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Macro Trends

Prohibition Culture

Everywhere you look, behaviour is being curbed, controlled, nudged and monitored. The ‘war on waste’ is creating a stealth tax that covers everythi...

Nudge : Control : Waste

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

Design Directions

Playscapes

The blur between fantasy, reality, adulthood and childhood is inspiring brand communications that truly enchant, surprise and engage. Designers are...

Fantatsy : Faction Marketing : Cartoon

Macro Trends

Omnilux Lifestyles

The luxury experience of the future will no longer rely on tactile human-to-human moments, but anytime attainment, anywhere in the world. In this d...

Luxury : Hospitality : Travel

Big Ideas

Educated Eating

Consumers increasingly want to know more about the products they buy, from their provenance to their impact on the planet.

Food : Drink : Sustainability

Macro Trends

New Emerging Affluents

When they were unbanked, uncredited and unregulated, brands were uninterested. But as billions from Guangzhou to Kolkata, Lagos and Santos earn mor...

Emering Affluents : Middle-class : Urban Migration

Macro Trends

Re-con Man

New shifts are placing men in uncharted territory. Rather than wallowing in the professed crisis of masculinity or the end of men, the Re-con Man i...

Collaboration : Crisis : Man-uals

Big Ideas

London Design Festival 2023: Designing for Longevity

Three key themes emerged during London Design Festival 2023, each centring around the concept of designing for longevity.

Design : Health & Wellness : Technology

Viewpoints

The Future of Ethical Banking

Algbra’s ESG manager Marten Möller discusses the responsibility banks must take on in an equitable and ecologically conscious world.

Technology : Finance : Sustainability

Viewpoints

CES 2023: AI Futures

From multiple you’s to emotional AI and sensor-ised worlds, we speak to experts from design agencies Seymourpowell and NewTerritory about the AI fu...

Technology : Artifical Intelligence : CES

Viewpoints

Leisurewear’s Circular Future

Jun Kamei, founder and CEO of UK-based Amphico, on how material innovation will accelerate the leisure sector’s move to a sustainable future.

Leisure : Sustainability : Materials

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