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He’s turned people’s heartbeats into living artworks, translated brainwaves, and at the time of recording he was building an installation that places you inside the mind of an Alzheimer’s patient. Multidisciplinary artist Otto Plesner on why and how creativity can make the world a better place.
Rich Hewes
Audiences are exhausted by optimization and can smell a shortcut a mile off. The agencies and strategists behind recent culture research argue that visible effort – not speed or scale – is now what earns a brand attention, and respect.
Hannah Bowler
The signals beneath the noise. We track slow culture, emerging scenes, and values shifts shaping how people live, work, play – and what that means for the products, media, and experiences they choose next.
We’ve become used to sharing everything online, but now people are finding enjoyment of experiences without an audience. Annie Harte explores the resurgence of analogue culture and what it could teach brands about creating spaces not just for performance.
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Long before he was building brands, Squarespace’s Nate Skinner was studying culture through record sleeves and the sprawling web of Britpop‑era music journalism – a habit he now credits with proving that cultural curiosity, more than anything else, is what helps brands find their audience.
Hannah Bowler
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She’s turned a Kubrick film, a David Bowie single and 13.8 billion years of history into beautiful data-driven art. Apostrophe One founder Valentina D’Efilippo on why data design is more clarification than simplification, and how brands can utilize data's storytelling power.
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