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Design Directions

New Consciousness

Responsibility is being rebranded. As businesses apply long-term thinking, a vibrant visual landscape is emerging that inspires action and optimism.

Sustainability : Long Term Thinking : Visual Communication

Design Directions

Anti-Materials

Conventions are shifting. A group of designers is starting new conversations and questioning the value of materials, creating a new hierarchy.

Value Redefined : Luxury : Ephemeral Materials

Design Directions

Digital Surrealism

A new style of design is emerging that takes its inspiration from the early days of the internet, as first explored in LS:N Global’s macrotrend, Ne...

Internet Art : Netstalgic : Web Art

Macro Trends

Anarconomy Decade

Something is stirring. In Egypt, a people’s revolt has overthrown a long-standing oppressor. In Bahrain, thousands of people continue to protest in...

Anarchy : Economy : Counter-intuitive

Micro Trends

Boston Safari

It might not be Paris, New York or London, but Boston is still one of the most recognisable cities in the world, and is beginning to come into it...

Boston : Re-Con Man : The Convergence Economy

Markets

New social media landscapes

Social media has reached a tipping point, and is growing up. If social media 2.0 was a rebellious playground complete with consumer cliques and bra...

Social Media : JupiterResearch : Digital Divide

Macro Trends

Transmedia Futures

New platforms and behaviours are replacing linear media – these shifts are creating a networked system where the consumer, rather than the publishe...

Future Media : New Media Landscapes : Always-on

Macro Trends

Consumer 2020

In the next decade, brands need to prepare for consumers who are abandoning traditional institutions, seeking comfort in safe spaces and reassert...

Youth : Purpose : Belonging

Viewpoints

How fashion NFTs can spark eco-action

Brad Morris, founder of digital fashion house MYAMI, shares how NFTs can be used as virtual tools for prompting environmental action.

Fashion : Metaverse : Climate

Macro Trends

Symbiotic Branding

Collaboration used to be optional for brands that want to create buzz or a one-off product range. Now it is a rule not the exception, as brand-jack...

Symbiosis : Branding : Collaboration

Design Directions

Milan Trends: Part 1

Revivalism : Fun And Functionality : Form Follows Function

Big Ideas

Milan preview

As the design world – and the world at large – breathes a collective sigh of relief that that Great Depression didn’t quite materialise, LS:N Globa...

Salone Internazionale Del Mobile : DesignMarketo : Pared-back

Big Ideas

Milan Design Week preview

Milan – Despite economic downturn, the show will go on at next week’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. Now in its 48th year, the global f...

Furniture : Piet Hein Eek : Preview

Micro Trends

Digital Detox Destinations

With the aim of finding a solution to the incessant bombardment from our digital devices, people are swapping their screens for bucolic scenes, see...

Travel : Analogue : Mindfulness

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2025: Technology

Amid accelerating technologies, consumers are exploring divergent paths: from simplified ‘dumb tech’ for digital detox to AI-generated creativity a...

Technology : Health & Wellness : Society

Big Ideas

World Retail Congress 2024: Let’s Get Hyperphysical

From Primark to Nike and Printemps, the World Retail Congress analysed how retailers are seducing passers-by with innovative in-store experiences a...

Retail : Design : Luxury

Big Ideas

SXSW Sydney 2023: AI, Quantum and Future Food

The seismic impact of generative AI, Australia’s ascendance as a world leader in quantum computing, and the future of global food needs took centre...

Events : Technology : Food

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

News

A healthy convenience store, botox and beverages

The Goods Mart champions smarter eating, Christopher Hanna medical spa offers fillers and cocktails, Xbox translates real moves into gaming language.

Food : Technology : Beauty

News

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

Big Ideas

New Designers Part Two 2015

Now in its 30th year, New Designers continues to highlight graduate talent across multiple design disciplines. At the Part Two show, there was an...

New Designers 2015 : Part Two : Graduate Show

Big Ideas

World Retail Congress 2012: Omni-channel, the new definition of multi-channel retail

London – Where there was once multi-channel retail, in the new forward-thinking strategy it is now called omni-channel – and that means applyi...

London : Intergrated Distribution : In Store

Macro Trends

Total Tastes

The food-as-medicine movement is being rebranded to fit modern lifestyles, balancing flavour and function to shape our physical and psychological s...

Food : Drink : Health And Wellness

Big Ideas

Inter-Covid Roadmap 2021

With the Covid-19 vaccine rollout offering a chance to rebuild our societies and economies, a host of new opportunities await brands and businesses.

Covid-19 : Society : Health

Macro Trends

The Future of Music : 10 Trends

LS:N Global looks at the top ten trends that are informing how the music industry reconfigures itself in the digital era.

Music : Tunes : Entertainment

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