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Big Ideas

London Design Festival 2016: Top 10

Luxury brands took over this year’s festival with major installations, while a variety of universities, museums and independent studios focused on ...

Markets

Hot Luxury: Brazil’s rising consumer demand

Brazil is a country waking up to the luxury industry due to rising consumer demand and a rush of international brands keen to expand there, accordi...

IHT : Suzy Menkes : BRICs

Big Ideas

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 ...

Berlin : Mobile Shopping : Physical

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

Micro Trends

Micro-mmunity Retail

Retail brands are swapping flagship and big-box store formats for downscaled neighbourhood shopfronts with services curated to the needs of local s...

Retail : Customer Experience : Local

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

Micro Trends

Adaptive Beauty

Innovative technology and packaging solutions are ushering in a new era of inclusivity for consumers with visual impairments and conditions like mu...

Beauty : Inclusivity : Japan

Micro Trends

Untrade Shows

It began with bloggers at fashion week. Once accessible only to buyers and media, trade shows and industry events are becoming more consumer-facing.

Trade Shows : B2B : Direct To Consumer

Big Ideas

SXSW Interactive 2016 Review: Part 1

With no stand-out app or innovation, there was a subdued air at SXSW Interactive 2016, where brand activations mingled with panels on robots, artif...

SXSW Interactive : Robotics : SXSW Interactive 2016

Design Directions

Mother

As human needs evolve and technology advances to create solutions to these fluctuating needs, we are accumulating a lot of devices. Once a device h...

Data-tracking : Internet Of Things : Self Quant

Micro Trends

Digi-tactile

As music becomes increasingly digitised, consumers are beginning to miss the tactile experiences associated with buying it in its physical form.

Music : Experience : Albums

Micro Trends

Food and Beverage Pairings

Move over wine: today’s chefs are pairing food with beer, coffee and even soda.

Menu : Restaurant : Beer

Design Directions

Vandasye

To the uninitiated, ‘selective laser sintering’ sounds like some kind of laser-based elimination game – one played out, perhaps, between the strong...

Furniture : Self-Engineered : Prototyping

Big Ideas

Six Pet Market Trends to Watch in 2025

From AI-powered devices to cultivated protein and microbiome health, the humanisation of pet care is reaching new heights of personalisation and op...

Pet : Pet Market Trends 2025 : AI-powered Pet Accessories

Behaviours

State of Retail: Australia

From the burgeoning billion-dollar activewear sector to the rise of retail media, the opportunities for growth in Australia’s retail market are pre...

Retail : Australia : Fashion

Macro Trends

Embedded Marketing

As consumers have more opportunity to avoid advertising, brands are reinventing product placement, enriching media content by embedding their brand...

Marketing : Branding : Branded Entertainment

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2025: Travel & Hospitality

Global macro-shifts are driving the key travel and hospitality foresight trends for 2025. The climate crisis, a loneliness epidemic, the geopolitic...

Travel & Hospitality : Sustainability : Health & Wellness

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2024: Technology

Rapid advances in technology are creating a new pool of consumers who are happy to leave the social, economic and political crises of the real worl...

Technology : Health & Wellness : Society

Markets

Luxury Travel Futures Market – New definitions

Luxury is at a stage where the emphasis is very much on how an experience makes you feel rather than on extravagant hardware.

Experiential : Adventurism : Tom Marchant

Markets

Public Transport Futures

A new era of public transport is taking shape. From AI-powered networks to free travel trials and zero-emission fleets, the future of mobility is s...

Transport : Public Transport : Travel

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2025: Beauty

From wellness-inspired Guochao to Gen Alpha beauty, the industry is evolving to meet the demands of every consumer, while simultaneously being educ...

Beauty : Health & Wellness : Luxury

Big Ideas

House of Beautiful Business Festival 2024: Creating a Life-centred Economy

On a mission to find poly-opportunities in a world of polycrisis, a gathering of thinkers, makers and artists came together in the city of Tangier.

Society : Culture : Technology

Markets

Reading Market

Innovators are harnessing pandemic behaviours to re-imagine books for a new generation of escapist, eco-conscious and phygital readers.

Media : Entertainment : Youth

Design Directions

Mirrored Realms

As reality becomes more programmable, a visual aesthetic is being defined that reflects the artificiality of the virtual world alongside our everyd...

Programmable Realities : Immaterial Fashion : Virtual

Big Ideas

2015 International CES Review Part 1: Virtual reality, drones and augmented innovation

The 2015 International CES rode a wave of technology investment and economic optimism to become the largest show in CES history. Virtual reality an...

CES 2015 : Virtual Reality : Drones

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