LS:N Global

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

Markets

DIY Dressing Market

With sustainability increasingly front of mind, consumers are getting creative with their clothing and opting for DIY fashion over new items.

Fashion : Sustainability

Markets

Chinese Travel Market

With Chinese consumers keen to unleash their pent-up spending power, tourism brands are innovating to restore consumer trust in travelling.

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

Macro Trends

Recuperative Living

In the aftermath of Covid-19, consumers’ collective concerns about hygiene, wellbeing and immunity will drive new directions in beauty and wellness...

Beauty : Health : Wellness

Markets

Suncare Market

Growing interest in skincare and skin health is driving innovation in the suncare market, as consumers begin to look for holistically protective so...

Health : Wellness : Beauty

Markets

The State of Luxury: Russia

Post-recession Russia’s luxury market is showing signs of recovery, bolstered by a boom in East Asian tourists and a growing focus on local craftsm...

Luxury : Fashion : Retail

Daily Signals

Keeping kids active and Americans’ take on sake-brewing

FitBit’s latest wearable encourages children to exercise, DoNotPay uses AI to revolutionise travel, Brooklyn Kura brews American sake.

Wellness : Retail : Travel

Markets

Millennial Family Travel Market

As more and more Millennials enter parenthood, they are not giving up on their thirst for travel or their desire for sustainable experiences.

Travel : Hospitality : Family

Daily Signals

Asif Khan visualises a hydrogen fuel cell and Pixel Coffee hits the sustainability spot

Area15 is a new retail destination experience, Crisis uses machine learning to improve work culture, AI in retail set to grow exponentially.

Food : Drink : Technology

Daily Signals

LS:N Global selects the most noteworthy exhibits at Dutch Design Week

In today’s daily digest: A round-up of LS:N Global’s top five exhibitions at Dutch Design Week 2017.

Design : Technology : Wellness

Daily Signals

Global Futures Forum: Disruptors – One year on

At our first Global Futures Forum, 20 disruptors offered their vision of the future. Five of them explain how their work has developed over the pas...

Gaming : Technology : Wellness

Big Ideas

An Uncertain Future

In the run-up to the General Election, four diverse British consumers from across the country discuss how a year of sociopolitical upheaval has aff...

General Election 2017 : An Uncertain Future : Brexit

Design Directions

Type Reinvented

Digital art studio FIELD and typography company Monotype have created three digital installations that examine themes of language, space and ...

Field : Monotype : Typography

Big Ideas

Decoded London 2015 Review

At the Decoded Fashion summit in London, industry speakers and panellists discussed technology’s role in-store, retail 3.0, social selling and th...

Markets

Flexitarianism market

Vegetables are increasingly in the spotlight as they change from being a side dish to the star on diners’ plates across the globe.

Waitrose : Meat-free Mondays : Flexitarianism

Design Directions

132 5 Issey Miyake

Taking the Super-Minimalist approach to design to its logical conclusion, each of the garments in Issey Miyake’s 132 5 collection unfold ...

Craft : Reality Lab : 132 5 Collection

Design Directions

Tutti a Tavola!

What makes a kitchen? To some it’s the preparation of food, experimenting with flavours and hovering over a hot stove. For others it’s a place for ...

Milan : Performing Arts : Tutti A Tavola!

Micro Trends

Sweden's sourdough men

Tired of ready meals and prepackaged food, a group of Swedish men has turned to the art of baking sourdough bread. This ancient baking technique al...

Sourdough : Bread : Baking

Viewpoints

It’s time for sustainability to get spiritual

CogDis is an ethical consultancy with spirituality and imperfection at its core. Here’s how its founders are guiding brands on their quest for better.

Sustainability : Fashion : Youth

Viewpoints

Hacking the senses will redefine self-care

Charles Spence, a world expert in multi-sensory perception, highlights how knowledge of our senses can have a profound effect on health and wellbei...

Health : Wellness : Sensory Experience

Viewpoints

Menopausal empowerment

Dr Louise Newson, founder of Balance app, uncovers the importance of holistic menopausal wellbeing and educated empowerment for this important life...

Health And Wellness : Health Technology : Menopause

Viewpoints

The Covid-19 pandemic will reshape travel as we know it

Travel has become meaningless. Now, the Covid-19 pandemic has granted travel brands an opportunity to contemplate – and moralise – their existence.

Travel : Hospitality : Covid-19

Viewpoints

The dawn of the emo-algorithm

Neuroscientist-turned-designer Vera van der Burg attempts to eradicate AI bias by training machines to prioritise human emotions over our data sets.

Artificial Intelligence : Technology : Design

Viewpoints

Biodiversity will unlock a bright future for food

Mike Lee, co-founder of Alpha Food Labs, examines building a sustainable food and drink brand from the soil up.

Food : Sustainability : Retail

Micro Trends

Everyteen TV

Led by an increasingly social mindset, young people are creating hyper-real forms of entertainment in a fight back against highly curated media.

Youth : Entertainment : Media

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