Archive for November, 2007
November 30, 2007
The barrage of posts we’ve recently published on the interior design of retail spaces has us thinking: Vancouver is a wide-open, largely untapped market for retailers looking to set up innovative and conceptually driven shops. With the exception of Dutil on Cordova Street, few have utilized creative or thematic merchandizing as a means of cultural [...]

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November 27, 2007
Comme des Garcons has been killing the pop-up shop scene since 2004 with their self-dubbed “guerilla stores”.
They’ve had shops in swanky locales like Barcelona, Singapore, Athens, Reykjavik and East Berlin, just to name a few. Each location stays open for one year only, and advertising is kept grassroots. Unless you come across a poster [...]

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November 25, 2007
Hotel Everland is a one-room traveling art and design project created by Swiss artists Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann. The hotel was initially exhibited on stilts at Neuchâtel Lake in Switzerland as part of the 2002 Swiss Expo and has since been displayed on the roof of Gallery für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Germany.
Open to the [...]

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November 22, 2007
Above: Original Fake
Wonderwall is a Japanese design firm that was founded by Masamichi Katayama back in 2000. Specializing in cutting edge retail and commercial spaces, and most known for designing A Bathing Ape’s “BUSY WORK SHOPs” in Japan, London, New York, and Hong Kong, Wonderwall is changing the way some of the world’s most progressive [...]

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November 21, 2007
Track Listing:
Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Steven Stills - Albert’s Shuffle (Live)
Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Steven Stills- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Steven Stills - Stop (Live)

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