About Us:
The Team
- Martin Raymond: Strategy and Insight Director
- Chris Sanderson: Strategy and Insight Director
- Tom Savigar: Strategy and Insight Director
- Kate Franklin: Head of Trends
- Gwyneth Holland: Head of Trends
- Martin Farrington: LifeSigns Network Manager
- Andrew Graham: Studio Manager
- Jasmine Labeau: Trends Analyst
- Miriam Rayman: LifeSigns Network Editor
- Caroline Till: Trends Analyst
- George Collings: Trends Researcher
- Liv Falconer: Trends Researcher
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- Martin Raymond: Strategy and Insight Director
- Martin Raymond co-founder of The Future Laboratory, is editor-in-chief of Viewpoint magazine and LS:N Global, the online lifestyle news and consumer insight portal. Martin has written several books, including crEATe (Gestalten) and The Tomorrow People: Future consumers and how to read them today (Financial Times Prentice Hall), and is currently working on The Trend Forecaster's Handbook, forthcoming from Laurence King in 2009, which will be the definitive work on trends and the trend forecasting arena.
- He is a regular contributor on trends and business for the BBC, the BBC World Service programe Culture Shock, Channel 4 and ITV. Born in Ireland, he moved to the UK in 1984 to work as a journalist in the design, fashion, film and video sectors. He founded VideoGraphic, and later became an associate editor at Screen International.
Martin went on to edit and re-launch Fashion Weekly, the UK's fashion business bible. A return to his native Dublin to present RTE television's fashion magazine programme Head To Toe was followed by a four-year tenure at the London College of Fashion, as senior lecturer in fashion journalism. He maintains a busy schedule of lecturing at over 12 colleges and universities throughout Great Britain and Ireland. He is also a contributing editor for Wired UK, and a fellow of the Royal Society for the encourgaement of Arts, Manufactures and Science (RSA).