Does it often happens that you are drinking something in a pub and your friends only pay attention to their phone? A bar in Brazil has found a solution for that problem: ‘The Offline Glass’. This beer glass can only stand up straight when balanced on a mobile phone. You so have to put your phone down to keep your beer glass standing.
Last year we posted a video about the Hot Tub Cinema on our website. Meanwhile we got these beautiful pictures that we don’t want to hold back from you. The Hot Tub Cinema is a combination of hot tubs and great films on special locations. Hire a hot tub with your friends or buy a single ticket and share the hot tub with strangers.
IBM has designed special innovative billboards to promote its ‘Smart Cities Program’ in partnership with Ogilvy & Mather France. These billboards do not only have an informative function but function as useful surfaces as well. The billboards can be used as a bench, a shelter from the rain or a ramp over stairs. The aim of the project is to encourage smarter thinking when it comes to the development of ‘solutions’ for the city.
The ‘Variation in the kitchen’ foundation stimulates consumers, restaurants and caterers to cook healthy, sustainable and creative without meat or fish. This year the foundation organizes the competition ‘Variation Chef of the year’ for the third time. The foundation is looking for the chef that prepares the best vegetarian dish of 2013. Per region a winner will be chosen during the five regional qualifying rounds and the final winner will be chosen at restaurant Librije’s Atelier on October 16. The ‘Variation Chef of the year’ wins an internship at the 100% vegetarian restaurant Joia in Milan.
A nice gimmick for vacant shop-premises! German artist Niklas Roy developed the Public Painting Machine in collaboration with Kati Hyyppä. The Public Painting Machine was placed in vacant shop-premises in Poland. People on the street could pull the ropes to create an artwork. This pop-up art store causes a lot of fun and bustle in the shopping street.
The Gourmet Bus in Barcelona combines a sightseeing tour with a haute-cuisine lunch or dinner. This combination makes the bus with modern interior and a panoramic roof unique. The Gourmet Bus offers a sightseeing tour through Barcelona along the main attractions. The guests will be provided with an iPad containing additional information (in eleven languages) and pictures. The bus has a top deck with 30 seats and the lower deck features the kitchen, toilets and an extra table. During the tour the guests will get a lunch or dinner served by the famous Spanish restaurateur Carles Gaig.
‘Waternet’ organizes activities on the water in Amsterdam to ask the attention for the importance of clean water in the canals. During Queens day the ‘Emergency Boot’ with toilets was launched. This boot prevented that people would pee in the canals or on the street. Three islands with toilets floated at the center of the water. Useful during the watersport season or when there are events on the water!
‘Waternet’ will do an activation on the canals to launch the ‘canal website’ on Saturday June 15. A photo boat of ‘Waternet’ floats around in the Amstel River in Amsterdam and takes photos of people with their boat. The pictures can be found on the ‘canal website’ and the most popular photo will be enlarged on canvas. The canal website contains tips, experiences, photos but also information about terraces and water events.
A nice and simple Father’s day action of hotel Taj West End Bangalore, India. Followers can share one of their dad’s favorite sayings and quote them with #MyDadAlwaysSays on Twitter. The best quote will win a father’s day lunch in the restaurant.
A bottle of Corona with a slice of the moon? Corona and advertising Carmer-Krasselt have made a large billboard in New York City, where on certain nights in the month the crescent moon look like a slice of lime in a Corona bottle. Great campaign!
The ‘Pilot store’ opened last April at shopping mall Hoog Catharijne Utrecht. The ‘Pilot store’ is a temporary store where consumers can test products. When consumers order a sandwich they are asked to participate in a taste test. If they cooperate, they will get their sandwich for a reduced rate. Consumers aren’t required to cooperate with the test. Based on the results, the producer will improve the tested products before they will be available in the supermarket. Consumers can influence the products that will be available in the supermarket. The store will be open until July 13.
It happens to everyone.. you are too late because you were stuck in traffic. A new app that can prevent you from being too late. The ‘NeverLate’ app sends you a message, when you should leave for your appointment. The app has access to your agenda and calculates road constructions, accidents and any other unforeseen aspects to estimate the travel time.
Domino’s pizza is testing to deliver pizza’s via a helicopter drone ‘DomiCopter’. The ‘DomiCopter’ delivers the pizza in a heat wave bag to keep the pizza hot. The drone can travel hundreds of meters without refueling and is environmentally friendly. The ‘DomiCopter’ is created by drone specialist AeroSight, Big Communications and T+Biscuits. The ‘DomiCopter’ is a prototype but might be used more in the future.
Ice cream shop ‘eyescream and friends’ serves ice creams in a funny and visually appealing way. The ice cream (available in seven flavors) is served in a tray with two containers for toppings, like cookies, jams, chocolate sauce and caramel. Two sugar candy eyes are added for a creative twist and to bring the ice cream alive. There are pictures of little funny dolls to reflect the ice cream flavors. These characteristic ice creams are fun for children! The first ice cream shop was opened in Barcelona in September 2012 by Joad Lopez and Federico Mendoza.
Café ‘The Ground of Alexandria’ is located in an old pie factory from the early 1900’s in Sydney. ‘The Ground of Alexandria’ has a coffee research center and a garden with vegetables, fruit and herbs. In the coffee research center they experiment with different roasting profiles and techniques based on individual types of coffee and beans. Several classes are organized for people of all ages to learn more about the journey of coffee and food from seed to plate. A bakery is located in the café where they make fresh bread and sweet pastries every day. The café has an extensive coffee menu and serves a rustic menu of sustainable ingredients, mainly from their own garden. ‘The Ground of Alexandria’ is nominated for the ‘Restaurant and bar design award’.
