage in Berlin at this year’s IFA show, Europe’s largest technology fair.

Toshiba : 3D TV : Galaxy Tab

Macro Trends

Future Family

In these turbulent times, the idea of family is becoming more important, as the nuclear family unit gives way to multi-generational clans and singl...

Family : Households : William Higham

Markets

Emerging Youth: AfroLATAM

Despite historical socio-economic disadvantages, Black Latin Americans are making themselves heard through a unique sense of unity and resilience.

Youth : Media : Workplace

News

Foresight Friday: Simar Deol, foresight analyst

Every Friday, The Future Laboratory team offer an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about.

Foresight : Digital Fandom : Cultural Trends

Viewpoints

Raw and real: a new era for influencer marketing

A migration towards smaller influencers more deeply in touch with their audiences will shape how brands work in the years ahead.

Retail : Covid-19 : Feedback Frontiers

Viewpoints

Ryan Bethencourt: The next wave of biotech

GMOs will appeal to ethical consumers, says Ryan Bethencourt, programme director at accelerator Indie.Bio.

Biotech : Indie.Bio : Clara Foods

Viewpoints

Retailers must digitise fashion for the Covid era

Bruno Antunes Luis, co-founder of Gaspard + Bruno, on how hyper-real digital solutions offer untapped ways to experience and interact with products...

Fashion : Technology : Retail

News

Amorphous architecture

New York – Storefront Gallery has exhibited an interactive room that moved and morphed around visitors, providing a range of stimuli.

Lucy McRae : Soft Architecture : MIT Self-assembly Lab

News

Magical landscape: Network event ponders Re-enlightenment Design

Biological : Jewelry : Biology

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

Consumer 2020

In the next decade, brands need to prepare for consumers who are abandoning traditional institutions, seeking comfort in safe spaces and reassert...

Youth : Purpose : Belonging

Communities

Holistic Athletes

A desire to balance their minds, meals and bodies as well as their skin keeps Holistic Athletes looking as good as they feel.

The Optimised Self : Fitness : Wellness

Big Ideas

The tech being developed to address Bitcoin’s failings

As Bitcoin fails to live up to many of its promises, emerging technologies aim to address the cryptocurrency’s shortcomings and usher in a new era ...

Finance : FinTech

Big Ideas

How AI inspectors could safeguard consumer expectations

Through the lens of a fictional future scenario, we explore how technology is driving key behavioural shifts among brands and consumers. This mon...

Customer Experience : Far Futures : Scenario

Viewpoints

Jamie Zigelbaum and Marcelo Coelho : Bringing computing out of the box Jamie Zigelbaum and Marcelo Coelho see pixels

Zigelbaum + Coelho’s Jamie Zigelbaum and Marcelo Coelho talk about bringing computing out of the box.

Zigelbaum + Coelho : Jamie Zigelbaum : Marcelo Coelho

Big Ideas

The Gen Z messaging apps of tomorrow

Forget Snapchat and WhatsApp. Today’s youth are taking it upon themselves to create fluid social apps that nurture their multimedia friendships.

Youth : Media : Gen Z

Markets

Influencer Market

Influencer marketing enables brands to engage with fiercely loyal communities in an authentic and seamless way.

Influencer Market : Gen Viz : Anti-authenticity Marketing

Big Ideas

Modern Burglary

The cost of living crisis, surging inflation rates and a hacker mindset are turning theft into the next big retail turmoil.

Data Security : Retail Crime : Security

News

Stat: Snapchat finds a loyal audience with young Saudis

All eyes may be on TikTok in the West, but Snapchat is rapidly becoming one of the most popular social media platforms in Saudi Arabia.

Youth : Media & Entertainment : Society

Viewpoints

Workplace futures

Businesses need to prepare for the arrival of Gen Z employees by making their workplaces more flexible.

Bleisure : Gen Z : Office Design

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