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Big Ideas

Design Miami/ 2013 Overview Part 1

The daybeds were prepped, the sunshine was out, the champagne poured and the runways cleared, as buyers and celebrities alike flocked to Miami for ...

Wallpaper : Design District : Galerie BSL

Markets

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

Markets

Luxury Travel Consumers

What do different demographic groups want from luxury travel?

FABs : The Flat Age Society : Bleisure

Markets

Womenomics retail: how to appeal to the fairer sex

Sensory spaces and experiential shopping zones are increasingly a focus for retail brands and designers looking to appeal to female consumers.

Experiential : Holistic Retail : Sensory Spaces

Markets

Exertainment Market

As consumers look for new ways to inject fun into fitness, brands are introducing a range of platforms and services that combine entertainment and ...

Fitness : Entertainment : Wellness

Macro Trends

Redemptive Diets

Brands and consumers are uniting to build future-fit food systems that support changing social values, protect precious resources and secure supply...

Food : Drink : Society

Design Directions

Autumn/Winter 2017 Fashion Week: Part 1

This season, designers challenged traditional notions of luxury and collaborated with nostalgia-evoking brands. LS:N Global outlines the key design...

Autumn Winter 2017 : MM6 Maison Margiela : Subversive Luxury

Design Directions

New York Fashion Week S/S 14

Colour : Kitsch : Layering

Design Directions

Milan 2013: Part 1

Colour and vibrancy were prevalent at this year’s Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Scientific processes as well as rough and ready product...

Furniture : Synthetic : Sublime Materiality

Design Directions

Milan Fashion Week A/W 14

Travel and texture were key themes during this season’s Milan Fashion Week, with some designers collecting tropical artefacts while others opted ...

Fendi : Marni : No.21

Design Directions

London Design Festival 2015: Design Directions

A dark and esoteric mood was in evidence this year, marked by the use of primordial materials, violent processes and optical effects that challen...

London Design Festival 2015 : Fredrikson Stallard : Shelley James

Big Ideas

Top 10: Design Miami/Basel 2015

The 10th anniversary of the show reflected the rapid growth of the design market.

Design Miami/Basel 2015 : Product Design : Art Installation

Design Directions

Anti-Materials

Conventions are shifting. A group of designers is starting new conversations and questioning the value of materials, creating a new hierarchy.

Value Redefined : Luxury : Ephemeral Materials

Macro Trends

Neo-collectivism

Society is facing a mass re-organisation. United by values of empathy and community, consumers are shunning individualism in favour of alliances th...

Society : Retail : Workplace

Design Directions

Stockholm Furniture Fair 2012

Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair hosted a diversity of new design this year, with prevalent themes being functionality and notions of nostalgia.

Hauntology : Folk : Gotland University

Macro Trends

Re-enlightenment Rising

For years people looked down on it as dull, square and best kept behind closed doors, but science is now breaking out of the laboratory – onto thea...

Enlightenment : Art : Science

Design Directions

Submerged

Environmentalists’ concerns about the planet’s dwindling natural resources are inspiring radically futuristic spatial concepts, Brandstanding campa...

Submerged : Underwater : Oceanic

Design Directions

Sinistry

Designers are drawing inspiration from myths, theatre motifs and fables to explore the juxtaposition of darkness and light across a variety of di...

Dystopia : Theatre : Experience Deisgn

Markets

Female whisky drinkers

Once the older gent’s status symbol, whisky is now attracting women in their droves. Blogs and tasting clubs are introducing females to the drink’s...

Johnnie Walker : Christina Hendricks : Alwynne Gwilt

Markets

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

Micro Trends

Boston Safari

It might not be Paris, New York or London, but Boston is still one of the most recognisable cities in the world, and is beginning to come into it...

Boston : Re-Con Man : The Convergence Economy

Macro Trends

Food Trends

Label-gazing, value redefined, fooducation, retro-thrift, localism and comfort binging are just a few of the many trends identified by The Future L...

Food : Local : Scarcity

Communities

Generation D

The successors to the New Millennials, Generation Ds are the first true ‘digital natives’. Born between 1994 and 2002, Generation Ds cannot remembe...

Content : Spotify : Social Networks

Macro Trends

Uprooted Diets

Diets are undergoing a seismic shift as threatened supply chains, shortened food miles and a demand for more positive action from brands change wha...

Food : Drinks : Uprooted Diets

Macro Trends

Millennials Now and Next: From Pink to Prime

After a stuttering start to their adult lives, the first generation to use the internet as children are hitting their prime earning years while reb...

Generations : Millennials : Demographics

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