Birmingham - a Startup City? Birmingham has always had a unique proposition for any company looking to invest in the area and particularly for entrepreneurs and start-ups. The USP by tradition has always been a powerful supply chain infrastructure supporting all areas of manufacturing and allied services. However, is this true in 2016 for Tech start ups? Until recently the answer was an emphatic no. Okay Digbeth was a small glimmer of light where fragile tech fledglings could gather together for warmth, but there were no other hubs of creative sparks, just a few individual stars dotted across the region.
Longbridge, Pebble Mill and several other sites are offering top class office space with advantageous rates and services. Sited on St Philips' Place, (the path connecting Snow Hill and House of Fraser), you can’t miss an impressive building sporting the RBS logo, only it’s not a bank, it’s an RBS funded Enterprise Hub. "For us, Birmingham is the best place where we could have started our (ad)venture. Further Help. Birmingham looks to build its creative sector through finance access. Birmingham has established funding infrastructure to support the creative sector, according to leading industry figures. Over 50 creative business entrepreneurs from creative and digital marketing agencies, games, television and arts businesses congregated at Birmingham’s Hippodrome on Wednesday 24 June to learn from the experts about the different options for funding business growth and expansion.
Facilitated by Caroline Norbury, CEO Creative England and lead on the Creative Industries Council Access to Finance strategy, participants joined in a debate with panellists John Handley, Chief Investment Officer, Finance Birmingham; George Feigher, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Aston Business School; Patrick Towell, Chief Executive, Golant Media Ventures, and David Roberts, Founder & CEO, Action Starter. The general consensus from investors was that it's all about people, vision and monetisation. Bugatti Hopes Handbags Will Turbocharge Brand. The History and Future of Fashion Prediction: conference report » The Enterprise of Culture. January 24, 2015 Fiona Blair1 On the 17 October, fashion scholars, industry professionals, curators, archivists, students and fashion lovers gathered in the Erasmus University Rotterdam to explore the evolution of fashion prediction worldwide since the interwar period.
Fashion prediction was and is exercised in different ways and by different institutions: consulting companies, trade fairs, department stores, dedicated divisions in major companies and, more recently, bloggers and internet trendsetting companies. 2The conference, organized by Dr Ben Wubs3 and Dr Thierry Maillet4 on behalf of the Enterprise of Culture, was introduced with emerging issues of this trillion dollar industry that employs millions of people and has impacted on billions of people around the world on a daily basis. What is the business model behind the fashion industry? How is fashion organized and who are the actors? 9Trend forecasting became even more important after World War II. THINX | Period Panties For Modern Women. Luxury car makers turn focus to women drivers. Women are buying more than half of the new cars in the United States and influence up to 80 per cent of all car purchases, according to Women-Drivers.com and Forbes.
With statistics like these, car manufacturers and their marketers have heard the lure and are finally starting to target women and their specific needs. The trend guru Faith Popcorn, in her book EVEolution, says, "women don't buy brands, they join them". And in the luxury car industry, this seems to be just the case - it looks like women are changing and pervading the field from the inside out and the outside in. Italian marque Lamborghini reports that "three out of four workers in their trim and colour assembly area on the Sant'Agata Bolognese production line are now women". This team of 35 women works on industrial sewing machines, cutting and stitching the leather upholstery.
And the brand's production managers at the plant agree: "Women have a more critical eye for detail". Auto Expo 2016: Women change gears, steer into luxury car market. Nandini Sen Gupta & Pankaj Doval, TNN Feb 5, 2016, 01.02PM IST (Digital and events entrepreneur…) NEW DELHI: Keeping a sharp eye on the surge among women buying luxury cars, companies are tweaking products and services to suit this new growing segment.The luxury car market, clocked around 8% growth in 2015, and is seeing many more women customers. At around 14%, India's women luxury car buyers are still a smaller brigade than in Europe. "In Europe, women comprise 25-30% of the luxury car market. In China, women contribute around 18-19%. In India too, this segment will grow as women in their 30s succeed in the corporate sector," says Abdul Majeed, partner at PwC.
