An Eclectic Office Made up of Shipping Containers in Geneva
This eclectic interior architecture of an office building in Geneva was recently realised by the internationally acting practice Group8. The office is called Cargo and Group8 worked with the furniture manufacturer Dynamobel to create this insanely cool space. Old and disused cargo containers are stacked one upon the other in order to provide some silent work and [...]
Yes I am Precious. A Bike with a Brain Doing Good.
Meet Precious, the bike with a brain that’s riding across America to raise funds for Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG charity. Bike with a brain? Well, it’s a bike with all sorts of sensors attached to some pretty cool code and a few silicon chips to bring the bike to life.Precious will be expressing his experiences and feelings [...]
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 [...]
GEAR FOR LIFE | Things you need for this weekend
WEAR THIS | FINISTERRE European brand Finisterre releases its Anabatic MK II jacket, a lightweight silhouette made for just about any season. The piece comes in four different colorways, each boasting a minimalistic design aesthetic with a water-resistant outer shell. For those interested, the jacket is now available for purchase directly through Finisterre’s online store. [...]
TIME magazine list the best Blogs of 2010
From the savvy to the satirical, the eye-opening to the jaw-dropping, TIME makes its annual picks of the blogs we can’t live without. For the record, we have added uncluttered white spaces covertly into the list. It is an interesting list with a few surprises in here. Certainly for us, it is a crime not to see [...]
Create an Online Store in 15 Minutes Flat through Vendr
Vendr seamlessly adds storefront capabilities to any website or blog with just a few lines of code. It does that by adding a “Store” button; when clicked, it dims the background page and overlays a brightly lit store that provides customers with an engaging and fluid shopping experience. Both physical and digital goods can be [...]
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 [...]
Design |The Worlds Largest Glass Table Built from Optical Glass
Tokujin Yoshioka has sent along another piece he’ll be exhibiting next month in a tantalizing exhibition in Seoul, titled MUSEUM. beyond museum. Yoshioka will also show Waterfall, the world’s largest table made of optical-quality glass. Almost 15 feet long, this is the first time the table will be seen in public, after having been created for a [...]
This multi-touch DJ mixing app for the upcoming Jesus tablet
Like you really needed another reason to pick up an iPad this weekend. Introducing Mixr. This multi-touch DJ mixing app for the upcoming Jesus tablet offers a virtual dual turntable main interface, allowing for scratching, reverse play, tempo and pitch adjustment, live EQ and effects, the ability to record your mixes, and the ability to cue tracks. [...]
Cool List 10:: Keep Cup taking really big small steps.
Most disposable paper cups are not recyclable. The paper cup is made from a composite of materials: kraft bleached paper sprayed with a polyethylene coating. Paper cups are often impregnated with toxic dyes which make them difficult to recycle. The plastic lining in disposable paper cups means they are not recyclable. In arid regions like [...]
COOL LIST 9 :: Ponoko. The worlds first online marketplace for making things.
Ponoko is an online marketplace for everyone to click to make real things. It’s where creators, digital fabricators, materials suppliers and buyers meet to make (almost) anything. Ponoko kicked off at TechCrunch40 at the end of 2007 with a vision to reinvent how goods are designed, made and distributed worldwide. The core of this vision is [...]
What does China censor online?
So we recently learnt from Information is Beautiful that China has quite a strict online policy. To view the full list of banned web sites and search terms, click on the image above. Broadly speaking, most of the big social websites – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube – are all blocked. Many familiar sites, such as Wikipedia, [...]
The Movement Project:: Crowd-sourcing Change.
…….e=’‘] The Movement Project is a platform to fund and create social, environmental, responsible and innovative projects to help create a better planet. They believe in sharing and humanity and whilst crowd sourcing is not new, it is still gaining momentum as an innovative way to fund projects, market brands or launch a flash mob. The [...]
Cool List 8 :: Where Self-Propulsion & Sustainable Entrepreneurship Go Hand in Hand
For fun, for learning, for building a better ride and a better world: see how the Bamboo Bike Studio offers the unique and intimate chance to create your own ride, and also produces positive effects that extend to the lives of cyclists, workers and entrepreneurs abroad. Shoppers at Urban Outfitters can already design their own bikes [...]
Cool List 7 :: Streat Coffee
Streat have ventured into new territory launching Streat Coffee. The new STREAT Coffee blend is an example of a new type of consumer product: one that is ‘triple certified’. This means it has been designed and created to: meet the exacting sustainable and ethical standards of Fair Tradewith beans sourced from farmers around the globe who are paid [...]
The Cool List 6 :: SellaBand.
We are in love with crowdsourcing and micro finance. SellaBand, aims to empower independent artists. SellaBand has created a platform that enables fans to sponsor bands, and get a piece of the action in return. How it works: fans, dubbed Believers, find an artist they like on SellaBand.com. For USD 10, they can buy a share, [...]
Cool List 5 :: The Office Kid
The Office Kid, a New York company provides an all-purpose work excuse in the form of a fictitious “child.” Ethical questions notwithstanding, there’s no doubt The Office Kid provides an innovative solution to a perceived inequity that’s long been part of the office world. The lesson? Find an itch, scratch it, and sit back while [...]
Urban Bike Shop :: Cool List 4.
Where British Specialbike creates unique bicycles by refurbishing old ones with custom components and a colourful flair, Florida-based Republic Bike achieves a similar end with new bikes by allowing customers to design their own in a rainbow of hues. Now, through a partnership with Republic Bike, global retailer Urban Outfitters is bringing design-your-own capabilities to its customers [...]
The Cool List 3 :: Republic of Everyone
Welcome to the Cool List: #3 Company: Republic of Everyone. Years Alive: Not sure but who cares, its cool. Goal: Improve sustainability & create social change. Web: www.republicofeveryone.com Email: hello@republicofeveryone.com Skype: hellorepublic We’ve written about various ventures that connect social enterprise, eco brands and companies with agencies to create social change and green futures turning [...]
[The Cool List #2] Project Label.
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We love this site and the concept behind Project Label.Project Label creates “social nutrition” labels to track manufacturers’ social and environmental responsibility. Project Label strives to produce people-powered social nutrition labels. Just think food nutrition labels, but instead of only showing the impact on your health, the labels will show a company’s social and environmental [...]
[The Cool List #1] DustinCurtis.com
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Welcome to our first update on “The Cool List”. This is where uncluttered white spaces uncovers, discusses, reviews amazing companies, web sites, consultants, strategists from anywhere on the planet and gives you the opportunity to have your view. Over the past 6 months, we have spent a lot of time working in business of all [...]
The Cool List: Do you know any really cool companies?
Do you have a cool company that we should be writing about? How does your company or employer stack up? After reviewing the 5 core topics for uncluttered white spaces (business, marketing, strategy, design and people), we have decided to review the category listed as Gear For Life. We have been receiving a lot of [...]
Thats a lot of Lotus.
[THE COOL LIST] So right now we have featured 3 lotus in the past 6 weeks. Thats a lot of Lotus. Of course we are not an auto site however we do appreciate design and everything cool. We think this is cool. The 2010 Lotus Evora lands in 1Q 2010, and with it, a pricetag of [...]
Nirvana Release Anniversary Album: 12 new Tracks.
[THE COOL LIST] As we continue to provide grabs of cool things [under the COOL LIST section of this site] that can either relate to business, strategy, design, marketing or people, we continue to get unindated with amazing gadgets to share with you. We could not let this one go un-noticed. The 20th Anniversary of [...]
