Behaviours

Everything you need to face your future consumer with confidence, including the latest ethnographic research, generational insight, consumer-related stats and overarching human needs.

Gen Z in Kenya

From Silicon Savannah to the streets of Nairobi, Kenya’s Gen Z are rewriting the rules of power, protest and purpose for governments and brands.

Markets

The Bromeopathy Market

Bromeopathy is entering the mainstream as the wellness industry caters for a new wave of men seeking science-backed products and supplements to fuel their masculinity. 

Big Ideas

SXSW 2025: Reclamation Versus Resistance

SXSW 2025 marked a radical shift from resistance to reclamation, as industry leaders build agency in a challenging democracy, create decentralised media platforms and focus on a shared humanity.

Markets

The Sexuwellness Men’s Market

Meet the innovators rebranding men’s sexual wellness as a pillar of male pleasure and wellbeing.

Markets

Cortisol Control

Tackling stress is a major concern for the wellness community, with new research and innovations emerging to measure and lower cortisol, along with viral content promoting cortisol-focused solutions.

Big Ideas

Adidas app turns trainers into a photo canvas

Adidas customers will soon be able to create trainers emblazoned with their favourite photos.

Adidas : Personalisation : Trainers

Big Ideas

Stanford travels in time to 2100 to look at the future of education

A Stanford University project examines what education might be like in the year 2100.

Education : Stanford University : D:school

Big Ideas

Selfridges' summer campaigns celebrate masters of food and fashion

Selfridges launches its Meet the Makers 2014 summer food promotion.

Selfridges : Department Stores : Carl Warner

Big Ideas

Internet Week New York 2014 Preview

The large and growing technology economy will be on show during Internet Week New York on 19–25 May.

Internet Week New York : Retail : Biometrics

Big Ideas

The internet will be as pervasive as electricity in 2025, says study

By 2025, the internet will be as much an integral part of society as electricity, according to a new report from the Pew Research Internet Pro...

The Internet Of Things : Pew Research Internet Project

Big Ideas

Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: Top five not to be missed

Expanding into new venues and introducing a new show, Platform, this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week (CDW) will focus on tactile fabrics, nature-i...

Clerkenwell Design Week : Furniture : Interiors

Big Ideas

Frieze New York 2014

For the third year, the global art crowd flocked to New York’s blossom-lined Randall’s Island, home to a white bivouac tent containing ar...

Frieze Art Fair : Foodscapes : Haptic Illusion

Big Ideas

Wisdom 2.0 Review: Part 2

In the second part of LS:N Global’s coverage of the 2014 Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco, we examine how, as the mindfulness community gains...

Wisdom 2.0 : Mindfulness : Meditation

Big Ideas

Artist bottles a genetic invisibility cloak

Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg has launched Invisible, a set of sprays that are said to mask traces of DNA.

Heather Dewey-Hagborg : Privacy : Post Privacy World

Big Ideas

Microsoft creates immersive data visualisation

The installation was created to promote the software company’s updated database management system SQL Server.

Microsoft : SQL Server : Data Visualisation

Big Ideas

BMW electric car matches performance of petrol equivalent

The electric super-car is undergoing an image overhaul, in which it is no longer seen as a poor version of its petrol-fuelled cousin.

BMW : BMW I8 : Cars

Big Ideas

Intention purchase app wins fashion technology hackathon event

A 48-hour fashion hackathon event in London generated a retail app that will be brought to market by retail brand AllSaints.

Decoded : Hackathon : All Saints

Big Ideas

Wisdom 2.0 Review: Part 1

At a time of great success for the technology industry, the expanding digital sphere has also provoked anxiety, contemplation and a search for ne...

Wisdom 2.0 : Mindfulness : Meditation

Big Ideas

H&M launches surfwear capsule collection with Nordsurf

H&M has unveiled a men’s surfwear line in collaboration with fellow Swedish brand Nordsurf.

Re-Con Man : Surfing : H&M

Big Ideas

New York Design Week Preview 2014

During the spring days of New York’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), a range of satellite events, design exhibitions and worksh...

Design : Product Futures : Neo-Kitsch

Markets

Interactive Tech Retail

Technology companies are adopting an experiential approach in stores, offering shoppers try-before-you-buy interactive environments.

Verizon : Google : Intel

Big Ideas

A molecule scanner that fits in your pocket

Scio is an affordable pocket molecular scanner that promises to be your sixth sense.

Self Quants : Kickstarter : Self Quantification

Big Ideas

Arcadia chief buys stake in Australian online discount retailer

Sir Philip Green has acquired 25% of flash sale fashion retailer MySale.

Arcadia Group : MySale : Sir Philip Green

Big Ideas

Tourism boom sees luxury brands flock to Dubai

With tourism and retail spending booming, Dubai is attracting a flood of luxury brands.

Dubai : Middle East : Luxurians

Big Ideas

German group fights racism with Like Attack

Berlin – Nothing combats hate like a bit of love, or in the case of anti-racism group Loud Against Nazis, nothing challenges racism like a few th...

Berlin : Nazis : Cities Like Brands