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Last week the Fifa announced the 2 country’s that will host the World Cup football in 2018 and 2022. Surrounded with controversy Russia and Quatar came out as winners. I’m sure the promise of Russia of an enormous profit for the Fifa helped the decision for 2018.
We, as the Netherlands also entered the bidding but didn’t make it. I guess we’re not as willing as the winners to let the Fifa take over the country and change the laws for 4 weeks and we weren’t as good for the Fifa wallet.
Continue reading ’12 insane reasons why WC football 2022 goes to Quatar’
For some odd reason my blog is most found by Google on the search term ‘New York’. Although I haven’t written that mutch about New York. 1,5 Year ago I shared with my readers that I was of to New York for a couple of weeks. After that I’ve written about the ugliest building in Manhattan the Verizon building, that the Virgin store had left Times Square and about Jay-Z’s book Decode.
(The nr. 2 search term was Michael Jackson, nr.3 MacCafé, nr.4 CocaCola and nr.5 #wearethedestroyers)
So I figured I have to reward the people searching for New York who end up on inspirationspam.com, with some awesome (never seen before) New York footage.
And I’m sure I will show up even more in a New York search now, since I’ve used New York 15 times in this post, as tags and in the SEO (in the background) ;-)
This is a quote of Lonneke Gordijn at the TEDxAmsterdam event today (30th of november). She’s the (co)founder, together with Ralph Nauta, of Design Drift, a design company that has practicing vision of creating design that reacts to and questions human behavior.
They’re curious about the future, not only the new technologies that are changing design, but also the evolutionary developments in nature and human culture.
Continue reading ‘“What we need is design that makes us dream”’
Decode on Times Square, New York…
Jay-Z has launched his autobiography and as you could expect from a somewhat megalomanic hip hop entrepreneur it went BIG. An extraordinary and never seen before launching campaign turning the marketing for a book in to an interactive event and even a hunt for pages of the book, placed in situations and place where they fit the content.
… about browsers and the web.
What’s a cookie? How do I protect myself on the web?
And most importantly: What happens if a truck runs over my laptop? For things you’ve always wanted to know about the web but were afraid to ask. This online digital guide/book, published by Google Chrome, is a short guide for anyone who’s curious about the basics of browsers and the web.
Illutration: Christoph Niemann
Text/editor: Min Li Chan, Fritz Holznagel, Michael Krantz
Website: 20thingsilearned.com
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’
Cleaning and detergent products; how exiting is that? Not very, you’d expect from the design point of view. But in the household and personal care industry a lot has been happening over the years and design rules are changing.
Once one of the dirtiest industries, is now becoming clean. The big guy’s are catching up on the small pioneers and now health and the environment has become an important issue in big brands future strategies. Continue reading ‘Clean cleaner design’
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