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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...

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

Macro Trends

The New Value Economy

Ownership is receding as an ideal and a way to mark value. We share, rent and borrow products now, creating new systems of value and worth in the...

Collaborative Economy : Conspicuous Access : Reputation

Macro Trends

Homedulgence

Consumers across the globe are looking at new and innovative ways to maintain the good life they’ve come to treasure, without the expense of going ...

Home : Entertainment : Home Induglence

Micro Trends

The Rise of the C-Store

Brands are re-appraising the convenience store sector, viewing this once low-key retail channel as a valuable, authentic backdrop for launches, bra...

Retail : Food & Drink : Fashion

Big Ideas

Three Takeaways from the Walpole British Luxury Summit 2023

The new luxury world order, tomorrow’s consumers and good luxury were hot topics at the Walpole British Luxury Summit 2023 in London.

Luxury : Sustainability : Technology

Big Ideas

Dutch Design Week 2021: Envisaging a Better World

This year’s Dutch Design Week reveals components to construct a better society, from preventative care techniques to nature-inclusive solutions.

Design : Sustainability : Society

Micro Trends

Beirut Safari

Beirut is building on its status as the cultural capital of the Middle East with an explosion of new arts institutions, design happenings and hos...

Beirut : Conviviality Culture : The Convergence Economy

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

Gen Z Now and Next: From Vision to Contradiction

Gen Z are stepping into adulthood carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. Without the tools or role models to help them enact the chan...

Generations : Gen Z : Demographics

Macro Trends

Guilded Luxury

As the world enters a period of economic downturn, luxury brands are seizing strategies to build long-lasting and enriching relationships with thei...

Luxury : Travel : Hospitality

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

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