Festivals

Co-op recycles festival plastics into staff uniforms

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Co-op recycles festival plastics into staff uniforms

Grocery retailer Co-op hopes to transform plastic bottles tossed away at festivals into a useful, longer-term resource: uniforms for store staff.

Sustainability : Food & Drink : Retail

Lost Horizon is a real festival in a virtual world

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Lost Horizon is a real festival in a virtual world

The team behind Glastonbury’s Shangri-La is creating world’s largest music and arts festival in virtual reality.

Media : Technology : Virtual Reality

Today’s headlines including VPRO Medialab’s emotional response exhibit

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Today’s headlines including VPRO Medialab’s emotional response exhibit

In today’s daily digest: Coinflash makes cryptocurrency investment easy, how to brew a healthier tea, air pollution a deadly global killer and othe...

Fashion : Finance : Pollution

What’s the deal with men-free music festivals?

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What’s the deal with men-free music festivals?

As a Swedish festival plans to exclude men, we ask whether physically separating people based on gender should be considered an act of progression.

Youth : Nightlife : Festivals

Ticketmaster pioneers ultrasonic smartphone tickets

Big Ideas

Ticketmaster pioneers ultrasonic smartphone tickets

US – The initiative enables concert-goers to verify their mobile ticket using their smartphone’s ultrasonic sound transmission.

Technology : Entertainment : Digital

The party is over

Big Ideas

The party is over

UK – New research reveals that fewer British adults are frequenting nightclubs.

Mintel : Party-totallers : Festivals Market

McDonald’s accepts festival rubbish as payment

Big Ideas

McDonald’s accepts festival rubbish as payment

McDonald’s in Sweden has turned music festival rubbish into treasure for both the brand and its customers.

McDonald's : Recycling : Currency

SXSW: Doritos pushes fans to the limit at South by Southwest

Big Ideas

SXSW: Doritos pushes fans to the limit at South by Southwest

Doritos offers consumers tickets to see Lady Gaga at SXSW

Doritos : Music : SXSW

News outlets look to conferences to boost revenue

Big Ideas

News outlets look to conferences to boost revenue

News outlets look to conferences to boost revenue

Festival : TechCrunch : Fest-vertorials

Max Fraser : Design is everywhere

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Max Fraser : Design is everywhere

London Design Festival deputy director Max Fraser talks about this year’s theme ‘Design is everywhere’.

London Design Festival : Max Fraser : LDF

Delhi Revivalists

Communities

Delhi Revivalists

A creative mela, or festival, is taking off in New Delhi’s Hauz Khaz Village. Alternative designers, fashionistas and foodies are putting their own...

Food : Tea Room Traditionalist : Typo-Preservist

Drive-through dining: Mercedes uses food artists

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Drive-through dining: Mercedes uses food artists

Drive-through dining: Mercedes uses food artists

Food : Sam Bompas : Fast-food

Fest-vertorials

Micro Trends

Fest-vertorials

Magazines and newspapers are launching festivals in a bid to engage their readers, add depth to their brand and reinforce their credentials as thou...

Festivals : Editorial : Magazines

Communities

DIY Foodies

Raised on a healthy diet of openness, experimentation and information-sharing on the internet, DIY Foodies are bringing home the bacon.

Food : Cookery School : Trucks

Food Raves and Rodeos

Micro Trends

Food Raves and Rodeos

Forget rock and roll music and psychedelic drugs, the latest rebellion of choice comes in the form of stir-fried pork belly and home-made flax crac...

DIY Culture : Entertainment : Festivals

Communities

Yama girls

Seeking solace and a spiritual break from their always-on city lives, a new generation of Japanese women are hitching up their high-fashion mountai...

Nike : Marmot : Hunter

Micro Trends

Yama Girls

In Japan, an increasing number of young women are wearing colourful mountain gear as an urban fashion statement and taking to the mountains. These ...

Nike : Marmot : Hunter

Conviviality Culture

Macro Trends

Conviviality Culture

People are realising that the most exciting thing they can do is not online, updating their social network page. It is offline, experiencing the un...

Convivial : Community : Live

Micro Trends

Glamavanning

As the recession bites, more and more consumers are turning to dreams of escape and travel. And what better way to do it than in a super modern pod...

Glamping : Caravans : Festivals

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