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Designed by RMAC | Country: Portugal
“From the perspective of the harvest moon, a certain time of the day in which the olives’ qualities are at their peak and give rise to an exceptional quality olive oil, creating a single bottle that can be identified at first glance. A literal approach, which plans to merge in a unique way the night’s darkness (matte black bottle) and the moon’s glowing brightness (silver cover and screen print on the bottle), which illuminates the olives and gives it a very special character.”








So, not the sort of thing, a hostel – but then, as the designers of this surprisingly offbeat Bangkok hostel put it, “good thing that low tech is in again”. Indeed, whilst high-end boutique properties are stripping back to exposed concrete, Bangkok’s designLAB have opted for said trends out of necessity. Rough and ready it may be – we’ll probably hold off on checking in ourselves – but Lub d masters the art of ‘fit for purpose’, offering a quirky, bright and utterly inviting atmosphere that just screams “fun” – just take the local tip illustrations in each room as an example, the perfect social ice-breaker encouraging guests to ask “what does your room suggest”. Original, engaging and intelligently conceived, this is one hostel that’s worthy of our attentions…


A l’occasion de la sortie de ce jeu en application iPhone : Zombigotchi par Finkbom, voici cette courte vidéo et animation dirigée par Mikey Please et produite par James Botey. Il met en scène un papertoy sur une table de travail. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.