On June 16 it is Father’s Day again. The steakhouse ‘Midtown Grill’ of the Marriott Hotel in Amsterdam organizes a nice photo shoot. Fathers with sons can take a picture in cooking clothes, surrounded by cooking utensils in the kitchen of Midtown Grill. They will pose with the famous dish of the restaurant, the sea salt grilled T-bone steak of 3.5 pounds. After the shoot they can eat the dish together.
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Mark Zamble created something special. Deep fried snacks filled with beer! The snacks are made from pretzel dough and are then filled with beer.
Sometimes it is oh so easy to create the ultimate feeling of hospitality. 4 people in one room, why don’t you give them 5 large towels!
A roof terrace on top of a design hotel in East Berlin. Sofas are more expected in a city like Marrakech than up here in the north. Caransa hotel has a kind of roof (at the entrance), just like the Mövenpick Hotel in Amsterdam. It remains a special place, usually with a nice view.
Starting out as a paint manufacturer, Pantone now owns a hotel in Brussels. The design of the hotel is clearly based on the color chart of the paint manufacturer.
At Hotel Seven in Paris the furniture in the room floats.They also made extensive use of perspex. Besides the 28 rooms the hotel has seven themed suites inspired by 007, Alice in Wonderland and Marie Antionette.
Crowded Ink gives you the opportunity to put all your online friends on a mug.
Ilgar Rustamov has teamed up with Nespresso for a very sporty version of the popular espresso machines!
On the three-day event Coca Cola Village in Israel, visitors wear RFID wristbands that are linked to their Facebook account. When they come out of a ride and they liked it the keep the bracelet in front of the ‘Like-box’ which automatically puts the message on Facebook.
Google is about to place phonebooths in America at various universities and airports. Through Google Voice, the VoIP service by Google, people can call for free for 20 minutes. However, phonecalls to other countries are likely to be more expensive.
The old airport Bobingen in Stuttgart, Germany was recently converted into a hotel. The special thing about this hotel is that the beds are made from old classic cars. So you can sleep in a beetle, a Mercedes-Benz car wash or a 70’s Cadillac Drive-in theater. The old control tower is now a 3-storey suite.
In Littlehampton, artists from Studio Weave created an artistic bench. The bench is 324 meters long and can accommodate up to 300 people. The bench is composed of tropical hardwood, waste material and steel bars. Under a bronze canopy, they made a true a spectacle. There are plans to extend the bench to 621 meters.
The LM Hawaii is designed as an environmentally friendly way to go to the beach. With two seats and two pitches you can drive to the beach in an eco-friendly manner. The car is powered by 4 electric motors.
Willem & Drees sell fruit and vegetables directly from farmers to supermarkets. If they still have fruit or vegetables left they sell them at pop-up fruit stalls. By using a pop-up stall, Willem & Drees want people to get acquainted with products directly from the land. The launch will take place during KunsthalKOOKT on September 9th .
During the two day event “ZüriFäscht” in Zurich, Zwitserland, the center of the city is a pedestrian area. McDonald’s has come up with a nice and simple ad.
With the “Bufalino” camper by designer Cornelius Commans, you are able to travel super efficiently. The small motorhome offers all the basic facilities in a small scooter.
This autumn Donald Trump launches his own tea brand! The tea is named after of Trump’s favorite places, like Park Avenue (white tea with orange and raspberry).
With the CanCooker you can easily make steamed dishes for large groups. Specially designed for outdoor use.
Only available in the Burger King Whopper Bar on Times Square: The ‘New York Pizza Burger’. Counting 2,520 calories it’s not very healthy, but fortunately you can share it with your friends.
Do you want a delicious cheeseburger smoothie? Or doesn’t that sound like a very good idea? Smoothie chain Jamba Juice in the U.S. goes into battle with fast food chains that also sell smoothies. Apparently fast food chains selling smoothies is just as strange an idea, as juice companies selling cheeseburger smoothies. The viral was a success: within weeks the film was viewed 341,000 times.
Regional Restaurant ‘The Hofkaemer’ in Bergeijk, The Netherlands offers a placemat to all the guest indicating all the local suppliers. To make clear that they use local products.
At the ice cream parlor of restaurant ‘De Tolkamer’, The Netherlands you get a delicious ice cream with your coffee. That’s how it should be!
4Food! opens on September 7th in New York This company will serve healthy ‘de-junked’ food.
A personal dinner in natural surroundings, that is what ‘Bus en Meer’ offers. You will be picked up in an old fashioned VW van and a table and dinner will be arranged on location.
Although reported before, it remains a welcoming gesture to make your own choice of pastries when having coffee. At Restaurant Le Phebus you can pick your choice from a trolley with excessive choice of several kinds of cookies, lollipops and ice cream. No more small plates with cookies, half of which you don’t eat or know if it is touched before or not.
During a special event (in 2009) Restaurant Lounge in Frankfurt served popsicles shaped like pistols. Created by the German designers Florian Jenett and Valentin Beinroth. The popsicle was available in the flavors, cherry, licorice, cola and cassis. The designers clearly have a thing with popsicles and pistols. In 2003, they hung up about 50 of them right in the center of Frankfurt. A great idea for dessert at a “who did it?” diner.
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