Archive for December 2011

Crowd sourcing and funding for Apps

Crowd sourcing is hot... Kickstarter has seen the realization of many great projects and more and more specialized crowd funding are start...

A great year for charity: water

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I have blogged about Music For Life extensively, I know... That is an event that raises awareness and money but it is also an event that c...

Shopping 2.0

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Malherbe is not a small agency. It is quite a large (but independent) agency. But it intrigues me. They create experiences. Shopping exper...

Best music of the year

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When I first came across Superheavy, I was astonished. I imagined David Stewart calling Joss Stone and saying: "Hey Joss, I have an i...

Best dance performance of the year

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It was only a few weeks ago that I saw the contemporary dance performance that got to me most this year. What Akram Khan has achieved with...

Best concert of the year

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When a band that you love decides to stop, it makes you sad. When it's Faithless, you feel somewhat lost, abandoned... But not before ...

Best *** of the year

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Happy Christmas. I wish you the time and opportunity to enjoy the company of the people you love. This is a period of giving but in giving...

Happy Christmas to you all!

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It's Christmas Eve 2011. What do you post on Christmas Eve? Warmth, love, peace, merriness,... I was being merry with good friends las...

A typeface for dyslectics

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Dutch designer Christian Theo Boer is dyslectic, so he knows the problems people with dyslexia encounter when trying to read texts. The vi...

Keep that coffee warm!

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Every now and then you come across a real invention... Or is it? Actually... I now remember that Whisky used to be chilled with actual sto...

Tapping your creativity

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Hans Buskes has created a great MindMap on tapping your creativity. He based it on Dave Stewart's book Business Playground: Where Crea...

Music For Life 2011 at full speed

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Last Saturday at 7 pm three Studio Brussel dj's were locked up without food in a glass house in Leuven. They will remain locked up for...

The SX... picked themselves

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Another great example of what Seth Godin calls "self-picking"... The SX . No record company. No promotion machine. Just talent,...

The World Peace Game

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Almost 30 years ago John Hunter created the World Peace Game. He created the game for 4th grade kids. "To touch their mind is one thi...

How do they do it?

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Have you ever wondered how designers create an image? I have... often... The video below shows the whole process in a way that makes you s...

It's gonna be a filled week... Music For Life 2011

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For the last time (snif) Studio Brussel is organizing Music For Life . The past five years this charity event has continually grown more a...

Djinn Carrénard picked himself

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Much like more and more authors choose to self-publish their book, young film makers are going the same way... Djinn Carrénard is part Hai...

Sunrise belongs to moderate drinkers

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Heineken has started a rather surprising campaign. But... it's true... If you switch to water in between beers, you do stay fresh(er) :-...

It is the season...

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...for giving and receiving gifts. Some large, some small... And some very surprising... Our latest book order came with a sample dvd. I h...

Peter Lindbergh is an icon

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Until 29 January, the Antwerp photography museum (FOMU) is hosting an exhibition of Peter Lindbergh. Lindbergh is an icon. 25 years ago he...

The story of Moleskine

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You can find it inside every Moleskine notebook... It's a story... It's THE story when it comes to notebooks. Hey there, this is n...

The Beauty of a Second

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Every now and then great brands and great artists find each other. For this project Montblanc partnered with Wim Wenders in a short-film c...

Wear your passion

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A few months ago, I saw a post somewhere about the Holstee Manifesto. Today, at Fab, the poster was on sale. But... it was sold out. I hav...

2012... The year of Titanic?

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100 years after the legendary trip... 2012 is set to become a very special year. With the arrival of the 3D version of the James Cameron h...

Facing the "What to get?" problem

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We are all often faced with the question "What shall I buy ... for ...?" There's an online solution that is quite innovative...

Sergiology is almost ready...

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It was over two years ago that I was talking to Tony Leduc about the projects he was working on and he was incredibly excited about a book...

Personal, authentic, touching, loving, caring,...

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I could go on for a while... I saw DESH last week. It opened the December Dance festival in Brugge. The text on the web site says: "...

The Versalette... getting ready to challenge the clothing industry

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I'm sure you will agree that women always pack lots and lots of clothes to go on a trip. Here's part of the solution... Two friend...

Traces New York - now booking until June!

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Traces is one of the most amazing shows I have ever seen. I know, I have blogged about before, but I cannot stress this enough. If you ha...

Tocadisco wants to thank you

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We have seen it before, artists who give away their work. Prince did it... Sarah Bettens from K's Choice did it... And now Tocadisco i...

Creativity in architecture: al-Hamra Tower Kuwait

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I was surprised to see a building among the 50 best inventions of the year in Time Magazine . "The sculpted skyscraper," the jou...