(via Brainpickings)
Hold Chair
Malaysia-based designer Poh Liang’s Hold Chair has a seat and back that slide up the backrest frame. This separates the seat from the frame below it. The chair can then be slid onto the table. Why? Well, how often do you vacuum around dining table chair legs? Exactly.
Revolving Self Portrait
This revolving self-portrait by Felix Nadar is fascinating. See it animated over at the Retronaut.
Where Books Are Loved
Strand is New York City’s legendary home of 18 Miles of new, used and rare books. Since 1927.
If you’re in NYC you might want to know that Strand is hosting an event with Christoph Niemann and Francoise Mouly tomorrow.
Alex Girard Memory Game
Ammo books recently released this lovely Memory Game by Alexander Girard.
A Very Graphic Poster
Barbara deWilde is currently running a Kickstarter campaign that celebrates analog design, inspired by Graphic Design of the 1940s and 50s.
Barbara designed a poster that is made of many rectangular units. Back the project and you’ll get a customized version which you can use as a poster or cut it up and use them as calling cards. (The rectangles are business card size.)
Sunscreen Facts
Sunscreens prevent sunburns, but beyond that simple fact surprisingly little is known about the safety and efficacy of these ubiquitous creams and sprays.
Friday Link Pack
Photo via sometimes levity
– A blog entirely dedicated to rainbows. Yes.
– Perfect for a Sunday Morning Breakfast: Soft Eggs with Buttery Herb-Gruyere Toasts
– Did you sign up for Jessi’s World Record attempt of creating the world’s largest Rainbow Birthday Parade on april 28th?
– Not your usual type of nail.
– Trailer for “Last Call at the Oasis.” Sobering.
– The folks of 20×200 are hiring a Visual Designer
– Who Says Forever is Better? T-Shirt
– My daughter’s head will explode when she gets this Pink Mini Cupcake Maker for her birthday next week.
– Love this Vintage Whale Poster
– Considering these Blik dots for my son’s room.
– Nice to learn more about the person behind Design-Milk. Hey there Jaime! And man, I am impressed by her custom-made treadmill-desk.
Paper Clips
Yes, I just fell in love with a Paper Clips Packaging. Designed by Ryan Raschbaum.
Braun Digital Watch BN0076
The Braun Digital Watch BN0076 is based on the original DW30 that was designed by Dieter Rams and Dietrich Lubs in 1978. Only 3000 units of the DW30 were ever produced and this design hasn’t been available in 30 years. The BN0076 features a stainless steel face, black leather band, and a 12/24 hour digital LCD with light.
A minimal beauty!
#wishlisted
Fix Your Communities
An excerpt from a post by Anil Dash:
“Fix your communities. Stop allowing and excusing destructive and pointless conversations to be the fuel for your business. Advertisers, hold sites accountable if your advertising appears next to this hateful stuff. Take accountability for this medium so we can save it from the vilification that it still faces in our culture. Because if your website is full of a**holes, it’s your fault. And if you have the power to fix it and don’t do something about it, you’re one of them.” – Anil Dash
I linked to Anil’s article once before, last year. Worth re-reading.
Cobook | The smart address book for Mac
Last week I sent out a desperate and slightly frustrated tweet about the the most recent Mac OS Address book app. It’s cumbersome to use, and flat out doesn’t work on one of my Macs. I asked about an alternative and @MaxFenton pointed me to Cobook App.
It’s a small widget that lives in your menubar, easily accessible and intuitive to use. It seamlessly syncs with the OS X Address Book, which is what I want, but without having to ever open address book again.
Interesting twist: Cobook also connects to your social network accounts and automatically looks up pictures, companies, phone numbers etc. At this point, I think I like that, but let’s see, over the long run.
Here, try it yourself. Not sure why, but Cobook app is free.
Skip Hop Zoo Luggage
I am happy to see that Skip Hop turned their Zoo Backpacks into a Rolling Luggage Collection. Perfect for a plane trip. The owl gets my vote!
#Iheartskiphop
Servus
Servus (latin for servant) is a clothing rack by German designer Florian Saul. It’s a beauty and I would want one if I’d still live by myself. Unfortunately we don’t have room for 4 of them in our apartment. Which makes me think, how cute would it be if there was a smaller version for the kids?
(Thank you Bekka / via Hello Bauldoff, via Notcot)
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Zebag Wine Carrier
This smart bottle carrier by Zebag holds six bottles when carrying and eleven bottles when flat. It is impressively versatile, you can also use it as a wall-hanging bottle rack.
(via blessthisstuff, a new blog discovery!)
Caine’s Arcade
9 year old boy – who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto part store – is about to have the best day of his life:
If you feel so inclined, here’s where you can help with Caine’s Scholarship Fund.
(thank you Jen)
Pizza Chopper
This Pizza Chopper would have come in handy last night. A beauty.
Teachable Moments
“Valuable stories are ones that contain teachable moments.”
– Jonathan Harris
A quote by Jonathan Harris, Founder of Cowbird, via Hot Tub Crime Machine
The People’s Pennant
The folks behind The People’s Pennant project are celebrating the good old felt pennant. Crafted by folks who’ve helped shape the tradition since the early 1900s, their pennants are hand-printed and hand-sewn in the U.S.A. Collect the pennants, and show some team spirit for the small things in life.
Read Much, by The Heads of State
Coffee Break, by Ken Barber
Congrats to the team: Jessica, Tim and Eric.
World’s Largest Rainbow (Birthday) Parade
My color loving studiomate Jessi is putting the dial up to 11 again, by trying to break a world record and have the world’s largest rainbow birthday parade. And you can be part of it! All you need to do is dress head to toe in one color and meet up on April 28 with Jessi and all her colorful friends. The parade, including marching band, will then parade over the Brooklyn Bridge, in chromatical order, of course.
If you can’t be part of it, you can still help make this world record happen by supporting Jessi’s Kickstarter campaign. Your money will help pay for the 20-piece marching band, balloons, cupcakes and all that jazz. I am totally a backer and will be supporting team RED at the parade. What color will you be?
Also, if you haven’t yet, watch Jessi’s CreativeMornings talk and you’ll realize just how incredibly wonderful she is.
(You might remember the photos of her first ever rainbow birthday parade in 2011)