Vintage Campers For Birds
Design for animals is hot. Over the last years we’ve encountered loads of projects that extend design principles to the world of animals. Sometimes to improve living conditions for animals or help to preserve a species, sometimes because a designer bird house is prettier to look at. This is another example. Wood-worker Jumahl sells home-made birdhouses on Etsy. The houses are inspired by campers of the 1940s and 1950s, and can definitely decorate your garden.
GPS-Powered Shoes Bring You Home
GPS is one of the most used functions on mobile devices. Phones, cars and photo cameras make use of the system to simply add locations to data, or to add data to a specific location. Recently we even stumbled upon a pair of GPS-powered shoes...
Fruits In The Form Of The Packaging
As we were about to forget the Japanese square watermelons, the Brazilian company Camp Nectar recently released an interesting concept and campaign. In an attempt to show that their products are 100% natural, Camp Nectar hired the Ad Agency AGEIsobar decided to grow fruits in she shape of a Camp Nectar juice box.
Hot Tub Cinema Pops up on East London Rooftop
At the Pop-Up City we always like new concepts. Talking cinemas, we've seen a lot of new stuff over the past years: a bike-in cinema in Amsterdam, a parasite cinema in an Auckland porch and a pedal-powered cinema in the city of Derby. This summer, however, Londoners could combine watching a movie with taking a hot bath in the so-called Hot Tub Cinema. The Hot Tub Cinema is a traveling screening event that creates a unique experience for its visitors. Taking over the rooftop of Netil360 in East London, the Hot Tub Cinema was a huge success. Classic films like Top Gun and Anchorman were screened against the background of London's inimitable skyline.
Reacting To Disaster: The Reaction Housing System
Move over shipping containers: modular housing just got stackable! The Reaction Housing System was recently unveiled as a new solution for emergency architecture. The houses are small units referred to as Exos, and are designed to host up to four people each. The simple design manages to incorporate all of the necessary elements for a home: sewage, lighting, water, and climate control, all within a compact space.
Coca-Cola Launches Pop-Up Dining Room
Coca-Cola is known for its always surprising marketing campaigns. This time the Atlanta-based producer of the sugary black gold joined forces with the Italian TV-chef Simone Rugiati to promote eating together with friends or family. On a cozy plaza in Naples, Italy a converted Coca-Cola delivery truck pulled out a dining table. Inside the truck Simone Rugiati was cooking a wide variety of local dishes. As the video shows, everybody was invited to join in on the fun.
Adorable Robochair Can Also Be Wallart
This current crowd-funding project from Kickstarter made me smile. While it's a rather simple piece of multifunctional furniture, the charm is in the aesthetic. An adorable chair with a back shaped like a robot head, it unfolds into a space-saving single layer of 1.5 inches... that looks like an actual robot!
UrbanChatRoom Brings Chat Boxes To The Real World
UrbanChatRoom is a new smartphone application developed in Vienna, that aims to blend the real and virtual worlds. Demonstrated for the first time at the Austrian pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, the app serves as a new, free location-based communication system that brings the good ol' chat box alive in physical space.
Boxpark Container Shopping Mall Pops Up In Amsterdam
The innovative Boxpark mall in Shoreditch, London has announced to open up a branch in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam Boxpark wil be located at the Northern shore of the IJ canal, inside the so-called Lasloods. This building was used as a shipyard but is now being renovated to accommodate Boxpark and other events such as concerts or festivals.
Klebstoff #4 — Sticker Magazine
♥, ♥, ♥. Dresden-based Wildsmile Studios, the people behind Klebstoff, sent us the fourth issue of their amazing sticker art magazine. Klebstoff presents sticker designs from selected artists from around the world. There are only 1,000 hand-numbered copies of the magazine available. If you like urban interventions and stickers, you'll like Klebstoff.
A Chat With Rudolf Klöckner (Urban Shit)
Last Thursday Blogging the City took place in Amsterdam. It turned out to be an unforgettable day with a great selection of leading European bloggers that shared what drives them and inspires them with our online and offline audience. One of them was Rudolf Klöckner, driving force behind Hamburg-based street art blog Urban Shit. He entertained the audience by showing his favorite urban interventions he's come across in the past years. We asked him a few questions right before the conference.
#Pinyourcity!
What do you absolutely love about your city? Show us! Launched yesterday at Blogging the City, the Philips Livable Cities #pinyourcity Pinterest Contest encourages you to get creative and capture what it is that makes your city livable and lovable through a series of images (photos, graphics, visuals). All you have to do is create a board on Pinterest which tells the story of what your city makes a great place to live in (it can be anything from the view of the skyline at night to the authentic streets or the open space) to be in with a chance of winning some great prizes.
Thank You!
Laaaaaadies and gentlemen! Yesterday we brought together our favorite selection of bloggers in Amsterdam at Blogging the City. It was a great conference, and we have to thank so many people for making it an unforgettable day.
Blogging The City Live!
Thanks to Philips, Blogging the City will be live streamed. Do you have any questions for the speakers? Send them to their personal Twitter accounts (see below) and make sure to use the hash tag #bloggingthecity. Enjoy!
Today: Blogging The City
Ladies and gentlemen, today is the day! This afternoon and evening, we're bringing together a selection of Europe's leading bloggers at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, to share what drives them, inspires them, and what their ideas are when it comes to topics such as urban development, architecture, food, design, bicycle culture, street art, and new media. Thanks to generous support of Philips, there'll be a live stream available for the entire conference! Blogging the City starts at 14:00 local time, so there's two hours left for you to run to the supermarket to buy some popcorn and soda.
