Behaviours

Everything you need to face your future consumer with confidence, including the latest ethnographic research, generational insight, consumer-related stats and overarching human needs.

Paradigms 2024: Future of Branding

Brand storytelling and the evolving definition of creativity were hot topics as well-known and emerging designers gathered in Rome to determine the future of branding

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

Markets

State of Luxury: Singapore

Rising disposable income and affluence amongst Singaporeans, along with high-spending international business and leisure travellers, are boosting Singapore’s luxury outlook

Big Ideas

Paris Fashion Week SS25

Cutting through the chaos and overwhelming nature of fashion month, we distil the key insights from Paris Fashion Week

Big Ideas

Material Matters 2024

Material Matters 2024 edition didn’t disappoint in highlighting innovative material intelligence

Big Ideas

Britons are empowered by, yet weary of, technology

Britons are living in an ever-more connected world, which leaves consumers both empowered and exhausted.

Consumers : OMD : Digital Detox

Markets

Luxury Travel Futures Market – Overview

We are living in one of the most affluent eras the world has ever known. A new kind of wealth is being formed and defined, simultaneously cr...

HNWIs : UHNWIs : Wealthy

Big Ideas

Malls begin to enter the beacon era

Beacon technology will provide a new revenue stream for mall operators as its use in physical stores increases.

IBeacon : Malls : Rouse Properties

Big Ideas

Uniqlo app lets customers design their own T-shirts

Uniqlo has launched an app that encourages customers to design their own T-shirts via their smartphones.

Uniqlo : UTme : App

Big Ideas

Millennials and Baby Boomers focus on healthy ageing

Millennials are a prime market for some healthcare categories, according to a new survey.

Nielsen

Big Ideas

DECODED Fashion 2014

The DECODED Fashion Summit combined a fashion technology hackathon with a retail summit that examined current trends in digital commerce.

Decoded : All Saints : Hackathon

Big Ideas

Central Saint Martins launches world’s most expensive pop-up

Students of the Central Saint Martins BA Graphic Design course are opening a pop-up shop selling limited-edition objects with prices starting at £1m.

Central Saint Martins : Pop-up : Graphic Design

Big Ideas

Adidas app turns trainers into a photo canvas

Adidas customers will soon be able to create trainers emblazoned with their favourite photos.

Adidas : Personalisation : Trainers

Big Ideas

Stanford travels in time to 2100 to look at the future of education

A Stanford University project examines what education might be like in the year 2100.

Education : Stanford University : D:school

Big Ideas

Selfridges' summer campaigns celebrate masters of food and fashion

Selfridges launches its Meet the Makers 2014 summer food promotion.

Selfridges : Department Stores : Carl Warner

Big Ideas

Internet Week New York 2014 Preview

The large and growing technology economy will be on show during Internet Week New York on 19–25 May.

Internet Week New York : Retail : Biometrics

Big Ideas

The internet will be as pervasive as electricity in 2025, says study

By 2025, the internet will be as much an integral part of society as electricity, according to a new report from the Pew Research Internet Pro...

The Internet Of Things : Pew Research Internet Project

Big Ideas

Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: Top five not to be missed

Expanding into new venues and introducing a new show, Platform, this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week (CDW) will focus on tactile fabrics, nature-i...

Clerkenwell Design Week : Furniture : Interiors

Big Ideas

Frieze New York 2014

For the third year, the global art crowd flocked to New York’s blossom-lined Randall’s Island, home to a white bivouac tent containing ar...

Frieze Art Fair : Foodscapes : Haptic Illusion

Big Ideas

Wisdom 2.0 Review: Part 2

In the second part of LS:N Global’s coverage of the 2014 Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco, we examine how, as the mindfulness community gains...

Wisdom 2.0 : Mindfulness : Meditation

Big Ideas

Artist bottles a genetic invisibility cloak

Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg has launched Invisible, a set of sprays that are said to mask traces of DNA.

Heather Dewey-Hagborg : Privacy : Post Privacy World

Big Ideas

Microsoft creates immersive data visualisation

The installation was created to promote the software company’s updated database management system SQL Server.

Microsoft : SQL Server : Data Visualisation

Big Ideas

BMW electric car matches performance of petrol equivalent

The electric super-car is undergoing an image overhaul, in which it is no longer seen as a poor version of its petrol-fuelled cousin.

BMW : BMW I8 : Cars

Big Ideas

Intention purchase app wins fashion technology hackathon event

A 48-hour fashion hackathon event in London generated a retail app that will be brought to market by retail brand AllSaints.

Decoded : Hackathon : All Saints

Big Ideas

Wisdom 2.0 Review: Part 1

At a time of great success for the technology industry, the expanding digital sphere has also provoked anxiety, contemplation and a search for ne...

Wisdom 2.0 : Mindfulness : Meditation