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Uber update: Driving disruption

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Uber update: Driving disruption

The transport start-up’s new services, CSR and content partnerships are proving effective.

Uber : Transportation : App Travel

Start-up sanctuary

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Start-up sanctuary

London – Liverpool Street’s Andaz hotel has launched a new after-work space dedicated to start-ups.

Space To Startup : Andaz Hotel : Growth

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Future makers

Clerkenwell Design Week 2015 – DIY knowledge-sharing platform Fixperts has partnered with Benchmark Furniture to invite graduates to spen...

Clerkenwell Design Week : Fixperts : Benchmark

Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milan 2014 Part 1: Top 5 Spaces

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Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milan 2014 Part 1: Top 5 Spaces

The sun was shining and the pavilions were resplendent as thousands of design industry moguls explored the many districts that comprised Salone I...

Milan : Salone Internazionale Del Mobile : Convergence

ICA x Dover Street Market

Design Directions

ICA x Dover Street Market

Google Maps is most often used to find out how to get from A to B in the shortest time. But the tool can occasionally be a gateway to serendipity, ...

Institute Of Contemporary Arts : Dover Street Market : London

Katy's closet: One-stop shop for the busy woman

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Katy's closet: One-stop shop for the busy woman

Taipei – Taiwanese boutique Katy Has A Loft not only sells clothing, but also houses a café and an art gallery, to give women a holistic consumer e...

Store : Japan : Symbiotic

Google and Nestlé join forces on new Android OS

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Google and Nestlé join forces on new Android OS

Google and Nestlé join forces on new Android OS

Branding : Brand : Brandjacking

White magic: Martin Margiela cracks it with Converse

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White magic: Martin Margiela cracks it with Converse

Paris – Fashion brand Maison Martin Margiela is known for its unconventional designs, so its collaboration with mainstream brand Converse had to bl...

Collaboration : Painted : Eruptia

Origami office: Fluid building faèade made of marble

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Origami office: Fluid building faèade made of marble

Paris – Most of the buildings that line the avenues of central Paris date from the 19th century and follow a certain aesthetic, but what if a conte...

Glass : Illusion : Symbiotic

Museum of things: Cabinet of curiosities in Paris

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Museum of things: Cabinet of curiosities in Paris

Paris – It is difficult to describe Le Comptoir Général. It bills itself as a ‘ghetto museum’, but to reduce it to that would be to simplify the mu...

Art : Curated Retail : Zoning

Parasitic furniture: Designer creates new pieces from offcuts

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Parasitic furniture: Designer creates new pieces from offcuts

Münster, Germany – Designer Samuel Treindl does not just make furniture, he creates pieces and then uses the scraps to make other products, from cl...

Furniture : Offcuts : Repurposed

Branching out: I.T opens store with shop-in-shops

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Branching out: I.T opens store with shop-in-shops

Hong Kong – Multi-brand fashion retailer I.T has opened a new branch in the Silvercord Mall in Hong Kong. Like the brand’s other stores, the new lo...

Collaboration : Hong Kong Mall : Shop In Shop

Nautical craft: Restaurant makeover with a twist

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Nautical craft: Restaurant makeover with a twist

Kiev, Ukraine – The Odessa restaurant in Ukraine’s capital city has stood on the same site since 1962, but a recent redesign by YOD Design Lab mode...

Heritage : Lecal Design : Local Aesthetic

A tier above: New York makes prefab cool again

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A tier above: New York makes prefab cool again

New York – The first concrete and steel, multi-storey prefabricated building in New York is under construction in the Inwood neighbourhood at the f...

New York : Affordable Housing : Multi-storey Building

Futurist Montage

Design Directions

Futurist Montage

Digital and analogue photographic effects, darkroom-type experimentations and unfamiliar image overlays are fuelling a new offbeat aesthetic that i...

Prada : Digital Collage : Venice Biennale

Soft sell: Bank opts for a restaurant experience

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Soft sell: Bank opts for a restaurant experience

Italy – Italian design consultancy DINN! has teamed up with brand agency Crea International in a new venture for ChiantiBanca – a store concept mak...

Finance : DINN : Italian Design

Inside job: Building hosts flexible space within

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Inside job: Building hosts flexible space within

Madrid – Architects María Langarita and Victor Navarro have adapted an early 20th-century building in Madrid to function as a research laboratory a...

Madrid : Historic Buildings : Psychadelic

Shabby chic: Habitat opens vintage outpost in Paris

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Shabby chic: Habitat opens vintage outpost in Paris

Paris – Now French-owned, iconic interiors retailer Habitat has chosen a Parisian flea market hotspot, for a new vintage-focused concept space.

Paris : Vintage Design : Vintage Furniture

House work: RCA project explores home hacking

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House work: RCA project explores home hacking

London – Royal College of Art Design Products graduate David Steiner is presenting his In House project at Show RCA. The collection explo...

RCA : David Steiner : Royal College Of Art Design Products

Design Directions

Crafted Locale

A chameleonic approach to materials and design details is being taken in retail design. Providing a considered alternative to hyper-real mall space...

Chameleon Brands : Symbiotic : Local

Retail Week Live: re-inventing the store role for phy-gital strategies

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Retail Week Live: re-inventing the store role for phy-gital strategies

London – At this month’s Retail Week Live conference, retailers discussed the need for phy-gital strategies and how the physical store has to be re...

Tesco : Oasis : Concessions

Symbiotic mall: Boxpark shipped off to Amsterdam

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Symbiotic mall: Boxpark shipped off to Amsterdam

Amsterdam – A disused shipyard in Amsterdam, NDSM, has been chosen as the site for the new Boxpark pop-up shopping centre.

Architecture : Boxpark NDSM : Shipping

Space-saver: If LS:N Global madeÉ an architectural project

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Space-saver: If LS:N Global madeÉ an architectural project

Space-saver: If LS:N Global madeÉ an architectural project

Architecture : LS:N Global : Conviviality Culture

Triangle of commerce: Three brands form a PACT

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Triangle of commerce: Three brands form a PACT

Triangle of commerce: Three brands form a PACT

Concrete : KILO : Know It Nothing

Symbiotic Branding

Macro Trends

Symbiotic Branding

Collaboration used to be optional for brands that want to create buzz or a one-off product range. Now it is a rule not the exception, as brand-jack...

Symbiosis : Branding : Collaboration

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