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Macro Trends

Alphas Now and Next: From the Sandbox to Roblox

This is the first generation to be born entirely in the 21st century, and many of the technologies, careers and crises that will define and shape t...

Viewpoints

Belmond: Luxury Travel’s Responsible Future

Belmond is setting high standards for responsible luxury hospitality. Celia Geyer, the group’s senior vice-president of design and project developm...

Luxury : Travel & Hospitality : Society

Big Ideas

Cannes Lions 2023: AI Mania and the Meh-taverse

The 2023 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity delved into AI obsession, the future of influencer marketing and a lukewarm depiction of...

Media : Advertising : Technology

Macro Trends

Work States Futures

With CEOs conflicted about luring teams back to the office with socials, wellness hubs and hybrid fit-outs, early adopter businesses and organisati...

Workplace : Society : Technology

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Fashion

From dystopian aesthetics and lab-based textile alternatives to the growth of resale platforms and monetised archives, we look ahead to fashion in ...

Fashion : Design : Sustainability

Viewpoints

How Jewellery is leading the Circular Economy

Caroline Chalmer, CEO and founder of Finematter, discusses how the jewellery industry is changing in a digital landscape.

Luxury : Eco Design And Sustainability : Circular Economy

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: June

In our sixth instalment of the Futures 100 Innovators, we spotlight the people creating community gardens, luxury LGBTQ+ dining and shoppable holid...

Futures 200 Innovators : F100 : Health & Wellness

Design Directions

Implicit Inclusivity

Designers are recognising the needs of disabled consumers, creating assistive products that are reduced to their most essential elements, with mini...

Technology : Design : Fashion

Design Directions

London Design Festival 2016: Design Directions

Designers at this year’s London Design Festival used imaginative and multisensory storytelling techniques to examine food design as a narrative too...

London Design Festival 2016 : Studio Swine : Eat Taipei

Design Directions

Intro-spectrum

A new wave of designers are exploring subdued narratives, embracing a spectrum of grey undertones, highly expressive graphics and layering surfaces...

Beauty : The E-motional Economy : Branding

Design Directions

Skin-sensual

Designers across a range of disciplines are drawing inspiration from the sensual and irregular qualities of the natural human form.

Texture : Tactility : Sensuality

Markets

Chinese luxurians

Amid rumours of a slowdown in the national economy, the luxury market in China is in rude good health. By 2015, China’s consumers will account for ...

China : McKinsey : HNWIs

Design Directions

Rapha

On Wednesday afternoon, a pack of 24 cyclists descended on a country pub in Oxfordshire. To most passers-by it looked like a group of keen cyclists...

Heritage : Video Content : Biking

Design Directions

Mix Mash

Against a backdrop of optimism and experimental attitudes, and a willingness to take risks, we map a vibrant aesthetic direction fuelled by a wild ...

Pattern : Primitive : Hand-made

Trend Tracker

The Personal Information Economy

The Personal Information Economy (PIE), first identified by LS:N Global in 2011, refers to the increasing awareness among consumers of how valu...

PIE : Data : Commodity

Macro Trends

Brand Culture 2020

Responding to an increasingly unstable marketplace, tomorrow’s brands will seek to combine the benefits of automation with the creation of a work...

Workplace : Branding : Culture

Micro Trends

New York Safari

This most global of US cities thrives on cultural and commercial energy.

Men Science : The Well And The Wick : Reynard

Markets

Online luxury

Global online sales of luxury goods increased by 65% in 2007 to reach €1.5bn (£1.28bn), according to consultants Bain & Company. Yet, despite the m...

Online Luxury : Ledbury Research : Google

Behaviours

FemFin: Female-forward Finance

A report from The Future Laboratory and Allied Irish Banks (AIB) reveals how women are pioneering a financial system change – global banks and fina...

Finance : Investment : Society

Micro Trends

Better Bikercore

If happiness is a long bike ride with a good destination, these fashion innovators are cycling straight towards sustainability, style and inclusivity.

Fashion : Sports & Leisure : Sustainability

Big Ideas

Web Summit Lisbon 2023: AI Futures

As the world’s biggest tech conference, Web Summit Lisbon 2023 had no choice but to dedicate much of its schedule to artificial intelligence – incl...

AI : Technology : Football

Big Ideas

Brand Innovation Debrief: Telfar’s Community-first Retail Strategy

From innovative pricing models to a commitment to inclusivity, luxury fashion brand Telfar is a trailblazer in the industry. What can you learn fro...

Fashion : Telfar : Retail

Markets

Virtual Accessibility Market

Virtual reality’s rise from a gaming tool to an engaging accessibility gateway is expanding the frontiers of inclusivity and opening up a playgroun...

Technology : Virtual Reality Market : VR

Big Ideas

Five Innovators Empowering Football Activism

With the 2022 FIFA World Cup under way, change-makers are using football as a platform for protest and progress.

Youth : Sports & Leisure : Society

Micro Trends

Open-door HQs

Retailers are opening their HQs to the public, turning them into destinations for storytelling, transparency and deeper customer connections.

Retail : Transparency : Hospitality

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