Day 348 - Product design: warm your hands with these sweater mugs

I just came home from a walk with my dog. A little cold. Winter is on its way. So I decided to make a cup of hot tea.

I would like to have the cute and cozy mugs you see below. Mugs, made of porcelain, that wear little sweaters and warm your hands and your body :-)

They are for sale at Yanko Design.

Day 321 - New coffee concept store by Starbucks... in a train!

Starbucks is introducing a coffee concept store in Switzerland. This time they picked an unusual location for the store: it will be located in a train!

The first Starbucks train is scheduled on November, 21. It travels from Geneva Airport to Sankt Gallen. The store has 50 comfortable seats and offers a rage variety of coffee shades and tints.

Watch the video and experience the Starbucks train!

Via: designboom.com

Day 297 - Dutch Design Week 2013: amazing lamp

Today I went to Eindhoven, a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. Each year, in October, they organize the Dutch Design Week.

This year I started my visit at Strijp-S, a former industrial quarter of the city. In the 'Klokgebouw' I saw this amazing lamp, made of... coffee!

Designer Raúl Lauri experimented with coffee, and succeeded in transforming it into a material that can be used for product design. Such as these bowls and this lamp.

Day 292 - why day 291 is missing...

Yesterday was a friday. Althougj it was not friday the 13th, it was not a lucky day for me.

No internet, no mail, no television... It took nearly the whole day to find a new, appropriate adapter. But somewhere around four it was fixed. Hurray!

But the at six the adapter of the router gave up... Ana again we had no internet... 

Today still nothing. Trying to find another adaptor. 

Hope to be back soon with some inspiration.

For now: I'll first have coffee!

Day 276 - You love street art: watch this!

I love street art. Do you?

Then visit this website: www.neatdesign.net
There you find a lot of amazing street art photo's.

This is one of them.

Source: www.neatdesign.net

Day 175 - Food design: Latte art, coffee with your own photo on it

Did you ever had a latte with your own photo on it? In Taiwan it is possible!

Let's Cafe, a coffee chain in Taiwan with more than 200 stores, found a creative way to attract the attention of the Taiwanese people to their coffee brand.

You order a coffee, take a photo of your self, send it to the coffee machine and you get a coffee with your photo printed on the 'latte'.

A creative and very successful campaign.

Day 161 - Tasty and creative 3d design: coffee art :-)

Kazuki Yamamoto (Japan) does not only like coffee with milk, but he creates the most amazing and tasty coffee art projects.

Unlike most barista's, who make 2d images, he transforms your cappuccino into a real 3d art object.

Here are some examples.

Want to see more? Follow him on twitter!