The MIT Senseable City Lab recently unveiled a new app allowing users to create and order their own cocktail creations (alchoholic or non-) of choice, which is then mixed, poured and served by a bartender robot. Developed in collaboration with Coca-cola and Bacardi Rum, the Makr Shakr offers over 100 drink choices, allowing for co-creation of drinks between friends, and sharing of recipes, ingredients and photos via the app. The robot arms elegantly pour mixes, peel lemons, and shake drinks thanks to gestures based on ballet dancer Roberto Bolle’s movements, which were filmed and used to program the robot’s movement.

Often all of the tools of presentation around fashion – runway, shop window, and store designs – make the clothes themselves much more interesting. Frame magazine has a great round-up of examples of ten of the best windows, runways and displays in fashion lately. Included are the spacey change room cocoons at Dover Street Market by Patkau Architects, an exhibition of Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs at Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and Berlin’s Bread and Butter presentation of the massive Tempel of Denim – where “guests” sat at the runway/communal table drinking wine as models walked the center.

Creative consultancies and agencies are always looking for ways to encourage creativity, while maintaining efficiency. And as they say, if you’re stuck in a rut – creative or otherwise – sometimes all you need is a change of scenery to shake things up. This is the idea behind Londoner Nick Couch’s concepts “Free Desk Here,” and “Open Studio Club.” Both are simple websites, connecting creatives who are either looking for a space, or looking to share their space. With Free Desk Here, creative agencies can post an image of their workspace and a general idea of who they’re looking for, applicable freelancers get a desk for a day, and both gain new connections and a fresh presence.