Wake up with the Morning Mug

13-1-2012

Designer Damian O’Sullivan, designed a mug that “wakes up”.
When the Morning Mug is still cold it displays a sleeping face. Once you put hot coffee or tea in the mug it slowly wakes up with a big smile. Given the fact that most people wake up grumpy, the Morning Mug helps to start their day in a cheerful way.

Dining pods

13-1-2012

The Dutch design studio Tjep, revisited several elements for the restaurant Fabbrica in Bergen.  People want more authenticity these days, so they designed cozy and elevated dining pods that transports us back to a time of forts and tree houses. See the dining pods here.

Dutch seawater sold in bottles

10-1-2012

AQUA DiViNA, a Dutch company is selling bottles of seawater, which is taken from the Oosterschelde. The water is not for consumption, but to use for the cooking of mussels, or other seafood and fish. The seawater will add the ‘real’ salty taste into different dishes. A liter of seawater costs approximately 1 euro.

Real Frog Marketing

10-1-2012

How to sell a luxurious French Restaurant to the Russian people. A direct marketing campaign to change the idea of the Russians about French Restaurant which was: overprized, small portions and frogs. 

 

Snackbox

10-1-2012

Montreal-based firms Aedifica (architecture) and muvbox have teamed up to bring ‘snackbox’, a shipping container turned modern canteen, to new york’s times square. Created for restauranteur Jonathan Morr, the movable venue sells iconic new york street food with a gourmet flair. Located on a section of broadway with no vehicular traffic but many pedestrians, Morr needed a compact structure that would fit into the limited space, yet still stand out amidst the visually saturated area. Watch here another movie about a container.

Gamma guerrilla wallpaper campaign

9-1-2012

The image of two people who are running with paste and pamphlets towards a wall is known. The DIY store Gamma has come up with a original alternative. At places where is it allowed to hang pamphlets Gamma is pasting striking wallpapers as a marketing campaign. When will the shop provide cafés with sponsored wallpaper?

Share a Bite network dinner

9-1-2012

Since November two young entrepreneurs are organizing dinners for young professionals and other entrepreneurs that want to combine a proper dinner with networking. Through the website shareabite.com it’s easy to check who the other table guests are thanks to an integration of Facebook and LinkedIn.

 

Horeca Trendgids 2012

6-1-2012

This week, the Trendgids.com (Dutch) is presented and published. Tackle opportunities, creativity, collaborate and innovation dominate this edition. Trendgids.com is a free digital magazine in which experts, including Marjolein van Spronsen (Horecatrends / Van Spronsen & Partners), give their vision on hospitality in 2012. This magazine is intended to be a source of inspiration for entrepreneurs of the industry.

Lemon spray

6-1-2012

No longer squeezing lemons. With the new design from quirky.com you can instantly spray the lemon juice from a fresh lemon. You can put the spray directly into the fruit. It’s still unknown when the product gets into production.

rEvolution the new wine drinking

5-1-2012

The Czech designer Martin Jakobsen had designed a whole new type of wineglass. The design is special because it is an laying glass. The difference with a traditional wine glass is that it has no foot. Handy because falling over is history now.

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