H&M Pop-up Beach Store in the Netherlands to benefit WaterAid
A great innovative idea showing that this big fashion brand never ceases to look for new ways to be different, and collaborate with charities in new ways, such as this pop-store on a beach.
This year H&M took its support a step further by opening a pop-up beach store for two days in The Hague’s popular Scheveningen seaside resort. A variety of essentials for men, women and kids from H&M’s “Beachwear in Shades of Blue” line were available at the shipping container-style shop on the beach, and a full 25 percent of the sales proceeds went directly to WaterAid, according to a report on the Superfuture blog.
Via Springwise
Final presentations for Running a Digital Agency module at Hyper Island today
Starting at 9.30am this morning we had our final presentations for RDA module, where we had 5 agencies presenting their progress and outcome of working with two clients over these past 5 weeks. It has been a super journey for our agency - Don Râmon - and me personally as a CEO, as it has definitely been the module where i’ve learnt the most and a module that felt very realistic as we chose it to be so.
Our delivery for one of our clients, Fabrica, is due this Thursday: an interactive video to be used on their window displays in their flagship stores around the world…will be exciting to share some of outcome soon!
Here follows some photos from today’s presentations, where ‘Megaphone’, won the award for best agency! Congrats guys! Not forgetting Don Râmon, who I am super proud to have worked with, we won the agency with the strongest leadership :)
Megaphone presenting
The board of directos - Daniela Drazic & Henrik Levahn (our module leader from Masscreation) - carefully listen and give feedback to Don Râmon after we presented. Which was very positive feedback…. :)
Henrik gives further feedback to all groups after everyone finishes presenting, and presents every team member with a rose.
Megaphone agency’s CEO Chris Hall giving his thank you speech! Congrats again!
A great fashion concept from some Swedes !
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ONE of a TEE is a sophisticated streetwear company from Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 2010. The unique online store lets the customers decide in which geographical area they want to be the only one wearing these tees. Claim an area for any lenght of time by subscribing, or purchase just one t-shirt. Every six weeks five new t-shirt styles are released. They share a new theme, but are separated by geographical levels.
(via About us - ONE of a TEE)
WEDDAR - The first people powered weather report service in the world.
Made by two Portuguese: Ricardo Fonseca with co-founder Gonçalo Catarino, Weddar launched last month, and has already seen it’s app downloaded in 86 countries by over 26,000 users. Found this today on Springwise website, which held an interview with Ricardo.
In the words of Weddar: “And because it doesn’t make sense that we still depend on old, machine-based, general area location and innacurate Public Weather Report Services. Weddar is People Powered Weather Service.”
// Download the App only available for Iphone on the Apple Store. (They say they are working on the Android customers out there)
// Become a fan on Facebook.
// Follow Weddar’s blog on Tumblr.
Being Portuguese, it’s great seeing innovative ideas and start-ups coming from Portugal. Makes me proud, and big congrats to Ricardo and Gonçalo!
“Don Râmon” - our Hyper Island Agency
In our current module at Hyper Island, ‘Running a Digital Agency’, we have 6 weeks to work together as realistically as possible with a team of 11 students (staff), attend board meetings, we have ‘fake’ money and specific budgets we need to manage, including revenue for two clients that we have: Fabrica & Talent Relations.
Here are some photos of our ‘office’ and staff at work !
Varsity Bookmarking: My Job Pt.1 — I have no idea what I'm doing
The confessions of Ben Pieratt, CEO of NYC based start-up, Svpply.
I tweeted about this blog post today, that made the headlines of many internet blogs. I came across it on Business Insider, and so came to discover that Ben has a Tumblr too, where he posted this famous blog post. His post is an interesting and honest reflection on his feelings about starting a company for the very first time, and what he feels he HAS to learn for Svpply not to fail.
Svpply helps you find the products you love, from the people and stores you find interesting:
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I am the CEO of Svpply, Inc., a social shopping S-Corp operating out of New York City. My company has been the recipient of over half-a-million in investor dollars, for the stated purpose of building an unknown, 3,000-member web service into a cultural phenomenon, and I truly have very little understanding of what I am doing.
I went to school for Graphic Design. I was supposed to graduate in 2004, though I didn’t complete the necessary Algebra class until 2009. Put me in front of Illustrator and give me something to design and I’ll execute the hell out of it. I’ve spent years of hard work developing systems in my brain for tackling visual solutions to communication problems. I’ve designed some nice logos and some nice websites. I enjoy naming products and I think I have a talent for it. I have an understanding of design that extends well past the aesthetic. I am proud of all this because I have worked for it.
