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PANDA
PANDA is a fictional platform that would help sharing economy workers push back against their ‘employers’.
OMA
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The Sharing Economy
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Airbnb
Big Ideas
House Vision 2016
A series of cross-industry collaborations and talks at Tokyo’s second House Vision exhibition examined the future of the home and the nature of the...
House Vision
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Tokyo
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Urbanism
Big Ideas
New Designers 2016: Top five
This year New Designers showed a notable shift towards more conceptually driven projects that veered away from the typically commercial work of p...
New Designers
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Product Design
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The E-motional Economy
Design Directions
Watermelon Sugar
Designer Pamm Hong has created a speculative platform that visualises a user’s browsing history as an abstract creature.
Online Identity
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Algorithms
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The Sharded Self
Design Directions
Mathery Studio: Multidisciplinary design
Design studio Mathery is renowned for its playful creative work that elevates everyday materials.
Mathery
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Multi-disciplinary
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Photography
Big Ideas
Decoded Fashion London 2016: Show Review
The fashion industry is increasingly championing revelation, curation and social retail in order to win long-term customer loyalty.
Decoded Fashion London
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Revelation Brands
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Gen Viz
Design Directions
Sea Hero Quest
Sea Hero Quest is a mobile game that is helping to speed up research into dementia.
Deutsche Telekom
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Glitchers
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Gaming
Design Directions
Ryan Romanes: Art Direction and Branding
Melbourne-based designer and art director Ryan Romanes constructs visual narratives that have the power to engage all the senses.
Art Direction
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Melbourne
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Branding
Design Directions
Nordea Markets
Design studio Snask revitalises an investment bank’s identity with a contemporary and playful rebrand.
Nordea Markets
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Snask
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Bank
Big Ideas
Cannes Lions 2014 Show Report Part 1
Cannes – At the 61st annual gathering of the advertising world on the Côte d'Azur, one thing was clear: from native ads to programmatic buying, the...
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Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity
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Advertising
Design Directions
Andrew Stellitano: Designer and Art Director
Andrew Stellitano: Designer and Art Director
Synaesthetic Selling
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Convergence Culture
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Sensory
Design Directions
Passport to Sparkle
Finding customers is one thing, but keeping them is another. At present, Millennials – those born between 1982 and 1991 who have an estimated spend...
Tactile
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RO New York
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Passport To Sparkle
Big Ideas
Going places: International Luxury Travel & Hospitality Market 2012
Going places: International Luxury Travel & Hospitality Market 2012
Louis Vuitton
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International Luxury Travel Market
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Maison
Big Ideas
Decoded Fashion: Part 2
London – Personalisation and shoppable video content were the highlight creative digital strategies discussed at the Decoded Fashion event, he...
Google
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Video
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Personalisation
Big Ideas
London Design Festival Review: Part 2
In part one of our review we looked at three design trends in evidence at the London Design Festival (LDF) 2012: Designs for Future Cities, The Wor...
Design
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Furniture
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Design Junction
Viewpoints
Ambra Medda : Technology is craft and collectible
Design Miami director Ambra Medda talks about technology as the new craft.
Ambra Medda
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Milan Design Week
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Design Miami
Micro Trends
Magtailing
Looking for new income streams, publishers are becoming e-tailers and e-tailers are launching magazines.
Magazines
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Brandzines
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Content
Design Directions
Bahnhof
Situated 30 metres under the granite rocks of the Vita Berg Park in Stockholm, Sweden’s Albert France-Lanord Architects has created an astonishing ...
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Architecture
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Stockholm
Markets
Myanmar market report
After five decades of virtual isolation under the ruling military dictatorship, the opening up of Myanmar has led to a flood of interest from forei...
Myanmar
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UN
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United Nations
Markets
Downturn Sport & Leisure
This is a time of unprecedented upheaval for the global tourism industry, according to The Future Laboratory’s Leisure and Hospitality Futures Repo...
TripAdvisor
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Ecotourism
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Design Hotels
Communities
Generation D
The successors to the New Millennials, Generation Ds are the first true ‘digital natives’. Born between 1994 and 2002, Generation Ds cannot remembe...
Content
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Spotify
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Social Networks
Macro Trends
Alternet Economies
A technological counter-culture is decentralising capitalism, reforming the internet and powering new value frontiers for creators, consumers and b...
Technology
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FinTech
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Internet
Big Ideas
Covid-19 Contingency Planning
Learn the immediate impacts of Covid-19 across key sectors, and discover best-in-class case studies and future considerations for your organisation.
Covid-19
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Society
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Health
Macro Trends
Generation I
You type, they swipe. You click, they tap. You customise the template, they code their own. Born after 2002, today’s digital natives are demanding ...
Gen I
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Kids
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Digital Natives
Macro Trends
Neo-kinship
As the nuclear family disappears and more fluid and complex forms of kinship take its place, technology is not only helping to run the househol...
Neo-kinship
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Artificial Intelligence
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