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 [...]
A BATHING APE and DAIWA create the 144 hour pop-up retail store.
A BATHING APE are creating a special pop-up store alongside fishing brand DAIWA. The collaboration will come to life on July 24th, as both companies officially open the retail spot dubbed 144H, for the amount of hours it will remain open to the public. Featured product include fishing supplies, outdoor goods, and fishing apparel. Further [...]
Look Mum no Hands | Eco-friendly cyclists reclaim London
A new sub culture has silently wheeled onto the London bike scene. Eco-friendly cyclists have reclaimed the car-heavy city for their own and now, they have even got their own coffee shops. Look Mum No Hands! is one such bike-loving institution, a hybrid mix of coffee shop, bike workshop, café, bar and cinema. Cyclists are [...]
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, [...]
Woods Bagot Create an Inflatable Solution to New York’s Recession
In New York, the most glaring signs of the Great Recession are the stalled construction sites littering the city–boarded up, dusty, and desolate eyesores. The architecture mega-firm Woods Bagot may have a solution, which they’ve just unveiled: Temporary, inflatable buildings that let the developers make money while they wait for their finances to shape up. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Investing More in “We” Spaces Than in “I” Spaces
The Stanford d.school, which opens officially on May 7, is a space whose design has been refined over the course of six years to maximize the innovation process. Every wall, everynook, every connecting gizmo, every table, every storage cabinet, has been created with a grand, collaborative vision in mind. George Kembel, the executive director of the school [...]
OHWOW Book Club Store in New York City
Thinking of starting a Book Club or opening a new book store. An interesting devlopment in the current age of the emergance of the e-book but Aaron Bondaroff unveils his latest project as an extension of his OHWOW art movement. The newly opened OHWOW Book Club Store houses a selection of OHWOW-published books and items [...]
Core77 | Real Estate Bust: How Creatives Are Carving Up L.A.’s Empty Space
Posted by Alissa Walker | 31 Mar 2010 on Core77 | If there’s one thing wide, sprawly Los Angeles can pride itself on having, it’s an abundance of space. But now, as I walk though neighborhoods filled with empty box stores and strip malls, I realize we may have far too much of it. Luckily, we’re also blessed [...]
Customising Boardshorts: Introducing Shortomatic.
Aiming to do for swim shorts what Threadless has done for t-shirts, Shortomatic is a California-based company that invites consumers to upload their own art for a truly customised swim. All they need do is indicate their waist size and then upload the graphics they have in mind. They then position and size the art, [...]
A few things we can learn from fashion & Victor Churchill
We can all learn a lot from Fashion. Fashion brands exist based on their ability to connect with consumers emotionally. Fashion has nothing to do with price and more about marketing than product, it has everything to do with the need to associate at an emotional level. As the saying goes, people “do not buy the [...]
A pop up bar made from 420 IKEA boxes
Reverting back to the word of innovation. The Bull often refers to innovation as a new way of viewing something that either exists or does not. Surely this errs-towards an innovative way to use Ikea tubs. Instead of dumping old storage boxes, why not give them a second life as alcohol-slinging pop-up shops? Designers Diogo [...]
IF Melbourne in review:: “Nostalgia, denial & arrogance” – Ben Crowe @ IF 2010
uncluttered white spaces hosted our second Innovation forum (IF Melbourne) on Tuesday night at Denmark House Melbourne. The night turned out one of the most influential panels and guests list I have been involved in with some amazing contributions across the floor. IF exisits to bring together like minded innovators and thought leaders to share [...]
Frozen Yoghurt meets Designer in Berlin
Yoli is Berlins first Frozen Yoghurt Shop, with an amazing variety of topping ideas and an extra dose of calcium, vitamin B2 and a high proportion of live and active pro-biotic yoghurt cultures. Although the concept is not new, Yoli succeeds with its remarkable combination of design and food, an intelligent metaphorical concept. The designer [...]
3 Minutes on Public Design Group.
3 Minutes with Public Design Group Co-founder Jason Pollard from Sydney based Public Design Group took some time on the bus to answer a few questions. Dan, Jason and James have known each other for 16 years. They cut their teeth in London at the big design and brand agencies, Fitch, Enterprise, 20/20 and FutureBrand. Dan [...]
Roberto Cavalli for 10% of the Shelf Price Anyone?
We didnt really want to. However we just had to write about RentTheRunway.com. We have too many young readers who will kill for this. In fact, I know a few boomers who will also be logging on in the next 34 seconds. What if that dress you saw in Vogue, the one with the stratospheric [...]
Wonderwall Launches New Website.
Wonderwall is a Japanese interior design company, founded by Masamichi Katayama in 2000, that has created an incredible catalog of interiors for stores like Bape, APC, Uniqlo, and Collette. They recently launched a new website built by the world renowned digital designer Yugo Nakamura. The new website not only features their amazing retail design, but [...]
Vans Vault doing Pop Up Retail in Style.
One of our writers is without question the leading figure in establishing pop-up retail in Australia. Since learning more about the format, we have become queitly obsessed . Hence the reason for writing about Vans kicking off their inaugural Vault pop-up shop at Conveyor. With tunes from Busy Bee and DJ Rashida. Along a packed house, the [...]
Liberty Windows Rocking
To inspire our retail readers we were recently sent this. The wonderfully creative people over at Liberty have made four amazing window installations inspired by shoots in the current edition of AnOther Magazine. They started by looking at each of the stories – by Gareth McConnell, Nick Knight, Viviane Sassen and Craig McDean – and drew [...]
The ABC’s of the Future.
To celebrate its 100 year anniversary, London’s Selfridges department store jumped a century into the future, to the year 2109. Windows are wrapped with the entire alphabet, each of the twenty six letters have a futuristic product on display including zero gravity paint and an infinity bin. Wieden + Kennedy also opened up the idea [...]
Value. Again.
I wrote an article some time ago in relation to price v’s value, there is a distinction between the two and if you have some spare time, it will do you a service to read the comments left by David Gillespie and Andrew Robertson in relation to the article. David Gillespie is one of Australia’s [...]
Remarkable starts with…
Goal setting is certainly a motivating experience. I love to hear people’s expectations, vision or desired state for their future. Its always a great conversation exhausting the possible. It is one of the most invigorating experiences.
