Last winter the Museon in The Hague asked us to co-curate a summer exhibition about the city of the future. After months of hard work, we’re very happy to announce the official opening of #stadvandetoekomst (#cityofthefuture) on Thursday June 20th!
For the occasion of the Adobe Creative Days, Berlin-based Photoshop artist Erik Johansson gave unsuspicious bus travelers a live retouch job, and projected the edited versions right in front of them in an advertising space.
Think ‘outlet store’ and things like outdated fashion, suburban shopping malls and crowded Sunday afternoons pop up in your mind. However, a new outlet supermarket in the Netherlands has become very fashionable by selling food that’s not fashionable any more for half the price.
‘Home’ is a new residence in Amsterdam that houses 69 international students of the city’s music academy. The building’s owner wanted the surrounding neighborhood to benefit from all the musical talent inside. Turning the building into a giant radio transmitter, the Home Recording project enables the students to share their melodies with neighbors, relatives at home and everyone else.
The local Starbucks if often filled with hip looking people who are slowly sipping their coffees with hasty people incomprehensibly shouting their names to the baristas. In between these people, the keen observer could discern another group altogether: the people who despite the circumstances desperately try to work. For the people who like a bit more peace, quiet and privacy than their local coffeeshop can offer them, there is Breather.
IBM has launched a clever series of billboards that double as urban furniture. Three different billboards that promote the company’s People for Smarter Cities program are designed to sit on, to take cover under when it rains or to pull your bags over instead of carrying them.
Nothing shouts ‘traditional’ as urban farming does. Actively trying to pull away from our digital world, it encourages people to roll up their sleeves and start getting their precious typing hands dirty. Still, it seems quite impossible to avert anything from the digital revolution, which is once more proven by the newest trend in urban farming: apps!
Dutch gift store Niko Niko offers the long-awaited alternative for throwing rice into people’s faces at weddings: seeds! Throw & Grow confetti is beautiful and grows wildflowers to boot at the same time.