Restaurant Farma Kreaton
13-6-2012
Restaurant Farma Kreaton (Meat Farm in Greek) is recently opened next to Fabrica Kreaton restaurant located in the center of the city of Komotini (Greece ). The architecture and interior design of both spaces are by Minas Kosmidis. In the case of Farma Kreaton, graphic designer Yiannis Tokalatsidis created the minimalist, hand-drawn graphics and cut-outs of cows, chickens and the scenery of the countryside, which indicate the work done and to-be done on the farm. The food served is typical Greek meat-based.
Soccer Pizza
13-6-2012
Figures from meal service just-eat.nl shows that people order more during the big sport events. Therefore, artists created from pizza ingredients pizza’s of soccer-players of the Dutch nation team, specially for the European Championship.
Tap Water
13-6-2012
The two Dutch friends Tesuro Mivazaki and Tom Niekamp started a social action for serving tap water, in the hospitality industry by creating drinking bottles, carafes and coolers.
Unpackaged
13-6-2012
Unpackaged was founded in 2006 by Catherine Conway in the belief that there is a better way to sell products, so the customers can do the right thing, for themselves and for the environment. How it works: remember to bring your containers from home (if you forget these, you can buy reusable containers there), weigh your containers at the counter then choose the product & amount you want, take your goods home & enjoy. You can bring in the Unpackaged shop glass jars, tupperware, old takeaway cartons, brown paper bags, plastic bags, old packaging. Good for the environment and no waste in packaging.
Paying with fingerprint
12-6-2012
Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel uses all kind of modern techniques to facilitate their modern guests. August 2011 they were one of the first hotels to introduce RFID technique to facilitate easy acces to the Facebookpages of their guests. Now they have rolled out a biometric system of payments utilising PayTouch.
Natural juice bar
12-6-2012
This natural juice consists of various grass trays that can be extended. The artist Kacey Wong has developed the bar to stand in, he can mix the apples and wheat for a healthy juice.
Treehouse rooms above the vinyard
12-6-2012
German tree house maker Baumraum has crafted luxurious cocoons for the Mendoza resort Entre Cielos. The futuristic pods are designed to be surrounded by nature, located amidst the foliage of actual vineyards.
To drunk to sing = to drunk to drive
11-6-2012
To communicate a drink-driving message to some of the heaviest drinkers on St. Patrick’s Day, the karaoke lyrics of famous Irish drinking songs carried a sobering message. As karaoke always seems like a great idea to people who’ve had a few too many, the singers unwittingly spread the message, singing an SOS to call them a taxi home. Created by Saatchi & Saatchi Frankfurt, Germany.
100 % LED lights at lounge bar
11-6-2012
The ‘Rede van Dronten’ currently holds the 45th position of the Dutch café top 100. One of it’s areas has recently been renovated and transformed into ‘loungebar Tokyo’. The lights in this bar are 100% LED lights. As a result there is a significant drop in power and air-conditioning costs.
Sable fish
11-6-2012
The Sablefisch (Anoplopomatidae in Latin) or Black Cod is recently introduced in Belgium at the European Seafood Exposition. Interesting blog, about this fish, by Nick Trachet at Foodlog, unfortunately in Dutch.
