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Istanbul Design Biennial 2016: Review

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Foregoing the outdated model of trade show-like design biennials, co-curators and intellectual heavyweights Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley purs...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?
Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2016: Part 1

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
Clerkenwell Design Week 2016: Top Five Not To Be Missed

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
Snask: Branding and Film-making

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
The Luxury Matrix Stage Three: Emotion and Experience

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
Haut Sustainable

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
Lukas Feireiss : The dramatics of space

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
The Handburger

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
Infosthetics

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
Future Forecast 2017

Markets

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...
Trend Predictions : Beauty : Wellness
Awakening Tech

Macro Trends

Awakening Tech

Our digital and offline worlds are converging. We have become bedfellows with robots, we take advice from gadgets, we ask mega-systems ...
Sensor Technology : Data Surge : Internet Of Things
The New Value Economy

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
Homedulgence

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
Detroit Auto Show: Concepts

Big Ideas

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...
Car : BYD E6 : Mercedes Concept BlueZERO
The Rise of the C-Store

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
Three Takeaways from the Walpole British Luxury Summit 2023

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
Dutch Design Week 2021: Envisaging a Better World

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
Beirut Safari

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
Gen Z Now and Next: From Vision to Contradiction

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
Guilded Luxury

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
FT Business of Luxury 2025: The New Shape of Global Luxury

Big Ideas

FT Business of Luxury 2025: The New Shape of Global Luxury

Luxury is evolving through post-purchase care, storytelling in resale and digital product passports, all in service of building deeper connections ...
Luxury : Retail : Fashion
Future Forecast 2025: Luxury

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2025: Luxury

Luxury brands are using cultural heritage, craftsmanship and entertainment to foster strong relationships with their consumers, while the rising du...
Luxury : Sustainability : Technology
Matrescence

Micro Trends

Matrescence

The concept of matrescence highlights the profound physical, emotional and neurological shifts experienced by new mothers, presenting brands with a...
Health : Wellness : Parenting
Global Fashion Summit 2024: Fashion’s Tipping Point?

Big Ideas

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...
Fashion : Sustainability : Global Fashion Summit
Travel with Purpose: TTG Luxury Travel Summit

Big Ideas

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.
Travel : Hospitality : Luxury
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