This is a call for all creative minds.
Imagine: a world without your favorite international magazines. A world without travelling to new exciting places. A world without your beloved blogs. Imagine, a world without any inspirational source, whether it is print, online or experience. Does it hurt? It does.
The good news: there are millions of sources when it comes to stay ahead of contemporary culture.
The bad one: We are always hungry. Feeding the inspiration beast costs a lot of time (when crawling through the youtube jungle) and sometimes money (when spending …

Gestern war einer dieser Sonntage, der sich angefühlt hat wie hellblaue Luft mit Teilchenbeschleunigern. Er begannt mit einem Berliner Morgen und einem, in der Tat raren, Phänomen: Sonne. Die Bettdecke wurde hektisch beiseite geschüttelt, die Körper in Mäntelchen gehüllt und das Auto Richtung Tiergarten gepeitscht.

Super! Sonne, Luft, so was wie Bäume, und alle anderen noch beim Ausschlafen unter elterlicher Heimataufsicht.  Ganz viel Muse zum einatmen, bis die Nase einfrier und den obligatorischen Kaffee in Kombination mit den liebsten Eskapismusmagazinen, die den Plan für die vier Wochen Auswanderung im Dezember 09 …

As the digital society grows so does the need for places that strike you with ambiance, your favorite coffee special, working space and enormous people-watching/working possibilities. You all do have one: your favorite coffee shop you would visit every day (no, I can’t imagine a life without this one anymore!):

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But I propose it is time, to bring the “St. Oberholz style” on a whole new level. Let’s dig into design.
Even my personally not so beloved coffee shop Starbucks is rethinking its entire interior strategy.
As impressively bespoken by the Architect …

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I was lucky to be invited to a concert of the Danish National Orchestra in Berlin’s Philharmony. The architecture always strikes me and I feel both: strongly touched by its monumental shape and at the same time kind of ashamed that I don’t come here more often. Why is it so terribly difficult to change contexts more often? One the one hand we are constantly seeking for inspiration, running to every new thing that appears at the horizon (or at least on our facebook site) but it seems there …

I used to be a strategic brand consultant working in a lovely agency until this little bee started grumbling into me: fly like a butterfly stink like a bee…which I translated into: go and follow your heartbeat. I did. And quit my job…