nhow Hotel – Berlin
nhow Berlin is the new brand of the Spanish NH Hotel chain. According to the hotel, nhow is all about being ‘unconventional, life affirmative, constantly in movement, locally rooted while at home anywhere in the world — an idea, in other words, corresponding to lifestyle of the new creative class.’
The hotel opened in November 2010 and placed design, art and music at the heart of what it wanted to achieve. Therefore, in essence the hotel seeks to be the lifestyle hotel of choice among the burgeoning music scene in Berlin. So much so that the hotel even features its very own nhow Music Sound Floor, which is run by Hansa Studios – a place where singers such as U2, REM and David Bowie have recorded!
The architecture is by Sergei Tchoban, and has a striking presence compared to its surroundings. The interior is by the internationally known Karim Rashid, whose signature style is Pop Art – as you can clearly see from the interior! We absolutely love this hotel, it has strong principals and looks to die for, who wouldn’t want to stay at such a top class hotel?
The Youtube Piano
An interactive video by Kokokaka.com – release your inner Pianist and start your journey to musical famedome with the Youtube Piano. Not quite the seamless musical experience I was hoping for, and a bit clumsier than the two handed alternative, not to mention the nightmare for chords. Still – for the beginners out there: start learning those keys! Ideal for soothing your office with stuttering ‘twinkle twinkle little star’ like melodies. Wonderful.
Not bad for our first music related post at the myeOffice blog, eh.
Sound System for the Blind
Thousands of products hit the stores every day, but only a handful address the universal consumers to go beyond their initial production. Conceived by designer Paris Lowitz, the “Stereo for the Blind” is an innovative music player that treats both the visually impaired and the common user on equal merit. Users can adjust the volume of the player by rotating the gray textured dial back and forth. The size and the texture on the dial allow the visually impaired to differentiate between different dials. The music player makes use of SD cards, quite popularly in the blind community, to hold music and audio books. For having an SD Card slot on the device would create a convenient way for the blind to listen to the music on their home stereos. While the auxiliary input allows the blind, as well as normal users, plug in and listen to their MP3 devices through their home stereo
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[ Article Source: ParisLowitz ]