25 of the best Coolhunts - Fontys ACI

in Japan. Japan is absolutely one of the most densely populated
countries. People need to make the most of the space available.
Landpeel, call it a folding office, fits in perfectly. Also students do
not have much space. That obviously explains its appreciation
within this targetgroup.
“It’s something innovative and useful,
especially for the urban nomad with small apartments in a dense city”
Last year Landpeel was a reasonable success on the internet.
www.architecture-buzz.com for example is a site where many
designers meet each other. This often happens in the age of the
mega trend worldwide social web, as we saw before.
Only www.architecture-buzz.com does it a bit differently.
It asks visitors to buzz the presented ideas strongly on the internet.
Buzzing is actively supported by the website. Thus Landpeel was
buzzed all over the virtual universe.
Last summer we delivered a course on trendwatching and Coolhunting
with students from one of the prestigious universities
of China: Shanghai Institute of Technology (SIT) in Shanghai.
At the moment China is the factory of the world. The ambitions
of China go further. China also wants to learn how to design
creatively and how to innovate. They realize that trendwatching
and Coolhunting are an elementary professional occupation to
step successfully into the world of design and innovation.
That is the reason that they want to work together with a
professional academy such as International Lifestyle Studies.
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