Category: Partnerships

Boss Orange Watches x Future Positive – Watch Test

We recently partnered up with Boss Orange and are very excited to present you one of the watches from their latest collection. Our selected watch is from Boss Orange Watches‘ New York line and its oversized case and unique looking dial make it one of our favourites. To test the watch, we decided to wear it on a normal day at our studio and also take it to a brainstorm session at our favourite local café.

What we liked the most about the watch is that it is very versatile and can be adapted to many different situations and outfits. We all know that first impressions matter and the way you present yourself in business and every day life is extremely important. When we dress, we always think about making a statement from head to toe and we found that the New York watch is the perfect accessory to complete the smart-casual look we tend to go for when we’re meeting new clients and colleagues from other creative businesses.

The watch features a silver stainless steel casing measuring approximately 50mm in width and 12mm in depth. It also has a polished stainless steel bracelet strap with fold over claps – its black and orange details and three hand movement dial make it eye-catching and easy to read at the same time. Plus, if you enjoy water sports, the watch is water resistant to 30 metres.

Soon, we’ll be giving away one of the new Boss Orange watches so keep an eye on our blog!

This is a sponsored post, written for BuzzParadise campaigns in partnership with BOSS Orange Watches.

November 10, 2014
Boss Orange Watches x Future Positive

Future Positive was born out of love for people leading creative, innovative projects and business. In the last couple of years, we’ve spoken with many young entrepreneurs and listened to their fascinating stories. It’s always interesting for us to hear about the motives for starting their projects.- often we hear that they couldn’t adapt to the corporate working environment or simply wanted to control their own destiny and feel satisfied with what they were creating.

Looking at some of our favourite projects on the site made us realise that it’s not simple to describe the entrepreneurial personality. People we feature on Future Positive are ambitious, independent, creative and visionary. Many of them make personal sacrifices to achieve their goals and make their dreams come true. What connects them all is their passion and love for their work, which makes them succeed and thrive.

In this spirit, we’re are very excited to introduce you to our latest partnership with BOSS Orange Watches. Dedicated to young people, BOSS Orange Watches provides the key for success through passion. The brand empowers people worldwide to express their personal lifestyle and to tap their full potential to succeed in whatever they do, which we can really relate to.

The latest collection is for those who value their individuality and cultivate mobility and spontaneity as parts of their personal mindset. Some of our favourite watches from the collection are inspired by travel and street design, and all of them are made from the highest quality materials to ensure they accompany you all the way through your journey to success.

The Brisbane family embraces a cool and urban style – the watches feature a stainless steel case and bracelet in dark grey and a mat finish. The Sao Paulo models are inspired by real divers watches and are the true interpretation of Boss Orange’s youthful spirit, featuring a stainless steel case and a black silicon strap. Our favourite style has to be the New York, with its oversized black case and a unique dial texture giving it a rough and unpolished look, completed with a folded steel bracelet featuring the same pattern as the dial.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be putting one of the watches from BOSS Orange new collection to test, so make sure you come back to see our review and find out more it!

This is a sponsored post, written for BuzzParadise campaigns in partnership with BOSS Orange Watches

October 11, 2014
Habitat AW14 Preview

Habitat is one of our favourite British brands. Shopping at their stores is always a treat and our studio is full of their products – we sip our morning espresso from a York porcelain mug and read next to the Bobby table lamp.

Last week, we attended the Autumn Winter 2014 collection preview hosted at Bargehouse, a raw, distinctive and atmospheric warehouse space in Oxo Tower Wharf on London’s South Bank.

For AW14, Habitat looked at the idea of ‘Variations’ exploring ways that materials and shapes can be put together and that designs can be fragmented, assembled and then re-assembled. These concepts have been applied across all areas of the collection.

We particularly like the New Scandinavian look which is clean, simple and elegant with its pure shapes and curved-off corners. We also enjoy the Walnut look which feels very contemporary with black metal elements and simple sculptural shapes. The patterns also caught our attention – choppy and spontaneous combinations of patterns were deconstructed and fitted back together to create a geometric jigsaw that is colourful, playful and fun.

Thanks to our London-based contributor Jess Maddock for attending and documenting the event, and Habitat for the invitation.

www.habitat.co.uk

June 29, 2014
Stay: Tune Hotel Liverpool St London

Last weekend one of the members of the Future Positive team travelled to London to meet some people and find inspiration for the website. Whilst planning the trip and looking for accommodation, Tune Hotels kindly offered us a discounted stay at their Liverpool St hotel. Scroll down to find out more about Igor’s stay at the hotel.

