Herman Miller’s Embody Chair: Fully Considered Furniture
Thursday, den 5. March 2009
Herman Miller has one upped their own much-loved Aeron with the Embody, their most fully considered chair yet. Along with being 95% recyclable, the chair integrates several health and comfort promoting features (like a 52-piece lumbar support system) that change the way we think about cubicle furniture.
We talked to Jeff Weber, the lead designer for Embody, about the inspiration behind the future-forward chair.
Having a design icon in the product line like the Aeron chair, what motivated the… Continue reading Herman Miller’s Embody Chair: Fully Considered Furniture
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Whole Foods Microcredit Program
Thursday, den 5. March 2009Whole Foods is currently promoting its Whole Planet Foundation which aims to create economic partnerships through microcredit with the poor in communities that supply Whole Foods Market stores with products. Continue reading Whole Foods Microcredit Program
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Good Ideas Salons : London, Vancouver & Beyond
Thursday, den 5. March 2009
PSFK is proud to announce the roll out of our Good Ideas Salons format. After a successful series of talk-&-mix events in London and New York, we were asked by our friends when we would hold the salons in their city. In response, we suggested they host the Good Ideas Salons with our help.
So from March 17 there will be an ever increasing number of salons taking place on the same date around the world. All of the details will be presented on a central website… Continue reading Good Ideas Salons : London, Vancouver & Beyond
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Fancy Toilet Paper: Really Bad For the Environment
Thursday, den 5. March 2009
Toilet paper is perhaps one of the least environmentally friendly products on the planet. As bizarre as that sounds, think about it - it’s a one-time use product that is made using valuable resources which can’t be reclaimed for use in future products. Even more disturbing is that virgin timber from rare old-growth forests in Canada are being used to make the ultra-premium varieties of toilet paper. The New York Times reports that major manufacturers are taking steps to introduce versions with higher levels… Continue reading Fancy Toilet Paper: Really Bad For the Environment
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Pic: H&M Goes Skinny
Thursday, den 5. March 2009
It’s been a while since we’ve read any tabloid rage about overly-skinny models and we suppose that’s that’s why this new poster of 2 very thin models stood out on New York’s Lafayette.
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Pic: Closing Down / Going Web
Thursday, den 5. March 2009
This picture was taken of one of the several stores in New York’s Nolita that have closed down recently. The sign in the window says that after 14 years the store has closed and that the business gone web-based.
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The 50 States Project: The U.S. Through Pictures
Thursday, den 5. March 2009
The 50 States Project hopes to capture the essence of America through snapshots of its people and places by inviting 50 photographers to represent their home states in a series of six photography assignments. The images from the first task, People, have been posted on the site with updates from successive assignments appearing in regular intervals throughout the year.
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[image via The 50 States Project,"Untitled" © Shawn Gust]… Continue reading The 50 States Project: The U.S. Through Pictures
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The Fast Track From Meme to Book
Thursday, den 5. March 2009
For all the talk about the death of print media, there comes an unusual bright sign on the horizon. Gawker reports on the curious story of three authors who have recently been given five and six figure advances to write books on subjects that had their origins as internet phenomenon.
First off, author Nick Douglas is collecting his favorite Twitter posts and making a book out of them - and as crazy or banal as it sounds, there is actually some thought behind it… Continue reading The Fast Track From Meme to Book
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Selling Retro with Comfort Packaging
Thursday, den 5. March 2009
As you may have noticed from our recent post about beverage rebranding, companies have a hard time selling new images to consumers. One notable exception from that article was the Throwback edition of Pepsi and Mountain Dew. Apparently, it is easier to get consumers to like things that they are familiar with as opposed to anything new and different (which they typically, eventually learn to like).
And this may be especially true during hard times, when people’s nostalgia for the good ole days carries over into the way they consume. Consumers are romanticizing… Continue reading Selling Retro with Comfort Packaging
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Wearing 1-Star Yelp Reviews Proudly
Thursday, den 5. March 2009
In a humorous display of the interplay between the digital realms and real life, Pizzeria Delfina in San Francisco has started outfitting its staff with t-shirts bearing quotes from some of their “best” 1-Star Yelp reviews. The move is interesting for a number of reasons, but in particular because it points to a real understanding of how much these reviews mean to businesses nowadays. Social media platforms that provide peer-to-peer reviews have at least caught up with, if not surpassed, the once powerful sway held almost exclusively… Continue reading Wearing 1-Star Yelp Reviews Proudly
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