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
• Global climate [...]
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 [...]
Rick Klotz on the world’s got problems.
As a continuation on our series tracking the devlopments at Freshjive (or formerly known as) in relation to the recent name changes, we found this short documentary intruiging, controversial with plenty of room for interpretation.
If we can take 1 insight from Rick’s approach, it is certainly that he is prepared to put it out there [...]
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 dots differently [...]
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 art project [...]
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 also [...]
Newspapers that don’t matter.
I dropped in for a Sunday paper and a coffee on the way to visit the Hogarth’s this morning. Yes coffee as always from Ruby’s Kitchen. Great coffee. The newspaper on the other hand. Not so great.
I bought the paper this morning out of habit. The paper doesn’t really matter. We generally only read it [...]
Do you understand your talent?
The world under values you. It certainly under values your skills and the expertise you bring to your business. In most cases, your strongest assets are yet to be noticed by your boss. If that’s the case, it may be your fault.
A senior member of one of the worlds largest beverage groups reminded me over [...]
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 of Amseldrossel [...]
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 she [...]
LINCHPIN :: Are you indispensable?
Seth Godin’s new book Linchpin comes out today and as with all books released by Seth, you will be inspired.
Here is an extract from Seth’s blog in relation to why he wrote the book:
The reason I wrote Linchpin: If you want to change people, you must create enough leverage to encourage the change to happen.
Books change lives every [...]
WE THINK YOU SHOULD VISIT :: Daytum
Daytum was conceived by Ryan Case and Nicholas Felton as an elegant and intuitive tool for counting and communicating personal statistics.
Nicholas Felton has produced yearly tabulations of his life he calls “Annual Reports” since 2005. These collections of graphs and charts concentrate the year into statistical chunks that illuminate his life in a wry but [...]
white spaces TV :: Discusses Digital Strangelove with David Gillespie.
uncluttered white spaces launches our TV channel white spaces TV in conjunction with Theme Media and Blip.TV.
As an extension of our online voice. We are taking the discussions on business, marketing, strategy, design and people a step further with online TV providing remarkable thought leaders and innovators with a platform to share there idea’s.
In the coming months, we [...]
Is social media really for everyone?
One of the most common issues big organizations have with social media is a reasonable fear that customers will air their grievances on a company-sponsored platform such as a blog, Twitter or Facebook page. The nearly universal response to this fear, one that has been hammered home at every conference, and in every blog post [...]
Vitamin Water’s Facebook Connect.
Vitamin Water’s latest flavour, launching in March this year, was developed and named by the brand’s Facebook fans. The black cherry and lime flavoured drink will be called ‘Connect’ and one Facebook fan, Sarah from Illinois, won $5,000 for her role in developing this new product.
The competition was interesting and unique in that it used [...]
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 fair wages.
has [...]
Why women use social networks more than men?
Recent studies have shown that women make up majority of the active Facebook users today. The numbers continue to rise as women race ahead of men in their utilization of social networks today. Why is this?
Well, women in general are very social in nature compared to men. In other words, women generally tend to enjoy [...]
Lemonade :: Creating your own life.
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More than 130,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this “Great Recession.” Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives. To learn more about the film, you can visit http://www.pleasefeedtheanimals.com/.
I was sent this video late [...]
The 5 Keys to Innovation.
uncluttered white spaces has recently embarked on a journey to discuss innovation in the format of forums with industry experts and market leaders.
With the initial innovation forum rolled out last month in Sydney, the response has drawn requests from all various industries and market leaders to tap into the forum and develop insights into innovation [...]
We are hosting an Innovation Forum in Sydney.
uncluttered white spaces is hosting an innovation forum in Sydney on Tuesday the 24th of November 2009 from 7-PM.
Come and see our panel of experts discuss INNOVATION and the future of marketing & strategy.
THE PANEL OF EXPERTS:
BEN RENNIE Founder of uncluttered white spaces
JASON POLLARD Founder of Public Design Group
LAURA [...]
“The personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies like Apple”.
The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies like Apple (or anyone else for that matter). Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh [...]