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Barbie's super dooper 5-storey flagship store in Shanghai closing its doors after just 2 years. It follows the failed attempts of B&Q and US Best Buy and Home Depot to crack the China market this year, begging the question - what are they doing wrong?  Read more

Digital and Shopper Convergence    Another trend we're seeing more and more of is the Pop-Up Store. What's really interesting is purely online retailers creating a space for themselves on the high-street, such as eBay and Lastminute.com. This is really blurring the line between online and offline - consumers can browse items and then pay for them on...

A very cool project that created 3D models out of conference attendees using Kinect and 3D printer http://bit.ly/i8fxZ0

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OK so it's kinda cool - but you'd be pretty sick of it after about....2 minuteshttp://www.trendhunter.com/trends/mr-beam-living-room

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via flickr.com Brazilian illustrator Fabio Rex has created a really simple graphic recipe guide to create perfect cocktails, from the Margarita to the Caipirinha to Long Island Iced Tea.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663071/a-field-guide-for-identifying-lovely-typefaces-spotted-in-the-wild http://fontsinuse.com/

I like this Idea... this was was posted on a blog and now if you search for this string of numbers on google images you get this   http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=241543903&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=...

Clever but riducuolus and very very funny

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Craig Ward created this image and accompanying video with Ian Wright in to promote the work of AIDS charity (RED) for World AIDS Day this year. Read more

"Remember that time you saw all those awesome Coming Soon pages and wanted to make one for that new idea of yours? Then you realized how annoying it was to make one. Not anymore. Capturely give...

Very clever use of RFID chips - food for shopper thoughts. 

Users expect websites to work on their mobile phones. In two to three years, mobile support will become standard for any site. Web developers must add mobile web development to their skill set or risk losing clients. How do you make websites mobile compatible? The simple answer is to test on all mobile devices and fix any problems you encounter. But with...

http://nikebetterworld.com The new nike site from W+K, beautiful design that works perfectly with a nice Parallax scrolling action. The site...