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Editor's Choice
Focus
Honest by: transparent fashion retail
22/02/2012
Honest by is a fashion brand which offers designer products and is completely open about the raw materials and manufacturing processes it uses. It is also honest about its pricing structures, offering a full cost breakdown of each garment.
Latest
Focus
21/02/2012
Double Fine: a fundraising adventure
When quirky games company Double Fine launched its newest project on Kickstarter, it reached its $400,000 target in just eight hours. Close to 60,000 backers have now pledged $1.9m to the development of a game they know next to nothing about.
Report
20/02/2012
Beautyligion and the rise of Halal cosmetics
The needs of Muslim beauty consumers, particularly in western cultures, remain relatively unexplored. This article explores the changing relationship between the Muslim faith, Halal lifestyles, and the beauty industry.
Focus
16/02/2012
Hello Sunday Morning
In 2008, 22-year-old Australian Chris Raine decided to give up drinking for a year, and blogged his experience on a website, Hello Sunday Morning. His behaviour has influenced thousands of fellow Gen Y-ers to take their own abstinence pledge.
Quickfacts: Sociological
15/02/2012
Hyperawareness of Health
Hyperawareness of Health has been around for some time, but current developments in technology mean that the trend is evolving. These recent pieces of data and commentary indicate how this behaviour is manifesting itself.
Report
15/02/2012
Hyperawareness of Health
The focus on personal health has been one of the dominant trends of the past few years. This report explores how as people's behaviour adapts to current technologies, it is beginning to reveal itself in fresh and exciting new ways.
Focus
14/02/2012
Loosecubes: the future of workplaces?
Sharing office space with other independent professionals is already a familiar concept to many freelancers. Loosecubes is a New-York based online database of co-working spaces which hopes to take the trend mainstream.
Focus
14/02/2012
Scanadu: healthcare in your hands
A team is creating a mobile device that will diagnose ailments by being placed in close proximity to the body. The idea is to empower consumers to take control of their own health, enabling healthcare systems to operate more efficiently.
Consumer profiles
13/02/2012
Young non-drinkers
Is youth culture becoming tamer, and are young people turning away from heavy alcohol consumption in favour of more healthy pursuits? Canvas8 talks to a group of non-drinking 20-26 year-olds to learn about their attitudes towards alcohol.
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Event
No Straight Lines
We are delighted to invite you to our next event, ‘No Straight Lines’, with the celebrated author and thinker Alan Moore.
‘No Straight Lines’ presents a new way of doing business by providing a framework for success in our complex, socially networked world.
The talk is on Thursday February 23rd in London and tickets are strictly limited. Please register here.
For complimentary tickets, subscribers should contact their account manager.
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Ento edible insects
22/02/2012
Ento is the outcome of tackling the growing issue of food security in an increasingly hungry world. Through compelling design, it aims to introduce western cultures to the environmental and nutritional benefits of insects as a sustainable alternative.
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Orange connects with Nespresso
22/02/2012
The Nespresso brand has teamed up with Orange to offer its clients professional coffee machines connected to the internet. Equipped with SIM cards, these machines can communicate directly with each other to improve their maintenance department.
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Exchange favo.rs
22/02/2012
Favo.rs is where founders and professionals broadcast and fulfill each other's requests for help. Requests can be as simple as a retweet or as important as an intro, and all requests are tracked to reveal who you help and who helps you the most.
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Leaders' tweets
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