This past weekend was my first trip to Flughafen Tempelhof for the DMY Festival.
This iconic example of Hitler’s vision for Europe is similar in intention and grandeur to the Olympia Stadion we visited the first week we were here. The now-defunct airport was touted as the world’s oldest operational commercial airport before it was closed [...]
Today was our group’s first urban beach experience. We left for lunch and came back two hours later, happy, relaxed, and sun-kissed. If you’ve never heard of one, an urban beach has all the accouterments of a typical ocean front restaurant, bar or venue, minus the actual ocean.
The one we went to today was along [...]
This has been a “what if” kind of week for Brand Lab Berlin, as we start brainstorming and sketching our ideas for Piz Buin thus far. “What if” exercises, which I first came in contact with during the Art Center Visioning of a few terms ago, can be a really fun way to loosen up [...]
I’ve been known to occasionally pretend that I’m a food blogger (because when you have a big camera and a restaurant owner offers you free food, what’s the harm), so I thought tonight I would share my very favorite Berlin pizza place. I don’t actually know what it’s called—because I’m not all that great of [...]
Sunday we went to the Friedrichshain flea market, which has become a popular BLB hang out. Vanessa and I found a booth selling cool old stuff from East Berlin, and we both went a little crazy when we saw these vintage drink labels. I’m not sure what I’ll do with them yet, but they are [...]
Right before our quarter-term-ish presentation to the Berlin School of Economics we had some crazy long nights at the studio. On Wednesday I stayed late (or early?) enough to catch the U-Bahn home at 4:30am, and on Thursday I took a 2am taxi. Awesome.
We actually found a pretty good kebab place in the Alexanderplatz U-Bahn [...]
On Thursday my lovely roommates Alice and Jenn geared up for a little weekend in Prague, and I got my first chance to visit the grand Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Central Station) after a change of plans led to some ticket shuffling. Hauptbahnhof is Europe’s largest two-level railway station, and was completed in 2006 on the site [...]
Sorry about the absence again—we just had crazy presentations in front of 35 MBA students from the Berlin School of Economics and the brand manager of Piz Buin, the company we are working on rebranding while we’re here. We spent the last week preparing for, freaking out about, and then giving said presentations. Lots of [...]
Last night Alice, Product Matt and I went to a club in Friedrichshain called Rosi’s to do a little “research”. On Thursdays the DJs play a mix of mostly American and British “Indie Pop” and we felt totally at home with a hundred of our closest German strangerfriends.
Berlin.Unlike (an excellent and comprehensive city guide) describes [...]
