Apparently a disco revival is near nigh upon us. This is not just a case of latter day DJs sampling the old 70’s music into their sets, but rather a fresh crop of bands producing brand new disco tunes.
Much like designers, musicians are continually swinging through history, cherry-picking the best bits from long-forgotten eras and [...]
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Everything uncool is now cool, disco is the new black
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 12 December, 2008 to the trends subset
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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave me a suit
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 8 December, 2008 to the trends subset
If you don’t spend much time in suit land then you won’t know that slim fit shirts and even slimmer ties (the late 80’s revisited?) are the “new” look, this I recently discovered while buying some (non-casual) shirts for the first time since 2001.
Otherwise business fashion for men certainly moves… quickly.
“Suits now are very low-key, [...]
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Email signature hacks will sink [ ] swim [X]
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 3 December, 2008 to the trends subset
At the rate things are going we’ll also be attaching footers like this to private messages, direct tweets, and any other non-public online communication, rather than just emails.
By the way these footers, or “email signature hacks”, are by no means a new idea.
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Now the exclusive country clubs are going online
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 19 November, 2008 to the trends subset
Welcome to the next phase of social networking, the exclusive, invitation-only social network:
A Small World helped kick off the “invitation-only” trend by restricting new membership to those invited by current members. But sometimes an invitation just isn’t enough. Gaining entry into this new generation of private online world can involve an intimidating process of review, [...]
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Big brother has a nanoimplant and knows your IP
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 10 November, 2008 to the trends subset
From bio-violence, to workplaces, and overcrowding in major cities… some of these forecasts for the future make grim reading:
According to the researchers, everything you will do or say will be recorded by 2030. Within the next 10 years, humans will have nanoimplants ensuring that everyone is locked into the system and everyone will have a [...]
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