An Environmentally Aware Brand Exploring Better Ways to Carry
uncluttered white spaces contributor, c0-founder of investling and multi time entrprerenuer Andrew Fallshaw has launched his latest project upon planet earth named Bellroy. Bellroy has pretty loose edges… It’s probably easiest to describe us as a small group trying to improve the way we carry. For the moment, that means we are tackling wallets – an [...]
Otarian | The First Ever Low-Carbon Restaurant
Australian chain Otarian bills itself as “the first ever low-carbon restaurant, using a cradle-to-grave analysis in the carbon footprinting of every menu item.” Almost everything in Otarian’s restaurants—from the floor to the tables and chairs—is made from recycled materials. Its “Eco2tarian Labelling” shows the difference in greenhouse gas emissions between its veggie meals and similar [...]
Jamie Oliver Introduces the openIDEO Challenge with Food Revolution
Jamie Oliver Introduces the OpenIDEO Challenge / OpenIDEO.com from IDEO on Vimeo. How can we raise kids’ awareness of the benefits of fresh food so they can make better choices? Jamie Oliver won the TED Prize wish last year. His wish was to create a Food Revolution in America, to change the way kids eat [...]
What BP Could have Bought With All the Money They Lost in the Oil Spill
Life in the world of planetary destruction. Visual Economics have created an amazing infograph pointing us towards things BP could have bought with all the money they lost in the oil spill. 10 years of clean water for each of the 884,000 people without access to it. A new home to replace all 275,000 homes lost [...]
Is “Creativity” the most effective trait in business?
IBM’s Institute for Business Value has shown that CEOs value “Creativity” as the most effective trait. For too many companies, their customers are becoming more and more connected to the gloabl community but unfortunately, they are becoming less connected to the company. With the world interconnected from an economic, social, and political persepective, its about time [...]
1 of Six Tips For Designing a Memorable Brand
Fast COmpany have created an article highting 6 really cool tips for creating an engaging brand. “You never see a logo by itself,” says Yang Kim. Instead, it’s usually part of an overall brand that when well-executed takes into account everything from self- and outward perception to media landscape. For their new book, Kim and [...]
Infograph | An Interesting Look at Price Drops Since 2000
This is a great infographic that looks closely at the changes in prices heading south since 2000. Sourced via Mint, the graph indicates what lies behind many of the prices are business strategies: Starbucks, for example, has made it’s basic coffee cheaper on the theory that it’s better to bring more people through the doors, [...]
IF Talks Launch New Website
uncluttered white spaces has given the IF website a quick overhaul prior to the upcoming talk on sustainable futures in July. The IF talks bring together inspiring speakers in to one location with the hope that you to go away better informed and inspired to bring about change that matters. The idea of creating the innovation [...]
Our Wildest Ideas Untamed are a Powerful Asset
Yesterday I had a great conversation with a good friend from a business based in Sydney. We moved onto the discussion around the creation and the redundancy of ideas in her company which seems a common discussion point of late. I spent a lot of time working for a global organisation where great ideas were [...]
Louis Gray Selects 50 Startups Worth Watching
Louis Gray has prepared a list of 50 top startups that he is watching. Serving up the list in his ranking order from one to fifty in terms of both interest and viability. I am sure that if I ran this exercise 10 times, I would get a different list 10 times. Louis explains: I [...]
Pepsi Hiding Video’s in Barcodes.
Simon Mainwaring points us towards Pepsi as they announced a new experiment around barcodes in collaboration with a startup called Stickybits. VentureBeat reports: Using a barcode-reader application on a smartphone, users can scan barcodes on Pepsi products like soda cans or bottles and access videos and links hidden in the code. Users can also upload [...]
Win a Website Worth $7500 from uncluttered white spaces and 6.2 Digital
uncluttered white spaces and 6.2 Digital is giving you a chance to win a website to the value of $7500. The website will be a wordpress based blog or website created by 6.2 and will include all content pages, seo, newsletter feature and social networking capabilities. To win, simple tweet this hash tag #freewebsite and [...]
