I just spent an eternity browsing Post Typography. Go, get your mind blown.
#impressed
New Tattly Packaging
Team Tattly is quite excited about today’s launch of our brandnew set packaging. Our 12 sets now come in a visual sleeve, printed on beautiful Mohawk paper. Each set contains 8 Tattly (all made in the US) and retails at $15. The photos are by our amazing photographer Julia Robbs.
I am so incredibly proud of my hardworking team. Without them Tattly would never be what it is today! Please allow me to give my team a virtual-blog-ovation: Yay for Rusty, Bekka, Yoko, Julia, Mary and Jen!
Check out our 12 sets!
Interested in carrying Tattly in your store? Go here.
Time to ditch the job title?
Mash-up! features stories from people who have “mashed up” their careers and of organizations from a range of industries. Obviously the days of being defined by a single job title are vanishing. The future of business is project-based, rather than role-based, and the people who will thrive in this kind of economy are labeled by Fast Company as “Generation Flux” – adaptable, multi-talented people with “a mind-set that embraces instability, that tolerates – and even enjoys – recalibrating careers, business models and assumptions.”
Watch Ian Sanders, co-author of “Mash-up! talk about the book in this brief video. Just downloaded the Kindle edition, can’t wait to start reading it tonight.
Elegantissima
Elegantissima is the first monograph on Louise Fili‘s work and covers the breadth of her nearly forty-year design career. Featuring case studies showing sketches, references, inspiration, and design process, it’s a must-have for graphic design students and professionals, as well as anyone interested in advertising, food, restaurants, Italy, and books.
It’s a beauty of a book!
Clopen
It doesn’t happen often that I gasp when I see something. But the Clopen shelf managed to get exactly that reaction. The floating shelf was designed by Japanese Torafu Architects and uses magnetic keys to open a secret 23 mm thick drawer. A perfect place to hide your valuables.
Leather Mouse Pad
I admit I am not big on Mouse Pads but this one, by Freshly Picked might convince me otherwise. Susan was so generous to give me one at Alt Summit a few weeks ago and I love it. They’re handmade and come in neon yellow, neon pink/red, neon purple, gold, white and charcoal.
Also, if you have little ones, check out the Freshly Picked Moccasins.
Inbox Pause
With INBOX PAUSE, you can put incoming email messages on hold, so they won’t appear in your Inbox until you are ready for them.
(Haven’t tried it yet, but will!)
(via @startupcfo)
A History of New York in 50 Objects
Here’s an interesting New York Times Article by Sam Roberts explaining New York’s History in 50 Objects.
Congrats to the Mast Brothers for being the example of how Brooklyn is booming these days.
Cool Lunch
Now this is a modern take on a portable mini cooler bag. Designed by Jakob Wagner for Menu A/S Denmark. Two swissmiss thumbs up.
A good one
“Whatever you are, be a good one!”
– Abraham Lincoln
(via @ohjoystudio)
Exobrain
Exobrain is a Brainstorming tool and interactive web application that lets you visualize your thoughts, finds unique connections between words, and pushes past obvious ideas.
Reminds me of my Visual Thesaurus days when I was the Design Director at Thinkmap.
Friday Link Pack
Now that’s a surprising way to separate the yolk from an egg white. (via @sawyerh)
– Reddit launched reddit Donate. Chosen and embedded by subreddits, the donate button allows reddit communities to raise awareness and channel donations directly to like-minded 501(c)(3) nonprofits. It was created as a side-project from a handful of redditors at Dwolla, and in partnership with Stripe. Reddit Donate does not move, hold, or process funds. All that said, all they want you to do is: Do Good. Yes!
– This leather lanyard is beautiful.
– How to pronounce artists’ names. (via @doorsixteen)
– Shazam-style app shows who funded political TV ads. (via brainpicker)
– Did you watch Jonathan Harris’ thoughtful CreativeMornings talk?
– Superhappy about Freshbooks launching their iphone app this week.
– On Quora: What did you learn being a police officer about society? (via)
– I never wanted to live on a houseboat, until I saw this.
– Self-portraits from an artist under the influence of 48 different psychoactive drug combos. (via @mikeindustries)
– Last week at Alt Design Summit I had the pleasure to meet the two folks behind Sweet Paul Magazine. I got my hands one one their latest issue and am impressed how they put out such a high quality magazine with such a small team.
– Got some British Friends and a happy occasion? Get this!
– I dooooooon’t care. Made me laugh.
Bernini Sans
I absolutely *love* Bernini Sans, a new type family by Tim Ahrens! Excited to know that it’s available on Typekit!
(via Jason Santa Maria)
Bubble Backpack
The Bubble Backpack by MadPax makes me want to be a kid again! Ella is starting first grade next week and I tried to convince her that this backpack would make an awesome school bag. Unfortunately she doesn’t agree.
But, it comes in grown-up size as well. Hmm….
Slinky Study
Incredibly fascinating slow-motion footage of how a slinky falls when extended by its own weight and then released!
(via the kidshouldseethis)
♥ / FontFont
A big thank you to FontFont for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed.
FontFont is driven by their love for type and typography and their library is home to many of the world’s most popular fonts like FF DIN, FF Meta, FF Dax, FF Scala, FF Kievit and FF Tisa.
One of the newest additions to the library is Travis Kochel’s FF Chartwell a fantastic typeface for creating simple graphs. Driven by the frustration of creating graphs within design applications (primarily Adobe Creative Suite) and inspired by typefaces such as FF Beowolf and FF PicLig, Travis saw an opportunity to take advantage of OpenType technology to simplify the process.
Using OpenType features, simple strings of numbers are automatically transformed into charts. The visualized data remains editable, allowing for hassle-free updates and styling. FF Chartwell for desktop was released back in May and since then they have been working hard to come up with a version suitable for the web. FF Chartwell Web will be released in mid-September, follow FontFont on twitter for updates.
(Interested in sponsoring a week of my RSS feed, learn more here.)
Marvellous
For that marvellous person in your life.
A Publisher
“What is a publisher anymore, anyway? A blog is a magazine. A magazine a blog. A newspaper a WordPress install. A Twitter account a journalist.”
– Craig Mod
Our New Shrines, by Craig Mod
(via explore)
Geometric Pendants
I found these Geometric Pendants on Etsy, they are ready to be painted! Sounds like a fun art project I can do with my six year old. #wishlisted
Geometry Set Jotters
These are quite stylish notebooks. Each 50 page book has a patterned cover and is bound in a foiled paper jacket and comes with plain white pages.
(via small for big)
Make
“Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make.”
– John Cage
Taken from Some Rules for Students and Teachers, attributed to John Cage, but originates from celebrated artist and educator Sister Corita Kent.
Balancing Elephant
I hope I’ll be someday able to see the balancing elephant by French artist Daniel Firman up close. Stunning.
(via bblinks)
On the Right Path
“…the first part of learning to say NO is learning to accept that offers and opportunities are merely an indication that you’re on the right path- not that you’ve arrived at a final destination you can never find again.”
– Grace Bonney
A quote from this post about saying No
iTypewriter
iTypewriter might be the perfect (not so serious) segue to get your grandparents to use an iPad. Made me smile. Hat tip off to the inventor, Austin Yang. (yes, I want one)
(Thank you Karin)