With Copenhagen Fashion Week happening just this week I feel it is relevant to write about a recent fashion online initiative called MUUSE. It is a co-created, new and forward thinking business model within high level, couture fashion. MUUSE – describe themselves as “The independent fashion talent community”. Launched in 2011 ready for fashion week...
At the online community Cowbird humanity’s sagas are explained through heartfelt stories. Sagas are things like the Japanese earthquake, the war in Iraq, and the Occupy Wall Street movement — things that touch millions of lives and define the human story. The short-term goals for Cowbird is to pioneer a new form of participatory journalism...
Recently started on-line social network Iqons is aiming to have the same impact on fashion as MySpace had on music. The ambition is to create the world’s first truly interconnected ‘fashion ecology’ comprising of designers, retailers, models, fashion PR professionals, photographers, stylists, financiers, show producers, magazine publishers, manufacturers, head-hunters, consumers, aficionados and basically anybody with...
The Mini Cooper is not only an example of a smart car with a “I would like to have one” appeal. Like the iPod or like the Rowenta kitchen series by Jasper Morrison (to mention a very few…). In other words a successful product based on a visionary design strategy. To build a strong community...
It is not only the web that has turned social these days. Design 21: Social design network is an on-line community formed in partnership with UNESCO, where members of the design community, socially conscious individuals, local governments, businesses and non-profit organizations (NPOs) can address social concerns and create smart solutions through design. It’s a place...