Thursday 2nd September:
Dinner is served, Fido
Organic rice, squash, blueberries… One glance at the ingredients listed on these beautifully illustrated cans from Lily’s Kitchen, and you’d think they were human gourmet snacks. Rather than Slow Cooked Lamb Hotpot for dogs, for example.
Many modern processed pet foods can affect pets’ health in similar ways to people, as design consultant, Louisa Jenkins, discovered when her dachshund developed a nasty skin condition. Her solution was Lily’s Kitchen.
The only certified organic and holistic pet food in the UK, Lily’s Kitchen makes everything in small batches with no artificial colours, preservatives, wheat or soya, in their mission to change the way we feed our pets and improve their overall health and wellbeing.
Via. www.monocle.com
Tagged with: Gourmet food, Pet food
Wednesday 1st September:
From bus seat to boutique
The new collection from shoe company, Above+Below London™, uses ‘rare, vintage and ultra rare’ iconic textiles from the 1950s through to the 1990s. The shoes are made from fabrics reclaimed from seats on London’s tubes and buses, after being recognised by Robert Taylor (art graduate) and Caroline Read (film maker) as genuine relics of London’s design heritage. They managed to rescue the fabrics before they were lost forever to landfill or incineration.
The range features 11 designs, all named after tube lines and designed by an ex-Central St Martin’s graduate. They’re manufactured in the hills of Portugal and sold through uber-cool Hoxten boutiques. And for every pair sold, they plant a tree near the M25. (Thanks, Andy P.)
Via. http://www.aboveandbelowlondon.com/Above_and_Below.html
Tagged with: Fashion, Footwear, Sustainability
Tuesday 31st August:
Top of the pops
Pret co-founder, Julian Metcalfe, loves pioneering delicious, healthy food ideas. And his latest brainwave is Skinny Topcorn. This exciting, new product is light and fluffy as popcorn should be (and apparently making it is an art form), has less than half the fat of a bag of crisps, and one bag provides a substantial accompaniment to lunch, or as an afternoon snack. Skinny Topcorn comes in four different flavours – sea salt, sweet and salt, chocolate trickle and wasabi.
(Thanks to Colin for the slimming advice!)
Via. http://www.hisandherkitchen.co.uk/?p=645
Tagged with: Food and drink, Healthy, Snack
Friday 27th August:
The sweet smell of non-conformity
On a recent fact-finding mission round Liberty, we stumbled across Le Labo, a perfume house with a difference.
Founded by Edouard and Fabrice (they don’t seem to need surnames), Le Labo is fighting the fight against fragrances that sell the promise of uniqueness to millions of people. Armed with years of olfactory diligence, all natural ingredients and the will to ‘make strategic and creative decisions in a matter of seconds in the name of intuition’, Edouard and Fabrice are taking the fragrance world by storm.
We got our noses involved and had a fine old time sniffing the likes of Vetiver 46 and Neroli 36. Each fragrance is named for its principal note and the total number of ingredients in the blend.
And yes, we did get ticked off by a security guard for ‘taking photos and writing notes’. Oops.
Via http://www.lelabofragrances.com/
Tagged with: Cosmetics
Thursday 26th August:
Your brand new ‘voice male’
If the Daily Poke was setting up its voicemail, you might well expect it to go a little like this: ‘Hello. The Pokemeister’s not available right now so please leave a message.’
But hang on a second. We’ve heard (from Dawn) that the star of the ‘The man your man could smell like’ ad is available, for free, to feature in your very own mobile message, care of the Old Spice Voicemail Generator.
With a click of a few buttons, you can be the proud owner of a voicemail spoken by the man himself. Ladies might be unable to answer the phone because they’re ‘enjoying a lobster dinner I prepared just for her while carrying her on my back safely through piranha infested waters’, while gents are otherwise engaged ‘building an orphanage with their bare hands while playing a sweet, sweet lullaby for those children with two mallets against their abs xylophone’.
So outsource your voicemail to the smoothest of the smooth, the Old Spice Man, at http://oldspicevoicemail.com/
Tagged with: MobilePokes are the little ‘heads-up’ messages that Greg, our Brand Innovation Director, shares with us every morning. They help keep us wowed, inspired, on-the-ball, and occasionally kicking ourselves saying, “Why didn’t we think of that?”. Want to hear more about what we could do for you? Poke here.