I was tweeting earlier about two boxes of books in our coworking space that are hoping to find a new home. Most of them brandnew. Ivete Tecedor pointed me to ReLIT NY, a free reading program that collects your old, unwanted books and recycles them back to the public.
Brook Drop Sites include Whole Foods at Union Square, and Columbus & 97th Street and The Invisible Dog, on 51 Bergen Street in Brooklyn! YAY!
ReLIT NY is completely volunteer run and therefore gets two swissmiss thumbs up!
The Art of Coffee: A Mad Men Era Short Film. A wonderful find by Maria of Brain Pickings.
This DIY LEGO Key Holder just made my day!
Bekka just walked in and proudly showed me her new iPhone case. It is sporting a cross-stitched heart on the back of it. A customizable, cross-stitchable iPhone case? Yes, please!
I love products that merge technology and craft!
I am pretty confident I’ll be reaching supermom status once I make a batch of these Rainbow Popsicles for my kids.
“There are more than 27 million businesses in the United States. About a thousand are huge conglomerates seeking to increase profits. Another several thousand are small or medium-size companies seeking their big score. A vast majority, however, are what economists call lifestyle businesses. They are owned by people whose goal is to do what they like and to cover their nut. These surviving proprietors hadn’t merely been lucky. They loved their businesses so much that they found a way to hold on to them, even if it meant making bad business decisions. It’s a remarkable accomplishment in its own right.”
Read the full New York Times Article: Can Mom-and-Pop Shops Survive Extreme Gentrification?
(via Jen Bekman)
You’ve probably seen Jessica Hische’s and Russ Maschmeyer’s site Don’t Fear The Internet before. But just in case you haven’t, trust me, you should pay a visit.
A cabinet disguised as an old-looking TV. Ha!
Oh, the fun that can be had with a little one and a built in iSight Camera. Proven by my reader Aida Onandia, in Barcelona.
– Wooden Light Bulb (via Maria)
– Soon you’ll be able to buy your TV at IKEA. Cool. (thanks Rusty)
– A baby pygmy hippopotamus at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo in Australia, taking her first swim.
– Method in SF is looking to hire an Interaction Designer
– Live in NYC? Make sure not to miss “Timelessness,” a tiny, tantalizing exhibition of works by the designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli. (via @soulellis)
– This bath mat made me chuckle.
– Cool: Design Milk + Milk Crate launched a new art+design subscription.
– Quotebook app syncs quotes between the iPhone and iPad using iCloud.
– Love this adorable pillow called Autobus-si
– Tattly Subscription this month only!
The popular Tattly Subscription is back! Sign up and you will receive a new shipment of 8 new Tattly Temporary Tattoo designs at the beginning of each month for 6 months. This means you’ll receive some of the Tattly long before they are even for sale. Each subscription order comes with a total of 56 Tattlys and the brand new “Oh, Hello” canvas bag.
This Subscription will only be for sale during the month of June, so subscribe now if you want to get on board.
The Blind Self-Portrait Machine by Matt Mets and Kyle McDonald uses a camera, computer, some software, an x-y plotter, and your human hand with a pen to generate a pseudo-blind contour drawing of the person in front of the camera.
The Whale Print, by Terry Fan. Lovely.
Ever heard of hand carved ice balls? Gardner Dunn gave The Cool Hunting folks the run down on the traditional production, purpose and use of the ice ball in Japanese whisky culture.
(via Tim)
A set of 350 pixel perfect glyphs icons, perfect for apps, websites or just about anything you can think of. You may use this icon set for both personal and commercial use, which means this resource can be used in any project without worrying about licensing. Thank you brankic1979!
(via @vpieters)
Bill Murray on Second City teacher/mentor Del Close:
He taught lots and lots of people very effectively. He taught people to commit. Like: “Don’t walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there’s somethin’ in there you’re going to bring out.” You gotta commit. You’ve gotta go out there and improvise and you’ve gotta be completely unafraid to die. You’ve got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time. You’re goin’ out there with just a whisper of an idea. The fear will make you clench up. That’s the fear of dying. When you start and the first few lines don’t grab and people are going like, “What’s this? I’m not laughing and I’m not interested,” then you just put your arms out like this and open way up and that allows your stuff to go out. Otherwise it’s just stuck inside you.
Read the full Bill Murray Interview.
(via @randyjhunt)
Pet Balloons are ballons, in shapes of pets that float right above the ground, that you pull behind yourself, on a ‘leash’.
I want the chicken, and roam DUMBO with it. Or maybe the Panda? Or should I stick with my Invisible Dog?
(thank you Payton)
Isn’t this Räsymatto Mug by Marimekko a beauty?
What does your chair say about what you value? In this TED Talk, designer Sebastian Deterding shows how our visions of morality and what the good life is are reflected in the design of objects around us.
I thoroughly enjoyed this DesignMatters podcast with Linda Tischler, Senior Editor at Fast Company. Thank you Debbie Millman!
My friends behind the Feast Conference are cooking up something big: The World’s Largest Global Dinner Party.
They’re inviting innovators and instigators everywhere, doers and entrepreneurs of all ages to host a literal Feast of their own for six or more friends at 7pm local time on October 5, 2012. (That’s the final day of The Feast Conference.)
The goal is simple: By the end of dinner, collectively decide on one thing you all can collaborate on to improve the world (whether it’s renovating the park or supporting an effort to redefine an industry!)
Now here’s the kicker. Akin to the original World’s Fair, they want to then host a giant public pavilion in NYC the very next day (October 6) to cap off this roaming dinner. Kids, families, and anyone from the creative community will be able to explore your ideas, enjoy food, music, performance, and get inspired by some of today’s most amazing innovations.
Dream big. Execute Small: The World’s Fare
My studiomates of FictiveKin + Chris just launched LeakedIn as a response to this morning’s LinkedIn debacle of the 6.5 million leaked passwords.
LeakedIn will help you find out if your password is one of those 6.5 million.
“What lies in our power to do,
lies in our power not to do.”
-Aristotle
(via Gretchen Rubins’ Happiness Project Newsletter)