Softbank to invest up to $750 Million in Zume’s Pizza-Making Robots
Pizza-making robots named Pepe, Gorgio, Bruno, and Leonardo have things under control and with a big investment from Softbank coming, this could be the next big thing in pizza. California start-up Zume Pizza aims to deliver the worlds freshest pizza with its “Baked on the Way” delivery trucks. The custom-made Continue Reading
Globalshop 2018. Retail is not dead, It’s finally getting better.
Globalshop returned to the Windy City for 2018 after a 4 year run in Las Vegas. Chicago has always been one of my favorite cities, and it was this show, 18 years ago, that was my first business trip. I have been a designer within the retail industry for most of Continue Reading
The Most Funnest Water in The World.
How are you feeling today? #happy, #cool, #healthy, or perhaps #lazy or #grumpy? Now you can communicate mood with your water. Toronto based Moodwater has packaged Canadian Spring water with colourful “moodicons”. I have been working with Moodwater for a few years, helping them with their in-store merchandising. Moodwater is Continue Reading
Peak Design – The Silicon Valley Bag Company that funds its company from Kickstarter
Peak Design is the Silicon Valley Bag Company that funds its company from Kickstarter. Handbags may have always been the quintessential accessory for women. But with our love for technology, urban lifestyles and travel, men have driven a trend for the “do everything bag”. A simple filter in crowdsourcing site Continue Reading
Shaken not Stirred, Reynolds flies high with Aviation American Gin
Shaken not Stirred, Reynolds flies high with Aviation American Gin. Celebrities are investing in liquor companies like never before. Last year, George Clooney’s 4 year old tequila company Casamigos sold to Diageo for as much as $1 billion dollars. Clooney and friend Rande Gerber initially started making tequila for personal Continue Reading
Bad to the Bone. Bone Structure Homes is Rethinking the Building Industry.
Bad to the Bone, Bone Structure Homes is Rethinking the home building industry. I have always had a love for modern homes, the clean lines, open spaces and minimalist style. I have owned my home for 6 years now and have been very lucky, as the investment has been excellent. Continue Reading
Never Lose Suction… Dyson opens first Canadian Demo Store
The company that made vacuums cool is now opening demo stores. The first Canadian location in Toronto’s upscale Yorkdale mall allows consumers to test out products and learn more about the technology. This is the statement from Dyson: Dyson technology works differently, it is engineered to solve real problems. Continue Reading
The Cadillac sized Lamborghini Urus
Lamborghini has release the world’s first Super Sports Utility Vehicle, the Urus. This is a very important vehicle for Lamborghini as they look to double their sales in the hot high end market. They have created a whole new state of the art assembly plant in Sant’Agata Bolognese, opened new Continue Reading
We are Marshall
Christmas morning 2016, my family chats over espresso and Italian pastries, my mother is setting up the kitchen for a day of cooking and my dad is in the living room, checking the weather as usual. Around 10am, my mother asks, “shall we open the presents”? My brothers and I Continue Reading
BMW beware… The Italians are coming….
Repost from Feb. 2016. Update coming… Like many Industrial Designers, I had ambitions to become a car designer when I started design school, In fact, my thesis project coming out of Humber College Industrial Design program 16 years ago was designing a car. My love for automotive design never changed, Continue Reading