For the Weekend — Cultural Products, Icons & Shifts

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Berlin banned Airbnb while Radiohead is fading off the internet. Craig Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto of Bitcoin. Advertisers are increasing their ad spend in digital video. If you don’t want to do that, then have private clients. Netflix says they know what images you like. Artificial intelligence are helping fashion designers. Stick with your passcodes, your fingerprints are worse off. And ya, fingerboarding is a huge thing.

Building Cultural Products

How to make your brand a business by buyers from ASOS and Machine-A.

calling all would-be brands: here's how to catch the eye of the world's best stores | read | i-D

How milk becomes part of your morning breakfast culture.

Lessons from Issey Miyake while walking through an exhibition in the National Art Museum in Tokyo.

The work of Miyake Issey

Learn from Lev Tanju on turning a brand into a cultural success.

How cult label Palace went from UK skate kids to hip-hop royalty

Potential Cultural Icons

Blackyoto dyes all vintage clothings black to renew it for the contemporary.

Brand to Know: The Line Revitalizing Vintage Pieces - by Dyeing Them Black

A video into the life of Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator of the Serpentine Galleries in London.

A Glimpse Into The Life Of Curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Benny Cassette by SMASHD as an upcoming cultural wave.

WeTransfer is getting the media’s attention in their unique approach to making boring technology cool.

Interview: Rob Alderson

How A Dutch Startup Made The File-Sharing Business Cool

Upcoming Cultural Shifts

We can cook using the produce from our very own farm, as indoor farming becomes easy and convenient.

INFARM Indoor Farming · Berlin

Will we be seeing more Asian models?

Why Do Asian Brands Use White Models? | Highsnobiety

Take a quick look at the potentially game-changing works presented at Frieze New York 2016.

Five trends in the effort to make global local (glocal).

New Trend Briefing from TrendWatching | GLOBAL BRAIN

Executives from Hearst, Now This, Awesomeness TV and more discuss how to appeal to the audience of the present culture.

9 Members of Video’s Vanguard Discuss Creating Content for the Scrolling Economy

And finally, learn to understand Picasso.

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