But I have zero experience or expertise in building a company. I’ve never worked at a web or product startup, I’ve never worked in a healthy team environment. The design studio I co-owned was flawed to its core, and the companies I’ve worked at have had mediocre management.
So I’m learning on the fly.
Things I don’t know how to do that I have to learn soon or Svpply will fail:
- How to find and recruit talent
- Recruiting the appropriate kind of talent
- Managing people and keeping them fulfilled in their work
- How to develop and design a work schedule
- How to communicate a visionThankfully I have Mo on my board. Thankfully I have Zach on my team. Thankfully I have investors who believe in my potential and have provided me with the opportunity to educate myself. My situation is blessed and I rarely let a day go by that I don’t say a silent prayer in thanks for the position in which I’ve found myself, but good gracious is this hard.
The most frustrating part is that it is difficult to get into a rhythm in your work when you have no real understanding of the next steps you need to take. There’s no opportunity for flow if both outcome and process are foreign experiences. There’s just a lot of poking around and mystery and inadvertent negligence.
Svpply has been open to the public for six months now. Our progress has been slow for a variety of reasons. We have not launched as many new features as I would expect, or even drastically improved the ones we launched with. I own these problems, they can be traced directly back to my inabilities and inexperience, sometimes directly, other times in the form of my not having anticipated or recognized situations for what they were as soon as I could have.
But my understanding of the product and the market has leapfrogged the vision that I pitched. Our traffic has quadrupled and our product database has quintupled. We’re starting two awesome junior hires on Monday and I’m courting three incredible candidates who do me an honor by considering a position with us. Many of our deep technical problems are in the process of being solved by our only non-founder employee, whose presence on our team is a deep compliment to our product and to me personally.
So my level of personal confidence is appropriate. Skeptically hopeful. The bouts of depression and self-doubt are reasonable and inevitable. The market and its masses will be the judge of the degree to which I am able to build my expertise. A jury of peers so large it gives immediate, impartial feedback on my performance any time I think to ask for it. I couldn’t ask for better. I am thankful for the opportunity. It is an amazing challenge.
What's Your Power Style?
This very interesting article talks about how childhood experiences influence the way we respond to power.
Being a careful people and behavior observer, I believe we are a product of our environments, meaning we can be shaped by what happens to us and the people we meet throughout life, remaining true to how we group, always. Yes, obvious you might say. In this article the author outlines the different types of power styles we may have such as: The Pleaser, The Charmer, The Commander and The Inspirer.
A great ready by author Maggie Craddock, check it out if you’re into leadership and management, whatever your particular field really.
Whether you are trying to get ahead at your existing firm or land a job in a new organization, it’s helpful to understand that many of your instincts for giving and taking power stem from ways you were conditioned in the first system you experienced in life — your family system. Through my research for my upcoming book Power Genes, I discovered that the building blocks of anyone’s signature power style are rooted in the ways they have been conditioned to respond emotionally and behaviorally to the first authority figures they encountered in life, namely, their caregivers.
Food Spotting : A visual guide to good food and where to find it.
Food Spotting, one of the hottes start-ups on the internet, began in 2009 when cofounders Alexa Andrzejewski (Adaptive Path), Ted Grubb (Get Satisfaction) and Soraya Darabi (New York Times) realized that while there were many restaurant review apps, there was no easy way to find or rate specific dishes. Once you log in, you can upload a photo of you’re favourite meal at any location in the world, and tag it relating to the address of where you had this meal/drink, and share it with everyone. You can also SEARCH by location and food if you’re not looking to upload anything, and just want to find a good place to eat/drink, in your vicinity.
In this screen shot here, I typed in ‘Shanghai’ and found lots of local places (that I know are real because I’ve been there too) where people have tagged their pictures, and others have rated the establishment too.
Read more about Food Spotting here, and download the Food Spotting app (Free) for iPod, iPhone & iPad.
via Portable.
The mission statement at Frog has always been to change the world, and our people are really passionate about that. And if you keep that in the front of your mind, it is amazing that no matter how big you get, if you hire the right kind of people, that’s their mission. And you have to empower people. Micromanagement is the death of creativity, so you have to create an environment where they can succeed, and where the environment can expand.
A great article giving you a great insight into a great mind, Doreen Lorenzo, president of Frog Design, and into the companies’ culture. The link to the article is below:
- The New York Times interview with Doreen Lorenzo, president of Frog Design innovation firm.
Great interesting post by my classmate Tre Wee. The app COLOR, available on the App Store.
