I love going to restaurants that have paper tablecloths. It doesn’t happen often, but it’s especially nice when I’m stuck on a project and need to think outside the office. The last one I went to was a family-style restaurant down by the South Street Seaport. The food was terrible, but the paper tablecloth and bucket of crayons made up for it. In hindsight, they probably seated us in the kids section.
Anyway. What if there were a cafe where you could write on almost anything? Walls could be covered with chalkboard paint or even post-its like so:
Pixelnotes, by Sirkka Hammer and Duncan Wilson
Imagine paper tablecloths, paper plates, blank paper cups (all made from recycled material, of course):
The trays could be dry-erase boards, and, depending on which beverage or snack you ordered, you’d get a different-colored pen or marker. It’d be an awesome place for a brainstorm session or a writer looking for some inspiration. The best part is that when you’re done, all you have to do is fold your ideas up and take them with you. The cafe could even gather all the random scribbles and doodles that people leave behind and make a book out of the most interesting ones.
If only I lived in a world like that.
Awesome idea Jack! When I finally open a shack with my buddies on a beach in southern Goa, I will definitely try this out.
Great site - I’ll keep coming back for more.
Thanks Hrishi! Let me know when you open that beach shack… I’ll totally come and visit and write on the walls.
It is even better if a pencil brand sponsors the cafe
totally! or Sharpie!
There’s a coffee shop in Bristol, UK which does just this - one side of the wall is completely covered with small post-it note type things with people’s “top tens” of everything you could imagine. The other side is covered with people’s drawings. You can write or draw whatever you want, I’ve spent ages wandering around with a coffee reading the walls :)
that is such a great idea!! you should definatley make this! :O
wow that would be soo cool and fun =]