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Big Ideas

Future Five 2025: Future Spaces

We explore how wellbeing, sustainability and technology will all be key in creating adaptable, people-centric and future-proof spaces that allow co...

Big Ideas

Dutch Design Week 2024: Life in The Synthocene Era

At the 2024 edition of Dutch Design Week designers addressed what life might look like in The Synthocene Era, as the boundaries between human and n...

Design : Technology : Society

Viewpoints

The Future of Women’s Health

Dr Somi Javaid, founder and chief medical officer of HerMD, tells LS:N Global how its clinics can help fix a broken healthcare system and close the...

Women's Health : HerMD : Preventative Healthcare

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2024: Beauty

Trends in the beauty sector are being turbocharged by TikTok, creating a large pool of consumers for whom the line between their real and filtered ...

Beauty : Future Forecast : Reports

Big Ideas

Decolonising Data Privacy

To earn and retain consumers’ trust via ethical data handling strategies, businesses can learn from Indigenous cultures prioritising data consent, ...

Data Protection : Technology : Decolonisation

Micro Trends

Regenerative Luxury Jewels

Thanks to advances in materials and manufacturing, the jewellery industry is entering a new era of sustainability.

Luxury : Sustainability : Fashion

Viewpoints

Future-ready Retail

Retail designer, futurist and author of Future Ready Retail, Ibrahim Ibrahim, is on a mission to reboot physical retail in the face of a ‘cost of d...

Retail : Design : Society

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Media & Technology

From the Betterverse to the dawn of the AI revolution, we select five key directions for 2023 in the media and technology sector.

Technology : Media & Entertainment : Youth

Markets

State of Luxury: South Korea

With rising wealth and digital fluency in its younger demographics, South Korea is well positioned as one of Asia’s most exciting and innovative gr...

Luxury : Fashion : Art

Markets

Food Austerity Innovators

Global events are causing widespread disruption to the food sector, with innovators and start-ups helping to assuage rising prices and abating supp...

Food : Drink : Society

Markets

Fashion Rental Market

Fashion rental services are evolving to benefit brands and consumers, providing new revenue streams, peer-led style inspiration and convenience.

Fashion

Markets

Modern Meditation Market

Meditation is being reframed as an accessible activity, with Covid-19 having accelerated its engagement and normalised the adoption of daily rituals.

Meditation : Wellbeing : Wellness

Markets

Emerging Youth: Australia

Faced with one crisis after another, Australia’s youth are using digital platforms to reflect on their identities, educate their peers and satirise...

Youth : Australia : Covid-19

Markets

Fashion Recommerce

Fuelled by Generation Z spending power and the circular economy, the market for reselling fashion is on the rise.

Fashion : Resell : Luxury Brands

Design Directions

Edhv: Multidisciplinary design studio

Design : Dutch Invertuals : Oxidisation

Design Directions

Device 6

Video games as film? Certainly. Video games as art? Maybe. Video games as literature? The idea seems ridiculous. Yet that is what Swedish...

Iphone : Device 6 : Simogo

Design Directions

OUTRACE

In the dusk of a September evening in Trafalgar Square, London’s most famous public space, an enraptured public saw eight robotic arms draw picture...

Robotics : Clemens Weisshaar : Outrace

Design Directions

MadeThought : Graphic Design

‘For us, it’s not about purifying or minimizing,’ says Paul Austin, co-founder of multidisciplinary design consultancy MadeThought. ‘It’s about con...

Perfume : Tea : Packaging

Macro Trends

Brand Culture 2020

Responding to an increasingly unstable marketplace, tomorrow’s brands will seek to combine the benefits of automation with the creation of a work...

Workplace : Branding : Culture

Micro Trends

New York Safari

This most global of US cities thrives on cultural and commercial energy.

Men Science : The Well And The Wick : Reynard

Markets

Online luxury

Global online sales of luxury goods increased by 65% in 2007 to reach €1.5bn (£1.28bn), according to consultants Bain & Company. Yet, despite the m...

Online Luxury : Ledbury Research : Google

Communities

The Uncoupled

Meet the new community of citizens who are choosing to embrace singledom, polyamory and platonic love over traditional romantic relationships.

Tribe : Travel : Leisure

Macro Trends

Menaissance

The New Lad and the New Man were handy motifs for their times, but today’s 24-35-year-old male is a far more advanced and more complex animal. The ...

Men : NuRo Male : Grooming

Macro Trends

Alphalux

In the wake of an economic downturn, the luxury industry has experienced a shock from falling sales and consumer confidence. Moving forward, it mus...

Heritage : Austerity : Brand Quietness

Communities

The Value Vanguard

Meet the consumers redefining value through imperfect sustainability, emotional spending and radical pragmatism, offering brands a glimpse into the...

Value : Finance : Society

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