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Emerging Youth: Canada

With little desire to return to normality, Canadian youth are seizing their own futures through upskilling, community healing and support of indige...

Canada : Youth : Society

Daily Signals

The essential NYCxDESIGN 2018 debrief

NYCxDesign, which ended last week, showcased designers tackling issues as varied as the environmental impact of food to the trouble with loneliness.

Design : NYCxDesign : Politics

Markets

Wellness Tourism

Hotels are offering new ways of supporting guests’ wellbeing beyond the traditional spa treatment.

Wellness : Travel : Hospitality

Daily Signals

M-commerce goes bricks-and-mortar, interactive typography made for AR

Depop helps users grow their brand, Sensei prioritises nutrition over yield of crops, Nike creates a retail destination for women.

Retail

Markets

Pollution Market

Brands are creating new product categories and transforming their retail spaces in a bid to offer protection from airborne pollution.

Air Pollution : Whole-System Thinking : Whole-system Thinking

Design Directions

Story of Things

Scotch & Soda invites consumers to suspend disbelief and live their lookbook.

Airbnb : Scotch & Soda : Amsterdam

Markets

Halal beauty

Halal cosmetics is a fast-growing market in the beauty industry and is set to become a dominant sector over the coming decade.

Multicultural Beauty : Halal : Beauty

Design Directions

G-Star RAW For The Oceans

In a world increasingly concerned about ecological collapse, many luxury brands tout their sustainable credentials. Often, however, this feels like...

G-Star Raw : RAW For The Oceans : Pharrell Williams

Markets

JWT Austerity Index

Five years of recession have changed British consumer lifestyles. The JWT Austerity Index helps brands navigate this altered landscape.

Grey Pound : Over-60s : Over 60s

Big Ideas

Cannes Lions 2013 Report: Part 1

Cannes – When rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs appeared at the world’s most prestigious advertising festival last week to discuss his new music platf...

Advertising : Dove : IBM

Big Ideas

World Retail Congress 2012: store format trends

London – Retailers are embracing omni-channel and this will have a significant impact on store formats, as retail footprints and environments ...

Interactive : WRC : House Of Fraser

Micro Trends

Future Five: Sustainability

As part of our Future Five 2024 report, we explore three directions brands and business should heed as we strive for a more sustainable future.

Sustainability : Technology : Fashion

Communities

Ascetic Luxurians

High-minded individuals seeking meaning and fulfilment, Ascetic Luxurians are a privileged set who shun the brand fetishisation and buy-it-all thin...

London : Sydney : New York

Markets

Men's Grooming Market

Men’s grooming is where the big growth is to be found. Smart beauty brands are targeting a sector that has continued to out-perform the women’s bea...

China : Prestige : Gadgets

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

Macro Trends

Beyond Retail

Over the past 10 years, we have seen the growth of online retail and the pop-up store. The coming decade will see them evolve into new immersive sp...

Value-nomics : Pop-up : Experience

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...

Generations : Gen Alpha : Demographics

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

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