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Six Luxury Brands Building Loyalty with NFTs
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are catching their second wind, as fashion and luxury brands start to harness digital tokens as tools to build brand loy...
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Futures 100 Innovators: May
In the sixth longlist of our 2023 Futures 100 Innovators, we reveal The Future Laboratory’s chosen innovators and change-makers who are set to disr...
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Milan Salone 2015: Part 1
Designers at this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile explored the potential of haptic interaction with new surfaces and textures, and challe...
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Maiko Gubler: Visual artist and digital sculptor
Switzerland-born Maiko Gubler studied visual communication and digital media at The Berlin University of the Arts. Based in Berlin, she worked as...
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Hauntology
People are fleeing the storm clouds of recession, concerned about wasted resources and environmental catastrophe. In response, they are remembering...
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New Designers
Textile innovations reigned at the New Designers show in Islington, London, this year, while product and industrial design solutions paled into the...
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Awakening Tech
Our digital and offline worlds are converging. We have become bedfellows with robots, we take advice from gadgets, we ask mega-systems ...
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Freesumerism
As the cost of everything tends towards zero, the growing trend for Freesumerism is seeing the notion of value undergoing a major shift. Smart bran...
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Future Forecast 2017
LS:N Global’s Future Forecast highlights the key trends set to make your business more profitable, innovative and attuned to consumers’ needs in 20...
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Detroit Auto Show: Concepts
With the auto industry making hybrid, fully electric and smaller, better packaged cars, design cues and materials are being developed to signify gr...
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Future Forecast 2025: Luxury
Luxury brands are using cultural heritage, craftsmanship and entertainment to foster strong relationships with their consumers, while the rising du...
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Matrescence
The concept of matrescence highlights the profound physical, emotional and neurological shifts experienced by new mothers, presenting brands with a...
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Global Fashion Summit 2024: Fashion’s Tipping Point?
Despite 15 years of discussions on sustainability since the Global Fashion Summit’s inception in 2009, the event deplored the lack of real progress...
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Travel with Purpose: TTG Luxury Travel Summit
Sustainable corporate culture, slow travel and luxury traveller experiences were key topics on the agenda at 2023’s TTG Luxury Travel Summit.
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Women’s Health: India
India’s women’s wellness and femtech industry is coming of age, giving rise to activist brands and new opportunities for women’s health.
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Five Apps Introducing the Next Generation of Dating
Dating apps are evolving beyond the swipe, with new entries looking to align more closely with Gen Z’s relationship priorities and digital behaviou...
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IAM 2021: The Future of Community is Inter-Citizenship
Solutions were not enough at this year’s IAM Weekend, as thinkers gathered to imagine better internet(s), care systems and inter-species perspectives.
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Radio Market
The humble medium of radio is finding a new purpose, audience and role as a connector and facilitator as global nations move through the pandemic.
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Metaverse Market
Expanding far beyond its gaming roots, the metaverse is becoming a youth hub in which the future of socialising, entertainment and creativity is al...
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Emerging Youth: Canada
With little desire to return to normality, Canadian youth are seizing their own futures through upskilling, community healing and support of indige...
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The essential NYCxDESIGN 2018 debrief
NYCxDesign, which ended last week, showcased designers tackling issues as varied as the environmental impact of food to the trouble with loneliness.
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Wellness Tourism
Hotels are offering new ways of supporting guests’ wellbeing beyond the traditional spa treatment.
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M-commerce goes bricks-and-mortar, interactive typography made for AR
Depop helps users grow their brand, Sensei prioritises nutrition over yield of crops, Nike creates a retail destination for women.
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Pollution Market
Brands are creating new product categories and transforming their retail spaces in a bid to offer protection from airborne pollution.
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Whole-system Thinking
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