Food & Drink
In a summer season filled with outdoor BBQ’s and picnics in the park, a level of convenience and disposability goes a long way. Unfortunately, for most of us that generally means trash bags overflowing with plastic cups and utensils, paper plates and napkins destined for the dump.
Enter Branch’s Biodegradable Party Kit, an all-in-one package with everything [...]
There can be no doubt that, from the moment we roll out of bed to the screeching of our alarm (on a clock, on an iPhone, from a radio) until the moment we close our eyes again (having put down our book, our laptop, our TV remote) we are surrounded by more objects, each begging [...]
We’ve witnessed some innovative re-uses of shipping containers in the past from retail pop-up shops to portable health clinics, but the Müvbox Restaurant located in Montreal’s Old Port is particularly stunning. The website explains the modular design:
Created from an old shipping container powered by solar energy, this concept is a modern-day reinvention of the
old-fashioned canteen [...]
San Francisco based Studio For Urban Projects is putting on a very different kind of summer camp for kids over the next two months. “A Curious Summer” is a series of unique workshops for children between the ages of 7 and 14 that explore a different idea for a week at a time, allowing participants [...]
For some US brands like Heinz, Ford or Mars in Britain, the lengthy time they have spent here has bent the public’s perception of them and many people feel that they are national brands in some ways. Coca Cola never seemed to reach that level of mass perception - possibly because they played far more [...]
In a joint project with Republic Services and Ameresco Services, The Anheuser-Busch brewery in Houston will have its energy demand supplied by more than 55% from biogas. Connected by pipelines with the Macarty Road Landfill, the gas is carried to the facilities to generate steam energy for the brewery’s power plant.
Landfill biogas consists of approx. [...]
PepsiCo has opened the first ‘green’ plant in the industrial center of Chongqing, China. Meeting the standards of the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), it is the first of six planned plants over the next two years. The plant uses over 35 water and energy saving designs and utilizes [...]
Students at the Shenkar Academy of Design in Tel Aviv were directed to scrutinize and reexamine the ways in which coffee and tea drinkers interact with their beverage, in terms of materials, taste, and ritual. The results are visually arresting and for the most part functional, and without a doubt a thoughtful, refreshing step beyond [...]
Barcelona has a lot of very good restaurants. Two of the best are Moo and Comerç 24. The two are similar in many respects, but where they diverge is in their attitudes towards wine. I interviewed both their sommeliers in order to distill some of the trends in wine & fine dining from their words.
Both [...]
Bodum advertises its sustainable credentials in an ad that points at the trend of making coffee with machines that use little plastic pots.
PSFK is happy to announce the publication of our newest book, PSFK Snapshot Brooklyn. From the more obscure corners of the borough to just off the G train, we’ve gathered over 40 of the most inspiring shops, restaurants, galleries, venues, movements and happenings from around the diverse neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York.
PSFK Snapshot Brooklyn [...]
Platypus has designed a simple, ingenious way to transport wine without having to deal with bulky glass bottles, or boxes. The PlatyPreserve can hold an entire bottle of wine, is flexible, leak-proof and airtight. Due to the container’s ability to keep out the flavor-killing oxygen, the container can also be used to preserve wine for [...]
Wooly Pockets are an interesting modular system for creating indoor and outdoor gardens. Constructed out of a soft, felt-like material made out of recycled plastic bottles, the pockets can be hung and stacked to create space-saving vertical wall gardens, and the flat syle allows for a more traditional flexible plant container. The material breathes, keeping [...]
Visitors to Lufthansa’s Brand Academy in Frankfurt will be treated to an almost overwhelming visual experience, as they observe and interact with 16,000 daily Lufthansa and Star Alliance flights across the world, in real time, via a projection 180° display. The exhibit, created by interactive design firm WHITEvoid, will let visitors use a physical interface [...]
Creativity reports that JWT Japan and Kit Kat have won the Media Grand Prix in Cannes with a product/marketing concept called Kit Kat Mail. JWT was struck by the Japanese translation of Kit Kat—Kitto Katso means “surely win”—and the tradition of sending students good luck wishes before tough higher education entrance exams.
So they teamed Kit [...]
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