Black spiced rum

25-1-2012

The Kraken made a black spiced rum. The rum is distilled on the Virgin Islands and fermented with natural sweet sugar. For their tv commercial they used the rum, the bottle and the legend of Kraken. Watch the movie to see the result.

Who grabs the phone pays dinner

25-1-2012

The California hip-hop dancer Brian Perez (25) devised a game to end the facebooking, tweeting and telephone calls in a restaurant. His bet: a game called “Do not Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends”. The rules are very simple. The game starts after everyone has ordered. Then everyone puts the phone down with the display on the table and the first one that picks up the phone has to pay the entire bill.  

 

Handpresso

25-1-2012

Handpresso designed a portable espresso machine which helps you to enjoy a premium quality coffee indoor as well as outdoor. With a bicycle pomp look-a-like the pressure can be pumped to 16 bar. Watch the video for the instructions.  

Keep Valentine’s day in mind

25-1-2012

Valentine’s day 2012 is approaching, so Marjolein van Spronsen has highlighted a few potential incentives. Check the inspirational article for café, restaurant, hotel and citymarketing via Google Translate

Romantic bottle of wine

24-1-2012

Design studio Calcco designed for a fictional person called Marques de Burgos a romantic bottle of wine. The design of this bottle reflects the character of this person, which is romantic and adventurous. See the bottle here.

Eco-friendly cardbord can

24-1-2012

The German company Keienburg GmbH developed an eco-friendly cardbord packaging for carbonated drinks. It allows both a greener and cheaper production process and benefit consumers with a beverage which stays cool for a longer period.

Crowd Craft project

24-1-2012

The Samuel Adams brewers are teaming up with social media guru Guy Kawasaki to crowdsource a new beer through Facebook. The “Crowd Craft” project uses an app that invites fans to help determine all of the different aspects of the collaborative brew.

Fada Verde absinth soft drink

20-1-2012

Throughout the years absinth has developed a mythological status. The producers of Fada Verde keep the myth alive by creating an absinth soft drink. The name of the product is based on the the myth and refers to the appearance of a ‘green fairy’ while drinking absinth. Fada Verde contains an absinth extract and is alcohol-free. After Austria and Swiss it’s now available in the Netherlands as well. See the Fada Verde Absinth here.

 

Primary school opened their own shop

19-1-2012

Children from a primary school in the Dutch village Berkel en Rodenrijs opened their own shop, the ‘Leerwinkel’ In this shop they sell different biological and home-made products. In this way they can learn all the different aspects of running a ‘real’ business.

Expensive tea grown in panda muck

19-1-2012

A Chinese entrepreneur An Yanshi quitted his job to produce world’s most expensive tea. The tea plant will grow in panda muck which he bought from a panda breeding centre. The tea will cost around 35.000 dollar per 500 grams. Despite the tea is yet untested he is thinking of expanding.

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