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Ich Bin ein Frankfurter

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INFORM YOUR CUSTOMER

Last Sunday I had a stopover at the airport of Frankfurt, as I was flying from Ahmedabad in India to Amsterdam. I already had a boarding pass for my flight to Amsterdam and the gate was B7 at Frankfurt airport. We were early and our ...READ»

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Gold Coin Vending Machine Offers Profit in Case of a Bank Run

One German entrepreneur has begun selling gold from vending machines.READ»

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Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen

Think of Grete Schütte-Lihotzky as the mother of today's hypermodern prefab kitchen styles. In the mid-1920s, Germany was struggling to meet affordable housing needs, and kitchens in general were dank, crowded hubs of family ...READ»

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Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen

Think of Grete Schütte-Lihotzky as the mother of today's hypermodern prefab kitchen styles. In the mid-1920s, Germany was struggling to meet affordable housing needs, and kitchens in general were dank, crowded hubs of family ...READ»

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Field Notes – June 2009

I am in the middle of a jaunt through Europe visiting with many Global 2000 companies to discuss the state of their innovation practices and how they can accelerate their pace of value creation.  In the past three days, I met ...READ»

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Sleep Mart

   A nightstand, alternatively night table or bedside table, is a small table or cabinet designed to stand beside a bed or elsewhere in a bedroom, as a place to put anything likely to be required during ...READ»

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Light

Lighting design is on fire like never before. Sun-tracking heliostats, compact fluorescents, LEDs--these are just some of the progressive technologies making clinical fluorescent tubes and juice-guzzling incandescents look like ...READ»

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Augmented Reality e-Books: Mmm, Smell the Jumanji

Imagine being able to smell the blueberry as Violet Beauregarde inflates in front of your face, or the waxy purple of Harold’s crayon, or the soot belching out of the Polar Express. A new augmented reality e-book technology, ...READ»

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Mighty Mini... Coupe

For the 50th birthday of the pint-sized modern design classic, BMW unveils a gorgeous new concept.READ»

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Sleep Mart

Sleep Mart Company - Sleep Mart Article Ecodesign With the great efforts from people, governments and companys in order to manufacture products with more sustainability, there is a new line of furniture design that is based ...READ»

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Whatever Happened to Globalization?

One of the world's most powerful advertising executives, Martin Sorrell, offers a provocative set of ideas about doing business around the world. His biggest worry: "It's all too easy to get out of touch with what's really going on."READ»

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Airline Merger Mania Could Blunt Effects Of Reduced Fares

True believers of competition have always questioned why airlines must still be national businesses regulated by agreements between countries. These 'bilaterals,' as they are known, regulate everything from the number of flights per ...READ»

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Road Warrior Survival Kit

The ultimate survival kit for mobile executives.READ»

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Road Rules - Rule 2

Always plan to change your plans.READ»

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Audi EV Concept Boasts Insane Torque

The Tesla Roadster may be fast, and the VW E-Up might be economical, but those go-karts don't have anything on the Audi e-tron. The concept vehicle unveiled at the International Auto Motor Show in Frankfurt looks a lot like ...READ»

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Deutsche Bank Converts Horrid '80s Towers Into Horrid '80s Eco-Towers

Deutsche Bank is set to become carbon neutral, starting with the world's first LEED Platinum retrofitted skyscrapers. Too bad they're so damn ugly.READ»

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Fudgetown: The Not-So-Sweet Side of Infinite Brand Attachment

Ruminations on an endless love for Keebler cookies...and why it doesn't guarantee satisfaction forever.READ»

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Work/Life: Silverjet Strikeout Makes Three

And then there was one. L'Avion is the last of the pure business-class airlines still flying. Silverjet, which flew the London-to-New York and London-to-Dubai routes, died last week. Although officially they are still in ...READ»

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Yellow: An Illustrated Essay on Branding and Desire

A story about beauty, materialism and obsession, as told through 12 canvases painted by Debbie Millman.READ»

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145-Foot Inflatable Dome to Rise in Nation's Hot Air Capital, D.C.

Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro returns to its roots with a big, bold, experimental design. But inflatable architecture isn't exactly new, as these eight projects prove.READ»

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The Conference-Commando Field Manual

It smells like learning! Don't think of your next conference as a company-sponsored vacation. Think of it as an assault on the future. A collection of battle-scarred veterans offer their secrets on how to become a conference commando. We register at dawn!READ»

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Lawrence Weiner: Art Is of the Moment, Design Is of the Moment

A short film Debbie Millman and filmmaker Hillman Curtis created with conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner.READ»

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The Other Hybrid: Toyota's Auris HSD Revealed

Toyota's Auris HSD concept car, set to be unveiled at the Frankfurt Auto Show, will be the first mainstream European vehicle to feature full hybrid technology--the ability to run on, gas, electric, or a combination. READ»