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Miami monumentalism

Miami – As the dust from the crash settles and the markets readjust and recover, the frivolity of 00s art and design has run its course.

Miami : Considered Consumption : The Art Newspaper

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Interactive design

An array of new interactive design, architecture and technology is engaging people, creating a new dialogue and means of communication and function...

Interactive Design : Decode : V&A Museum

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Mobile Money

Retailers can also look forward to using everything from QR codes to e-vouchers and smart billboards to drive profits as the global mobile money tr...

QR Codes : KPMG : Mobile Money

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Urban Play

To combat stress, hone performance, raise fitness levels, achieve goals and inject an element of play into their lives to counter the gloom of the ...

Lacoste : Barack Obama : Michelle Obama

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Food Shopping Survey UK

As the recession bottoms out, UK consumers are rewriting the rules of their weekly shop; no-frills purchases and own-label brands are all making a ...

Food Shopping : Recession : Social Consumers

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Pharmafoods

On both sides of the Atlantic, health and wellbeing have become a major media focus. Consumers are being bombarded with conflicting messages, from ...

Pharmafoods : Superfoods : Nanofoods

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The future of gardens

A mirror of our home life, the garden is a space that reflects and exaggerates what we want from our homes. It is also the space where people’s beh...

Garden : Gardens : Husqvarna

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Mobile apps and future profits

Addressing the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising’s (IPA) 44 Club, IPA president Rory Sutherland made the point that mobile applications are...

Smartphones : Apps : Iphone

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Music 3.0

The music industry is changing at an unprecedented rate. Artists are changing the way they produce music; fans are inventing new ways to discover, ...

Music : Napster : Nielsen

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Online luxury

Global online sales of luxury goods increased by 65% in 2007 to reach €1.5bn (£1.28bn), according to consultants Bain & Company. Yet, despite the m...

Online Luxury : Ledbury Research : Google

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Sport & Leisure and hospitality landscapes

Climate change, recession, fragmenting markets, and an increasingly critical, challenging and internet-savvy consumer are turning traditional notio...

Leisure : Hospitality : World Travel & Tourism Council

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Home from Home

In the Future Laboratory’s Leisure and Hospitality Futures Report, we identify a series of new leisure trends that are changing the way the hotel a...

Home From Home : Caravan Club : Hotel Design

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New social media landscapes

Social media has reached a tipping point, and is growing up. If social media 2.0 was a rebellious playground complete with consumer cliques and bra...

Social Media : JupiterResearch : Digital Divide

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Market report: China

For a decade the world has watched China in awe. Some did so from a distance, others leapt right in. Today, however, involvement with the country n...

China : Jigsaw International : Hong Kong

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The food space revolution

Beyond the downturn, food will continue to viewed as a design-driven cultural experience as much as a nutritionally based culinary one. As our Food...

The Foodists : ABC Cooking Studio : Tokyo Curry Lab

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Downturn Sport & Leisure

This is a time of unprecedented upheaval for the global tourism industry, according to The Future Laboratory’s Leisure and Hospitality Futures Repo...

TripAdvisor : Ecotourism : Design Hotels

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New stages of lux

As Louis Vuitton cancels plans to open yet another department store in Tokyo and other brands follow suit, it is time to access the changing nature...

Louis Vuitton : Bain & Company : Luxury Institute

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Market report: The Middle East

Often overlooked because of its geopolitical instability, the Middle East now represents a consumer market that can no longer be ignored. With an a...

Copenhagen Institute For Futures Studies : UAE : Dubai

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Tech futures

As excited as consumers in the UK are about technology in the far future, new research suggests that exciting, enabling technologies are likely to ...

3D Printing : Home Robotics : Technology

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The Neo Cocktail Set

Europe – Although sales of beer are falling in countries where it is a traditional drink, including Britain, across Europe beer sales are on the ri...

Wine : Beer : Cocktails

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