Rest on a honey farm

7-3-2012

The New York company Chandelier Creative created Surf Shack in Montaux. This is a weekend destination, exclusive for employees, clients and friends, to relax and to get inspired. Also, they cultivate special honey, which are created and packaged by employees, and serves as a gift to the weekend-guests.

The Story of Sushi

6-3-2012

The Story of Sushi is a short movie created for Bamboo Sushi restaurant in Portland. It is about sustainability and overfishing and the restaurants philosophy on this. Watch the movie!

Panic room

6-3-2012

Tilt, an international known graffiti artist, designed a hotelroom for The Au Veaux hotel in France. With help of his friends Tober, Grizz, and Don Cho he designed half of the room with graffiti. The other side of the room they left blank to emphasize the ‘chaos’. It took one week before the room was finished.

Bread made out of sea water

6-3-2012

Dutch Baker Marcel Spelt made bread from Oosterscheldewater (estuary in the Netherlands). He introduced it at the “horecabeurs Goes”. “Bread of the Sea” tastes salty and contains 30% less salt than ordinary salted bread.

Bluetube Bar

6-3-2012

The Bluetube Bar is designed by Portuguese architects office DOSE and is meant for temporary festivals in Portugal. The bar is made of blue tubes which gives a colorful effect.

Cup bookcase

6-3-2012

This bookcase with the shape of cups is designed by Wood Curve. The cups are constructed to have depth, making it seem like they are cupped in eachother. The bookcase is for sale at Etsy.

Lasagna cups

5-3-2012

This cute lasagna cups are made of the same ingredients as a ‘regular’ lasagne. Check the website of Lauren’s Latest for the recipe. A nice idea for example for small eateries. A different way of serving dishes!

Cupcake machine

5-3-2012

Sprinkles Cupcakes (worlds first cupcake bakery) is planning to open a cupcake machine in Beverly Hills. The machine provides fresh cupcakes with a choice of different cupcake mix and sprinkles 24-hours a day. The owner Candace Nelson also plans to open a Spinkles Ice Cream store.

The interior of a Starbucks in Japan

5-3-2012

Architect Kengo Kuma redesigned the interior of a Starbucks store in Japan, that gives customers the feeling that they are surrounded by trees.

Too Good to Waste extends shelftime

2-3-2012

The winner of the Battle of the Cheetahs on the first of March is the ‘Too Good to Waste’ team. The team stimulates food producers to use almost expired fruits and vegetables from supermarkets. Food producers use this ‘waste’ to make juices and soup and extend shelf time after the transformation. Supermarkets don’t have to pay for their waste and the food producers are provided with cheap resources. Both can profile themselves as waste friendly.

Package design by Janneke Hoeben

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