Renata Ortega’s vision of a more fun, hipster, different, cultural, graphic, colourful and special Barcelona!  

Also a very fun poster to have in a hotel (or office). We agree with this!  

LifeEdited. Design your life to include more money, health and happiness with less stuff, space and energy. A project by Graham Hill. Very inspirational! Current hotels are definitely in need to be edited!

Good design works for People, Planet & Profit! Let’s go for the Triple Bottom Line.  

Very cool infographic! “In the US, hotels create 1.9 billion lbs of waste each year, enough to fill 37 million suitcases” To see all the facts, visit the Do not disturb campaign!  

It seems our hotel idea is the new challenge, great!! We are definitely up for making the prefect social hotel come true! (Thanks Steve W. for the tip!)  

A nice idea to provide guests with a running route starting at the hotel… Via Monocle  

A rough layout for the hotel, with spaces to relax, play, work, eat and socialise. By Petz Scholtus.  

If this is your house (c/ de l’Encarnaciò in Gracia) and you’re not using it, please get in touch! I have a business offer for you.

Photo by Zita Oberwalder for derStandard.at “Superfluous pomp and awkward hospitality are simply an unnecessary burden for modern travelers. In fact, what they really want is precisely the opposite: a fast and uncomplicated change of locations, an attractive hotel design and a […]

Soon we will be looking for crowd funding… let us know if you’re interested!  

Listen to the shampoo and save water in the shower. A nice awareness raising soap, perfect for hotels. Stop the water while using me.  

It just occurred to me that if you could have Tyler Brûlé work with Victor Papanek, you might have gotten the perfect hotel design!

I love this fantastic flow-chart of what people really need by Victor Papenek (one of my gurus!) from his book Design for the Real World  

Here’s Petz’s view on eco-design and its role in Spain at the moment, as told to Monográfica magazine in 2011. Entrevista a Petz Scholtus from Monográfica.org on Vimeo.