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Design

Dutch Design Week 2026: Designing for Lives in Flux

During the third day of Dutch Design Week 2026, designers highlighted how they build for lives in flux, from furniture that moves house with you to analogue interfaces that bring technology back under your control.

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Beauty

Rebeauty is redefining resale for the beauty industry

UK start-up Rebeauty has launched a beauty-only resale marketplace for unopened and unused products.

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Food & Drink

Stat: Why lunch needs to balance convenience with ritual

A Heinz-commissioned YouGov survey of more than 2,000 people in the UK found that 38% regularly rush or neglect lunch because of work, chores or caring responsibilities.

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Placemaking & Property

Impactive Spaces

The emerging science of neuroaesthetics is equipping brands and businesses to engineer impactive spaces that shape how people feel, driving measurable wellbeing, revenue and consumer engagement.

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Design

The Future Laboratory launches Impactive Spaces report

The Future Laboratory has launched Impactive Spaces, a macrotrend report on how neuroaesthetics, the study of how aesthetics and sensory experience affect the brain and body, is helping brands to design spaces around their effects on people.

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Design

Dutch Design Week 2026: Seabeds, Slop and Surveillance

During the second day of Dutch Design Week 2026, the hidden infrastructures of modern life were brought to the surface, from the water feeding data centres to the microbes that could transform how we make.

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Beauty

Stat: Barber shops are becoming a lifeline for lonely young men

According to the British Beauty Council’s The Impact of Beauty Report, 18% of frequent personal care users in the UK say a visit to a hairdresser, barber or nail salon is, in some weeks, one of the few times they interact with other people.

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Design

Dutch Design Week 2026: What Do We Need to Unlearn?

At the 26th edition of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, held under the theme RAW – Rebel. Authentic. Worth, designers and panellists explored unlearning as the starting point for new ways of placemaking, urban dwelling and collective change.

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Marketing & Branding

Powerade flips Novig’s slogan to celebrate women athletes

Powerade has responded to Novig’s Just Sports campaign, which recently drew criticism for sexualising women in sport, flipping the slogan into Never Just Sports.