7 Collaborative Companies That Will Change The Future.
We have curated a list 7 of our favorite sharing platforms. Collaborative consumption is used to describe the cultural and economic force away from ‘hyper-consumption’ to re-invented economic models of sharing, swapping, bartering, trading or renting. These methods have been enabled by advances in social media and peer-to-peer platforms over the past 12-24 months. In [...]
Electrolux – Cleaning Up the Oceans, Turning Garbage into Vacuums
Home appliance manufacturer Electrolux is setting out to clean up plastic-covered marine environments and turn the spoils into a limited range of vacuum cleaners. Causing the deaths of over a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals and sea turtles each year, Electrolux hopes ‘Vac From the Sea’ will raise much-needed awareness on marine trash and ‘environmental [...]
Taking the Online Voice offline with “Real World” meet-ups.
Springwise has curated a list of 5 social networks that take the online idea of networking to an offline meet up in the “real world”. There is a current trend towards meet ups in Australia with some innovative thought leaders bringing together people on a social environment to share ideas such as SOCIAL MELBOURNE. 5 [...]
Museum of London Launch iPhone App | Streetmuseum
The Museum of London recently released a free iPhone app called Streetmuseum which incorporates their extensive art and photographic collections with augmented reality. According to the museum, the application would be providing users a window through time. The app leads you to various locations around London using either the map or GPS. This app allows the present and the [...]
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 [...]
Mel Mueller | Rugwind Create A Cosy Bench for you and the People
German design studio Rugwind have created a great bit of social furniture. A cosy bench, for you and the people in your neighbourhood. The project, Guerilla Bench aims to subvert the objects of the typical urban environment, making them more human and functional. A bench that neatly folds up inside a standard European electrical box. A user simply opens [...]
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 [...]
A VUE of the future with Issey Miyake
It is remarkable that the most real feeling in perception of time “the present”, cannot be measured in any units of time. Present is duration-less, it is an infinitesimal. Nevertheless, both the past and the future, which are seen as durations in time, encroach on the present. So why is it, that we all think more about [...]
The Deli Garage Lets You Spray Paint Your Own Food!
Are you adventurous with food but ever feel like your food doesn’t amaze you enough, does it look boring or need some life? Then Esslack Food Spray may be just the right thing for you. Thanks to the very clever German team – The Deli Garage – you can now stain your tomato, pretzels, and [...]
IKEA proving they are “More than a furniture Store”
The Swedish furniture and lifestyle brand IKEA has demonstrated originality and creativity in their unique and experiential marketing strategies. The international retailer’s most recent campaign involves the replacement of a great number of benches in four important and high-traffic metro stations in Paris – St. Lazare, Champs-Elysées Clémenceau, Concorde, and Opéra. From March 10th to [...]
McNally Jackson Books Cafe by Front Studio
There will be winners and losers in the changing publishing industry, the catalyst being the emerging world of, e-books. Books are recognised as big winners if they are large blockbusters. Therefore it is the humble independent bookstores that are precious sanctuaries playing an essential role. Independent bookstores nurturing unique personalities stringing community links are significantly responsible [...]
Ecosia:: The worlds greenest search engine.
Every year a rainforest area larger than England is burned or cut down. Therefore the deforestation of the tropical rainforests is the single most important source of CO2 emissions in the world and about 20% of all global CO2 emissions are caused by rainforest deforestation. It is a major contributor to: • Global warming • [...]
Adidas + Augmented Reality & a few Stormtroopers.
Taking on the now industry standard concept in the games field of augmented reality, adidas has created a virtual 3-D world that can be accessed using a future line of five men’s sneakers. Users need to visit the adidas site and hold up their sneaker to their webcam; the show will feature a code implanted [...]
Squares, Triangles and the Art of Perspective with Aaskash Nihalani
The US-American street artist Aakash Nihalani is one of the best-known representatives of the new street-art trend, who works with the medium of tape in public places around New York. Aakash explains: My work is created in a reaction to what we readily encounter in our lives, sidewalks and doorways, building and bricks. I’m just connecting the [...]
A Letter for One with Meaning for All
This Valentine’s Day, celebrate love in all forms with Steve Powers’ latest book “A Love Letter for You”. The book explores Powers’ fascination with using graffiti to tell a story. A team of 40 painter collaborated to create Love Letter, a series of more than 50 huge, text-based rooftop murals. Love Letter is a public [...]
Fashion that touches the World
Holstee is an Eco-friendly clothing company. Their style is simple, functional, unique and made out of 100% recycled material. Although there are quite a few Eco-friendly fashions on the market, Holstee captivates through its inimitable concept. The brand founded by brothers Dave and Mike Radparvar was not only created to be fashionable and functional but [...]
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 [...]
Introducing: Melanie Mueller to uncluttered white spaces
uncluttered white spaces would like to introduce our latest member. Communication and Media student Melanie Mueller from Germany has joined our team as our Trends Analyst. We read with interest in an annual student survey that said that only 20% of 2009 college grads have a job. Pretty amazing. So our new intern, to ensure [...]
