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The recent Global Pet Expo in Orlando once again proved that humans must be innovative to stay one step ahead of their pets. Here are The Trend Curve’s top dozen picks for most unique and useful pet products: Click thumbnails to see a larger version of the image... Puppy Bumpers®, from In The Company of Dogs, are lightweight, ultra-high pillows that fit around your dog’s neck as a low-tech safety device. These rings are a gift … [Read more...]
If consumers multi-task as a way of life, why shouldn’t furniture do the same? For the past few years, consumers have been rewarding designers and companies who created pieces with more built-in functionality. Even during the Great Recession, consumers have been willing to pay up for tables, beds and chairs that do more. Here are some of the most-recent offerings from the High Point Furniture Market. Some extra features are simple while others … [Read more...]
For the past several seasons, the words tiny and small have been the best options for describing designs and fabric. But introductions at the High Point furniture market indicated that this is all about to change. In a striking reversal, the newest size was large, bold and more motif-focused than pattern based. Moreover, all design categories seemed equally interested in exploring the potential of a countertrend in scale. Even though … [Read more...]
Looking for inspiration from some of the greatest artists in history? Now you can view their art and collections from some of the top museums in the world. Google this week unveiled the Google Art Project a "...unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail." The top three aspects that excited us about it … [Read more...]
3DWalldecor, a young Dutch design company, has been delivering an innovative range of three dimensional wall panels since 2010 and was recently featured in Springwise. Their panels are modular, easy to apply and---if you don't like the limited range of their four designs "bars, dunes, moonscape and pads"---they are paintable. They also build these wall panels out of environmentally friendly bamboo pulp and they consider them to be, … [Read more...]
Everyone wants familiar icons to feel new. Michel Taillis Creation updated the Christmas tree with animated bears. Fun—and a bit creepy. (Michelle Lamb is at Christmasworld in Frankfurt Germany and will have much to report in our upcoming Trend Album™ Christmasworld 2011 out in just a few weeks. This afternoon she sent the staff this video shot for us to post). … [Read more...]
This past holiday season saw ecommerce spending at record levels. comScore reports that retail e-commerce spending in the U.S., for the first 56 days of the November to December 2010 holiday season, reached a record $30.81 billion! This is a 13 percent increase year-over-year. But the trend that grabbed our eye in this new year was a report by financial powerhouse, J.P. Morgan, entitled, "Nothing But Net - 2011 Internet Investment Guide". The … [Read more...]
One of the "internet TV (ITV) channels" we frequent is one called Fora.TV, a self-described, "...leading online destination for intelligent video programs on the people, issues, and ideas changing the world." We love it (and many other ITV channels which will come in a future post) because it gives us access to big thinkers in so many disciplines that either directly, or indirectly, impact home trends. The one below is a discussion of … [Read more...]
Always on the hunt for trend information you can use, we came across the video below from JWT Intelligence, a group within the global communications firm, JWT (J. Walter Thompson). JWT is a group with nearly 150 years' experience pioneering new frontiers in brand-building marketing communications and their global network capability spans 90 countries and 200 offices. This video was a "teaser" so they can entice people to buy their 88-page 2011 … [Read more...]
Dozens of our customers and clients are using the Apple iPad and find it an incredibly useful business tool, newspaper, magazine and book reading device, and a perfect movie player with great battery life. What we appreciate is that they find it delightful to load ALL of their Trend Album™ reports on it (here is our how-to on loading them on your iPad). In this way they have all of them at-their-fingertips in meetings, on an airplane, or when … [Read more...]
