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

Markets

Flat Age Women Market

Baby Boomer women are creating a new lexicon around ageing that is focused on positivity and eradicates a universal obsession with the preservation...

Media : Beauty : Baby Boomers

Big Ideas

Four key themes from TechCrunch Disrupt 2018

TechCrunch Disrupt 2018 highlighted the role that technology has to play in recognising the value of emigrant populations, up-skilling the workforc...

Technology : Culture : Design

Big Ideas

How technology is transforming workplace wellbeing

Parneet Pal, chief science officer at Wisdom Labs, says preventative medicine must begin in the workplace – with leadership driving fundamental cha...

Workplace : Health And Wellness : Technology

Big Ideas

The brands redefining sex care as a beauty category

With the global sexual wellness market set to grow to more than £23.3bn ($29.4bn, €25.8bn) by 2019, according to Statista, the beauty industry is t...

Beauty : Health & Wellness : Packaging

Communities

Subconscious Shoppers

Three technology-driven US consumers invite us into their homes to explain how their relationship with AI-driven devices is evolving.

Retail : Voice-assistant : Subconscious Shoppers

Big Ideas

What’s driving our obsession with CBD?

Melisse Gelula, co-founder of Well + Good, explains why CBD is causing a stir and reveals its most popular use cases.

Wellness : Beauty : Food

Big Ideas

Why it’s time to bring men into the fertility conversation

Lea von Bidder, co-founder and CEO of Ava Science, on creating a more open discussion about fertility and how attitudes to pregnancy are changing.

Pregnancy : Pregnant : Women's Health

Big Ideas

How AR will transform fake news into digi-tainment

Designer Clara Ormières explores how augmented reality (AR) will change the way in which we interpret and experience the news in her Unreal Plots p...

Augmented Reality : Media : Dutch Design Week

Big Ideas

How Coal Drops Yard captures a sense of place

Chris Chapman, head of art at Droga5 London, on creating the visual identity for Coal Drops Yard, a new retail concept in London’s King’s Cross tha...

Retail : Placemaking : Branding

Big Ideas

Why community will shape the future of wellness

Katherine Johnston, senior research fellow at Global Wellness Summit, explains why wellness needs to move beyond personal goals to collective gains.

Wellness : Architecture : Interiors

Markets

Shoppable Social

Social commerce continues to grow as new technologies and in-platform features transform the way consumers buy and interact with products.

Retail : Socia Media : Digital

Big Ideas

How the world’s largest online shopping mall is shaping our lives

At Dutch Design Week 2018, designers from Design Academy Eindhoven hosted Geo-Design, an exhibition that examined the growth of Chinese retail mono...

Retail : E-commerce : Dutch Design Week

Big Ideas

Kind Heaven is an immersive theme park for adults

Cary Granat, CEO of Immersive Artistry, says virtual reality, cryptocurrency and immersive experiences are set to transform leisure and entertainme...

Leisure : Travel : VR

Markets

High-end Pets Market

While Millennials continue to delay parenthood, or eschew it altogether, they are spending billions on luxurious lifestyles for their pets.

Luxury : Retail : Future Family

Big Ideas

Life House is a Silicon Valley-backed luxury hotel

Co-founder and CEO Rami Zeidan on how this nascent technology-driven hotel chain will unite guests and locals to create a community around luxury s...

Luxury : Travel : Technology

Markets

The State of Luxury: Poland

As the country recovers from the global economic crisis, Poland’s emerging middle class are using luxury goods and services to signify their new-fo...

Luxury : Retail : Hospitality

Big Ideas

How these influencers are changing the narrative on ageing

With 68% of consumers aged over 65 believing that advertisements typecast people in their age bracket, these are the Flat Age influencers defying s...

Fashion : Beauty : Wellness

Markets

Emerging Youth: South Africa

Amid high unemployment rates, South Africa’s restless youth population are forging new communities rooted in native dance and African spirituality.

Youth : Leisure : Workplace

Big Ideas

Solar-powered rooftop gardens could be the next-generation community farms

Solar designer Marjan van Aubel imagines how in the cities of the future, we will harvest electricity and food from a local, artificially intellige...

Food : Future Cities : Supply Chain

Big Ideas

Four key themes from Web Summit 2018

At this year's Web Summit, loneliness emerged as the next frontier in health and wellness, while technology companies showed how they are working t...

Technology : Health & Wellness : Retail