Sweet potato fries
This weekend I made sweet potato fries, we don’t really see these fries at the Dutch menu’s. And they taste great! So we hope some restaurantowners see my call as a challenge. ^Marjolein
This weekend I made sweet potato fries, we don’t really see these fries at the Dutch menu’s. And they taste great! So we hope some restaurantowners see my call as a challenge. ^Marjolein
Fast, healthy, full of flavor and typical Korean is the chain Bibigo. Here the guests can choose in 4 steps how they want their typical Korean bibimbap. Beautifully styled restaurants, menus, to-go packaging and clothing make it a successful formula. Curious for more trends and inspiration from always–eating Seoul? Come to the inspiration session on 31 May by food designer Marielle Borderwijk and packaging designer Nina Rosens in Utrecht (the Netherlands). You can register here.
Dinner of Hope is a new initiative of Orange Babies and ambassador Herman den Blijker. Everybody was asked to organize a dinner with family and friends at home, to raise money for Orange Babies on Friday 11 May. The motto ‘put something beautiful on the table’ refers to a beautiful set table but also to the relationship with others. It is a Dutch initiative only.
Dinner of Hope is a new initiative of Orange Babies and ambassador Herman den Blijker. Everybody was asked to organize a dinner with family and friends at home, to raise money for Orange Babies on Friday 11 May. The motto ‘put something beautiful on the table’ refers to a beautiful set table but also to the relationship with others. It is a Dutch initiative only.
This laser cut seaweed is developed by international ad agency I&S BBDO for the umino laser seaweed shop. There are 5 designs: ‘sakura’ (‘cherry blossoms’), ‘mizutama’ (‘water drops’), ‘asanoha’ (‘hemp’), ‘kikkou’ (‘turtle shell’) and ‘kumikkou’ (‘tortoise shell’). Based on the elements of the Japanese history and Japanese symbols.
Made by artist and ‘meat-worker’ Henning Hüttner, the AIR-METT 90. The shoe was introduced at the Release-Party of the second issue of the ‘Sneaker Freaker magazine’ at TheGoodWillOut Sneakerstore in Cologne.
At the Design fair in Milan, Heineken placed the crowd-sourced night club concept. This yearlong design exploration project, is created through the progressive minds of 19 emerging designers from across the globe, resulted in a prototype of a futuristic night club. Interesting to read about the six key areas (connecting, getting a drink, discovering, dancing, cooling down and ending the night).
OOIIO Architecture designed an open space on the lower level of a new hotel in Reykjavik that can be used as a theater, including restaurants, shops and the hotel lobby facing it. From there, people can take an escalator up to the public sculptural hotel roof, where they can enjoy a panoramic view. Take a look at the website of Designboom to discover the design.
Great promotional campaign of Ikea for their bathroom articles at the Salone Internationale del Mobile in Milan.
(advertorial) Wonderboard created by the Dutch company Milin, is a hygienic wall and ceiling solution and HACCP proof. The wonderboard is shown at the Foodtech 2012 in Rosmalen (The Netherlands).
Kono Pizza sells pizza cone’s already for a couple of years. We did spot them year’s ago. In the meantime the company is selling them in 16 countries. So the cones are growing to be popular.
‘Blueseed’ is co-founded by Max Marti, Dario Mutabdzija and lead by Peter Thiel. The floating city will be located in international waters of the Silicon Valley and is especially designed for starting entrepreneurs. The Blueseed project offers living space, work space and entertaiment facilities to foreign start-ups. The goal is that the Blue Seed opens in the 3rd quarter of 2013. Click here for the video about Blueseed.
No more regular showers on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil this summer. The Coca-Cola company came with the ‘Sprite Shower’, luckily the shower is of pure water and not Sprite.
A recipe of Dr. Oetker and a nice idea for Mother’s Day. A cupcake with a bunch of flowers. The recipe is only available in Dutch.
The Japanese – Portuguese couple Ryosuke Fuksada and Rui Pereira came up with to an edible furniture maker ‘Furniture Tasting’. Inspired by the contemporary furniture this old-fashioned waffle maker converted. Enjoy your furniture, bon appetite.