Far Coast Coffee furniture
28-2-2010
Coca Cola’s new coffee brand “Far Coast” placed these sustainably developed seats in the Olympic Village during the Olympics, to promote the new coffee brand. The chairs are made so that they can easliy be combined to multiple seats.
Beerpints made from safetyglass
27-2-2010
Design Bridge has developed two new pints, which are much safer than traditional pints. The prototypes consist of Glass Plus (left photo) and Twin Wall (right photo). Glass Plus has a thin, transparent layer of organic resin on the inside and Twin Wall consists of two ultra-thin layers of glass which are joined together, similar to glass in car windshields. Both prototypes ensure that when the glass breaks, the dangerous glass shards are held together securely.
Flat winebottle
26-2-2010
Design student from the Design Institute in Nantes, Adrien Cussonneau, designed a very original bottle. From one side it looks like a normal glass bottle, the other side of the bottle however is completely flat.
Butter grater
25-2-2010
It is often difficult to butter your sandwich with cold butter. Cookit, a French company designed a butter grater. By grating the butter thinly it is easier to butter. In addition, you use less butter which is better for your health.
Open source restaurant
24-2-2010
Restaurant Instructables opened in Amsterdam. This restaurant is a so-called “open source restaurant”. This means that of everything you eat in the restaurant, the recipe can be found on their website, as well as an instruction about how to recreate the furniture.
Online marketplace voor hotels and restaurants
23-2-2010
The site www.horecavoorhoreca.nl is a Dutch online marketplace for hotels, restaurants and catering entrepreneurs. Here anything can be offered, from inventory to ingredients.
Restaurant for sale?
21-2-2010
Restaurant Klein Paardenburg in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel caused a stir by sending a mailing with the picture above included. Many regular guests contacted the restaurant immediately to ask if the restaurant was for sale. It was a promotional stunt, in cooperation with a real estate broker offering 3 -, 4 – and 5 – course menus. The restaurant itself was ofcourse not for sale.The stunt was created by Lennert Rietveld, Van Spronsen & Partners horeca-advies.
Restaurantweek during the winter in Boston
19-2-2010
Last March in Boston a “winter” restaurantweek was organised. This restaurantweek wasn’t only meant to eat out good and cheap, one could get discount for cinema- or theatretickets as well.
Norms, social media commercial
19-2-2010
Hamburger restaurant ‘Norms’ came-up with a really nice commercial to focuse the consumers attention at Twitter and Facebook.
Co-creation at Starbucks
16-2-2010
Starbucks uses the online tool “My Starbucks idea” to improve their concept. Guests can submit ideas about the products and the concept online. Already 70,000 ideas have been submitted. Ideas that are executed, will be published on the website.