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Food & Drink

Another bite

Texas – Casual dining chain TGI Fridays is attempting to attract ‘Millennial-minded’ customers with its latest redesign.

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Marketing & Branding

New Bricolage Living

Identity used to be something that you were born with. Age, race, gender and nationality were firmly fixed and determined your place in the world. Now, our identities are sliding further towards something we collect, assemble and arrange. We are phasing into a new era of Bricolage Living.

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Marketing & Branding

TwoPoints: Graphic Design

Lupi Asensio and Martin Lorenz are TwoPoints, a Barcelona-based design studio known for its editorial projects and flexible visual identities.

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Technology

Hot idea: Mobile heater warms with a poetic touch

Amsterdam – In partnership with Tubes Radiatori, Satyendra Pakhalé Associates has created the Kangeri Nomadic Radiator, a portable space heater for the design-conscious consumer.

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Retail

Changing rooms: Flexible space promotes multi-use

Changing rooms: Flexible space promotes multi-use

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Fashion

Armed for flexibility: A futuristic store in Japan

Tokyo – Los Angeles-based clothing label Band of Outsiders has opened its first store, but rather than opening in its home town, it chose Tokyo. While the Band of Outsiders aesthetic is classic American prep with a Los Angeles downtown twist, the store interiors are based in the future rather than the present.

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Design

Wood work: Coloured rugs double as DIY sculptures

Berlin – German designer Elisa Strozyk’s Colored Wooden Rugs do more than the name suggests. They are indeed wooden rugs coloured in geometric patterns reminiscent of Aztec prints. But they are also DIY sculptures, personalised works of art that can be folded to fit the owner’s taste and living space.

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Fashion

Flat-pack dummies make fashion shows easier

Flat-pack dummies make fashion shows easier

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North America

Reel deal: Elastic bands create flexible storage

San Francisco – Bicycle storage is normally limited and finite. But South Korean designers Areum Jeong, based in San Francisco, and Yeongkeun Jeong have collaborated on the Reel elastic wrapping system that enables cyclists to create flexible storage space on their bikes.