Loving the TODAY Daily Calendar by Matthew Hoffman.
Tolerations
“One of the things I focus on most when trying to reduce the anxiety in my own home is something called tolerations. Tolerations are things that need attention: shoes that need to be resoled, a drawer handle that is coming loose, a pile of bills that needs to be paid.”
Ways to reduce anxiety in your home through design, by Ingrid Fetell Lee
Are you a giver or a taker?
Always coming back to this TED Talk by Adam Grant based on his book Give and Take.
I Feel Great
Currently wearing this Adam J. Kurtz Tattly. 2017 is going to be GREAT!
Online Knitting Reference Library
This Online Knitting Reference Library post over on Open culture made me laugh. Go and Download 300 Knitting Books Published From 1849 to 2012!
Teenager Tribe Memberships
“I can’t overstate the significance of a teenager’s tribe membership,” Damour writes. “Teenagers aren’t just looking to make friends, they are replacing the family they have withdrawn from (or at least might barely acknowledge in public) with a tribe they can feel proud to call their own.”
There is a psychological term for that thing mean girls do to each other, by Jenny Anderson
Thrive
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
– Maya Angelou
Sennheiser X FREITAG
Wow! Sennheiser and FREITAG collaboration: Headphones individualized with a piece of recycled truck tarp in a rugged FREITAG case. Love this!
Wonky Grid Duvet Cover
Uh oh! Loving these wonky grid duvet covers!
CDR Original Drawings
Love these simple original drawings by Christopher David Ryan.
Pocket-Sized Duct Tape
Now you can finally carry Duct tape easily with you wherever you go: Pocket-friendly Duct Tape. It’s the little things, people!
Freezing soap bubbles
This is stunning.
Embroidered Portraits
Stunning embroidered portraits by artist Cayce Zavaglia.
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Friday Link Pack
Not entirely sure why but for some reason Dinner for One is something we watched every New Years Eve growing up in Switzerland.
– After years of intensive analysis, Google discovers the key to good teamwork is being nice. Doh!
– Amazon and Goodwill team up to use empty shipping boxes! Smart!
– One Shot is a new kind of online gallery. For each edition, they commission a world-class photographer to shoot a single roll of film and then sell prints of the exclusive shots. The twist is that each One Shot photo is printed in an edition of one and sold sight unseen—meaning that buyers won’t know what their 1/1 shots look like until after they’ve received them in the mail. LOVE THIS!
– This world map reveals what each country does best. (via CreativeMornings Newsletter)
– Sleep right under the Northern Lights in this futuristic glass igloo.
– Oh, the possibilities: The first ever mass production kinetic display.
– Loving this Oak tray.
– Wow. This is a beautiful print wall calendar/planner.
– How did I not know about Honey?
– Florist quietly adorns weathered public statues with elaborate flower bouquets. So good.
– bionicTOYS are flexible building bricks for new LEGO® play
– 99 Reasons 2016 Was a Good Year
– MailChimp demystifies that ominous three letter word: SEO.
– 11 Netflix Picks You Can Watch With the Whole Family
– Books on being better. I hope this site will keep growing.
– Presenting the most stunning space photos of 2016
– Any parent with a super picky eater will appreciate the adorable idea behind Milton.
– A Nobel prize-winning physicist identified three simple steps to mastering any subject
– What can you or I do about Trump? Here’s 5 things each of us should do this week.
– These simple tricks can help you avoid binge eating without relying on your willpower
– Oh, this Fibonacci clock is cool.
– We will CONQUER 2017. Won’t we?
How Stamps Get Designed
Learn what goes into designing a stamp for the U.S. Postal Service. (But wait, that FOREVER stamp, wasn’t that designed by Jessica Hische? Doesn’t it sound like he’s taking credit for it in this video?)
2017?
— Tina Roth Eisenberg (@swissmiss) December 28, 2016
HabitStrap
Love the analog and very visual, always present idea behind the HabitStrap. Backed the project on Kickstarter and will give it a try!
Primer and Twin Primer Machine
Weirdly intrigued by this simple looking hand made machine. Press the button and it spins up to the next prime number. That’s it. Nothing else. So nerdy and refreshing. See it in action here.
Soul
(via @DesignCrush)
Let’s Channel our Inner Bumblebees:
According to the laws of arrodynamics the bumblebee can't fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it just carries on flying around.
— Hiut Denim Co (@hiutdenim) December 28, 2016
German Words We Need In English
German words that the English language desperately needs given the current political climate.