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Big Ideas

Tokyo Motor Show 2013 Review

Electric unicycles, steerable wheel-less pods controlled by driver body movement and interiors upholstered in Japanese selvedge denim were just som...

Design Directions

Creative Lab

Ever since working with Andy Warhol in the 1980s, vodka brand Absolut has understood the importance of collaboration. But in the Brandtocratic era,...

Berlin : Flexible Architecture : MADE

Big Ideas

Consumer Attitudes Audit

The flat screen TV reigns supreme as the technology UK householders believe they need to live comfortably, according to our latest Consumer Attitud...

Recession : Bad Manners : Flat Screen TV

Markets

The New Normal Update

The New Normal Briton has two children and thinks of himself as working or lower middle class. He goes on a foreign holiday at least once a year, e...

Mondeo Man : Fiesta Folk : Womenomics

Macro Trends

Homedulgence

Consumers across the globe are looking at new and innovative ways to maintain the good life they’ve come to treasure, without the expense of going ...

Home : Entertainment : Home Induglence

Macro Trends

The Immortal Brand

Brands and consumers are no longer satisfied by instantaneous gratification. Can we really plan in years, decades – even centuries?

The Age Of The Long Near : Evernote : Long Now Foundation

Communities

Athena Woman

Career success and increased spending power are giving rise to a new breed of highly educated, affluent and entrepreneurial woman. These women exud...

Community : Fang Yuan : Courtney Sklar

Micro Trends

Remixing the Country Club

Old money, new values; brands are re-imagining country clubs as inclusive, community-centric spaces, using nostalgia, sports fandom and wellness to...

Luxury : Fashion : Retail

Viewpoints

Ballroom’s Renaissance

Once an anti-capitalist LGBTQ+ space, ballroom culture has thrived commercially – but, says The Future Laboratory’s deputy foresight editor Dan Has...

LGBTQ+ : Pop Culture : Identities

Viewpoints

Towards Ecology-first Economics

Dutch professor Kees Klomp on society’s economic delusion and how we can reconfigure the system to create a better future.

Society : Sustainability : Economics

Markets

Symbiotic Storytellers

Harnessing advancements in AI, data and decentralisation, film-makers are creating new relationships of exchange between audiences and creators.

Media : Streaming : Web 3

Big Ideas

Family in 2030: Climate Communities

In this scenario, we meet an intergenerational Muslim family finding meaning and hope amid the impacts of the climate crisis on the city of New York.

Scenario : Society : Climate Crisis

Viewpoints

Situ Live’s storytelling is augmenting physical retail

Situ Live’s playhouse is a home-like space where technology, gadgets and exercise equipment are brought to life, giving brands a direct line to sho...

Retail : Technology : Customer Experience

Big Ideas

Exhibition: Objects for a New Kind of Society

At Dutch Design Week 2021, Dutch Invertuals and The Future Laboratory are together examining how design will shape our experience of future cities.

Design : Technology : Place Making

Micro Trends

Digital Twin Cities

From Silicon Valley to Stuttgart, digital twins of the built environment are enabling people to explore, engage with and evolve their real-life sur...

Future Cities : Architecture : Technology

Big Ideas

Food brands get a taste for fashion

From fast food streetwear to luxury drink carriers, brands are launching clothing collections as a tool to market products and reveal their persona...

Food : Drinks : Fashion

Micro Trends

Togetherness Travel

With modern families and friends dispersed across the world, people are turning to travel as a way to stay physically connected.

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

Big Ideas

Premium play spaces

Created with the offspring of wealthy Millennials in mind, these luxury leisure spaces bring parents and children together for elevated bonding exp...

Youth : Luxury : Leisure

Viewpoints

Ivy Ross on neuroaesthetics proving the value of design

Google’s vice-president of hardware design discusses how different interiors affect our wellbeing

Milan Salone Internazionale Del Mobile 2019

Daily Signals

Goertek’s intelligent typeface that responds to sound and Snapchat hypes the Air Jordan

MSG Spheres set to create a buzz in London, kombucha sales boom, why we are one step closer to a future where babies grow outside the body.

Entertainment : Retail : Digital

Daily Signals

Gucci’s Renaissance aesthetic, and other stories

In today’s daily digest: Julep empowers women on stereotyping, Teen Vogue launches activist summit, MOIA’s electric vehicle for sharing, and other ...

Luxury : Auto : Youth

Big Ideas

Martine Jarlgaard on blockchain technology and the future of sustainable fashion

The fashion designer discusses how the fashion industry can use technology to redefine its definition of success to include sustainability, ethics ...

Fashion : Apparel : Sustainability

Micro Trends

Anti-intuitive Cooking

New packaged food products and at-home appliances are making it easier to cook gourmet food at home.

Food : Technology : Convenience

Daily Signals

Designer Faye Toogood creates a temple to design and other stories

Today’s daily digest features Nike’s connected jersey, Google’s financial app for India, the BBC’s instructive platform for teachers.

Apparel : Wellness : Finance

Design Directions

WAH Nails

In the heart of Soho, WAH London offers a glimpse of the nail salon of the future.

WAH Nails : Sharmadean Reid : Beauty

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