Shigure-tei (Tea Room), Kenrokuen Garden by Tokyo Views on Flickr.
Downsizing the shops
The economist addressed the come back of convenience store, stating that in Britain the average floor area dropped from 2000 square meters in 2008 to 1750 today. Walmart opened it’s first convenience store in the US on march.
The newspaper lists a series of explanation, as the financial crisis, the rise of a new urban youngster hype that shop in retail stores, and also a matter of navigation.
We…
Success is dangerous
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Picasso
Picasso that has always redefined is own style, from the blue period to cubism, finally to a classic and surrealistic estheticism impresses by the variety and the number of his works. He mastered both sculpture and painting, ceramic and even literacy.
His p…
The things that cannot be pitched
The things that cannot be pitched
Code wins arguments declared Marck Zuckerberg, in a letter addressed to investors. It is the hacker way. As Fabernovel, an innovation agency, published a report about “Gafanomics” we wanted to understand, what can be pitched and what cannot.
Several projects are to big for you too prototype, or too complex to be realize with your own means. How can you demonstrate the opportunity of running a…
Why Ideas are not waste
Star architect Rem Koolhaas gave an interview to the german newspaper Der Spiegel, in which he describes his work as an architect, as well as the odds facing the profession today. From This extract Pitchsugar wanted to start a reflexion about the value of drafts, tryouts and other unexecuted ideas.
SPIEGEL: Is it true that only 5 percent of your designs are actually built?
Koolhaas: Yes.
SPIEGEL:
The man who wanted to free women with video
The man who wanted to free women with video
William Banning Vail III, inventor, won a US patent for the personal pelvic viewer (PPV), a device crafted for helping women to detect any geological problems. Basically it is a a camera that a girl has to insert in her vagina. Then the device can be connected with TV or a personal computer for her to see what’s happening in her genitals.
Original patent for the PPV
The inventor was involved in…
The man, the horse, and the library
The man, the horse, and the library
As time goes by, attention is rarifying as fast as fresh air in a bar restroom. Indeed, we are distracted by the many possibilities instantaneously given by the internet, by the infinite possibilities offered by random meeting in big cities.
But now, we can find a solution to this lack of attention in public places: Blinders.
Should we consider blinders for humans as an interesting object ? The…
Those games we forgot
We wrote about the few rules that make a game a hit. Now that we’re all gamers, at least part time addicts, in the subway or in the waiting room, here is a list of games that we think could become popular if someone wants to work on them.
They are simple, sometimes intuitive or very ludic, here the game you can relaunch online if you know how to code or popularize offline.Here are some board…
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