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Travel & Hospitality

TFWA World Exhibition 2026: Travel Retail’s Sensory Role

Brands at TFWA Cannes 2026 reframed the airport as a destination in its own right, turning dwell time into an opportunity for care, discovery and connection.

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Marketing & Branding

Loewe x On turns three artists’ creative rituals into a campaign about movement

Loewe and On have launched a campaign for AW26 that follows three artists through the places and encounters that keep them moving.

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Technology

Meta set to launch the Muse Charm AI device

Meta has announced the Muse Charm, a small wearable device that carries its Muse AI agent, with a customisable cartoon character filling its two-inch screen.

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Value & Finance

Stat: Gen Z started building wealth earliest but still feels left behind

Gen Z starts building wealth at 19 on average, 13 years earlier than Boomers, according to US Bank’s 2026 Wealth Report.

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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.