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Micro Trends

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Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Youth

From youth culture’s flat age future to wise-beyond-their-years Zalphas, we select five key directions in youth culture for 2023.

Youth : Media & Entertainment : Society

Design Directions

Right Angle Studio

From city guides to cinemas and restaurants, Australian creative studio Right Angle seems to have a finger in every pie. But the broad va...

Design : Urban : Australia

Markets

Smartphone shopping

As sales of smartphones rose by a quarter in the UK last year, a new report sheds light on British consumer expectations for the near future of mob...

Smartphones : Google Shopper : RedLaser

Big Ideas

Brand Innovation Debrief: Hæckels

With trailblazing in-house biotech and lab-grown ingredients, Hæckels is evolving into more than just a beauty brand.

Beauty : Sustainability : Technology

Viewpoints

How to Create a Fashion-forward Metaverse

With Brand New Vision, fashion veteran and entrepreneur Richard Hobbs is building a Web3 eco-system dedicated to fashion.

Fashion : Metaverse : Technology

Micro Trends

Streetwear Brokerages

A series of new platforms are transforming fashion’s resale market into a bona fide investment arena, cementing garments as tradeable assets.

Fashion : Finance : Streetwear

Viewpoints

Unpacking luxury’s NFT and metaverse opportunity

Daniella Loftus, a member of Red DAO, describes how non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and digital goods can open new revenue streams and enhance audience ...

Luxury : Technology : NFTs

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

Micro Trends

Post-digital Communication

Designers are swapping fiddly haptic interfaces for basic material props in order to enhance the poetry and meaning of virtual experiences.

Virtual Reality : Communication : Technology

News

A mental health zine and eco-conscious trainers

Swirl rethinks mental health communication, adidas combines sustainability efforts with data-driven design, Instagram interrupts zombie scrolling.

Mental Health : Fashion : Technology

News

Today’s headlines including VPRO Medialab’s emotional response exhibit

In today’s daily digest: Coinflash makes cryptocurrency investment easy, how to brew a healthier tea, air pollution a deadly global killer and othe...

Fashion : Finance : Pollution

Big Ideas

The Sleep Event Review

Designers and hoteliers at this year’s hotel design conference, Sleep, focused on convergence culture and escapist bedrooms and considered how to c...

Millenial Hotels : The Convergence Economy : Bleisure

Big Ideas

New York Fashion Week spring/summer 2015: Retail and innovation

New York Fashion Week is about more than just the catwalk. LS:N Global looks at the week’s innovation highlights beyond the runways.

NYFW : New York Fashion Week : Gareth Pugh

Markets

Pharmafoods

On both sides of the Atlantic, health and wellbeing have become a major media focus. Consumers are being bombarded with conflicting messages, from ...

Pharmafoods : Superfoods : Nanofoods

Macro Trends

Redemptive Diets

Brands and consumers are uniting to build future-fit food systems that support changing social values, protect precious resources and secure supply...

Food : Drink : Society

Markets

Beauty report

As the world changes after the recession and we enter the New Normal age of the topsy-turvy Turbulent Teens, thankfully some things remain the same...

Turbulent Teens : Lipstick Effect : Selfridges

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Beauty

In 2023, the beauty sector will simultaneously embrace hyperphysical experiences and the growing potential of digital and dual-reality identities.

Beauty : Wellness : Technology

Design Directions

Future Noir

An emerging design direction combines the dystopian mood of game environments and the anarchic qualities of Netstalgic graphics to construct fictio...

Faction Marketing : Netstalgia : Novembre

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: April

The fourth instalment of our Futures 100 Innovators spotlights people designing hotel ambience, making alcohol healthier and uplifting Caribbean cr...

Futures100 Innovators : F100 : Beauty

Design Directions

Electric City

In advertising, the message must always fit the medium. As new mediums arrive, it takes marketers time to live up to this statement. There are stil...

Advertising : Reliance Entertainment : Playtone

Big Ideas

Milan Design Week 2024: Materia Natura and the Human Touch

Milan Design Week 2024 invited attendees to delve into sustainability, craftsmanship and explore the significance of human creativity in a world in...

Milan Design Week : Salone Del Mobile : Materials

Markets

Market report: The Middle East

Often overlooked because of its geopolitical instability, the Middle East now represents a consumer market that can no longer be ignored. With an a...

Copenhagen Institute For Futures Studies : UAE : Dubai

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

Communities

Beauty Cultists

A new generation of hyper-loyal beauty consumers are building localised communities around their favourite brands.

Beauty : Communities : Consumers

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