‘Sold’ is a recently launched application that helps users to sell, price and ship second-hand items. The app enables anyone to become a successful seller on the online second-hand marketplace without the hassle that usually comes with it — ‘Sold’ does all the dirty work. The only thing you have to do is upload a picture and provide necessary information. ‘Sold’ prices the articles, sells it and organizes packaging and shipping (!).
Great and delightful news from Prague: The local transportation company Ropid has announced that it will be launching ‘love trains’ in the city’s metro system later this year.
We’ve all seen loads and loads of parasite libraries made from wooden apple crates over the last years. The Architectural League of New York asked ten design agencies to come up with new types of these libraries Little Free Library for the occasion of the Pen World Voices Festival. The people of Stereotank created this remarkable yellow piece of street furniture.
CoContest is a new online marketplace that connects architects and interior designers from all over the world with potential clients by enabling users to organize little design competitions. On the one hand this enables architects to get in touch with new clients, on the other hand it enables every house owner in the world to launch a contest based on their very own wishes and needs. CoContest crowdsources the overwhelming amount of global creativity and brings it to the masses.
Travelling is for many people deemed a chore and taking a different, longer route home is pretty much unthinkable in our modern efficiency-based lifestyle. iPhone app Strut gamifies your travel and transforms that unconvenient alternative route into an exciting and challenging adventure.
The economic downturn has resulted in a real estate crisis in Midtown Manhattan. The Copenhagen-based architects of PINKCLOUD consider their Pop-Up Hotel to be a feasible concept for transforming empty office spaces into hospitality spaces.
Paris has taken urban sustainability to the next level with the most recent addition to its team of municipal workers. Rather than investing in another fleet of gas-guzzling lawn mowers, the city has acquired four large sheep to take care of its green spaces. Known as “eco-grazing”, the sheep won’t just be mowing the city’s lawns — they’ll be fertilizing them too!
We sure do love city-related apps. Some of them are for common and community good, some others are just for fun, others are both. Combining street art with crowd-sourcing, 1AM Mobile is such an app. This new, free community-driven photography application developed by San Francisco-based First Amendment Gallery aims to present the world’s street art on one platform.
Sander Vandenbroucke’s fantastic film Brussels Express is a short documentary that explores the trials and tribulations experienced by the first bike messengers in Brussels, Europe’s most car-congested city. With colourful racing caps, stylish shoulder bags and speedy road bikes, Karl-Heinz Pohl and Karel Rowies of Pedal BXL aren’t just passionate about their innovative Brussels business: they are dedicated bicycle advocates in Brussels, a city overrun by cars and frozen in gridlock.
