Trends

The latest global consumer trends that we’re tracking across sectors, substantiated by expert opinions and the latest industry statistics.

Micro Trends

Telepresence Tech

The Skype generation is coming of age as people across the world connect via telepresence technology.

Technology : Neo-Kinship : Family

Design Directions

Autumn/Winter 2017 Fashion Week: Part 2

In the second part of our autumn/winter 2017 design directions report, LS:N Global examines the changing notions of femininity and the continuing f...

The Dislocated World : Prada : AW 17

Design Directions

The Modist

The Modist is a new online destination for luxury modest wear.

Modest Wear : Luxury : E-Commerce

Macro Trends

Civic Brands

Businesses are increasingly stepping in where governments are failing and acting as forces for good in society. Amid the shift from top-down co...

Brandstanding : Sharing 2.0 : Civic Brands

Macro Trends

The Focus Filter

A race for attention is raging across media, advertising and culture in our era of non-stop digital distraction.

Attention Economy : Workplace : Advertising

Macro Trends

Neo-kinship

As the nuclear family disappears and more fluid and complex forms of kinship take its place, technology is not only helping to run the househol...

Neo-kinship : Artificial Intelligence : Family

Micro Trends

Intelligent Gaming

Content creators are looking to different forms of media as a way to contextualise and intellectualise video games.

Gaming : Ubisoft : Video Games

Design Directions

Halo

In an industry first, start-up coffee brand Halo offers consumers a premium-quality product in a sustainable package with its biodegradable capsule.

Halo : Coffee : Sustainability

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

Micro Trends

Fast Fabrication

A burgeoning revolution in robotics is enabling apparel and footwear brands to adopt automated manufacturing systems that have proven difficult to ...

Adidas : Automation : Workplace Futures

Design Directions

Delete

Interactive exhibition Delete asked children to consider the boundary between the digital and physical worlds.

DELETE : The Sharded Self : Awakening Tech

Design Directions

Raw Movement

Inspired by human movement and touch, wellness interiors and packaging designers are embracing a raw aesthetic, experimenting with primitive shap...

Human Movement : Blok London : Boutique Fitness

Micro Trends

Well Hotels

Luxury hotels are going above and beyond the usual spa and gym to offer a new spin on wellness.

Wellness : Travel : Hospitality

Design Directions

Did you mean MailChimp?

In its first major campaign, email marketing service MailChimp is leading by example.

MailChimp : Droga5 : Omnichannel

Design Directions

Leta Sobierajski: Art direction

Art director Leta Sobierajski uses the body as an abstract and inanimate prop to create surprising and subversive scenography.

Leta Sobierajski : RUH : Art Direction

Design Directions

SFF 2017: Design Directions

Designers at this year’s show presented highly emotive objects and interiors that featured tactile finishes, block-colour spaces and architectural ...

Stockholm Furniture Fair 2017 : Interior Design : Painterly Primitive

Micro Trends

Post-family Marketing

Brands are increasingly recognising that idealised visions of family and marriage are no longer effective marketing tools.

Marriage : Future Family : IKEA

Design Directions

MK2VR

Virtual reality is transformed into a social experience in Parisian cinema chain MK2’s new space.

MK2VR : VR : BNP Paribas

Micro Trends

Psychoactive Scents

Brands are developing new fragrances that draw on neuroscience to invoke a physical reaction in the wearer.

Fragrance : Optimised Self : Mood Retail

Design Directions

Ripple

A wearable support network for people living far away from friends and family.

Ripple : New Bricolage Living : Parenting

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