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Design Directions

Femininity Rebranded

Creative practitioners are abandoning tired gendered design cues to redefine modern female identity, and embracing a bold, vibrant aesthetic to com...

Branding : Packaging : Design

Design Directions

Fluid Capital

The move towards a cashless society is inspiring a new visual language around financial values, transactions and the appearance of money.

Finance : Cashless Futures : Snask

Markets

Affirmative Avatars Market

As the line blurs between people’s real-life personas and online avatars, socially conscious netizens are seeking digital fashion that reflects the...

Gaming : Avatars : Web3

Markets

Travel Agents Revisited

In a fragmented tourism landscape, people are opting out of complex travel planning and hiring experts to navigate their future trips instead.

Travel : Hospitality : Tourism

Markets

Neighbourhood Tourism Market

With the hospitality sector forced to accept a long-term drop in tourism, it's turning its attention towards local citizens.

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

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

Daily Signals

Global Futures Forum: Meet our disruptors of 2017

We explore how six disruptors are challenging thinking in their fields and changing the future landscape through their work.

Wellness : Retail : Food & Drink

Markets

Global Luxury Market 2017: Part 2

In our luxury focuses we examine how brands are recognising the power of net culture and tapping into the resale market, and discover Mexico’s emer...

Luxury : Fashion : Advertising

Markets

Global Beauty Market 2016: Part 1

We examine the changing face of the global beauty market and the rapid rise of exciting new trends in the industry, from Social Power to Phygital S...

Instagram : Skincare : 3ina

Big Ideas

Luxe Pack Monaco 2015: Overview

Sensory applications, sustainable solutions and digital authentication were among the topics on the agenda at Luxe Pack Monaco 2015.

Luxe Pack : Packaging : Monaco

Big Ideas

ILTM: The Importance of Food and Experience

Experience generally, and food specifically, are increasingly important to the luxury traveller.

Food : Skye Gyngell : Heckfield Place

Viewpoints

Cracking the Algorithm Code

As the seemingly omnipresent power of global tech giants reaches new levels, a revaluation of individual liberty and agency is under way.  

Algorithms : Big Data : Technology

Viewpoints

Practical Paths to Planet-Positive Luxury

Diana Verde Nieto tells LS:N Global about Reimagining Luxury, her latest book on how to build a positive and sustainable future for brands.

Luxury : Advertising & Branding : Sustainability

Viewpoints

This is what real disruption looks like

Covid-19 has given the world a glimpse of what true disruption looks like. Now, it should change how businesses think about disruption for years to...

Covid-19 : Design : Society

Viewpoints

It’s time to decolonise education, say Gen Z

Galvanised by the Black Lives Matter movement, Generation Z are using social media to (un)learn behaviours and catalyse decolonised education reform.

Youth : Education : BLM

Big Ideas

Neo-food photography

Meet the four food photographers skewing ideas of perfection and health in favour of a playful and disorderly aesthetic.

Food : Design : Photography

Big Ideas

Meal kits can be a green alternative to groceries

From slashing waste to sourcing ingredients sustainably, these meal kit companies are repositioning themselves as a solution for eco-conscious shop...

Food : Drink : Meal Kits

Viewpoints

Sensory sex toys

Wan Tseng, founder of sex tech start-up Wisp, on sexual pleasure that focuses on the senses, and why the world of phallic sex toys is ripe for disr...

Health : Sex : Tehnology

Big Ideas

How AR will transform fake news into digi-tainment

Designer Clara Ormières explores how augmented reality (AR) will change the way in which we interpret and experience the news in her Unreal Plots p...

Augmented Reality : Media : Dutch Design Week

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

Football Innovation Debrief

As the World Cup approaches its climax, we look at the innovators defining football’s future, from stadium design to the wearables transforming tra...

Sports : Wellness : Entertainment

Markets

Luxury Sports Fan Market

Long overlooked by the luxury market, premium brands are slowly recognising that there is a significant minority of wealthy mainstream sports fans.

Sport : Luxury : Travel

Design Directions

Neo-nutrition

Food branding and packaging is rejecting the popular visual cues of ‘organic’ and ‘artisanal’, and instead embracing a more clinical, synthetic-loo...

Food Packaging : Anti-Authenticity Marketing : GMO

Micro Trends

Airbnb Backlash

The peer-to-peer home rental service's growth is causing friction with both local communities and the hotel industry.

Airbnb : The Sharing Economy : Hospitality

Design Directions

Map: Industrial Design

Map presents a new format for the design industry, where each creative decision is backed by strategic insight.

Map Project Office : Internet Of Things : SAM Labs

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