overstockArt.com announced today the official launch of its mobile website, m.overstockArt.com. The launch represents another milestone for the company as it continues its strides in technological innovation and maintains itself as a leader in the online home décor industry. Customers can now conveniently access the popular online art gallery’s collection of more than 60,000 reproduction oil paintings and decorative ceramic […]
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BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 117
Luxury Public Toilets Shiny tile floors; artsy in-stall murals; a kid-friendly atmosphere: Dutch company 2theloo is offering an alternative to traditional communal commodes with their clean and modern restroom shops… Continued in BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 117 >>> – TripAnomaly – 3D Virtual Shopping – Nail Art Advertising – Fresh Fruits Hanging – Rhino Chair – Customer Rave […]
MercMob
MercMob is a hiring platform for social tasks. Sign up for a task, work with others, and get paid if you and your fellow workers make it happen. You can use any and all tools at your disposal: social networks, flash mobs, crowdsourcing, guerilla marketing, whatever it takes.
TripAnomaly
TripAnomaly monitors millions of flights and then calculates a reliability score based on a multitude of factors. They also look at factors such as how often this flight is delayed, the severity of the delay, how often the flight has been canceled, diverted, and more. Their technology then compares that score to both flights operating the same city pair route […]
3D Virtual Shopping
Trendwatching: Luisa Via Roma, a luxury boutique based in Florence, Italy, has a great understanding of how to use different mediums and platforms successfully, engaging customers around the world in a way that enhances the cachet of the bricks-and-mortar store. With their recently launched ‘3D virtual store’, online shoppers can browse a mock up of the real, physical store. Retail […]
Poles and Holes
Shoebox Dwelling: This conceptual daybed, called Holey Poley, is a thing of versatility. Its creator, Clinton Steward, is still a design student and developed this impressive concept as a part of a school project. The structure of the piece is based on the dynamic between poles and holes. The perforated upholstery pieces can be combined into various configurations and secured […]
IKEA’s Manland
Springwise: At Sydney’s IKEA Homebush Bay Drive this past weekend, retail-averse men could escape to a male-oriented area of the store for a break from the shopping, according to a report on News Limited. Free hot dogs, Xbox consoles, pinball machines and nonstop sports action on TV could all be had in IKEA’s “Mänland,” as it was called during the […]
Typographic Wall Calendar
Gizmodiva: The Typographic Wall Calendar is creativity at its best. It just shows how much more you can do to any genre if you have the right ideas. The “2012 Typographic Wall Calendar” is a project to produce a large (70cm x 100cm / 27.56in x 39.37in) printed wall calendar for the year 2012. It will consist of two-thousand and […]
Nail Art Advertising
TrendCentral: KIA Motors recently tapped into the nail art trend to promote their “smALL” sized KIA Picanto, proving that one really can pack big things into compact spaces. The auto maker created a stop-motion ad campaign that caught the attention of some hip folks. Being the first-ever nail art stop motion is pretty impressive, but what’s even more noteworthy is […]
Amphibious Billboards
bbi Display’s amphibious and airtight, portable billboards can be displayed on any surface including water, sand , snow, grass, dirt and pavement. The linkable inflatable billboards provide a new way to reach audiences in any location. This truly unique media will catch the attention of targeted consumers in unlimited markets worldwide. It provides advertisers and events with the ability to […]