Diagonal pattern of pink and black bird silhouettes repeating across a white background.

It’s coming! Just different.

Zukunftsinstitut Trend Report 2014

The personal future looks rosy for most, while the big picture seems rather grim. But what if everything turns out completely different than we thought? The Zukunftsinstitut changes the perspective of tomorrow fundamentally. In their Trend Report 2014 Matthias Horx and his team of authors conduct “best case research”: In nine chapters they describe what happens when things suddenly and surprisingly go much better than we had initially feared.

The radical change of perspective is reflected in the design: The future is by no means bleak – it’s exciting, challenging, and colorful.

Illustrations by Larissa Mantel

Rosebud liefert Annual Reporting, Editorial Strategy, Editorial Design, Information Design and Art Buying.

Black swan silhouette with arched neck on coral background.
Two tall brick buildings with many windows connected by ladders to a cloud above on a coral background.
Cartoon ringed planet with a raised arm holding a flag reading HELLO against a coral background.
Poster cover: black swan with pale hands reaching toward it over a red X; title Y-Events and German subtitle.
Split black and pink panels; left displays "Stellen Sie sich vor …" and right displays "... alles wäre ganz anders."
Left: black swan silhouette on a white page; right: dense German text on a black page—book spread.
Two-page spread: left coral page with German text; right page shows a red stylized duck with hands on its back.
Split-page cover with a white X on black left and white Y on pink right, a gridded globe in the center, arrows pointing to it.
Two-page magazine spread featuring bold red title 'X-Events und Y-Events' on the left and dense German text on the right.
Two-page spread with dense German text on the left and a line-drawn group of people standing together on the right.
Pink curved timeline infographic of future events by year, with black and white arrows and prominent German labels such as Der Millennium-Boom and Cyborgs.
Diapered infant lying on back, grasping its feet, on pink background.
Two-page magazine spread; left a pink-bordered poster with large '2022' and warning that sex endangers humanity; right page dense German article.
Left page: red hand-drawn house on circular raft with waves on pink; right page shows German article 'Die Resilienz-Branche'.
Open magazine spread: left page titled 2050 Das Ende des Hungers; right page dense German text.
Line drawing of a fruit vending machine dispensing assorted fruit (pears, strawberries, bananas) against a pink background.
Two-page spread: left German article with red title; right pink page with a circular Cradle-to-Cradle diagram and German labels.
Line drawing of three passengers in a side-view convertible car against a pink background.
Two-page magazine spread with bold German headline '2032 Grüner Energie-Überfluss', a large red circular graphic, and dense text columns.
Cartoon of two skyscrapers with ladders leaning against them, ladders extend to a white cloud against a red background.
Two-page German magazine spread about peace; left red title 'Der harte Weg zum Weltfrieden'; right red outline hand with peaceful-future slogan.
Small wind turbine atop a box-shaped generator with a circular dial; blades spinning against a red background.
Red handwritten checklist on black background listing items to reject: oil, addiction, nuclear power, groundwater, exploitation, smog, Stone Age.
Line-drawn group of slender human figures lifting a large pear above them against a coral background.
Three passengers in a red open-top convertible driving.
Red house atop a circular lifebuoy floating on wavy water.
Red speech bubble on black background with the German text 'MIT ESSEN SPIELT MAN NICHT!'
Group of people standing closely together on a coral background.
Abstract pink silhouette of a bird in profile view against black background.
Two people at a glass-walled bus shelter with abstract art; center poster reads SUMMER OF SOUNDS; right panel shows MuseumQuartier Wien.