Dinner of Hope
11-5-2012
Dinner of Hope is a new initiative of Orange Babies and ambassador Herman den Blijker. Everybody was asked to organize a dinner with family and friends at home, to raise money for Orange Babies on Friday 11 May. The motto ‘put something beautiful on the table’ refers to a beautiful set table but also to the relationship with others. It is a Dutch initiative only.
Laser cut seaweed
11-5-2012
This laser cut seaweed is developed by international ad agency I&S BBDO for the umino laser seaweed shop. There are 5 designs: ‘sakura’ (‘cherry blossoms’), ‘mizutama’ (‘water drops’), ‘asanoha’ (‘hemp’), ‘kikkou’ (‘turtle shell’) and ‘kumikkou’ (‘tortoise shell’). Based on the elements of the Japanese history and Japanese symbols.
Meat shoes
11-5-2012
Made by artist and ‘meat-worker’ Henning Hüttner, the AIR-METT 90. The shoe was introduced at the Release-Party of the second issue of the ‘Sneaker Freaker magazine’ at TheGoodWillOut Sneakerstore in Cologne.
Heineken Night Club of the Future
10-5-2012
At the Design fair in Milan, Heineken placed the crowd-sourced night club concept. This yearlong design exploration project, is created through the progressive minds of 19 emerging designers from across the globe, resulted in a prototype of a futuristic night club. Interesting to read about the six key areas (connecting, getting a drink, discovering, dancing, cooling down and ending the night).
Hotel and public square in one
10-5-2012
OOIIO Architecture designed an open space on the lower level of a new hotel in Reykjavik that can be used as a theater, including restaurants, shops and the hotel lobby facing it. From there, people can take an escalator up to the public sculptural hotel roof, where they can enjoy a panoramic view. Take a look at the website of Designboom to discover the design.
Wonderboard HACCP
10-5-2012
(advertorial) Wonderboard created by the Dutch company Milin, is a hygienic wall and ceiling solution and HACCP proof. The wonderboard is shown at the Foodtech 2012 in Rosmalen (The Netherlands).
Pizza Cone
10-5-2012
Kono Pizza sells pizza cone’s already for a couple of years. We did spot them year’s ago. In the meantime the company is selling them in 16 countries. So the cones are growing to be popular.
Entrepreneur Island Blueseed
9-5-2012
‘Blueseed’ is co-founded by Max Marti, Dario Mutabdzija and lead by Peter Thiel. The floating city will be located in international waters of the Silicon Valley and is especially designed for starting entrepreneurs. The Blueseed project offers living space, work space and entertaiment facilities to foreign start-ups. The goal is that the Blue Seed opens in the 3rd quarter of 2013. Click here for the video about Blueseed.
Sprite shower
9-5-2012
No more regular showers on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil this summer. The Coca-Cola company came with the ‘Sprite Shower’, luckily the shower is of pure water and not Sprite.
Flowers and cupcakes
9-5-2012
A recipe of Dr. Oetker and a nice idea for Mother’s Day. A cupcake with a bunch of flowers. The recipe is only available in Dutch.