Squarespace Note is a clean, minimalist, note-taking application that can push your thoughts to email, Evernote, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, and, yes, Squarespace. Note is unique from most existing note applications in that it’s not used as a database, but a passthrough. It becomes the first place you go to push text to various services.
I constantly send myself email notes on the go, the Note App will make this process so much smoother.
(via Techcrunch)
Illustration by Lisa Congdon.
Soulver is faster than a spreadsheet and easier to use than a calculator. With Soulver you can use words alongside your numbers to give them context. Looking back later, your math actually makes sense. For example: Type “35% off 300K” and Soulver instantly displays the answer: 195,000.
This app is for me!
(via this fantastic list of productivity apps put together by Shopify)
I applaud Herman Miller for the absolutely wonderful Why Design Video Series, in which they explore the world through the eyes of designers.
Martin Schmid, Art School Teacher at Schule für Gestaltung in St.Gallen, Switzerland sent me the above image of type potato stamps he did with his students. Each student did two letters. It put a big smile on my face and yes, I am totally going to do this with Ella.
A big thank you to Treehouse for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed.
Treehouse is the best way to learn how to design and develop for the web and iOS.
(Interested in sponsoring a week of my RSS feed, learn more here.)
“You can’t be a ‘Negative Nancy’ and create great things. I’ve watched mergers, acquisitions, breakups, sales, and all the lost productivity that comes with hallway conversation that does absolutely nothing for the company or your career. It’s just pointless.”
– Cheryl Bachelder, Popeyes CEO in this interview
(via Michael S Galpert)
Now look at this! West Elm Market is a completely new concept from West Elm filled with clever, hard-working, time-saving, clutter-busting solutions for everyday living. The first store, West Elm Market Brooklyn, will open October 25th in DUMBO. Yay to this!
Love that they have a Made in the USA category.
I haven’t been this excited about a book in a while: My Ideal Bookshelf is all about the books that we choose to keep, as they can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In My Ideal Bookshelf, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most; books that define their dreams and ambitions and in many cases helped them find their way in the world.
Some of my contributor highlights include Christoph Niemann, Stefan Sagmeister, Alec Soth, Gina Trapani, Maira Kalman, Malcolm Gladwell, Oliver Jeffers, Paola Antonelli and John Maeda. See the full list of contributors here
The book includes dozens of colorful and beautifully hand-rendered images of book spines by the lovely Jane Mount.
Ok, my day is shot, I just discovered the Muppet Wiki.
Team Tattly is celebrating Food Day by wearing our Vegetable Tattly. Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement for healthy, affordable, and sustainable food.
For those days when you need an emergency compliment.
I stumbled upon this Tree of Ideas over on Etsy. What a lovely idea! Would love to create one for my kids.
Hey designers, book lovers and design enthusiasts; Don’t miss this weekend’s Designers & Books Fair 2012.
The list of exhibitors and speakers is nothing short of breathtaking. Check out the full program and get your tickets before it’s too late. A few presentations that caught my eye:
– Book Design at Pentagram with Michael Bierut, Abbott Miller, Emily Oberman, Eddie Opara, Paula Scher and DJ Strout (info)
– Karim Rashid in Conversation with Debbie Millman (info)
– Steven Heller and Louise Fili: A Conversation with Debbie Millman (info)
Check the full calendar of this weekend’s Designers & Book Fair. Hat tip to Steve Kroeter for making this happen!
Diego Stocco did it again: After creating a series of videos where he performed a multi-track piece with an instrument he designed, he decided to take the concept a step farther and create his own orchestra made of unusually unique instruments.
The project started by handcrafting a diverse selection of instruments, then he wrote a composition where he could fit them all in and finally performed each part. Impressive.
Hamburg-based artist Robert Rickhoff invades public space with humor through a series of digitally manipulated photographs in his Bachelor project entitled ‘Out of Place’.
“The best elevator pitch doesn’t pitch your project. It pitches the meeting about your project. The best elevator pitch is true, stunning, brief and it leaves the listener eager (no, desperate) to hear the rest of it. It’s not a practiced, polished turd of prose that pleases everyone on the board and your marketing team, it’s a little fractal of the entire story, something real.”
– No one ever bought anything on an elevator, by Seth Godin
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.”
– William Butler Yeats
(Via the Happiness Project)
Spell out your custom message with this personalized banner using re-useable letters. Includes 100 multicolored letters with spacers, links, and hanging strings. Oh, the possiblities!
John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology, concluding with a picture of creative leadership in the future. Watch for demos of Maeda’s earliest work — and even a computer made of people.
Interested in John’s thinking on leaderhip? Check out his most recent book Redesigning Leadership (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life).
A site offering an overview of top tech companies and their revenue models across ads, subscriptions, affiliates, data, freemium, and royalties.
(via Amrit)
I listened to an incredibly fascinating Radiolab episode on Color and learned about the mighty Mantis Shrimp. It has the most sophisticated visual system in the world, as its eyes contain 16 different types of photoreceptors (12 for color analysis, compared to humanity’s 3 cones). Mantis shrimps can thus see polarized light and 4 colors of uv light, and they may also be able to distinguish up to 100,000 colors (compared to the 10,000 seen by human beings).
Do yourself a favor and listen to the Color Radiolab Podcast.
(image by p@ragon)
This must be the cutest headphone splitter roaming mother earth.
(Thanks Kevin)
