The Future Laboratory

IFE 2025: What’s hot (and cold) in drinks

IFE 2025, the UK’s leading food and drink trade show, kicked off in London on 17 March 2025, featuring more than 1,500 suppliers on the exhibitor floor and expert insights into emerging trends.

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Food & Drink

Functional Feasting

As we move past the ‘free from’ era, consumers are increasingly favouring products that do more with less, bringing flavour and fun back into functional nutrition.

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Technology

Smart surfaces

Sheffield – Design studio Universal Everything has created a series of visual works that re-imagine commonplace surfaces such as technology-enabled interfaces.

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Fashion

Hear this: Mobile accessories focus on style

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Design

Note: Design Studio

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Micro Trends

Sub-system Apps

Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook are the online mega-systems through which we will live, shop, interact and access information. Not all brands are playing along, though, and some are designing apps that challenge their rules.