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There's No Place Like Home(town)

... . Trendy jewelry retailer BaubleBar sells similar coordinate pendants and necklaces. With numerous Etsy shops and sellers dedicated to the same practice of featuring zip codes or state shapes in their design, this type of identification has widespread—but still authentic—reach. Youth wear these types of accessories with the same amount of emotional investment as older generations who wore charm bracelets and lockets with photos or mementos of important people or events. In recent years ...

Extracurriculars

... . As Gen Zs are figuring out the career paths they want to take at a young age (see ProPlay), they’re more likely to know the skills they need to have in their careers and are finding that traditional education isn’t allowing them the personal approach of a more modern offering like General Assembly or Khan Academy. In a perfect world, they would rather design their own curriculum to ensure what they're learning and how they're learning it is practical for what works for them. We're seeing  Zs ...

BrandCon

... groups told us, "I follow a local apparel brand called Portland Gear on Instagram and saw they were hosting a brand camp. I applied for it and got in! I want to do graphic design, so it was a great opportunity to learn from the founder about how he started the brand, how it's packaged, and we even got to create mock designs." As more than half of young people think that in the future, all brands will need to have a live event component to survive, as revealed in our report, The Entertainers, this is ...

Debranded

... . Today’s consumers are seeking add-ons and accessories that allow them to imprint their personal style on what they’re wearing, and in turn to self-identify in a wholly unique way. In this new landscape, having a strong identity, backstory, and distinguishable design will become more important than ever, as external marking takes a backseat to more meaningful branding driven by what’s inside. While brands are no less relevant in this new era of self-constructed identity, Ys’ attitude toward them has ...

Robot Relations

... that recorded kids' voices and inadvertently leaked their data. In order to balance the protection of individuals with the promotion of innovation, some A.I. companies like Snips are creating virtual assistants that are private by design. Unlike Siri, which stores information it pulls remotely on Apple’s servers, Snips avoids remote or cloud-based servers and stores info locally, which means not even the company’s employees can access it. Public entities are likewise beginning to prioritize privacy ...

Home & Away Retail Trends

... stickers and personalized engraving, a lipstick DJ station, and an Instagrammable lipstick wall. Shiseido Japanese skincare brand Shiseido also incorporated social media-friendly elements into the design of its airport pop-up at LAX. Visitors were encouraged to interact with brand ambassadors, who offered beauty consultations, as well as take photos in front of a backdrop featuring a halo and upload it to social media with the hashtag #FindYourStrength.Co-working x RetailThe proliferation of smart ...

Personal Property

... proclaimed that a tiny house is their dream home and they admire how people who live in such an accommodation are imaginative with their arrangement to maximize space and emphasize design. And while micro houses are extreme, brands need to cater to changing ideals and circumstances when it comes to space or find themselves irrelevant to young consumers, much as Pottery Barn has had to adapt and create smaller furniture because most of its products are too big for the spaces Ys live in today and those ...

Pop In

... , optical illusion street artists around the world are creating 3D masterpieces that make it appear like consumers are actually in the setting they construct (see examples). In doing so, everyday people are being elevated from consumers of art to participants of this form of popular culture. As more than half of global youth (56%) prefer to attend an interactive art/design experience over an observational one, we foresee art giving consumers the chance to insert themselves in works much more in the ...

It's A Mall World After All

... want stores that think outside the box and inspire them to do the same. Experimenting with rotating retail concepts, collaborations between brands, live events, and unique curations will draw young consumers’ attention—and their wallets—back in. LET’S (NOT) GO TO THE MALLMalls are considered so passé nowadays that new retail spaces don’t even want to use the term. Hudson Yards, a 28-acre project in NYC featuring retail, dining, interactive design, and music—in addition to office ...

Global Analog Trends

... -based Kodak Alaris will produce the photographic stock. Kodak Super 8 Revival Kodak and San Francisco-based designer Yves Behar are putting a new twist on the classic Super 8 camera. The new film camera design features the classic Super 8 body with some technological upgrades, which include a digital viewfinder and an angled handle. The cost of the Super 8 film cartridges also includes processing and digitization, making storing and editing the footage easy. With the launch of the Super 8 ...