The Sweetest Ride
22 May 2013 Leave a Comment
in brands, Coolhunt Tags: advertising, Branding Strategy, Candy Cab, New York City, Random Act of Kindness, Taxi Ride, Yellow Cab
Love Hurts | First aid kit for a broken heart
19 May 2013 2 Comments
in Design Tags: Broken Heart, creative concept, design, First Aid Kit, Love, Melanie Chernock, Mental health, Packaging Design, Product Design
Supermarkt Proposal | Beyond Basic by NL Architects
17 May 2013 1 Comment
in living Tags: architecture, China, Future of Superarkets, Green Environment, living, NL Architects, Roof Space, Sanaya Lane Park, Supermarkt Architecture, Sustainable Concept
Supermarkets, we go there to do our groceries, in some countries we can even buy make up and clothing but it is al very basic. Most of the time or actually almost always, it doesn’t really look attractive and it would be weird to talk about “architecture“. Amsterdam’s architect agency NL Architects is developing a new kind of supermarket. A supermarket that goes beyond its basic function. The architects are creating a green roof with a rice padded construction by sinking down the supermarket itself to a lower level. This supermarket will be constructed in Sanaya Lane Park in China.
It is totally cool to be a wallflower
04 May 2013 1 Comment
in Coolhunt, living Tags: Bio Scientist, city nature balance, Flowers in walls, Home Decoration, Ignacio Segura Perez, living, sustainability, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Living paint, flowers on the wall. An awesome way to give the city streets some colour. Scientist based in Barcelona are working on a way to make it possible to grow flowers on concrete walls. Ignacio Segura Perez is one of the supervisors on this project. How it works:
“The team carbonates conventional concrete to make it more receptive to plant growth: by keeping it in a humidity-controlled chamber, they can bring its alkalinity down to a level similar to that of water. A normal concrete layer is overlaid with a waterproofing layer, followed by the biological concrete.”
Fat invaders
03 May 2013 Leave a Comment
in Art Tags: Art, Fastfood Society, Linda Hubbard, Progaganda, Sculpture
These fat invaders are made of 100% pure beef fat. Made by artist: Linda Hubbard
What she says about herself:
PROPAGANDA No artist statement from me……..Bullshit stinks……..
Under the picture she says: “WARNING not for human consumption. Folk’s there is always KFC Or a Big Mac.”
With this art she is giving critics on the greedy society. It is a nice symbolys, because this fatsociety we are living i, is really invading our future. Not only in terms of health but also the financial consequences we have to pay for.
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The city from another point of view; Slum tourism
01 May 2013 Leave a Comment
in leisure Tags: Coolhunt, experience economy, Homless Guides, leisure, Los Angeles, Realitytourism, Slumtourism, traveling
Crossing the streets of Los Angeles with a gangster, eating from bins with a homeless guy in Prague. It is a new hype in tourism; reality-tourism.
I am not talking about normal tour guides, the one you will recognize by her umbrella, or the earplugs you will have to wear to translate what she is saying. I am talking about slum tourism. The guides I am talking about are homeless people. The guides can tell everything about the neighbourhood and the way they have lived there for years. He will probably show you the bridges under which he has slept and the places where he normally looks for food. You can ask them al kinds of questions, they don’t care and are not ashamed to answer intimate questions. It are not only homeless people, you can also do a tour with a former member of a gang. They will show places were fights or shootings have taken place.
Eyescream – Branding
04 Apr 2013 2 Comments
in brands, Design, Food Tags: branding, Branding Strategy, creative design, Eyescream, Food concept, ice cream, Interior Design, m Barcelona, Packacing Design, Taiwanese Ice cream, Visual Branding
It all started off with a very ugly Taiwanese ice cream. The taste was good, but no one would ever buy something ugly like that. That is why design agency
m Barcelona came up with a new concept for this type of ice cream. To start, they separated the ingredients of the original Taiwanese ice cream. The shaved ice cream, the sauce and the topping, after that they decided to put some sugar eyes on top of the icecream to give it a personality. From there, the name was pretty soon defined: Eyescream.
The agency designed the interior of the store and the packaging of the ice cream. The packaging consists of a tray that will fit the ice cream container and two sauce containers. Regarding to the location they decided to make it a self-service store.
Bloglovin
03 Apr 2013 4 Comments
in About Tags: About, Bloglovin, Follow, Rabbitshapedclouds
Hey Guys,
A very long time ago, I changed my URL from wordpress.rabbitshapedclouds.com to rabbitshapedclouds.com
Apparently bloglovin doens’t move automatically my account with this changes, but makes a new account.
As you can see, the icon is now linked to the right account.
So if you like me, follow me here!
De Tostifabriek – Passionate City Farmers
12 Feb 2013 Leave a Comment
in Food Tags: Amsterdam, Cityfarmers, de tostifabriek, Foodprocess, Transparancy foodchain, Urban farming
Is making a tosti* as easy as it seems? Nowadays most people who live in city’s are cut from the food process. We don’t know how our food is made, because we just buy most of our groceries at the supermarket. De Tostifabriek, is a concept that wants to explore how hard or easy it is to make a real tosti. They are taking control of the food process. Bread, cheese and the ham. To make all the ingredients, they are going to build a real farm. It will take 7 months for the grain to grow and in the meantime they are milking the cows and caring for the pigs.
The “factory” will be build in the center of Amsterdam. People from the city can see the process of making the tosti by making a visit to the factory. In this way they want to rebuild the connection between urbanites and food. I think there are a lot people who are thinking about the origin of their food, but there is still a majority who really is cut of the food chain and don’t really know where their food comes from and how it’s made. This is a good initiative to bring this whole process to one place and give transparency on their own food chain.
*(toast ham and cheese)
Movie (Dutch)
Source: Tostifabriek
SHINE
28 Jan 2013 Leave a Comment
SHINE is a collaborative film project produced by BIZNIK.com, an online networking community for micro business owners and solopreneurs. The project began on May 6, 2009 when 12 video crews and over 400 entrepreneurs gathered in Seattle’s largest film production studio to share why they work long hours, for low pay, facing great uncertainty.
The film combines compelling stories from the event, and interviews with academics, celebrated researchers (like Scott Shane author of Illusions of Entrepreneurship), and entrepreneurial superlatives (like Bruce Livingstone, founder of iStockphoto, acquired by Getty Images for $50M).
