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Interactive shopping window concept

A great concept project from student of Hyper Island in Sweden, made for the module Advanced Interface Design. Using Aussie streetwear brand WESC, they created this interactive shopping window where online users can upload their video, create their background and choose in which city they want it to showcase.
Love it!

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The People’s Supermarket

This is a new supermarkets concept: The People’s Supermarket; owned by the people, for the people. You can become a member, by being a member you dedicate a few hours per month as a volunteer, so the shop is ran by volunteers, that way it cuts on staff cost. Its a real cooperative and by being a member you have a say in how the shop is ran. Judge for yourself and check their mission video. Continue reading ‘The People’s Supermarket’

Online shopping at Levi's has become social

Online shopping has become social. Levi’s has just launched a social media shopping site where they have added the new “like” facebook functionality to each and every product in the store. This allows customers to find and share their favourite products from Levi’s including seeing what their friends like on the same site. Essentially allowing you to socially shop with friends in real time.

Check the Levi’s store website
Also check this story on Inspirationspam: Next generation e-commerce interface

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Templation nominated

dBOD is nominated!!!! for the Benelux POP Awards 2009 in the category Digitale Instore Media with www.templation.nl

Templationshop

www.templation.nl
For the complete story about templation check this post: Gap in narrowcasting market filled

Inspiration-snack #25

Fashion brand Diesel comes with an online wine store named Diesel farm. An unexpected brand extention, like the idea.

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Diesel Farm website
Check the website dieselfarm

Gap in narrowcasting market filled

Narrowcasting seemed to have been for just the big players in the market; fast-food- and supermarket chains like MCDonalds and Walmart and so on. Only they seemed to be able to hang their stores full of large display’s. But there’s a huge potential in a group of users who basically couldn’t afford such system or for whom it was a way to complex system up til now. We are talking about the small and medium size businesses that would like to create their own content and don’t want to pay over € 500, for content, created by production company’s or don’t want advertisers in their content they have nothing to say about. And, what it comes down to, most of the systems have been way to complex for the independent shoe sales men or the butcher that are not a part of a big chain with their own IT-guy.

So design agency dBOD in collaboration with Samsung, came up with the solution (‘Hey, wait a minute, isn’t dBOD where you work at?’ ‘ That’s right, and I also worked on the project.’ ;-). Samsung (professional large display’s) created a display with hardware inside and is selling it under the name InfoEasy. dBOD created (with technical partner Insiders) a template website Templation. An extremely simple 1,2,3 solution to create content for your own narrowcasting channel. Templation is a website with templates especially made for narrowcasting applications. As user you can easily create your own content, based on these templates with themes, fitting to your business or your message or period of the year like Christmas. It sort of works like a stock website. The good thing: You create your own massage. And the best part: IT’S ONLY € 9,95 PER TEMPLATE! No monthly subscription, no obligations, no software needed, it’s all online. The screen start at € 999,-. Well, that sets a new bar in pricing in narrowcasting!

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Templation studio
The studio, where you can edit your own template

So, what’s so innovative about a template website? It’s completely new for a design agency to behave as software developer, but than without the making-it-complex part. You start without a client or a briefing. And you start with a 1.0 version. And it’s a completely new ROI (return on investment) for a design agency. As a design agency you’re used to think in communication, customers and end users, not in technique and that’s what makes it different and, most of all, easier than other Narrowcasting solutions.

This is how it works. Or find out more on the website: templation.nl

Virgin flagship store on Times Square gone

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The world has changed, we know that. We don’t buy CD’s ennymore, instead we download our music to our computer and iPOD. This resulted in the famous Virgin flagship store on Times square to closdown. The rebel of the record industry of the 80′s has to make space for tenants more fitting for this century. (Or is the concept of a flagship store not profitable enough in economic harsh times?)
Parts have been rented out to Planet Hollywood and Forever 21. Would’nt the remaining space be fitting for an Apple store?

If you’re interested, get in contact with Vornado Retail.