Monthly Archives: April 2009

Forget About Business Cards, This is E

A friend of mine is working on the newest relevation in the world of social networking: E. E enables you to collect your accounts – on…

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Online Local Food Markets

On a local scale, social software supports trading within a community. An example is VeggieTrader, the online marketplace for backyard food. We blogged about that last…

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Inflatable Experiences

In our series reporting about amazing inflatable spaces we found, this project at the Libarynth research site of our friend Cocky Eek, is called…

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Satellite Typography

Through Google Earth a new perspective on the urban form has been revealed. This development implies a new design issue for architects and urbanists, considering roof tops and…

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VLNR’s Capsule Hotel

Some time ago we invited Denis Oudendijk and Jan Korbes of mobile architecture firm VLNR to give a presentation at our Pecha Kucha Night

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Things Get Micro

Previously we wrote about different initiatives which fit perfectly into the trend of micro-business, like Wonga‘s instant mini-loans and VeggieTrader, the marketplace for backyard farmers. Trendwatching.com refers to the closely…

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Free Book: Emotional Cartography

Artist, designer and educator Christian Nold recently launched a free book in which he has brough together a collection of essays from artists, designers, psychogeographers, cultural…

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Wonderful Inflatables

Some time ago I stumbled upon the work of some great offices who dedicate their energy to producing fine temporary inflatable spaces. Lately we wrote about…

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Upload Cinema Amsterdam

The contemporary web creates opportunities for for new types of content produced in completely different settings and styles. Every Internet user has the ability to make good stuff…

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Why Are That Many Logos Blue?

Rotterdam-based agency Bikker came up with a nice piece of visualisation: the ‘Logo Projector’, which is a nice tool that reflects the colour position…

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VeggieTrader: Marketplace for Backyard Farmers

Backyard farming is hot. Last month Portland-based initiative VeggieTrader launched. VeggieTrader is an online marketplace for buying and selling homegrown products that come right from the backyard. The…

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Inflatable Spaces

The project Hovercraft – Lifting Modernism is a project by Raumlabor an urban office from Berlin. Back in November 2008 they designed this unpermanent…

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The Emerge of Coworking, Part 2

In my article of last Saturday I described the emerge of location independent working and the phenomenon of coworking. In this article I’ll come up with three examples of…

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The City as a Video Game

With the Superpowerless song ‘Wasted My Time’ comes a nice videoclip using the urban environment as a Mario Bros-like game. Enjoy.

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Nerd Graffiti: Twitter Street Art

Through Rebel Art I found out about street art expressions using Twitter as inspiration. This work (location unknown) was made by an artist called Questionmark. Nice one!

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