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Big Ideas

2013 International CES Review Part 2: Music-streaming, Auto-assist and Wearable Technology

Wireless speakers abounded this year on the International CES trade floor, suggesting increasing consumer demand for access rather than ownership o...

Cars : Samsung : Streaming

Communities

Emerging Luxury Millennials

Well-travelled, online and obsessed with good service, the New Luxury Millennials (NLMs) from China, India and Brazil are the next big spenders. Wi...

Heritage : Home : Social Networks

Big Ideas

Euroshop Review part 2

The trade show for retail design and construction is held every three years, and retail designers, architects and store fittings manufacturers save...

Interactive : Education : Gesture Recognition

Macro Trends

The Synthocene Era: Merging Human and Machine Intelligence

As AI redefines our understanding of intelligence, we begin to enter The Synthocene Era, an age in which the lines between what is natural and what...

Technology : Artificial Intelligence : Society

Big Ideas

Gen Z and Luxury’s Future: FT Business of Luxury 2023

The 2023 FT Business of Luxury summit held in Monaco (21–23 May) offered a deep dive into decoding Gen Z consumers and the ensuing implications for...

Luxury : Gen Z : Youth

Big Ideas

IMM Cologne

Many designers at this year’s show, set in the main Koelnmesse exhibition space, focused on how people use everyday objects. This approach often re...

Furniture : Emotional Sobriety : Form Follows Rituals

Viewpoints

New Era Nutrition

Co-founder of Lifesum, Marcus Gners, sits down with LS:N Global to discuss how tech-driven personalised nutrition is driving a new age of healthy l...

Food & Drink : Health And Wellness : Technology

Micro Trends

Safe Hate Spaces

Showing off their most embarrassing petty grievances, a new wave of content creators are building safe havens to normalise and connect over the act...

Content Creator : Youth Culture : Dark Humour

Micro Trends

Grotesque Grub

Chefs and food brands are exploring the darker side of dining with uglier takes on food and drink.

Food : Drink : Design

Micro Trends

Care Collectives

With collectivism on the rise, new spaces informed by traditional ideals of kinship are turning care into the next pillar of wellbeing.

Society : Health & Wellness : Beauty

Micro Trends

Pet Hospitality

After the pandemic pet boom, new owners are ready to travel again and looking for animal-friendly spaces to ease their pet-ernal anxiety.

Pets : Hospitality : Retail

Micro Trends

Confessional Clubs

Generation Z are turning from identity-driven social media platforms to safe, anonymous and judgement-free spaces that are rooted in emotional hone...

Youth : Social Media : Society

Viewpoints

Redesigning the retro future of online groceries

Jono Holt, founder of design agency Otherway, examines the use of nostalgia, colour, storytelling and locality in its brand refresh for grocery del...

Branding : Food : Retail

Big Ideas

Five luxury brands exploring longevity marketing

Global luxury brands are exploring slower, lifestyle-led forms of marketing to stand out from the transient and homogenised nature of social media.

Luxury : Media : Marketing

Markets

Decarbonising Diets Market

A growing awareness among consumers of their individual carbon footprint is fuelling a raft of innovations in low-carbon and climate-positive produ...

Food : Drink : Sustainability

Big Ideas

The digital evolution of neighbourhood stores

With Covid-19 bolstering spending in local stores, new platforms are emerging that digitise independent retailers and boost access for remote shopp...

Retail : Technology : Food

Micro Trends

Low-impact Interfaces

To cut the carbon emissions of our online consumption, designers are exploring how to simplify UX and UI design to be greener and more energy-effic...

Technology : Sustainability : Design

Micro Trends

Edu-play-tion

With parents of Generation Alpha now home educators, brands are elevating playtime with tools that combine digital and analogue learning.

Youth : Technology : Gen Alpha

Micro Trends

The Elevated Outdoors

Affluent consumers are swapping safaris and skiing for extreme outdoor experiences, turning to luxury brands to help boost their resilience.

Luxury : Fashion : Travel

Big Ideas

Meet the fashion designers exploring Brave New Worlds

These award-winning international talents aim to change the landscape of fashion through designs that explore politics, sustainability, identity an...

Fashion : Youth : Sustainability

Markets

Emerging Money Market: Sub-Saharan Africa

The financial infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa is being overhauled to form a more cohesive and reliable system that focuses on inclusion over c...

FinTech : Finance : Africa

Daily Signals

A mental health zine and eco-conscious trainers

Swirl rethinks mental health communication, adidas combines sustainability efforts with data-driven design, Instagram interrupts zombie scrolling.

Mental Health : Fashion : Technology

Daily Signals

Sound-generating glass at Milan Salone and teaching kids about blockchain

AGC develops a new form of glass, Pigzbe educates kids on cryptocurrency, The Student Hotel expands to student accommodation.

Hospitality : Finance : Milan Salone 2018

Daily Signals

LS:N Global previews our must-see exhibitions at Milan Salone 2018

In today's daily digest, we profile five standout installations to see at this year's Milan Salone Internazionale.

Design : Architecture : Salone Del Mobile

Daily Signals

Sneakers designed for Instagram and recreating food digitally

Smart Stitch facilitates material re-use, adidas’s Deerupt is designed for social media, Sierra Leone uses blockchain to guarantee its presidential...

Food : Fashion : Technology

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