New Business Ideas for Just About Everyone
With an audience that extends to just about everyone, the music business can be a great source for new business ideas. Here are five Springwise spotted recently: 1. MOOD TRAXXER — Traxx.fm’s Mood Traxxer aims help users find music to match their mood by getting them to describe their current state of mind, activity, needs [...]
Infograph | Country to Country Entrepreneurship
According to the data, the U.S. is far ahead of any other country in the portion of our GDP that comes from entrepreneurship–11.3%, compared to our next closest competitor, the U.K., which clocks in at 6.3%. This can be interpreted two ways: Either we’ve had a longer history of entrepreneurship–and other countries are perhaps catching [...]
PSFK Presents the Future of Retail Report
PSFK presents Future of Retail report View more presentations from PSFK. Traditional physical retail remains as important as ever. So does providing the environment in which a retailer can provide an unparalleled experience. Through the dynamic use of space, the most successful store owners are pushing the boundaries of storytelling, product testing and education – [...]
4Food NYC | Taking Orders Via iPads, Tweets and Streaming Foursquare Checkins
4food is a socially networked quick service restaurant company. The mission is to bring fast food that’s fresh, delicious, and nutritious to all ages, lifestyles, incomes, and ethnicities. No fads, fillers, or anything artificial. Revolutionizing counter culture, in real-time. Location #1 opens on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 40th Street and Madison Avenue, between Bryant [...]
Greenpeace Release the Guide to Greener Electronics
Greenpeace has just released its latest quarterly “Guide to Greener Electronics. The guide ranks the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and games consoles according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change. Last updated: May 2010. The three goals for this guide are to get companies to: Clean up [...]
We think you should visit | Collaborative Consumption
Collaborative Consumption Groundswell Video from rachel botsman on Vimeo. Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers created the Collaborative Consumption site to help you contribute to and evolve the ideas in the upcoming book What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, (Harper Business, September 28, 2010). Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in traditional sharing, [...]
IF | The Future of Media | “The Curse of the Expert”
uncluttered white spaces recently hosted IF | The future of media at Sydney’s the White Horse. The event was the third in a string of recent forums by uncluttered white spaces covering innovation and now, specific topics and in this case, the future of media. white spaces curated a team of Australia’s captains of industry [...]
Pepsi V Coke in the Sustainability Battle
I can not think of time when the Pepsi v Coke wars were not a topic of school yard, locker room or sunday drive banter. We all have an opinion in the Coke versus Pepsi taste wars, but things get a little murky when corporate sustainability is taken into account. Fast Company have released an [...]
IF TALK | A guest perspective on “The Future of Media”
INNOVATION FORUM – THE FUTURE OF MEDIA – 11/05/2010 Simon Williams is a guest (and good friend) who attended IF | The Future of Media. Simon is a musician and film producer and over the weekend, he took five minutes of his insanely hectic schedule to share his event notes with us. The IF Talk [...]
Luxury 2010 | post-recession codes emerge
Luxury 2010 | post-recession codes emerge View more presentations from Tim Stock. Tim Stock and the cool kids are scenarioDNA have created a presentation entitled Luxury | post-recession codes emerge. The presentation asks the question, “take away the logo, the licensing and the hibris, do you still have a compelling luxuy product that will stand [...]
Growing Up Digital | Don Tapscott
GROWING UP DIGITAL: The Rise of the Net Generation by Don Tapscott is an examination of the first generation to be bathed in bits since birth. These 3 billion children of the baby boomers are combining demographic muscle and digital mastery to become a force for social transformation. In a nutshell, because of their access [...]
Infograph | The Worlds Leading Companies
This elegant chart, created by Tiffany Farrant for GDS Digital (the second from her today, we know; we can’t help it), started as merely a visualization of the Forbes 2,000, which lists the 2,000 largest companies in the world. And it does it’s job with tremendous efficiency–it’s pretty interesting to see, roughly, how big chemicals companies and media [...]
