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Design Directions

BRIGHT BMBR

The BRIGHT BMBR is a jacket that has both a physical and digital identity.

Big Ideas

Istanbul Design Biennial 2016: Review

Foregoing the outdated model of trade show-like design biennials, co-curators and intellectual heavyweights Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley purs...

Istanbul Design Biennial 2016 : The Dislocated World : Are We Human?

Big Ideas

Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2016: Part 1

The French Riviera was the backdrop for the annual meeting of minds from the global advertising industry, who examined new forms of digital creativ...

Advertising : Branded Content : Virtual Reality

Big Ideas

Clerkenwell Design Week 2016: Top Five Not To Be Missed

This year Clerkenwell Design Week is being re-invented as a more cross-disciplinary and experiential event. LS:N Global profiles our top five desti...

Clerkenwell Design Week : Workplace Futures : Interior Architecture

Design Directions

Snask: Branding and Film-making

In the heart of Stockholm, Snask is tearing up the rule book and challenging ingrained beliefs about design, even for its corporate clients.

Snask : The Washington Post : Branding

Markets

The Luxury Matrix Stage Three: Emotion and Experience

What we said: ‘At this stage, customers are less concerned with brand and value, and more with the uniqueness of the experience on offer and the em...

Experiential : Sound Design : 3D Printer

Design Directions

Haut Sustainable

As luxury consumers demand sustainability, they are being used in luxury design too. We call new eco-minded, innovative and design-led solutions t...

Eco : Sustainability : Cosmetics

Viewpoints

Lukas Feireiss : The dramatics of space

Curator, artist and writer Lukas Feireiss talks about the dramatics of space.

Retail Spaces : Retail Interiors : Lukas Feireiss

Design Directions

The Handburger

At a fast food chain in Singapore, greasy burgers and fatty fries are off the menu. At The Handburger, diners take gourmet burgers and duck bu...

Fast Food : Burger : Bright

Micro Trends

Infosthetics

In today’s Information Age, we can access and transfer data more freely than ever. This sounds ideal, but there is a problem. While computers and t...

Data : Cloud : Storage

Big Ideas

ITB Berlin 2025: Six Trends to Watch

From the rise of the Indian traveller to the influence of TikTok on destination discovery, LS:N Global explores the key trends from ITB Berlin 2025.

Travel & Hospitality : ITB Berlin 2025 : Gen Z

Markets

Third Space Retail

Brands are reshaping stores into branded third-space hubs, providing sanctuaries for creativity, community and culture.

Retail : Third Spaces : Community

Big Ideas

VivaTech 2024: Accessibility, Climate Tech and AI in Healthcare

AI took centre stage once again at the ever-growing Parisian start-up and tech summit VivaTech with ground-breaking advances in climate, health and...

Technology : Artificial Intelligence : VivaTech

Micro Trends

Future Five: Identities

As part of our Future Five 2024 report, we explore the shifts in identity that are all-important in understanding the consumer of tomorrow.

Identities : Future Five : Topics

Markets

Brewing Coffee Futures

The wellbeing and carbon footprint concerns of Conscious Consumers are pushing innovative coffee brands to shift their focus on quality, sustainabi...

Coffee : Coffee Plus : Coffee Shop

Viewpoints

Why Africa is the next hub for youth retail

What does it mean to be young and African today? The co-founder of modern African lifestyle platform Dola, Yannick Do, unpacks the vast opportuniti...

Youth : Media & Entertainment : Lifestyle

Markets

Extraterrestrial Innovations Market

Once the preserve of sci-fi narratives and super-rich escapism, brands are now recognising the potential for space to be used as a testbed for inno...

Space : Innovation : Health And Wellness

Design Directions

Dutch Design Week 2016: Design Directions

At this year’s event, bold aesthetic treatments weredictated by challenging visions of the future, from technological utopias to alternativerealities.

Dutch Design Week 2016

Design Directions

London Design Festival 2015: Design Directions

A dark and esoteric mood was in evidence this year, marked by the use of primordial materials, violent processes and optical effects that challen...

London Design Festival 2015 : Fredrikson Stallard : Shelley James

Design Directions

Iconoclash

Designers and creatives alike are rejecting established notions of luxury by employing a tongue in-cheek fetishist approach to popular culture.

Modern Luxury : Pop Culture : Iconography

Design Directions

Paris Womenswear S/S 2013

The spring/summer 2013 collections in Paris saw the reinvention of ostentatious 1980s looks, a continuation of futuristic textiles and the introduc...

The New Sublimity : Jensen : McCartney

Big Ideas

Milan Preview

As the Salone Internazionale del Mobile reaches its 51st year, LS:N Global expects the fair to continue to offer a fresh perspective on relationshi...

Salone Internazionale Del Mobile : Tom Dixon : Studio Toogood

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

Big Ideas

Stockholm Furniture Fair

There was a convivial atmosphere at the Stockholm Furniture Fair in February. Designers engaged with consumers through their DIY, flatpack and unfo...

Convivial : Åker Collective : Steneby

Communities

Generation Jones

Children of the bust-and-boom Thatcher and Reagan years, Generation Jonesers see themselves as committed, competitive, and slightly conservative in...

&Co : DeLonghi : Gaggia

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