The Spanish restaurant chain Fresc Co. offers guests the opportunity to practice their English while they’re dining out. Fresc Co. owns 40 restaurants in 11 Spanish cities, with an emphasis on fresh ingredients and Mediterranean dishes. The teachers focus on everyday language and work situations in sessions that last two hours. In this way, the restaurant chain gives something back to their guests in these difficult economic times.
These toilets of Nomix contain filters that separate urine substances that are recyclable from useless substances. With the valuable waste such as nitrogen, methane and phosphorus they can then generate electricity or it can be used as fertilizer.
GlassesDirect is an online store that sells glasses. They now solved the problem that you can not try on your glasses when buying online. Still, it doesn’t allow you to experience how the pair of glasses fits your face. But at least you can see what they look like.
With Twitter you can earn money. Those who do well, often earn much money. With that message and a new book (Twitter with result) Dick Raman tours through USA and The Netherlands. “Companies that do not know what Twitter, Facebook and other social networks already mean, are lost”. According to Raman ‘social networks’ are the way to approach the customers.
This trendy umbrella designed by Tuuci is cool in every sense of the word. The design and shade of the parasol looks like the tale of a whale. Besides the unique design the umbrella is strong and it survives in all weather conditions.
Lays popato chips fans can invent their own new flavor. The flavor with the most votes will be put into production, and the inventor gets € 25.000, = + 1% of sales.
As a tribute to the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s’ ‘Alice in Wonderland’ macaroon-maker Ladurée has turned their corner in Hausman Printemps departmentstore in Paris into a wonderland. There is a large teapot and there are posters with various characters from the film. There is also a special ‘Alice in Wonderland’ box with macarons for sale.
No more plastic or rattan patio chairs! These baroque chairs are made of recycled polyethylene material and weather resistant. The chairs are designed by Graziano and Renato Moro Pagitti.
Do you find it difficult to remember which frame belongs where? Then here is the solution. Design-3000 designed a placemat showing the positioning of how the cutlery, plates and glasses are supposed to be placed. So, you can never go wrong again…
Bamboo Bike is a unique project by Calfeedesign. Calfeedesign is located in California, but after a promotional trip to Africa they were inspired by the continent. Nowadays Calfeedesign owns two factories in Ghana providing the local population with jobs and so contributing to the development of third world countries.
In Queen Street, Sydney, between the boutiques and cafes the unique and fashionable butcher Victor Churchill is located. With the help of Dreamteamaustralia-design, usually responsible for the design of restaurants and cafes, they succeeded to make Churchill’s Butchery a very exclusive butcher. With refrigerated display cases, meat on a stage and the dish of the day in the spotlights, you find yourself in an upscale store instead of a butchershop.
With the website www.drinkkraanwater.nl Tom Niekamp and Tetsuro Miyazaki are trying to get attention for drinking tap water. Tap water is much better for the environment than bottled water. It saves mountains of waste, and is cheaper. Especially for the hospitality industry it will be difficult to join this trend, as they make money selling bottled water. However, according to the men is also a way for the hospitality entrepreneurs to demonstrate their ‘green’ business.
The company Jerome designed these bottles for his organic lemonade. The lemonade itself contains no dyes or preservatives, and is slightly sweetened with fructose. The bottles are made of aluminum, making the package ‘eternally recyclable’.
Agency Media Republic created this advertisement for Samsung in collaboration with 2010 Amsterdam and JCDecaux. At a tram stop in Amsterdam, people can wait while virtually ski-jumping. The video is then sent to you by email.
How long an opened bottle can be preserved, is difficult to estimate. With this cooler it is possible to open two bottles of wine and keep them well preserved up to 10 days. Each compartment has its own temperature control. Available for $ 395, =.
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