Digital and events entrepreneur Shilpa Wadhwani drives an Audi Q5 in Mumbai and finds the car safer and fun to drive. Roland Folger, MD and CEO of MercedesBenz India, says women are emerging as a key segment for their brand. One of their customers, Nitima Sood Mittal, a designer says it adds to her "style statement". " Why car makers need to pay more attention to women. Men of Britain, you know how it is. You walk into a shoe shop with your better half, intent on a pair of pleasing black Church’s, only to depart, 15 minutes later and £180 lighter, with brown suede Loakes in your bag, convinced in woolly fashion that you’ve just narrowly escaped a huge fashion disaster. This retail experience, puzzling to the casual observer, is easily explained: women, although they may not part with the money, are nearly always the major influence in any purchasing decision.
The fact that this is news to crow about shows what a depressing male bastion of shiny suits the dealership network still is. A friend recently had a humiliating experience in an Audi showroom in Kent: as a single woman in her sixties, she stood around on the forecourt for half an hour, and then inside, looking hopefully at models, utterly ignored by staff, who then rushed to a young couple who drew up in an A4 Convertible. . * Once they’re inside, talk to them in plain English. * Don’t patronise. All-Female Beer Festivals : Ladies Craft Beer Festival. The Society of Beer Drinking Ladies is set to host Canada's first Ladies Craft Beer Festival this coming weekend.
With the rise of home brewing, many women have become passionate about making and drinking craft beer. This event gives women a place to come together to sample new and innovative beers in a female-friendly environment. The Ladies Craft Beer Festival takes place on Friday, April 1st at Toronto's Evergreen Brick Works. Those who purchase a ticket will be treated to delicious craft beers brewed by the Society of Beer Drinking Ladies in collaboration with Junction Craft Brewing. Each guest will receive four drink tickets, a five ounce commemorative glass and a special morning-after gift.
There will also be an Artisan Marketplace open selling beer-related products. With a growing number of consumers interested in craft beer, this even provides the perfect opportunity for women to explore the world of micro brewing. Eva Longoria & Laetitia Casta talk about the Cointreau Creative Crew. Amsterdam in Motion. 50 Of The Best Email Marketing Designs We've Ever Seen (And How You Can Create One Just As Good) In case you hadn’t heard, email marketing isn’t dead. In fact, the reality is quite the opposite. By the end of next year, it’s expected that the total number of worldwide email accounts will increase to over 4.3 billion.
Like it or not, we live in a time where people like to email. It’s fast, convenient and most important – effective. As a business tool, McKinsey & Company found emails to be 40 times more successful at acquiring new clients than either Facebook and Twitter – just one of the many interesting statistics to support the success of email marketing.
If you’re a startup or brand wanting to leverage this success, a well-designed email is crucial to break through the pack. Amongst so much competition, a great email design needs to capture the attention of the reader right away to avoid being deleted and risk never being seen. Engage your customers and create email marketing campaigns to reach a massive audience. 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. U&B grocery store by PplusP Designers, Hong Kong. The concept of this project is to transform a local grocery brand – U&B, into a highly flexible and hybrid space with mono material and colour to achieve customers’ attention. It redefines how to spend a low budget to build something creative in systematic design.
Given that the brand logo of U&B is a shopping trolley and their corporate colour is in orange, the interior environment embraces all these elements to contribute to its uniqueness. Instead of the traditional roof painted in white, the tangerine ceiling stays bare to match with the concrete flooring in order to generate an unprocessed surrounding. The visualization of the hue and saturation in the orange sky adds a little warmth. Thus, it balances the sensitivity and tactility of the unfinished plywood trolleys with black metal in this space. The loose plywood display units that substitute furniture, are all movable and tremendously flexible, which is suitable and commodious for non-luxury products selling in U&B.
The EM District World’s Pop-up Beach, Bangkok – Thailand. When traveling to Southeast Asia, Bangkok usually serves as the usual gateway to a slew of the region’s sun-drenched beaches. But this teeming metropolis is a destination in its own right, offering almost any escapism imaginable, and as of late, that includes a high-end beach experience. In fact, seven different flavours of beach fun. We’re talking The EM District World’s Pop-up Beach, an immersive event at leading shopping mall the em district that not only marks the arrival of sunnier climes, but also aims to instill the carefree holiday bug. And it does so by taking cues from iconic beaches from around the world. Each of these beaches takes a turn, making its mark on The EM District’s swanky premises with an elaborate, fun-infused beach installation where to chill out in between shopping sprees. After that it’s straight ahead to the resort shop, obviously brimming with summer holiday trophies.
