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Micro Trends

Automotive Accommodation

With global car sales in decline, premium automotive brands are entering the property market, using car-branded condos to diversify their product o...

Markets

Web3 Music Market

In a bid to reform its fractured systems, the music industry is embracing the Web3 space to empower musicians, digital communities and real-life fans.

Music : Web3 : NFTs

Design Directions

Sensory Assault

Artists and image-makers have often found beauty in the grotesque. Now they are honing in on strange, slimy textures, coloured liquids and imperf...

Gen Viz : Sensory : Maisie Cousins

Markets

Interface Market

In the era of Awakening Tech our devices’ interfaces are set to become more human.

Interface : Interface Design : Haptics

Design Directions

London Collections: Men spring/summer 2015

London is quickly becoming the jewel in the crown of men’s fashion, and this season designers have upped the ante once more.

Liam Hodges : Sankuanz : Sibling

Micro Trends

Shanghai Safari

As one of China’s Tier 1 cities, Shanghai holds a special place in the story of the country’s extraordinary rise.

Lujiazui : Huangpu River : The Bund

Markets

Halal Food Futures

A growing Muslim population, fast-expanding retail ranges and interest in ethical food alternatives are driving growth and innovation in the halal ...

Food & Drink : Retail : Travel & Hospitality

Big Ideas

CES 2024: Smart Living Futures

The 100th edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) peeled back the curtain on life in the 2030s, where flying electric vehicles, intelligent ...

Technology : CES 2024 : Automotive

Markets

Global Beauty Market: Part 1

Global beauty is exploring unorthodox opportunities for growth in new consumer segments and niche categories – and watching the good times roll o...

Global : China : Korea

Markets

The Future Workplace

A new report by The Future Laboratory for financial protection provider Unum explores the future of the workplace, touching on themes of agelessnes...

The Future Laboratory : Mindfulness : Workplace

Big Ideas

World Retail Congress: Overview Part 2 – Community retail, grocery futures, wellness and emerging markets to watch

Boris Planer : Dorothy Perkins : Ian Cheshire

Markets

The Rise of Inclusive Travel 

From inclusive cultural learning to accessible work and play, successful travel design must have people with disabilities at the forefront. 

Travel : Hospitality : Accessibility

Macro Trends

The Great Wealth Transfer

Wealth ownership, distribution and the politics that influence cross-generational spending are all in flux, according to the latest findings of The...

Luxury : Gen Z : HNWI

Viewpoints

The Great Concert Comeback

Between silver chrome cowboy hats and a supercharged local economy, foresight analyst Simar Deol unveils how live concerts are serving much more th...

Entertainment : Music : Media

Micro Trends

Subversive Sustainability Ads

Consumers are inundated with misleading sustainability claims. Opting out of binary messages of climate doom and hope, brands are using rebellious ...

Sustainability : Advertising : Design

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: January

This month, we uncover the next 10 innovators to watch as part of our Futures 100 Awards, which highlight those brands, businesses and people innov...

Beauty : Design : Drink

Big Ideas

How Learning Spaces are Evolving for Gen Zalpha

Aligning with changing youth ideals and shifting global forces, educational spaces are evolving to inspire young people to take charge of their fut...

Youth : Society : Education

Big Ideas

Five fintech innovations for young home-buyers

As younger people strive to break away from being Generation Rent, a wave of fintech services are taking them from temporary tenants to first-time ...

FinTech : Mobile Money : Mortgages

Design Directions

Neuro-graphic

Designers are drawing on patterns created by brain waves, movement tracking and biometrics to create a visual lexicon for communicating emotions.

Emotional Analytics : Biometrics : Neuro-marketing

Markets

Future Forecast 2016

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...

2016 Predictions : Social Commerce : Fresh Batch Beauty

Design Directions

Occult Enchantment

As fantastical fables and tales of escapism continue to dominate popular culture, designers are harnessing the power of magic and myth in 21st-cent...

Fantasy : Folklore : Magic

Macro Trends

Pleasure Revolution

With every second of our free time colonised by the cult of busyness, future consumers will turn away from a life of relentless productivity and sh...

Leisure : Workplace : Wellness

Macro Trends

Neo-collectivism

Society is facing a mass re-organisation. United by values of empathy and community, consumers are shunning individualism in favour of alliances th...

Society : Retail : Workplace

Micro Trends

Seoul Safari

Seoul boasts a world-leading tech community while celebrating traditional values and national identity.

Tesco : Shin Yeon : Bean Table

Macro Trends

Boomers Now and Next: From Ageing to Becoming

There is an upcoming milestone in the Boomers’ generational journey. By 2030 they will all have reached the average Western retirement age of 65, s...

Generations : Boomers : Demographics

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