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

Japanese Beauty

Japanese beauty is taking back the limelight from its South Korean counterpart.

Beauty : Retail : Branding

Markets

eSports Market: Part 2

With mobile hardware lowering barriers to entry and non-endemic brands acting as sponsors, eSports are entering the mainstream.

Gaming : Sports : Branding

Big Ideas

Why clean air needs to be on every brand’s agenda

Daan Roosegaarde, designer and founder of Studio Roosegaarde, on why clean air, energy and water should be in every brand’s mission statement.

Placemaking : Pollution : Future Cities

Big Ideas

How cities can beat over-tourism

In order to reverse tourism disparity and protect heritage sites, governments are taking back control.

Travel : Hospitality : Tourism

Big Ideas

Does Pepper the robot represent the dawn of hospitality bots?

Jonathan Boiria from Softbank Robotics discusses how its robot Pepper will infiltrate the West.

Hospitality : Travel : Technology

Markets

Polar Travel Market

A rise in accessibility to the Arctic and Antarctica is offering consumers new ways to experience the polar regions, with innovative hospitality br...

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

Big Ideas

Charlotte Webb on creating an equal internet

The head of content at Feminist Internet explains how the UAL Futures project has turned into a movement for a gender-equal internet.

Female Futures : Digital : Technology

Markets

Wellness Tourism

Hotels are offering new ways of supporting guests’ wellbeing beyond the traditional spa treatment.

Wellness : Travel : Hospitality

Big Ideas

Why the internet is a reflection of our humanity

Andrés Colmenares, co-founder of Internet Age Media, previews the forthcoming IAM Weekend 18.

Digital : Technology : Youth

Big Ideas

These male wellness influencers are going primal

From breathing techniques and immersion in nature to cold therapy, a new breed of influencers are revolutionising the way we understand our physiol...

Wellness : Health : Digital

Big Ideas

Why emotional wellbeing is the next frontier for the vitamins industry

Brendan Murdock, the founder of nutrition and health store anatomē, explains why human interaction is crucial to any health store proposition.

Health And Wellness : Nutrition : Emotional Wellbeing

Big Ideas

How QR codes could revolutionise the supplements industry

Natalja Genina, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Technology and Engineering department of the University of Copenhagen, explores how her r...

Health : Wellness : Medicare

Big Ideas

How to future-proof the physical store

Natalie Berg, retail analyst and founder of NBK Retail, on why stores should be seen as assets rather than liabilities.

Retail : E-commerce : Phygital

Big Ideas

Why retailers and marketers need to take VR seriously

Anita Fontaine and Geoffrey Lillemon, creative directors of Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam's Department of New Realities, blend speculative fiction wit...

Retail : Technology : VR

Big Ideas

How the retail landscape will change in 2019

With The Future Laboratory hosting its Retail Futures Forum on 3 May, we preview some of the key themes to be unveiled.

Retail : Technology : E-commerce

Big Ideas

James Dean on how brands can engage the eSports audience

The managing director of ESL UK discusses how perspectives are changing and how non-endemic brands can become part of the conversation.

Entertainment : Gaming : Marketing

Markets

The State of Luxury: India

India’s luxury market is being buoyed by the growing spending power of the middle classes, women and the country’s numerous smaller cities.

Luxury : Retail : Fashion

Big Ideas

Georgia’s post-Soviet future as a luxury travel destination

Serdar Kutucu, executive vice-president of brand and strategy at Design Hotels, highlights the luxury potential of the Eurasian country.

Luxury : Travel : Hospitality

Markets

Cognac Market

Long considered a staid and elitist drink, cognac brands are working to make the spirit more accessible.

Luxury : Drinks : Spirits

Big Ideas

Tony Riddle embraces the wild side of wellness

The natural lifestyle coach discusses the rewilding movement and explains how we can flourish by living in sync with our natural biology.

Health : Wellness : Rewilding

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