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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

Macro Trends

The New Sublimity

Consumers are turning away from their busy, hyper-connected, digital lifestyles and prioritising personal fulfillment and wellbeing.

Stuffocation : Spiritualism : Sublime

Big Ideas

London Design Festival 2013: 10 of the best

The 11th London Design festival offered a wave of new products, experiences and exhibitions from emerging designers, as well as established brands....

Established & Sons : Philippe Malouin : Silo Studio

Communities

Kindred Diners

This community is on a quest to make eating convivial, pleasurable yet thoughtful, building local communities around – and inspired by – food and d...

Food : Drink : Social

Macro Trends

Turbulent Teens

The more prosaic say ‘2010s’, but we’re calling the next decade the Turbulent Teens. As the climate changes, power shifts, populations increase and...

Turbulence : Teenager : Geo-political

Markets

Emerging Youth: AfroLATAM

Despite historical socio-economic disadvantages, Black Latin Americans are making themselves heard through a unique sense of unity and resilience.

Youth : Media : Workplace

Design Directions

Psychedelia

A liberated movement of altered reality, surreal visions, and heightened optimism invites us into a trippy factional world – welcome to Psychedelia.

Netstalgia : Psychedelic : 1960's

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: August

The eighth instalment of our Futures 100 Innovators spotlights a new generation of beauty manufacturers, African alcohol producers and circular jew...

Futures 100 Innovators : F100 : Health And Wellness

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

Markets

Fertility Market: The New Cycle

Calling time on body clock stigma, a candid new conversation is taking place about fertility.

Health : Wellness : Fertility

Big Ideas

Design Miami/ Basel 2013: Top 10 Galleries

The Design Miami/ Basel show this month was awash with vibrant colours. Galleries from across the world exhibited collectible luxury designs in a k...

Design : Seung-Yong Song : Nacho Carbonel

Big Ideas

Material Far Futures

From fabrics that generate power through motion to food packaging that understands its contents, the materials of tomorrow will be smarter, stron...

Material Futures : Sustainability : Far Futures

Design Directions

Future Foodscapes

Amid growing consumer demand for transparency in food, designers are approaching visual communication in new ways and challenging traditional notio...

Food And Drink : Packaging : Hospitality

Macro Trends

Post-growth Society

As our obsession with economic growth proves to be unsustainable, brands, institutions and consumers are seeking new metrics of progress.

Post-growth Society : GDP : Economics

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: April

This month, we uncover the next 10 innovators to watch as part of our Futures 100 Innovators Awards, highlighting the brands, businesses and people...

Technology : Retail : Beauty

Trend Tracker

Awakening Tech

Identified by LS:N Global in 2014, the Awakening Tech macrotrend explored how consumers are negotiating their identities in a digital world and h...

Sensor Technologies : Affective Computing : Living Architecture

Viewpoints

The Great Concert Comeback

Between silver chrome cowboy hats and a supercharged local economy, foresight analyst Simar Deol unveils how live concerts are serving much more th...

Entertainment : Music : Media

Trend Tracker

Bleisure

Identified by LS:N Global in 2009, Bleisure – business + leisure – refers to the increasingly blurred lines in consumers’ lives between work an...

Business : Leisure : Work

Markets

Global Beauty Market: Part 2

The beauty and personal care industry has expanded to encompass an array of lucrative, previously overlooked opportunities in the male grooming, ...

Wellness : Male Grooming : Inclusive Beauty

Macro Trends

Body Temples

Bodies are back. You can’t buy the new status symbol at a store, you’ll have to sweat for it. Today’s model of fitness is no longer an unattainable...

MGM Grand Hotel : CrossFit : Zumba

Macro Trends

Gen Viz

Teenagers are no longer self-absorbed souls struggling through puberty. Abstinence and realness are the order of the day for these new social activ...

Gen Viz : Generation Z : Visual First

Communities

New Indian Tastemakers

As more consumers in India become connected to the internet and plugged into what’s new in fashion, food and lifestyle, a new wave of influencers...

Consumer Behaviour : India : Bloggers

Markets

Retail report

It feels as though retailers the world over are breathing a collective sigh of relief, as the Great Depression didn’t materialise. But the sobering...

Deloitte : Recession : PIIGS

Macro Trends

Backlash Brands

In an age of constant consumer backlash, bold brands are choosing to stand their ground rather than bow to every customer whim, staging a reactio...

Backlash Brands : Controversy-courting : Righteous Retail

Macro Trends

The Fifth Scenario

At this very moment, the economy, the environment, science and technology, and the global balance of power are undergoing massive shifts: some are ...

Change : Hybrid : Dream

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