Tag Archives: Craft

Tailor-made tales

By April 23 2013, 9:04 am Leave a comment

Once it was true that ‘clothes maketh the man’. Now it’s more like ‘clothes talketh to woman’. Burberry Prorrsum follows the 2012 launch of its pre-season Made to Order service with Smart Personalisation chips, sewn into each item. (Cheers Jamie.)

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Corporate crafting

By March 20 2013, 9:52 am Leave a comment

As an independent artist or designer, selling your goods in bulk can often be a challenge. Etsy, ‘the world’s most vibrant online marketplace’, realised this – and created a new platform where artists and designers can connect with professional buyers to sell larger quantities of their goods, for sale in retail stores. ‘Etsy Wholesale’ is launching in beta soon, with the aim of creating a network where artists, designers and buyers can all benefit from each other’s expertise.

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Spend a penny in style

By March 19 2013, 9:50 am Leave a comment

When Pete Tomlinson and Ben Russell spotted the ‘to rent’ sign on an underground Victorian toilet, they saw the opportunity to create something new on the London coffee scene.
Instead of erasing all memories of its previous function, they chose to renovate the space – keeping the 1890s Doulton & Co. urinals, maintaining the original iron-wrought cladding and creating the perfect subterranean café.

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Saddle up

By January 8 2013, 9:33 am Leave a comment

Iconic saddle manufacturer Brooks invited design students from the Royal College of Art to participate in a project – using existing materials and processes from their factory in Smethwick, England to create entirely new products. The students created everything from saddle bags to contemporary leather goggles – proving that recycling can be innovative and stylish. (Nice find, John)

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Hot stamped!

By December 20 2012, 9:54 am Leave a comment

Ever wonder how long that loaf of bread has been sitting on the bakery shelf? Minimart Pressbyran (kind of like the Swedish equivalent of 7-Eleven) have developed a clever way to show customers just how fresh their hot buns are – by stamping the time of baking directly onto their bottoms.

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Biblio-Mat

By December 4 2012, 10:17 am Leave a comment

Do you ever step into a bookstore and find yourself overwhelmed by the selection?
If you live in Toronto, The Monkey’s Paw (a second-hand bookstore) has a wonderful solution: the Biblio-Mat. Feed the lovingly hand-constructed machine $2, and the pulley-system will dispense a random title for your reading pleasure. The perfect solution for indecisive book lovers! (Good spot, Polly!)

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Drink up, listen up

By August 20 2012, 12:10 pm Leave a comment

Is it beer marketing music or music marketing beer? Professor Green is releasing not only his latest single but also a beer called Remedy, crafted in conjunction with Signature Brew (cheers Elliot).

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Javabot

By May 3 2012, 10:35 am Leave a comment

Mike Caswell, an industrial engineer and former Starbucks executive, dreamed of bringing new levels of freshness and choice to coffee lovers by consolidating every aspect of coffee-making under one roof. (Cheers Jules, NY). His idea was to transport beans throughout a coffee shop via a labyrinth of clear tubes with pneumatic pressure, sending raw green beans to the roaster, roasted beans to holding chambers, and small amounts of precisely measured roasted beans to Swiss-made brewers for grinding and brewing. After building a prototype out of vacuum cleaner parts, Caswell has brought his vision to life in New York City with a patented system called Roasting Plant Javabot™.

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Sweet whiskey

By April 10 2012, 9:30 am Leave a comment

The packaging for a new range of whiskey bottles from Mikuni Wild Harvest reflects the brand’s approach to small-batch, sustainable food production.

The five products in the Noble Handcrafted range are all hand-made and artisan-crafted. Products include Maple Matured Sherry Bourbon Oak Vinegar and Tuthilltown Bourbon Barrel Matured Maple Syrup, made from heritage sugar shacks in the ancient maple orchards of Quebec. The Prohibition era-style packaging is a nod to the origin of Tuthilltown bourbon, sourced from New York’s first whiskey distillery since the age of Prohibition.

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Levi’s uniform

By March 15 2012, 9:24 am Leave a comment

Levi’s has partnered with San Francisco’s acclaimed Saison restaurant to create functional workwear for its staff. The restaurant shares the pioneering spirit of the Levi’s brand with its unique open-kitchen environment and innovative approach.

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