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Generations
Tracking the key characteristics and values of generational demographics as each cohort evolves.
Download: Generations Now and Next
From Baby Boomers and Gen X to Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha, uncover what unites and divides consumers across generations
Macro Trends
Boomers: Ageing to Becoming
By 2030 they will all have reached the average Western retirement age of 65, supercharging a wider re-assessment of later life purpose along the way
Macro Trends
Gen X: Ambiguity to Advocacy
Having long lived in the shadow of Baby Boomers and Millennials, Gen X are racing against time to make their influence felt
Macro Trends
Gen Z: Vision to Contradiction
Without the tools or role models to help them enact the change they want to see, Gen Z find themselves paralysed by paradox
Macro Trends
Alphas: Sandbox to Roblox
Many of the technologies, careers and crises that will define and shape the lives of Gen Alpha are yet to exist
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Andrew Scott: Get ready for a nation of 100-year-olds
The hundred-year lifespan is becoming common, says Andrew Scott, professor of economics at London Business School.
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Stanford
Micro Trends
New York Safari 2014
New York remains the nerve centre of American creativity across the media, fashion and finance industries, even as a new crop of technology and e...
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Experience Economy
Design Directions
New York Fashion Week spring/summer 2015
It was all or nothing for designers at New York Fashion Week this season, with some using highly decorative hand-crafted techniques, whi...
Fauna Fetish
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Meaningless Marks
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Edun
Big Ideas
eBay creates shoppable hub for global fashion weeks
New York – E-commerce pioneer eBay was on hand at Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week with a physical hub for its new campaign to make street styl...
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Liz Salcedo: Fashion technology that solves real problems
Fashion technology needs to be beautiful and touch on universal pain points, says the founder of accessories brand Everpurse.
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Digital art service streams exhibitions directly onto living room walls
Sweden – A new digital display system enables users to stream the world’s greatest art direct to their homes.
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Big Ideas
More US meals eaten alone than with company
More than half (57%) of meals in the US are consumed alone, according to new research.
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Solo Singles
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Pieter Mees: The future of interactive video
Interactive video provides the engagement we expect from the usually 'lean-back' platform, says the founder and CEO of technology company Zentrick.
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Unilever
Micro Trends
Digital Collecting
Art that is created and consumed on screens is catching on thanks to its low cost, portability and anti-elitist image.
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Sedition
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.
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Currency
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Seán Dagan Wood: How to harness the power of Positive News
Positive News, the world’s first ‘solution-focused’ newspaper, poses a challenge to the traditional model of journalism.
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Journalism
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Upworthy
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Diana Verde Nieto: Why luxury brands need to be socially and environmentally aware
Luxury does not have to mean compromise between style and a positive impact, says the founder of luxury standards-setter Positive Luxury.
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Wearable technology line brings fashion to the fore
At New York Fashion Week, accessible luxury designer Rebecca Minkoff will introduce a fashion-forward line of wearable technology accessories.
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Wearable Technology
Big Ideas
Shopping mall pairs with website on one-day pop-up shop
The largest shopping mall developer in the US is working with fashion and style website Refinery29 on a series of pop-up stores.
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Big Box Retail
Micro Trends
St Petersburg Safari
While Communism has left its mark on St Petersburg, buildings have been restored in recent years and are being re-appropriated as co-working space...
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Ginza Project
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Ligovsky 50
Big Ideas
Fast food chain Loco’l aims to improve low-income diets
Los Angeles chef Roy Choi and partner Daniel Patterson will launch Loco’l, a fast food chain serving ‘real food’ at a low price point.
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Los Angeles
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Danielle Pender: Smart magazine design for women
Ban Photoshop and focus on the words, says the founder and editor-in-chief of new women's magazine Riposte.
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Riposte
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The Athena Woman
Big Ideas
Robots brought into service at Aloft Hotels in California
Aloft Hotels has announced the debut of robotic butlers at its Silicon Valley location.
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Artificial Intelligence
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Starwood Hotels
Big Ideas
Google Street View sweetens exhibition closure with online extension
The Google Art Project provides browsers with a permanent street view version of a temporary installation by artist Kara Walker.
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A Subtlety
Micro Trends
Flawed Fashions
Bored and disenfranchised by the airbrushed vapidity of mainstream fashion, some designers are celebrating imperfection, chiming with The Sharded...
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The Me-Conomy
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