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The things that inspired me in 2025
A (belated) year-end gift guide for the mind.
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In Conversation
Molly’s World
Molly Baz, food media star and world builder, on creating her new sauce brand Ayoh, playing the YouTube game, and what she wants to do next.
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The commerce exec’s guide to the Apple Vision Pro
What shopping is like on today’s Vision Pro, where it’s going, and how brands should approach new platforms like VisionOS.
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How Herman Miller aced its brand refresh
And how to push a creative project through a big company. Plus: Is Yeti the next great consumer holding company?
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Focus on AI: In Partnership With Work & Co
How AI will open new possibilities for commerce — and how you can get started
Launching a new series on AI-enabled commerce, starting with an interview: Derek Fridman, design partner at Work & Co.
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The things that inspired me in 2023
A year-end gift guide for the mind.
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Two new Japanese boutique hotels that are doing it right
How to
actually
compete with Airbnb. Also: The Tokyo salad chain that publishes sales data — in real-time. And the truth about that Foxtrot deal.
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When good design is how it feels
Tokyo’s Postalco made your favorite notepad. Now it wants to make your favorite shirt.
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When the rebrand doesn’t hit the mark
...Try again! Coconut Bliss is now Cosmic Bliss — with big new plans and a retreat to more familiar packaging.
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How Kvadrat made fabric cool
Talking textiles with CEO Anders Byriel and designer Erwan Bouroullec.
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What will happen to Sweetgreen?
The 2010s’ favorite salad brand has a new look. Can it re-accelerate after a spoiled pandemic year?
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Danny Meyer explains how the dining experience will change
Also: Shopify’s curious consumer brand.
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Hodinkee and the new luxury
“We want to be the nose on the face of the watch industry.”
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Alex Mill creative director Somsack Sikhounmuong on designing clothing for our strange new reality
And: What a week!
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What sticks from Apple’s iPhone 12 event?
Also: A special event for you,
The New Consumer
members.
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Architect Barbara Bestor on how home designs are changing in the era of coronavirus
And: An ode to the Erewhon beverage case.
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Apple’s viral widgets hit, what Nike learned this summer
I don’t think Apple was expecting this.
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Rethinking the Starbucks ‘third place’
Starbucks is betting on a smaller, more efficient ‘Pickup’ concept in big cities. But what else?
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Why Trader Joe’s refuses to sell groceries online
Does that still pass the smell test?
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The online grocery discovery problem
Something important is missing from the online grocery experience. That’s a big opportunity.
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