Mercedes-Benz is entering the market for luxury serviced apartments

Mercedes-Benz Living @Fraser residence. Mercedes-Benz is looking to translate its expertise in cutting-edge design and innovative technologies to the serviced apartment sector. The premium automotive brand is entering the market for premium business apartments in collaboration with the Frasers Hospitality Group, a leading international provider of luxury serviced apartments. From Autumn 2015, as part of … Read more

Meet the Turner prize shortlist, from the musician to the mind-reader

Architecture, opera, fashion, parapsychology … this year’s contenders are taking contemporary art into exciting new territory. We sent our experts to meet the artists on the shortlist

Barnaba Fornasetti smartwatch for Vogue China

Fornasetti and Huawei collaborate to create a special edition watch to celebrate Vogue China’s 10th Anniversary. In an embrace of fashion and technology, renowned Italian designer Barnaba Fornasetti and Huawei unveiled a special edition watch designed for guests of the Vogue China tenth anniversary celebrations. The Fornasetti-designed watch allows users to stay connected wherever they … Read more

Zaha Hadid: from Baghdad to global ubiquity (and the RIBA gold medal)

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Moleskine Kiss the Past Hello: Only Coke red, black and white

The Moleskine team invited designers from the “Mash-Up” project to use the notebook cover as their canvas to create a new Limited Edition Collection: Coca-Cola bottle’s 100th Anniversary on Moleskine.

Coca-Cola bottle's 100th Anniversary on Moleskine

Moleskine joins artists, designers and illustrators from around the world to participate in the Coca-Cola “Mash- Up” project for the 100th Anniversary of the iconic Coca-Cola contour glass bottle. The result is five representations of the iconic bottle on the front of the legendary notebook.

In addition to the Collection, Moleskine also invited German director/producer Tilman Singer to provide a short film exploring the notebook and iconic bottle.

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American designer David Schwen created a photographic representation of eight bottles arranged in a pinwheel formation, dripping with fresh Coca-Cola Red paint. This image is stark on a white, hardcover canvas notebook. Available only through Moleskine Stores online and at Moleskine Retail Stores worldwide, it is printed in a limited run of 5,000.

The other covers are different illustrations of the bottle. Designers are Matt Allen, Chris Weston (for people design), Hitomi Watanabe and Iku Oyamada (HI(NY) design) and a team for Ogilvy & Mather Paris.

All Coca-Cola 200 mashup posters can be found on Instagram.

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Chop-E – the cool electrical two-wheeler

This device looks like a chopper, but it does not qualify as a bicycle according ro EU specifications. Estonian Chop-E aims to change our understanding of cool electrical transportation with a minibike described by its manufacturer as “metal/fun/emotions/simplicity”. It’s not only a real headturner, but a custom made electric minibike made for those who want … Read more