Attended the Henry Van De Velde Awards & Labels in BXL last week. Belgium’s finest design awards. Read Sstrid’s blog for a more detailed background, … [dutch]. Saw a bunch of nice & local work. The Quinny Jet by Studio Peter van Riet for instance or the Nomad solar lamp (our personal favorite btw). Check them out! Quinny Jett [...]
Categories: Branding,Consumer goods,Design,DIY,Events,Exhibit,OutoftheBlog.com,Quickie,Reviews
Tagged: Henry van de Velde Awards Labels, Nomad, Quinny Jet, solar lamp
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- January 21, 2013 – 23:53
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- By Andrew
Started off the year with a couple of resolutions. Usually don’t set any goals but something to aim for can’t do any harm and for now they stand. One goal we did not mention is buying less and with buying less we really mean not buying the unnecessary stuff we often do. Reckon we have [...]
Categories: Consumer goods,Everyday life,Food for Thought,OutoftheBlog.com
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- January 14, 2013 – 23:01
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- By Andrew
A day dedicated to the world’s best salty, savory, and crunchy version of the other white meat? This Saturday you say?! Yes Baconistas, there truly is a day dedicated to our beloved pork treat. Oh bacon, how we love thee and according to Wikipedia we have devoted an entire day to celebrate your scrumptious existence. Well, [...]
Categories: Codes,Consumer goods,Events,Everyday life,OutoftheBlog.com
Tagged: bacon, bacon day, crispy bacon, international bacon day, pork, respek, spek, swine, the other white meat
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- August 30, 2012 – 09:30
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- By Andrew
We must admit, Instagram is becoming became an addiction overnight. We start our day with flicking through the images and usually also end it that way Yesterday we read about a new iOS app called Decim8 and the description triggered our interest right away. Remember how a while back someone told us he was looking for an [...]
Categories: Codes,Connectivity,Consumer goods,DIY,Entertainment,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography
Tagged: 4, app, apple store, decim8, deconstructive photo app, download, film is dead, instagram, instrgm, iOS, ipad, iphone, iphone 4, iphone 4s, iphone 5, ipod, itunes
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- March 7, 2012 – 10:00
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- By Andrew
Curls in Paris. As you might have read previously, we headed out to Paris over the weekend for the Duvel Collection finale, Showroom Belgium & the Paris Fashion Week experience. Had been 2 years already since my last visit, looked forward to it and was not disappointed at all PIGS ON WHEELS. No, helmets are only [...]
Categories: Art,Branding,Codes,Connectivity,Consumer goods,DIY,Events,Exhibit,Gathering,Graffiti,Heroes,Looks,Movies,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Street art,Street culture,Travel
Tagged: billboards, DeuvelCollectie, disney, Disney Belgie, Disney Belgium, Duvel, DuvelCollection, Jean-Paul Lespagnard, John Carter, JohnCarter, JohnCarterBE, Jordan, lespagnard, Merci, metro, parijs, Paris, Showroom Belgium, Sneakers, Tigersushi, Tigersushi Furs, trailer
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- March 5, 2012 – 08:00
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- By Andrew
Converse took several Gorillaz, added Andre 3000 & James Murphy and asked them to “just do their thing”. The love child which followed was a collection of 4 sneakers and a brand new track: Do Ya Thang. Curiois to see who follows in Converses’ “Three Artists.One Song” concept.
Categories: Ad of the day,Animation,Branding,Consumer goods,Entertainment,Heroes,Looks,Music,OutoftheBlog.com
Tagged: Andre 3000, Andre3000, converse, Do Ya Thang, gorillaz, James Murphy
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- February 29, 2012 – 17:00
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- By Andrew
Ha, seems I’m heading to Paris next week to attend the Duvel Collection finale on Friday, but since I’m there I might just as well see what fashion week is all about. Now for those of you who missed Duvel’s competition last year I will give a quick rundown of the facts. First off, Duvel gave creative talent the [...]
Categories: Animation,Art,Branding,Codes,Consumer goods,DIY,Entertainment,Events,Exhibit,Gathering,Heroes,OutoftheBlog.com
Tagged: Arne Quinze, Denis Meyers, design contest, Duvel Collection, Eley Kishimoto, FFI, flanders fashion institute, Galerie Magda Danysz, glass, glasses, Jean-Paul Lespagnard, Paris, paris fashion week, Parra, Piet Parra, Showroom Belgium, Stefan van Glerum, the duvel collection
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- February 24, 2012 – 10:00
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- By Andrew
Bumped into the following Flickr pool in which people post a picture they took of the stuff they log around in their bags. I reckon you can say a lot about people by looking at the stuff they carry around on a daily basis. As I’m a daily backpacker I decided to take a random shot [...]
Categories: Advertorial,Connectivity,Consumer goods,Everyday life,OutoftheBlog.com
Tagged: backpack, backpacker, content, contents, duracell, e-reader, ear light, ear lite, ear plug, ear plugs, earplugs, eastpack, flickr pool, golden half, kindle, led, macbook, scarf, spork, usb charger, usb chargers
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- December 12, 2011 – 23:30
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- By Andrew
Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It’s long form entertainment for short attention spans. An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind. A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax [...]
Categories: Animation,Codes,Comics,Consumer goods,DIY,Documentary,Entertainment,Heroes,Looks,Mixtapes,Movies,Music,OutoftheBlog.com,Youth culture
Tagged: 80s, 90s, B-movie, B-movies, Koyaanisqatsi, Kurt Russel, robocop, skinemax, Tapes, VHS
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- November 17, 2011 – 09:30
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- By Andrew
Spent past weekend in the Ardennes, a bank holiday in a sunny autumn setting with great/longtime friends. Chalet Suisse life mainly existed of good food, drinks & little sleep. It usually also involves maps, guides, walking … and sometimes people who rather wear their trousers in their sock. It also means not being allowed in [...]
Categories: Advertising,Advertorial,Consumer goods,DIY,Entertainment,Events,Gathering,Looks,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Quickie,Travel,Urbex
Tagged: DRIVe, R design, test drive, v60, volvo, volvo V60
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- November 15, 2011 – 22:27
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- By Andrew
