OWN LABEL

OWN LABEL is about high quality design without paying high prices for established brand names.

OWN LABEL was set up following a collaboration between students from the University of the Arts and London Business School. There are four original founders of the company, all of us share the same belief, that the consumers should determine what looks stylish and that the internet provides the ideal platform to showcase the talents of rising designers.

Homepage: http://www.own-label.com/

The Fleet Store Project

A school popup fashion store The Fleet Store is open. It is a good opportunity for young fashion designers.

Tumblr
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/the-fleet-store

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/Thefleetstore

Farmer's Party

Kyung-Buk Bong-Hwa Farm, using organic agricultural techniques, met designer Jang-Sub Lee and created "Farmer's Party". It is a new network system which brings farmers and design together and connects to consumers with heathy products.

경북 봉화농원의 친환경농법을 고집하는 농부와 이장섭 디자이너가 만나 “파머스파티”라는 브랜드를 런칭했다. 기존의 농산물 유통구조의 불합리성을 극복하고자 방법을 찾던 중 디자인을 의뢰하면서 이 프로젝트는 시작되었다. 파머스파티는 대자연을 벗삼아 농민, 디자이너가 어우러져 새로운 생태문화를 창조하는 네트워크이다. 우리 땅에서 나는 생명의 가치를 정성껏 담아 소비자에게 건강한 상품을 전한다.

http://www.farmersparty.co.kr
http://magazine.jungle.co.kr/cat_magazine_special/detail_view.asp?master_idx=14751&pagenum=1&temptype=5&page=1&code=&menu_idx=98&main_menu_idx=90&sub_menu_idx=31&all_flag=1

Senior Design Factory

Senior Design Factory brings old and young people together as partners and work together on creative projects by exchanging and sharing ideas under different generations.

Die Senior Design Factory bringt alte und junge Menschen als gleichwertige Partner zusammen und fördert durch gemeinsame kreative Projekte aktiv den Austausch unter den Generationen. Die Inspiration dazu lieferte Andy Warhol mit seiner legendären legendären Silver Factory in New York. So wie dort Kunst, Konsum und Kommerz (damals noch starke Gegensätze) verschmolzen, sollen auch in der Senior Design Factory die Gegensätze aufeinander treffen, sich vereinen und ergänzen, damit an dieser Schnittstelle Neues entstehen kann.

Die erste Senior Design Factory Filiale mit Shop, Atelier und Workshopraum wurde im März 2011 an der Josefstrasse 48 in Zürich eröffnet. Die zweite Filiale mit Café/Restaurant wurde im Herbst 2011 nur einige Hausnummern weiter an der Josefstrasse 146 eröffnet.

http://www.senior-design.ch/2-0-News.html
http://magazine.jungle.co.kr/cat_magazine_special/special_temp5_2.asp?menu_idx=301&idx_caller=2356&idx=2549&idx_special=176&ref=651&page=1&main_idx=176&main_menu_idx=1&sub_menu_idx=21&all_flag=1

Color Forecast

Here is the Color Forecast of 3 fashion cities: Paris, Milan and Antwerp
And, let's see what color is 'IN' in what country!

http://www.pimkiecolorforecast.com/

Smart Supermarket

Smart supermarket offers recipes.

In Brazil, Hellmann’s prints customized recipes on grocery shoppers’ receipts

As part of a recent ad campaign for Hellmann’s mayonnaise in Brazil, recipes tailored to the ingredients the shopper had just purchased were printed out on the store receipt.

Last year we wrote about Spanish food brand Gallina Blanca and its initiative to send consumers personalized recipes via Twitter, but recently we came across a like-minded effort that takes the concept even further. Specifically, through a recent ad campaign for Hellmann’s mayonnaise in Brazil, recipes tailored to the ingredients the shopper had just purchased were printed out on the store receipt.

More info: http://www.springwise.com/marketing_advertising/in-brazil-hellmanns-prints-customized-recipes-grocery-shoppers-receipts/

Kochhaus

Kochhaus is a Geman one-stop SuBermarket (Subscription + Supermarket), which is selling ingredients selected for cooking recipes. An easy way for customers to shop, and a smart way for supermarket to sell.

 

More info: http://www.kochhaus.de/

 

SMALL DEMONS

"Did you understand the book 100 percent completely?"
If you did not, search more about the book on SMALL DEMONS.

It all begins here. Suppose someone took every meaningful detail from all the books you love. Every song mentioned, every person, every food or place or movie title. And what if they did that for all the books everyone else loves, too. The ones you’ve never heard of. Suddenly you’ve got a whole world of seemingly random people, places and things, all gathered in one place.

Together they create something vast, wonderful and entirely new. A Storyverse. A place where details touch, overlap and lead you further. To new music to listen to. New movies to watch. Places to visit. People to know. And of course, new books to read. Getting started is simple. Just choose a book. See where it takes you.

More info: http://www.smalldemons.com/

Set up business in the UK

To set up a business in the UK

-Business Link: http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1075433394&type=RESOURCES
- UK Trade and Investment: http://www.ukti.gov.uk/
http://www.ukti.gov.uk/export/howwehelp.html

Book: Business Model Generation

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
Author: Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur

Q: Are you an entrepreneurial spirit?

Q: Are you constantly thinking about how to create value and build new businesses, or how to improve or transform your organization?

Q: Are you trying to find innovative ways of doing business to replace old, outdated ones?

Are you "Yes" or "No"?
This book starts with the questions above.

Table of Contents
The book is divided into five sections:
1. The Business Model Canvas, a tool for describing, analyzing, and designing business models,
2. Business Model Patterns, based n concepts from leading business thinkers,
3. Techniques to help you design business models,
4. Re-interpreting strategy through the business model lends, and
5. A generic process to help you design innovative business models, trying together all the concepts, techniques, and tools in Business Model Generation.
The last section offers an outlook on five business model topics for future exploration.
Finally, the afterword provides a peek into "the making of" Business Model Generation.

I answered "Yes", so I am going to continue reading this book.
Exciting!

Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-Challengers/dp/0470876417/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333414326&sr=8-1