App Watch: Color - The super hyped up Photo-sharing app of the moment.
So while this has been buzzing around the tech sphere for a few weeks now, apparently a lot of people still havent heard of it (The Quora X Silicon Valley syndrome) so i thought ill share it with you guys.
Founded by Bill Nguyen - previously of Lala together with 6 other founders, including the previous Chief Scientist of LinkedIn, Color has been under fire from critics insisting that the app is overhyped. This was mostly due to the their insane $41 million funding from the likes of Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank. Pre-launch.
With social photo apps on the rising end of the hockey stick curve (Instagram, PicPlz and Path), Color has certainly managed to make a noteworthy first impression. Unlike the rest of the apps, Color is bent on taking social photo to a whole new level. Think Twitter for photos.
Unlike “traditional” closed networks apps, with Color, your photo stream is made public and shared with everyone around the vicinity (100 ft) and its dynamically updated which means you will be able to see a live visual diary of whats going on around you. Just imagine using it at music festivals and conferences and being able to keep track and view the entire buzz surrounding you, through the perspectives of others no less.
You will be able to set up groups with your friends BUT the stream remains public which means you will also be able to view other group streams to see what photos they are taking too.
With Color, you have an Elastic Network where your social connections are displayed accordingly to how “strong” your bond is with particular contacts, for example if Color detects that you and another user are really close by (ie. hanging out) your bond with that user increase which means you will probably see your first degree friends or family on top of your list.
By clicking on your friend’s profile, you will then be able to see photos taken within 100ft around them!
So why $41 Million in backing you ask? What do all the VC firms see in Color? Well Nguyen has visions of leading the revolution of how we experience and socialize with apps in this mobile culture. Using GPS and other data collected, Color might eventually make personal recommendations to you and that includes interesting people!
Will Color live up to its hype? Only time will tell but for now get in the loop and try it here
And yes, one last thing. That domain , Color.com. Really? Awesome what money can buy you.
Maybe ill see you on my network.
Designing a Web Site from start to finish: - an infographic
Found this wonderful infographic today on Nina Amjadi’s site, a fellow Digital Media student at Hyper Island, from the Karlskrona school. It’s from the award winning web design agency Simple Square, and free to download as a PDF here. She shared this today on her blog, and it has come to my attention at a perfect time.
Seeing as I am doing the strategy in my group, for the current module ‘The Lifecycle of Digital and Interactive Projects’, this a a great tool for me to use as a reminder for what milestones our group need to deliver with regards to the client & the design of the website, for our client City Studios. This is also a great resource to hold on to for future reference in other projects, as I love strategy and project planning, so I will definitely refer back it.
Thank you for sharing this great infographic Nina!
Twitter 5th anniversary video
Here is ESA’s astronaut Paolo Nespoli with Richard Branson, Hilary Clinton, Snoopdog, Martha Stewart and other celebrities from every field talking about how they use Twitter and how it’s such a powerful source of information.
Video by: @briggles, jennadawn & @jbuckhouse
For more information visit: www.discover.twitter.com
Follow Twitter on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Twitter
Very interesting: Women’s Economic Opportunities in the World via The Economist.
A study by The Economist Intelligence Unit, presented at ‘The Economist’s World in 2011’ event. This video presents data from The Economist Intelligence Unit’s pilot Women’s Economic Opportunity Index, the first of its kind.
Top ranked countries for giving women great economic opportunities are: Sweden, Belgium and Norway, as expected. The lowest ranking countries are Chad, Yemen and Sudan.
Video by jess3.
The Most Influential Women in Technology: 2011
Did you know the CEO of HTC is a woman, Cher Wang? That the CEO of Tech Crunch is also a woman, Heather Harde?
I came across Fast Company’s Twitter update today regarding their article about the most powerful women in Technology. It is very worth a read here: Women in Tech 2011
Women from various industries such as: Media, Gamers, Entrepreneurs and so on have all got a section dedicated to them, each women with interesting backgrounds. A very worthwhile read.
I hope to one day achieve these respected positions like these wonderful ladies have.
Respect to them!
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This blog started as a way to document my journey as a Hyper Island student and my learnings & experiences. I've continued to use it as a means to explore and document my surroundings and things that inspire me.
I'm Ana Cecilia, Born & raised in beautiful Porto, Portugal. Currently I'm working at Made by Many as a Service Designer. In June this year I graduated from the Digital Media program at Hyper Island in Stockholm.
This blog started as a way to document my journey as a Hyper Island student and my learnings & experiences. I've continued to use it as a means to explore and document my surroundings and things that inspire me.
