Friday Link Pack

I, Pencil – lovely little film about how everything is connected. (via explore)

– This About Page made me laugh.

– I simply heart my friend Chris Glass who responded to my son’s #itshardbeingtwo series with this photo.

– Next time you make Bacon Pancakes, put on this song!

– This is fantastic. Congratulations to Paola Antonelli for adding 14 Video Games to the MoMA Collection. One can only imagine how many hours were spent on the phone by lawyers trying to negotiate this deal.

– Only one more day to apply to speak at the December CreativeMornings in Geneva, Milano, London or NYC.

– What if your cupcakes (or finger foods) could talk? What would they say? Get crafty and try it with these Mini Speech Bubble sheets.

– Filmmaker Robert Weide asks Woody Allen 12 questions that he’s never been asked before.

– My head exploded just a little bit. These patterned paint rollers are all kinds of amazing.

– Start every morning off with short history lesson while you’re waiting for the bus or eating breakfast. History.com’s This Day in History gives historical recaps of important events, inventions and people for each day in the calendar year. (via tinybop)

– If I was a small dog, I would vote for this couch.

– Next time you’re at a coffee shop, ask for a Zarf. (27 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names)

Typographer’s and their handwriting. (via aaron)

The Buy-Nothing Holiday Survival Guide

– Ever wondered what the Pantone value was of a certain country flag? Well, here you go. (via @davidairey)

– Cooper Hewitt’s Object of the Day.

– Need some gift ideas? Check out the massive Coolhunting gift guide.

– Did you catch Craig Mod’s article on Subcompact Publishing?

– Tattly now has gift cards! We couldn’t be more excited.

– Thinking about buying a Christmas Stand? Appartment Therapy has a nifty guide.

– Become part of Studiomates, my coworking space, by applying for the Lead App Designer position at Tinybop.

Stina Persson Print

A beautiful new print by Stina Persson.

What’s Your Best Piece of Advice?

At the last CreativeMornings/NewYork we asked: What’s your best piece of advice. Here are some of the answers.



All photos by the wonderful Katherine Jones.

Life

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin

(via Jay Parkinson)

Anticipation vs. anxiety

“When you work with anticipation, you will highlight the highs. You’ll double down on the things that will delight and push yourself even harder to be bold and to create your version of art. If this is going to work, might as well build something that’s going to be truly worth building.”
Seth Godin

The Wisdom of Crowds

Taken from an interesting post over on brain pickings explaining the wisdom of crowds.

Just launched: Tattly Gift Site

For the past few months my team has been working hard on a brand new gifting site for Tattly. And today’s the day, we finaly launched gift.tattly.com. All of our gift items will conveniently live at one place where it’s simple to purchase, ship and send a little handwritten note to anyone in the world. My team thought of everything and even made it easy to ship to multiple people at different addresses in a single transaction.

You can now get gift cards, choose between three gift sets and the 6-month-Tattly-subscription is finally back!

A big thank you to Yoko for the design, Rusty for concepting and managing the project, Oak for building the site and to Julia for her photomagic.

Let us know what you think: gift.tattly.com

“Don’t Open Til Christmas” Packing Tape

How beautiful and brilliant is this packaging tape by Paperfinger that clearly gets the message across to the receiver that he is not allowed to open the package until Christmas?

♥ / The Animal Print Shop

A big thank you to Sharon Montrose for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed.

The Animal Print Shop offers sophisticated animal art for all ages. Our fine art prints are beloved by parents as nursery art, but adults appreciate their modern simplicity as well.

This is an exciting week over at The Animal Print Shop! Our once-a-year holiday sale is happening until 12/1 and we’ll be welcoming two new releases to our best-selling Little Darlings series. Check out our blog to stay in the loop.


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Custom Calligraphy Return Address Stamp

Here’s the ultimate gift for calligraphy lovers: A custom calligraphy return address stamp by Paperfinger.

What’s The Future Of Work?

IDEO and the Collaborative Fund ask the question: What’s the future of work? What will you work for? Can you make a living doing what you love?

Willworkfor.org gets you thinking about how you can focus your career around what you are passionate about. Thumbs up.

More than Plumbing

(via CreativeMornings)

Concrete Pen

Dustin Faddis had the idea to create a concrete pen! And he made it happen. The pen has a name, Contribute, and a Kickstarter campaign to help kickstart production.

Maddie on my Desk

Do you know about Maddie On Things, the dog from the internet? Well, she just visited Studiomates and took the opportunity to stand on my desk. My year has been made. I don’t think I have ever been this excited about a studio visit.

And if you are as big of a Maddie fan as I am, you might want to know that she has a book coming out. I just pre-ordered my copy. Congrats to Theron Humphrey, Maddie’s owner, for starting the Maddie phenomenon.

Talk about a cool dog and dog owner power house.

A Somewhat Unlucky House

A somewhat unlucky house“, art by Beata Rydén.

(Thank you Thomas)

The Magic of Sugru

This is the best product video I have seen in a long time. I would like to invite the charming Sugru gentleman to come and hang out with us at Tattly and make a video. Yes?

Dog Camera Cozy

This Dog Camera Cozy just put the biggest smile on my face. Congrats to Sarah Goldschadt, the crafty mastermind.

About

Mr. Will Vincent has the best about page. (Scroll down.)

A Beautiful Bamboo Toothbrush

The BogoBrush is a biodegradable bamboo toothbrush. It’s not only environmentally friendly but also beautifully designed. AND, your purchase does good: When you buy a Bogobrush, they send the same high quality brush to you and to someone in need.

Let’s help them make this happen, I just preordered mine. Join me? (This would make for an awesome holiday gift, by the way!)

Terry Haggerty

I have just completely fallen in love with Terry Haggerty’s body of work.

(via aaron)

Wasting your Time

“If you say that money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time: You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is, in order to go on doing things you don’t like doing — which is stupid!”

– Allan Watts

(via Brainpicker)

What would you do if money was no object…

Allan Watts asks: What would you do if money was no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

(via @shwizle)

Space Suit Design in 1977

Hubert Vykukal demonstrates the mobility of his Hardsuit AX-3 Space Suit design. All kinds of fascinating!

Lid Sid



Lid Sid will keep the covers of your pots and pans open when they need some air‭, ‬and will raise smiles whenever you use him‭.‬ What a fun gift for friends that love to cook but have everything.