Cointreau Bar on Behance. Cointreau Limited Edition Pack on Behance. Mesh Temporary Bar / fala atelier. Architects Location Project Year 2014 Photographs Client aefaup Budget 500€ From the architect. The 3x3x5m metal structure was given; the skin is defined by an overlay of metal meshes and plastic screens. Light and color flow freely through the translucent materials, becoming a smooth cloud over the imposing geometry of the structure. From far, only the light is visible; while approaching the object, the thin silhouette and its texture reveal their rationality. The lightness of the construction allows the pavilion to be only a frame for the light it contains. The Trendmakers: Behind the Scenes of the Global Fashion Industry - Jenny Lantz.
Numerous tastemakers exist in and between fashion production and consumption, from designers and stylists to trend forecasters, buyers, and journalists. How and why are each of these players bound up in the creation and dispersion of trends? In what ways are consumers' relations to trends constructed by these individuals and organizations? This book explores the social significance of trends in the global fashion industry through interviews with these 'fashion intermediaries', offering new insights into their influential roles in the setting and shaping of trends.
The Trendmakers contains exclusive interviews with financial analysts, creative directors from high street stores like H&M to designer brands such as Erdem, trend forecasters at WGSN, buyers from Harvey Nichols, and major fashion names like The Telegraph fashion critic Hilary Alexander. Consulting | lidewij edelkoort. Grimm & Co. Titled. The number of international migrants — persons living in a country other than where they were born — reached 244 million in 2015 for the world as a whole, a 41 per cent increase compared to 2000, according to new data presented by the United Nations today.
This figure includes almost 20 million refugees. In November, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced a roadmap to address the issues on migrants and refugees. In response, the General Assembly decided to convene a high-level meeting on large movements of migrants and refugees on 19 September 2016. The Secretary-General has now appointed a Special Adviser to prepare the high-level meeting, Ms. Karen AbuZayd. “The rise in the number of international migrants reflects the increasing importance of international migration, which has become an integral part of our economies and societies.
Well-managed migration brings important benefits to countries of origin and destination, as well as to migrants and their families,” noted Mr. Herzog & de Meuron restores room designed by Louis C Tiffany. Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed the restoration of a 19th-century room at the Park Avenue Armory, a cultural building in Manhattan with interiors by Louis C Tiffany (+ slideshow). Called the Veterans Room, the refurbished space will host small-scale events, including recitals and lectures. It opens to the public this week and marks the latest in a series of restorations at the Armory building overseen by Herzog & de Meuron, which is better known for big, contemporary projects like the "bird's nest" National Stadium in Beijing.
Among the additions introduced by Herzog & de Meuron to complement the restoration are new wallpaper, light fittings and seating. Described as a "monument of late 19th-century decorative arts," the Veterans Room is one of the few surviving interior spaces in the world created by Louis C Tiffany and Co and Associated Artists. Other projects that were executed by the group include the Mark Twain House and five rooms within the White House.
Muslim fashion bloggers hacked, Donald Trump videos appear. Multiple Muslim fashion Instagram’s are being hacked, with the purportater posting threats and uploading Donald Trump related videos to the accounts. First spotted by Australian journalist Jennine Khalik, who outlined the hack in a string of tweets with screengrabs, many high profile Muslim accounts and bloggers have been targeted. Some bloggers and websites are reporting the hack came due to a spam email sent out asking users to enter their password to become verified by Instagram. Trump videos aren’t the only ammunition used by the hackers, with victims reporting a range of attacks from hateful emails to ransom demands, the privatisation of accounts and deleting of over 150,000 followers. Many of the targeted accounts are now up and running again under new guises, with the police reportedly involved and investigating the hacks.
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SelgasCano creates concept bookstore in East London. Can Bogotá's state-sanctioned street art survive a crackdown by the new mayor? | Cities. Review: Kendrick Lamar's "Untitled Unmastered" Moschino’s cigarette iPhone case: silly but totally on brand | Fashion. Am I rootless, or am I free? ‘Third culture kids’ like me make it up as we go along | Ndéla Faye | Opinion. Redrawing history: the feminist cartoonist putting women back in the picture. The 2011 riots taught us nothing: when will the young and dispossessed kick off again? | Bryn Phillips | Opinion. Brewdog gives free shares to Donald Trump. Where have the drinks ‘storytellers’ gone? Plinth Pop-Up London in collaboration with Ikon Gallery. Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design. The Vienna hotel where refugees welcome the guests | Travel.
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