January 2010
11 posts
Last Week, I was very fortunate to meet Jana Eggers (@jeggers), the global CEO of Spreadshirt.
Like chocri, Spreadshirt started out in Germany with custom t-shirts, and then expanded to the US three years later. For many of us mass customizers, spreadshirt is a great example to look up to - the idea of mass customization was about where it is today in the US (hardly known) and yet the Spreadshirt...
Milk Or Sugar International Directory of Mass... →
A Dutch based agency started this review and comparison site of mass customized products. They are doing a great job, but I think they’re still missing quite a few companies, and they don’t have the neat articles that the (German) site http://www.egoo.de has. Nevertheless, a great place to look, especially for personalized gifts.
Black tea with tomatoes?
stens:
via foodpairing.be
I know that some people drink black tea with milk, but with tomatoes? That’s one option recommended by foodpairing.be, a new approach to get information about possible food combinations. I personally like the idea although it’s not well implemented yet. Especially food is - in my mind - a very underestimated sector. There are many sites providing recipes and there are...
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Customized Jeans →
Custom made jeans from California based IndiDenim
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Why Small Firms Have An Advantage
A while ago, I noticed that there are a lot of success stories about startups taking on the adventure of mass customization, but that some of the big companies ceased their mass customization efforts.
Levi’s used to offer custom jeans - no more. Land’s End allowed you to design your own clothing - merely dress shirts are offered tucked away into a corner of their website. General...
Mass Customization Directory in German →
Heiko from egoo.de writes articles about mass customization companies and has an exhaustive list of mass customization available in German. If you speak German - this is the best place to go to!
Mass Customization In Different Countries
I posted this early today on chocri’s blog:
Today I googled mass customization (well, mass customisation) in the UK - and found nothing. Now, I might not be the most versed googler and also didn’t spend too much time on it, but how can there be no examples of mass customization in the UK? I even shouted it out on twitter (I tweet about mass customization with my @papillonc account),...