The creative and tech team at the ad agency RPA have developed an unprecedented sculpture, the Listening Cloud, which visualizes social media buzz around their clients’ brands across social-media channels. Looking like a real fluffy cloud, the data-driven installation responds in real time to the tweets, hashtags, likes or comments on the brands with various light effects.

Global design consultancy FITCH has conducted an international study in Europe, Russia and China to learn what influences purchasing behaviours of younger people aged 14-19, a so-called Gen Z. It was discovered that these shoppers, who represent the most culturally diverse type of consumers today, has their own “Five-point path to purchase.” The study is based on ethnographic interviews and first-hand feedbacks as well as design-focused observations.