“The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That’s not simple.”
—Jonathan Ive
From this Telegraph Interview.
(via @k)
Simplicity isn’t Simple
Sweep the Sleaze
“Social media buttons are not a social media strategy, even though they’re often sold that way. Excellent content, serious networking and constant human engagement is the way to build your profile. Adding those sleazy buttons won’t achieve anything.”
– Oliver Reichenstein
Thought-provoking article by Oliver Reichenstein on all those social media buttons on our sites. (not mine!) Interesting fact: Smashing Magazine removed FB buttons and traffic from Facebook increased. Reason: instead of ‘liking’ articles, readers shared it on their timeline.
Read the Article: Sweep the Sleaze
(via @zen_habits)
Copywriter vs Art Director
Copywriter vs. Art Director is a series of illustrations that depicts the eternal dispute and differences between the two professions.
(via @hazeliz)
CEO 2.0: Lessons from Bezos and Pincus
Bing Gordon, former COO of Electronic Arts and Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, shares his many years of executive experience in a keynote address at the 2011 Endeavor Entrepreneur Summit.
(via @Mikekarnj)
Multicolor Stripe
This multicolor stripe tie is quite something. Available on Etsy.
She believed she could…
Love the messsage of this print, by CygneNoir on Etsy.
Twenty-Nine Cities, One Global Conversation
June is going to be a big month for CreativeMornings, a free breakfast lecture series I started a little over three years ago here in NYC: For the first time, all 29 CreativeMornings chapters will be hosting their events under one common, unified theme: The Intersection of Arts + Technology, presented in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
The arts are often seen as a “nice to have,” especially amidst tight budgets. Yet, CreativeMornings believes that it is through mixing arts and design with other disciplines that society can foster the next generation of creative doers and makers. In an effort to stir up a global conversation, CreativeMornings has partnered with John Maeda, President of RISD and their STEM to STEAM initiative to recognize the magic that bubbles up when Arts and Tech intersect.
As part of this first-ever themed month, there will also be a special RISD pop up chapter in Providence, Rhode Island with speaker, Kelly Dobson.
Below is a short conversation we taped between John Maeda and myself when we visited RISD a few weeks back:
I feel like this themed month is pushing CreativeMornings to the next level and really ties all the 29 chapters together. And what can I say, I am thrilled for the partnership with John Maeda and his team at RISD. There’s nothing better than collaborating with people who’s work you admire, is there?
For more details on all the june events, visit creativemornings.com.
Infinity Scarf Loop
Red + White + Stripes = YES!
CreativeMornings Video: Bre Pettis
Last week’s CreativeMornings/NewYork was with Bre Pettis, co-founder and CEO of Makerbot, a company that produces robots that make things. He spoke on his passion of all things DIY and how you simply can’t say no when your friends say “Let’s quit our jobs and make robots!”
A big giant thank you to Ben Hallman for filming and editing the talks. We heart your intros!
Can Two Black Holes Collide?
A second-grader asks Neil deGrasse Tyson whether two black holes can collide and swallow one another. The answer includes backward time travel. Consider my mind blown.
(via explore / via It’s Okay to Be Smart)
Birthday Card
YES to this birthday card idea, unless the receiver of the card is over 100. Then you need two of them.
(via Bekka on Pinterest)
Seasaw Bench
Dirk Ploos van Amstel has created a seesaw for children that converts to a bench. YES!
Blindry
Blindry (get it?) is a brilliant window blind that turns into a fold-down laundry rack for drying clothes indoors. YES!
Jonathan Harris: Rethinking Social Networking
Jonathan Harris describes four trends that are reshaping culture in the digital age: Compression, Disposability, Curation, and Self-Promotion, and takes steps to counteract them.
(Jonathan is our speaker at this week’s CreativeMornings in NYC.)
Direction In Which You Choose To Go
“You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don’t know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go. You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.”
– Oprah Winfrey
(via explore)
Heavy-Weight
The Heavy-Weight Tape Dispenser by Black+Blum is a beauty. They were tired of using tape dispensers that didn’t work, so they designed their own. The body is made from aluminium, but has an inner cast iron core and it weighs an astonishing 1 kg (2.2lbs). It also has a forged stainless steel blade that cuts tape perfectly.
Startup Visa
The Startup Visa Act will allow foreign-born entrepreneurs to keep their companies and their jobs here in the United States. The legislation is out there, we just need to push it across the finish line in the House and Senate.
(via Micro Documentaries)
Book Cover Disguise for Your Wireless Router
Here’s a fab tutorial on how to make a Book Cover Disguise for your wireless router.
On Building Robots
“You just don’t say no when somebody says Let’s quit our jobs and make robots!”
– Bre Pettis
Quote by the CEO of Makerbot, Bre Pettis, during last week’s CreativeMornings talk.
Memory Bank
There aren’t many things that will make me squeal, but this Memory Bank did, when I discovered it at this year’s ICFF. It’s a piggy bank designed to save items of emotional value instead of financial value, like ticket stubs and love notes–the sorts of things we want to hold on to but usually put in shoeboxes and other places that don’t highlight their value. Brilliant? YES!
Memory Bank is a brainchild of Jessie Phillips Andersen who also created the Wobble Bowls.
Consider this #wishlisted.
Monsters!
(Big thanks to our Swedish model Josef)
It’s Tattly Tuesday and that means we just launched new designs: Check out these adorable Fake Monsters by Dutch Designer AnkePanke.
And have a glance at today’s Tattly Hack. I am pretty sure it will make you smile!
Thingiverse
Assume you’d own a Makerbot 3D Printer, then Thingiverse would be your playground: It’s an online community sharing digital designs for real, physical objects: A universe of things!
Complaining
“Complaining is stupid. Either act or forget.”
– Stefan Sagmeister
From: Things I have learned in my life so far
(thanks Rusty)
UberConference
This. Looks. Promising: UberConference.