Their brand is completely defined. Tiny labeled cosmetic bottles meticulously lined in rows mixed with an unpolished material – usually a light wood, twine netting, or cardboard. Yep, we’re talking about Aesop, who just opened their third Manhattan store in the West Village. The sculptural wooden shop is the brain child of the Melbourne based architects …

Beauty salons of any description tend to have a particular look, if it’s not clean and clinical, it’s Zen-like – all bamboo shoots and rainforest soundtracks. Sure, some push their boundaries a little; like this Wax Revolution salon Located in Polanco, an affluent neighbourhood of Mexico City. When you visit the website of Wax Revolution it’s hard to …

Italian street furniture design company metalco has developed an interactive, outdoor public transit station for paris entitled ‘Osmose’. the ‘smart stop’ at Gare de Lyon station has been fashioned by french architect Marc Aurel of MA studio, and is the first of what will be several interactive transport stations placed through out the city. ‘Osmose’ is Metalco’s solution …

Superkilen, a multicultural section of Copenhagen in the northwest part of the city has recently finished its new Red Square; a park and playground that is actually painted all shades of red. To reflect the many cultures in the community, the park is furnished with elements such as benches, trees, signage, and other furnishings all …

Netherlands based design firm STUDIO1:1 just added a super cool new project to their portfolio. The team of architects and designers came together to create the “ICT Experience center de Verdieping”. An area where teachers, rectors and managers from the educational sector can get inspired by the latest development in the ICT sector. This whole project came …

There’s been a trend recently for online brands using physical, real world concepts to help market themselves. South Korean search engine Naver is the latest to do so with an advertising campaign that’s on the street rather than on the web. The Naver App Square is a metal container disguised as a giant open parcel using panels …

STAY ALIVE IN 25 >> GROUP 5 >> GO TRANSNATURAL! Michael Pieters, Wencke Nilsson and Muruschka Kartosonto think our future can be saved by incorporating the beauty and power of nature in our culture. We should not only live eco-friendly and be aware of what damage we do to our planet. We should respect the …

I wish I was going to Miami soon, so I could check out and walk through this fabulous light instillation ‘convergence’ made by Crhistopher Janney. He is an american sound architect and ’harmonic convergence‘ is an interactive sound and light installation,constructed within the pedestrian walkway of the miami international airport in florida. to be officially inaugurated …

Down under pictures from rooms of Shogo Kawada’s anime-inspired Chaos Sunline Hotel in Kamata, Japan. Which loca anime lovers call the Chaos Lounge. The rooms are restyled by several famous Japanese manga artist and aren’t really that expensive, about 87 a 97 euro a night. Seems reasonable for such a experience to me! Really would …