For those of you who haven’t heard about Tune Hotels before, they are a chain of hotels offering a great night’s sleep at a good price. They have several hotels in Asia and have recently expanded to the UK with hotels in London and Edinburgh.

Tune Hotel Liverpool Stis located in the heart of London’s East End, just under 5 minutes walk to Brick Lane. Despite its name, the hotel is actually not located on Liverpool St but on Folgate St, just off Commercial St (don’t forget to visit The Commercial Tavern) and 5 minutes away from Liverpool St Station. This is actually an advantage as you can avoid all the noise from the main streets and have a good night’s sleep.

The room had a really comfortable double bed and didn’t feel tiny as in other budget hotels. That was also the case with the bathroom which had a great shower and enough space to move around. The windows were facing the hotel’s patio which looked great for having an outdoors breakfast if you’re staying during summer.

The stay was great and it’s hard to find something similar in the area for a better price, considering how close it is to the East End’s main attractions. If you’re planning a trip to London and looking for a good value accommodation, definitely consider having a look at the four Tune hotels in the city!

January 30, 2014
Interview: Urbanears

Urbanears is a collective out of Scandinavia founded by Norra Norr, a Stockholm-based industrial design consultancy, and Zound Industries. Created in 2009, Urbanears, has changed the way we look at personal electronics.

The Urbanears headphones are made of coloured plastic, steel with aluminium detailing and handmade drivers. They are treated with a rubber coating that gives the headphone a matte look and a smooth feel. The headbands and cables are textile rather than plastic, making the products look and feel more like a fashion accessory rather than a mechanical product. The branding on each model is minimal and the overall design remains true to the Scandinavian design heritage.

We had the amazing opportunity to speak to Marcus Rudbäck, who is the design director and co-founder of Zound Industries and part of Norra Norr.

Could you tell us a little bit about your background; how you and your partners met, and started Norra Norr?

Marcus Rudbäck: I’m the design director and co-founder of Zound Industries and part of the design group Norra Norr. I had worked as a Industrial designer for many different companies and as a consultant before Zound Industries, and mainly together with Norra Norr and Syntes Studio which I co-founded.

My focus has been on consumer electronics, toys and games and sports equipment. Norra Norr is part of the collective that started Urbanears and founded the company Zound industries.

Norra Norr is the product design part of the founders that started the company but today we work full time and have a great team of designers and engineers to bring you new products that make people proud and hopefully happy.

The collective had a shared vision that we could make headphones and audio products relevant to the users and needs of the times we live in. We were pioneers with a inline mic and remote, as well as, the first to introduce legal music sharing through a smart extra socket which your friend can use to plug in an extra pair of headphones and listen together.

We met through a need to make it our way and the urge to make it real. We came from a 50% fashion background and 50% electronic industry but all of use were determined to make a difference in the headphone world. This is something we have already done and we aim to do for a long time – when we started, headphones where black or fake silver and only a few made you look good in the street or had the modern everyday user in mind.

How did you and your partners at Zound Industries come up with the idea of Urbanears? What the design process looked like?

MR: The man with the plan, Konrad Bergström, brought us together as a collective. We wanted to make designer headphones affordable and in many colours but still normal enough and with minimal branding so that people of any age or style can feel good rocking a pair of Urbanears – you can still choose a bright colour if you want to be different but a pair of black should still feel tailored, with fabric headband and a cord with minimalistic design features and some metal accents, real metal, no fake stuff on Urbanears : )

We strongly believe in design and innovation as well as good quality in everything we do: from the products to the campaigns, movies, etc. During every product development we try to add some new innovation and not only style to the people that wear them. For example: the friend plug in Plattan, cable lasso in Kransen, turn cable in Zinken and the snap lock in Bagis, washable headband and ear-cushions in Humlan and a DJ equipment in your pocket with Slussen.

Scandinavian design is praised for its simplicity and functionality around the world. What, in your opinion, influences Scandinavian aesthetics?

MR: As Industrial designers for Urbanears we strive to make very minimal design and we have a saying: when no one would remove anything else from a design, we try to get ride of three more unnecessary features, split-lines etc. We say internally that we have to design Urbanears products with a small brush keeping close attention to proportions, materials, details and finish.

Being Scandinavians we are very true to our heritage in engineering, acoustics and functionality, but we hope we bring some new edge and some rebel spirit alive between the lines in the products just by being true to what we believe in.

www.urbanears.com

December 8, 2013