Archive for the ‘Luxury’ Category
Friday Favourites
Just a few of the best things we’ve stumbled across this week in our Friday Favourites.
In: Art, Brand communications, Digital, Luxury, Ooh that's nice, Product design, Structural design, Technology · Tags: Apple, Colourlovers, Footwear design, Friday Favourites, iPhone, Kobi Levi, Luggage, Novum, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy, Sculpture, Shoes
Friday Favourites
Barbie and Vitra, light calligraphy, Dior games, Red Bull Rockets and more in our Friday Favourites.
In: Advertising, Architecture, Art, Brand communications, Brand Experience, Digital, Fashion, Film & Animation, Luxury, Ooh that's nice · Tags: Calligraphy, Canimation, Christmas, Colour, Cosmetics, Friday Favourites, Furniture, Model making, Pantone, Photography, Red Bull, Typography, Vitra
Hermès’ Festival des Métiers in Singapore
The iconic French luxury brand Hermès brought its celebrated Festival des Métiers, or Festival of Crafts, to Singapore last week, and I went down to take a look.
In: Brand Experience, Exhibitions, Fashion, Luxury, Ooh that's nice, Product design, What are we up to?
Favourites found this week
Some of the best things we’ve found this week, all a bit video focused for some reason. We haven’t just been sitting around watching videos all week, honest..
In: Advertising, Art, Brand communications, Brand Experience, Film & Animation, Innovation, Luxury, Ooh that's nice, Product design, Retail, Structural design · Tags: Chanel, Makeup, Mobile, Personal care, Symbols, Websites
Reviving old habits: what can whisky learn from gin?
The term Revivalism has been coined over the last 12 months to capture a mood in some developed markets towards simpler, traditional pastimes and hobbies. In an over-communicated digital age urban dwellers are becoming interesting in local initiatives and reviving and adapting rural practices into their busy urban lifestyles.
In: Food and Drink, Luxury, Seminars/talks, Viewpoints · Tags: Gin, Whisky, World Whiskies Conference
Old tricks from new whisky brands
It was to the envy of all I told that I headed to the World Whiskies Conference in Glasgow last week. What better way to spend two days than discussing and tasting the hallowed firewater?
In: Food and Drink, Luxury, Seminars/talks, Viewpoints · Tags: Asia, Taiwan, Whisky
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin…
T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse….. Everyone loves a good story at Christmas time and according to Nielsen Bookscan, the Christmas period is the most lucrative for the book selling industry. By value, one fifth of book sales are made in the run-up [...]
In: Brand Experience, Luxury, Retail, Viewpoints · Tags: Books, Christmas, Storytelling, Trends
Do we need Starbucks' single estate coffee?
‘We mustn’t waste the opportunity of this crisis’. That was Barack Obama’s message to Americans in 2008. Some people thought that global belt tightening brought on by the recession would change consumer behaviour – for the better. We would be shocked into a more sustainable way of living. So what are we to make of [...]
In: Food and Drink, Luxury, Viewpoints · Tags: Coffee, Premium, Recession, Starbucks
Beauty…but at a price
Many of us aspire to create beauty where we can. It could be in how a logo or letterform is crafted to suggest an emotive value. It might also be in how a surface is sculpted to bring elegance and ‘line’ to a product. It might even be how a mechanism is elegantly engineered to [...]
In: Food and Drink, Luxury, Product design, Structural design, Sustainability · Tags: Champagne, Packaging design, Sparkling wine
One tent too many
It’s festival season. It’s camping season. In a world where everything can be bought, the search seems to be for the unique and the intimate, the marginal and the magical. Come on, let’s go camping!
In: Fashion, Luxury, Retail, Viewpoints · Tags: Camping, Environment
