Archive for September, 2010

September 28th, 2010 - Posted by Justine

Spread the love

Such a simple way to make people smile! This is one of the shortlisted design entries for the ‘Seoul Cycle Design 2010′ competition. It’s by an Iranian designer named Hamed Kohan. See more here.

September 24th, 2010 - Posted by Kate

Travel as Healing

  I love this idea! A German travel company has developed a group travel service to help people who are mourning the loss of a loved one, get back into life.   As well as helping grief-sticken people re-discover the joys of  life through travel, the trips also offer the opportunity to meet and make friends [...]

September 17th, 2010 - Posted by Justine

Who said opening a shop was hard?

I recently came across an interesting shopping concept when I was in NY. It’s a shop that allows you to rent a cube for $30 a week to display and sell anything you want. It’s kinda like opening a very, very small shop. There were all sorts of things for sale – from used designer [...]

September 15th, 2010 - Posted by Justine

Shopping bag with a story.

Koskela is a shop in Surry Hills specialising in furniture made out of natural products. It’s not surprising they use recycled paper shopping bags. But what is surprising, is their 100% recycled newspaper bags also help homeless North Indian kids. By recycling and selling on discarded newspapers, rural village women – including single mothers disowned [...]