May 2011
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Heineken Limited Edition
Once again embracing design, music and the global fashion scene - Heineken has begun to roll out a limited edition set of cans pairing metropolitan skylines with instruments and equipment including an electric guitar, drums, headphone & a turntable. Cool stuff!
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Kanon Organic Vodka
Hailing from Sweden (like one if its infamous counterparts, SVEDKA), Kanon Organic Vodka has launched itself onto the wine and spirits scene lately with a full-scale rebranding campaign, a new website and its very own Coachella party.
Organic vodkas have been around for awhile now, but they tend to position themselves as earthy and responsible rather than cool and modern. Kanon,...
107 Spring Drinks "in Bloom" at Grubstreet →
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"The Bender as Botox"
Provocateur, one of the most faux-notorious and exclusive Meatpacking destinations for young clubbers set on conspicuous consumption, is literally stirring up controversy with a new cocktail program that supposedly doubles as a day at the spa. Since the health merits of alcohol have been debated for centuries now - at once both supposedly curative (one...
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The Ice Cube Review
With the world of mixology expanding to the point of no return, people of all tastes and persuasions are beginning to attempt to build finely-crafted cocktails at home. Much like how some famous Japanese chefs swear to their death that the key to perfect sushi is the rice, much time and attention has recently been spent discussing the importance of ice...
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Negroni piece over at ACL →
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Tempus Fugit Spirits & Absinthe
Despite a slightly hard to navigate website, Tempus Fugit is doing a great job in the cutting-edge field of importing newly legalized absinthes to the US. In addition to the fickle absinthe market, they’ve broken into the field of rare and exotic liqueurs as well, importing such peculiarities as the enticing Liqueur de Violettes pictured below and...
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Dos Equis' "Feast of the Brave" Truck
Going along with their brilliant “Most Interesting Man in the World” campaign concept, in order to celebrate Cinco de Mayo Dos Equis has launched a food truck in Manhattan that will be serving out some particularly interesting dishes all week. The truck serves free tacos filled with the likes of tongue, ostrich, veal brain and crickets created by Chef Domingo Garza to pair along...
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WatchMinivegas recently created this interactive mirror in Milan for Heineken that allowed users to create light art on site with their own body gestures. The effort utilized the creative collective’s proprietary graphics framework Atlantis, described on the Minivegas site as:
“A set of user interface components suitable for the rapid assembly of artist tools, which together with a persistent data...
