August 18th, 2010 | Posted in: fashion, marketing
Quite some time ago I posted on a contest by Hermes and Designboom. As you may or may not remember, the French luxury fashion giant was going to crowdsource new designs for ties through the community of Designboom. The winning design is called ‘Modern Leisure’ and was designed by Heidi Mueller. This will actually be produced. Pretty cool to have a Hermes tie design in your portfolio. Here’s some other prize winners:
Check out all the designs here.
August 17th, 2010 | Posted in: websites
FrogDesign, is an international innovation and industrial design firm. Not long ago they launched frogMob. This site proposes a generic design problem to which the audience can respond with their solutions. This results in a gallery of user-submitted solutions. So far the problems featured include creative, fixes for power-cord organization and work bicycle customization.
Uploaded everywhere from Shanghai to Seattle, the shared images highlight how global communication around a seemingly small, but universal problem can highlight a potential need for innovation. And the simplicity of all these solutions is striking. Just look at the picture above! Awesome project.
July 1st, 2010 | Posted in: websites
This is one of those ‘wouldn’t it be cool…’ things that come up while drinking in a bar with your friends. The only difference is this is really going to happen, if it is up to the guys at the TS2AS Foundation.
The foundation is setting out to crowdsource enough money to buy up every single billboard on Times Square and turn it into a square filled with art. By far the coolest exhibition space ever. Pretty ambitious, but oh so cool. I definitely hope they’ll succeed. Help spread the word and donate if you please. Just go here for more info.
November 24th, 2009 | Posted in: fashion, websites
Like the
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SVPPLY is a retailing bookmarking site, allowing selected users to recommend a wide range of products, all presented in a clean, uncluttered space. The result is an amazing place to go for some inspiration. Stuff you’ll find there include Apparel, Accessories, Shoes, Technological stuff, Media and Home-decoration.
Mouse-over and you immediately see the price and where to buy. Real easy. To make your surfing even more convenient (and more productive), you can browse by category, price and gender. I’m surely checking this site daily from now on.
Go check it out!
tags: accessories, apparel, bookmarking, cloting, crowdsourcing, fashion, ffffound, Home, media, retail, shoes, svpply, Tech, web 2.0
November 5th, 2009 | Posted in: advertising
This is a really nice case which proves crowdsourcing can be applied succesfully in any business. Even in advertising 
. Belgian telecom provider Proximus has used the crowds to create this commercial. Check out the movie below:
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Very nice.
September 25th, 2009 | Posted in: advertising
Vitaminwater is going 2.0! The brand is putting the people incharge of creating its next flavor through the launch of their Flavorcreator app on Facebook, marking the first time that fans of Vitaminwater can collaborate to create the next flavor.
Vitaminwater enthusiasts will have the opportunity to name the flavor, write the bottle copy and design the label via a contest with the winner receiving a $5,000 prize from Vitaminwater.
Another company has joined the movement of the future! Now go create your own drink!!
tags: 2.0, app, bottle, contest, creator, crowdsourcing, facebook, flavor, label, taste, vitaminwater
This is the sort of stuff I like to read about. Finally a ‘traditional’ fashion company is moving towards crowdsourcing. As far as I know this is a first for the stuck in the 20th century fashion behemoths.
In a collaboration with Designboom, Hermes is giving designers from around the world, no, even better, everybody able to draw, the chance to design a tie for the renowned fashion house. The winners’ design will actually be produced and the winner will receive a royalty based contract. Would look pretty good on your CV right?
Click here to download the template and check out the rules of the contest. You can enter the competition up to the 1st of August. Start designing!
Of course I will keep you posted on the results. If you decide to enter, send me your design!
I don’t know about you guys, but every time I pass a wall of Lego boxes in a toy store I get this urge to buy one. I remember standing staring at these walls for hours as a kid. Building complete villages, castles and pirate ships. Unfortunately I would be interrupted roughly by my mom or dad dragging me out, sometimes buying me (only) one of these boxes. Now that I can afford it, the temptation is still there and sometimes it almost irresistible. That why little nephews are so much valued I guess!
But Lego is going to serve us! After the techie Mindstorms they are now going to put put the Lego Architecture series. Great architects’ work and famous landmarks will be Lego’ed. In the Lego Architecture series you will be able to buy sets for building the Empire State Building, Chicago’s John Hancock Building and Sears Tower, and the Seattle Space Needle.
Perhaps the most exciting release are two buildings by the renowned architect Frank Lloyd buildings: The amazing Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Rumors are that the next series will include work by another achitectural legend Le Corbusier. Great stuff!
As Lego has proved before they are one of the companies succesfully tapping into their user communities. This series was created in collaboration with a Lego fanatic called Adam Reed Tucker. He is a part of Brickstructures Inc who have been building some amazing stuff. (Check it out here). Again, a great example of Lego turning into a platform for the creations of its users. Brilliant.
tags: adam reed tucker, architecture, Brickstructures Inc., crowdsourcing, emipire state building, fallingwater, guggenheim, john hancock building, le corbusier, lego, mindstorms, platform, sears tower, web 2.0
