Cheese Barbeclette

27-6-2011

Cheese lovers pay attention, with the Barbeclette it’s now possible to put cheese on the barbecue. Ideal for a cheeseburger or in addition to your vegetables.

Tasty iPhone cases

27-6-2011

If you like Japanese food, these covers are a must have. iMeshi has imitated various dished for the iPhone 4 and Xperia X10. The plastic protection covers will be noticed!

Swimming in the Hudson river

24-6-2011

Three inhabitants from New York took the initiative to get a swimming pool in the Hudson river. The ‘+Pool’ is for every New Yorker and combines different uses of a swimming pool. The concept of a swimming pool isn’t new. Last year swimming pool ‘Bad Buiten’ opened in the Amstel river (Amsterdam). The unique feature about the +Pool, is that the initiators want to filter the water from the Hudson river itself and are going to finance the project by crowdfunding.

Creative recipe

24-6-2011

The creatives from Berg Design transform the standard recipe into a piece of experience(marketing). By combining various information of the bought products with available data, they put for instance the total amount of Calories, the average rate of circulation and other information on the bill. The (personalization) possibilities are limitless.

From the archive: Random act of kindness (2009)

24-6-2011

In 2009 we informed you about unexpected friendly gestures from the Hyatt hotel group to their visitors. They gave away free massages, offered breakfast on their cost or guests didn’t had to pay for the bar tab. Nowadays companies like KLM continue these acts of generosity. With the steady growth and prominent position of social media in our lives these unexpected gestures are a strong stimulans for positive mouth-to-mouth or ‘mouth-to-media’ advertising.

Alice in Tokyo

24-6-2011

Japanese design studio Fantastic Design Works created fairytale interior of Alice in Wonderland restaurant inspired by the Lewis Carroll classic. Restaurant features several different “rooms” and each of them is an imaginative combination of psychedelic decorations, dramatic designs and waitresses dressed in Alice costumes. Watch the pictures at websites mentioned below. The restaurant can be found at www.diamond-dining.com.

Candyland a sweet nightclub in Tokyo

23-6-2011

Candyland a new Nightclub in Tokyo is located on Avenue Omontesando in the district of Shibuya. An area with a high density of restaurants and luxury shops. Realized by the American architect and designer Tiffany Dahlen Virginia Melnyk and inspired by the colorful candy and other sweets, discover all the details on the websites mentioned below.

The TableSol

23-6-2011

The weather is going to be great in the Netherlands this weekend. Time for the TableSol. The tablesol protects your drink from the sun. The cap can be adjusted to different designs and logos.

Characteristic taste with STOYN Ice Cream

23-6-2011

STOYN Ice Cream is an unique design experiment that brought together 10 of the most iconic figures in world culture and embodied their images into ice cream. For example: Donald Duck, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse and Mario – their strength, character and talent were materializes in organic tastes of ice cream STOYN, for example mate with rum (Che Guevara) – every taste reflects the role of these individuals in the global culture.

Happy Drinks alcohol free cocktails with a kick

22-6-2011

The bar concept of Happy Drinks is initiated by Pierre Wind and the Trimbos institute. There are various recipes for alcohol free cocktails on the website of happydrinks.nl, categorized in ‘Strength’, ‘Social’, ‘Love’ and ‘Strange’. The inspiration for this initiative came after the many cases of binge drinking and the scarse offer of alcohol free drinks in the hospitality and leisure industry.

Twisttable easy pop up bar table

22-6-2011

Made of cardboard and completely foldable. The Twisttable is the ideal bar table for entrepeneurs that wants to be environmental friendly. The tables are durable, stable and cheaper to transport than regular tables.

Weineken beer pill

22-6-2011

Have you had enough of the peer pressure to drink wine instead of a nice beer? Meet the Weineken pil that transforms a beer visually into a Chardonnay or red wine. Nice commercial with a wink from Evil Media Empire.

Open air Hotel to celebrate shortest night

21-6-2011

To celebrate the shortest night of the year, the OpenluchtHotel (Open Air Hotel) will be organized for the second time during the night of the 21st of June in Leiden (Netherlands). The city will be transformed to the largest hotel in the world. About 130 guests will have the oppertunity to sleep under the sky filled with stars, on special and monumental locations, which are disigned by artists. Before bedtime a cultural evening program will take place.

 

Funny coffee-designs

21-6-2011

This funny coffee-designs are created by Quantum Graphics for the Interpack 2011 Exhibition, which took place in Dusseldorf last May.

Pasta Wrap

21-6-2011

The American chain of Italian restaurants, Fazoli’s, developed a pasta wrap. This populair item is now filled with pasta. This product is still in a test fase, which ends on the end of July, and is available in 5 of the 250 restaurants.

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