Times Square to become open air museum
19-2-2011
A group of Dutch designers and art lovers launched an initiative to turn Times Square into Art Square. For one day, they want to replace all advertisements on billboards by the art from the world’s most famous museums. The project should be financed by crowd funding, and achieved in 2012.
Drink responsible
18-2-2011
The Bottle is a smart arlternative for plastic bottles. Water you drink from this bottle is purified by an ingenious carbonfilter. Through this filter chlorine, lime and organic bacteria will disappear from the water. The Bobble is available at € 11.95 at the Bijenkorf and Schiphol Amsterdam Airport.
Don’t just eat your dinner, wear it!
15-2-2011
At restaurant Marlow & Sons in New York, guests can purchase bags, purses and clothing made from the animals they have just eaten. So, bags of leather and garments of wool and rabbit fur.
Pop up apartment
14-2-2011
Due to a design contest in London, visitors of the city can now sleep on the roof of the Southbank Centre. Guests can sleep in a temporary one-bedroom apartment. The winning design was created by David Kohn Architects.
Fast Food Fail
13-2-2011
Ever wondered why fast food restaurants get away with misleading advertisements? The website Media Dumb collected all advertisement photo’s and actual photo’s. Very amusing and hilarious!
Heartshaped cucumber
13-2-2011
Especially for Valentine’s day, The British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s launches a heart-shaped cucumber.
A floating and mobile hotel
12-2-2011
To make a Norwegian village more attractive for tourists, an international contest was set up. The Swedish architect company Jägnefält Milton came up with the idea to use the existing railway for riding hotelrooms. The rooms do float as well and can be stacked.
What happens when? project
11-2-2011
A 9 month lasting crowdfunded and crowdsourced project in a restaurant in New York. Each month the restaurant will be runed by a different group of people. After 9 months the restaurant will be demolished.
A rare handwritten cooking book of the 17th century
10-2-2011
De Library of Heritage in Antwerp, Belgium, has published a handwritten cooking book from the 17th century online.
Sleeping in a huge bird’s nest
10-2-2011
Designed for larger rooms, but this huge bird’s nest seems a great bed for kids.