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Stat: Glassdoor advanced filters reveal employee priorities

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Stat: Glassdoor advanced filters reveal employee priorities

US – Glassdoor, the world-leading job and company insights platform, has introduced advanced filters that include company ratings on work-life bala...

Society : Workplace : Finance

This dating app only works on Thursdays

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This dating app only works on Thursdays

Thursday is a new dating app that only works on one day a week.

Dating App : Socially-distant Dating : The Focus Filter

A text-based daily paper combatting news fatigue

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A text-based daily paper combatting news fatigue

The New Paper is a text-based news services that curates concise updates into a single daily message.

Technology : The Focus Filter : Apps

Stat: British viewers are sceptical of TV adverts

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Stat: British viewers are sceptical of TV adverts

Research by YouGov has shown that more British people are likely to feel sceptical of TV adverts than not, with many finding them intrusive and ann...

Society : Advertising : Stat

Blockbuster trolls Netflix with a movie hotline

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Blockbuster trolls Netflix with a movie hotline

The last remaining Blockbuster is offering human recommendations as an antidote to algorithm fatigue.

Society : Media And Technology : Human Connection

Waitrose’s latest ads cut through the noise

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Waitrose’s latest ads cut through the noise

Waitrose & Partners is focusing on individual ingredients and taste sensations in its new slow tv-style advertising campaign.

Food : Drink : Advertising

Cinema becomes the antidote to digital distraction

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Cinema becomes the antidote to digital distraction

A new ad by Vue Cinemas draws attention to the world’s digital distractions – and encourages people to remain focused by heading to the cinema.

Media : Technology : Entertainment

Skincare Networks

Micro Trends

Skincare Networks

New online platforms are cutting through hyperbolic content with peer and expert advice designed to improve personal routines and product development.

Beauty : Skincare : Peer To Peer

Why mid-air haptics will transform how we interact

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Why mid-air haptics will transform how we interact

Anders Hakfelt, vice-president of product and marketing at Ultrahaptics, explains how digital touch will revolutionise our interaction with product...

Technology : Augmented Reality : Virtual Reality

Keep calm and embrace intelligent furniture

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Keep calm and embrace intelligent furniture

How can we design technology that promotes mindfulness? Kaz Oki, CEO and co-founder of Mui Lab, envisages a more natural interface experience.

Product Design : Wellness : Technology

Polarize is an app for debate and disagreement

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Polarize is an app for debate and disagreement

The new app has been created to connect people with opposing opinions, encouraging healthy debate on a range of topical issues.

Digital : News : Culture

Tortoise takes a slow approach to breaking news

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Tortoise takes a slow approach to breaking news

The new media company aims to cut through the noise of modern news by focusing on slow journalism.

Media : Culture : The Focus Filter

This font can improve your memory

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This font can improve your memory

A team of researchers have developed Sans Forgetica, a typeface that draws on the principles of cognitive psychology to help readers remember their...

Design : Science : Typography

LDF 2018: Punkt adds 4G capacity to its minimalist phone

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LDF 2018: Punkt adds 4G capacity to its minimalist phone

Punkt has launched the MP02, a mobile phone that balances streamlined design and access with global connectivity.

Technology : Mobile Phones : Digital

Morality Recoded

Macro Trends

Morality Recoded

Our traditional moral frameworks of religion and family are declining. Institutions, brands and consumers are now re-evaluating the power of innova...

Technology : Retail : Mobility

Beyond Product Placement

Micro Trends

Beyond Product Placement

From offering creative control to bypassing consumer skip culture, music videos are offering brands new opportunities for product placement.

Branding : Fashion : Media

Can silence help brands sell?

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Can silence help brands sell?

With silence increasingly a luxury commodity, how can retail brands augment their offer by playing with this idea in-store?

Retail : Silence : New York Times

Design Museum Holon explores the role of sound in design

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Design Museum Holon explores the role of sound in design

Holon, Israel – The Sound and Matter in Design exhibition uses sound to re-evaluate the museum experience.

Design : Audio : Technology

New music video from The xx doubles as Calvin Klein ad

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New music video from The xx doubles as Calvin Klein ad

Global – At almost seven minutes long, the short film features the brand’s products and models.

Advertising : Fashion : Media

Minutiae is the antithesis of the modern social media experience

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Minutiae is the antithesis of the modern social media experience

Los Angeles – The app encourages users to document the more mundane aspects of their everyday lives.

Technology : Digital : Media

Nina Ryner: ChromaYoga

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Nina Ryner: ChromaYoga

Applying chromotherapy to yoga to enhance the sensory experience.

Wellness : Culture : Branding

New Direction: Harry Styles reveals Generation Z’s entertainment future

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New Direction: Harry Styles reveals Generation Z’s entertainment future

When 600 of Harry Styles's biggest fans packed excitedly into The Garage in North London for his secret gig last weekend, it wasn’t his new tunes t...

Technology : Culture : Leisure

Highlights from the D&AD Awards

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Highlights from the D&AD Awards

London – LS:N Global picks three stand-out projects from the D&AD Awards, which took place last night.

Neo-kinship : Civic Brands : The Focus Filter

Without distraction

Big Ideas

Without distraction

New York – Caveday is a new pop-up event that aims to help professionals to be more productive in their working lives.

The Focus Filter : Workplace : Co-working

Big Ideas

While you wait

Massachusetts – WaitSuite is a new series of apps designed to help users make the most of time spent waiting on technology.

The Learning Economy : Language : The Focus Filter

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