Volkswagen makes portrait of Dutch ‘oldest bakery

6-4-2012

Wim Hartog (88 years old)  become the Dutch ‘oldest bakery’. To honor Wim, Volkswagen made this beautiful portrait of the baker and his passion for the company for their 65-handyman campaign.

Restaurant Day

5-4-2012

Restaurant Day is a day where anyone can set up a restaurant, café or bar. It can be anywhere, like at your home, at the office or on a street corner! The next Restaurant Day is planned on the 19th of May.

Pinterest campaign by Kotex

5-4-2012

Kotex released worlds first Pinterest campaign where they found 50 influential women on Pinterest and sent each one of them a personalized gift, based on their interests and passions. These gifts drove social commentary across Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Chocolate scented business card

5-4-2012

Choko La (chocolate chain in Delhi) designed chocolate scented business cards. The scent describes the company.

Replacement of the iPhone?

5-4-2012

“Google’s Project Glass ” is a ‘wearable computing device’, in this case glasses, which projects information directly on your vision. The glasses are controlable by voice commandos. Watch the movie to have a look in the future, where meetings with friends are made, how a route is mapped out and explored and how a view is shared with friends, all by voice.

Scanners recognizes products

5-4-2012

Toshiba Tec created the Object Recognition Scanner which reads items without the use of barcodes. The scanner is still in development, but can be seen as the end of the barcodes like we know them.

Martin Creed unveils restaurant at Sketch

4-4-2012

Martin Creed was given a completely open brief to design the Sketch restaurant in London. The only note was that it could function as a restaurant. He used 96 different types of marble and all objects in the restaurant, from cuttlery, tables, chairs to glassware are different. The Master Chef Pierre Gagnaire makes the experience complete by cooking visually dishes, therefore art and food go hand in hand at Sketch.

Frozen beer foam

4-4-2012

The Kirin brewery has lauched Ichiban Shibori’ with frozen beerfoam. The foam is edible like a sorbet and doesn’t make the beer watery.

Magnum Pleasure Hunt 2

4-4-2012

Magnum continues it’s Pleasure Hunt succes with a sequel. Brands like Bing and KLM are visible in the interactive game as well as the Fasano Hotel in Rio de Janeiro receives an extra (sixth) star by the main character. Play the Pleasure Hunt here here.

The Dutch club

3-4-2012

How is the club scene doing in the Netherlands? Watch the movie (in Dutch).

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