Creative with chocolate

15-3-2012

Create your own QR-code of chocolate, and leave a message. Watch the movie for the instructions.

Give twitter back to the birds

14-3-2012

A good example of a simple video that is a hit on the internet. Watch how Latvia (magazine) gives Twitter back tot the birds.

Foie Gras Hot Dog

13-3-2012

A nice example of twitter for restaurants. Ryan Sutton, the NYC food critic for Bloomberg news, posted a photo from a small part of the menu of restaurant The Dutch in NY. As far as we could find The Dutch aren’t present on twitter so perhaps they find out that their dish, foie gras hot dog, is used as inspiration via Horecatrends ;-).

Inspiration for Easter

12-3-2012

Cadbury UK designed a giant Easter egg for this upcoming Easter. The egg was placed at The Covent Garden.

Ben & Jerry’s Join Our Core

12-3-2012

Ben & Jerry’s are looking for young entrepreneurs with briliant, sustainable ideas.  With the game ‘Join Our Core’, the best idea wins $ 10,000! The game is called after their new ice-range The Core and the game is played in a few countries.

Baby Cinema

8-3-2012

The smallest cinema in Amsterdam, De Uitkijk on the Prinsengracht,  was dominated last Friday to parents with babies under 1 year old. On tables in the lobby one could find pacifiers and spit cloths hung on the cinema seats. It was the first edition of Baby Bios. The Baby Bios has already been seen  in other countries.

Self-sufficient farm-restaurant-hotel-amusementpark

8-3-2012

Guest speaker at the Battle of the Cheetahs , Oogst 1000 Wonderland is a design for a self-sufficient farm, restaurant, hotel and amusement park for 1,000 people per day. Food for the restaurant comes from the central structure and directly adjacent fields. They combine fun with usefulness. Hotel guests are also the farmers, when you work, you can stay for free. Oogst 1000 does also has the worlds first toilets that are linked to a bio-gas energy system and were you actually get paid € 0.50 per visit.

Virtual supermarket in Sydney

7-3-2012

Supermarket Woolworths turned the walls of Town Hall Station in Sydney into a virtual supermarket. Through the Woolworths app customers can place an order with a choice of over 120 products. Woolworths delivers de order for free at your home. Watch the video!

McDonald’s Paris interactive cube

5-3-2012

McDonalds placed a 5 meter high cube in the centre of Paris. People could shoot and upload pictures, with the funny result that people saw their heads on different bodies. Watch the video!

Talk yourself into a restaurant

5-3-2012

Students in the Netherlands can ask their parents in a funny way out for dinner by sending an e-card of Culinairewinstpakker. The students can eat for free when they bring their parents. At the moment it’s only available for the four biggest student cities Delft, The Hague, Leiden and Rotterdam.

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