What can one number tell us about China? Quite a lot. 46%: Chinese consumers’ contribution to global luxury sales by 2025. - No wonder Gucci, Prada and Dolce & Gabbana are courting Chinese consumers – they are the biggest driver of growth in the global luxury market.- Chinese consumers in 2018 contributed an estimated 33% of global spending on personal luxury goods like handbags and desig...

The wildly popular beauty brand’s customers are also its biggest evangelists.Everyone is an influencer now, at least according to Emily Weiss, the founder and CEO of the wildly popular direct-to-consumer beauty startup Glossier.“At Glossier, something we’ve always stayed very true to, since pre-launch, day one, is that every single person is an influencer,” Weiss said during a live intervie...

Industry Standard for 3D Textures and Materials Behind AAA Gaming Titles and Award-Winning Movies Coming to Creative Cloud.Adobe announced that it has acquired Allegorithmic, makers of Substance, the industry standard for 3D textures and material creation in game and video post-production. By combining Allegorithmic’s Substance 3D design tools with Creative Cloud’s industry-leading imaging, v...

Marking a major milestone in home entertainment’s shift to digital formats, video streaming subscription revenues surpassed DVD / Blu-ray sales in the United States for the first time in 2016. This trend continued through 2018, when subscription-based streaming accounted for more than half of consumer spending on home entertainment. While U.S. consumers spent $12.9 billion on subscriptions to...

From fast food to furniture, companies across all industries are doing what they can to produce less waste. In addition to helping the planet, brands that help to make the world a better place through eco-conscious design will gain favor among today’s environmentally-focused youth. The following beauty brands have created plastic packaging alternatives, proving to young consumers that they are...

During the winter months in China, the quality of the air can diminish as the haze simultaneously worsens, and with this brings the need for Fresh Air Ventilation systems or Air Purifiers. However, these can often take up noticeable, and often valuable space within the room, and this problem continues when it comes to storing the device. But this certainly isn’t the case with Plant.Plant is wh...

Chinese phone maker Xiaomi has teased a double-folding phone display. This comes just two months after Samsung unveiled its own folding smartphone. Xiaomi is the fourth-biggest smartphone maker in the world.Xiaomi, the Chinese phone maker sometimes known as the "Apple of China," has teased a new double-folding phone just two months after Samsung unveiled its own folding phone.Earlier this month...

Will the coming mobility revolution make urban traffic better, or worse?The age of modern transit began in 1863, when the first underground railway began rolling in central London. The line was short and smoky, and nothing like it had ever been seen before. But it worked, and cities around the world began to follow London’s lead. Over time, city authorities came to see providing transportation...

Forget robots that look like humans, the next generation of robots will be based on animals – from snakes to locusts and even a robotic octopus that can study the ocean floor.When it comes to robots, science fiction has conditioned us to think of androids – bipedal machines approximating the human form. But the next generation of robots may be based on very different types of animals: snakes,...