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Sh*t New Yorkers Say
Ostrich
OSTRICH offers a micro environment in which to take a warm and comfortable power nap at ease. It is neither a pillow nor a cushion, nor a bed, nor a garment, but a bit of each at the same time. Its soothing cave-like interior shelters and isolates your head and hands (mind, senses and body) for a few minutes, without needing to leave your desk.
Made me laugh and I think our Studiomate Paul could definitely use one.
(thank you Josh)
YES!!!!!
YES!!!! Amit Gupta found a 10/10 matched bone marrow donor. I am beyond myself. I am *so* happy and relieved!
While the bone marrow transplant is anything but a walk in the park there is this huge giant rainbow of hope that he will come out of all of this completely fine!
Yay for Amit! Yay for the internets!
Magnus
This Magnetic iPad Stand, called Magnus, is as sleek as it can get. Really pretty.
What Time Is It?
Apparently not everybody is always running late; with this in mind, Team Tattly asked Julia Rothman to put a positive spin on her bestselling You’re Late Tattly to make Love Watch.
Wear it on a date, wear it to remind yourself that everyone needs a little more love in their life, or give one to a special friend. (Valentines Day is february 14th!)
Yay for new Tattlys! Love Watch!
CreativeMornings Video: Jamer Hunt
2011/09 Jamer Hunt from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.
Our September CreativeMornings/NewYork speaker was Jamer Hunt. He has dedicated his career to pursuing design as a means for reinvigorating the public realm. Currently the Director of Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons the New School for Design, he focuses this CreativeMornings talk on the subject of scale. From insects to typography and even bicycle transport, Jamer explores how changes in scale influence the way we approach problems.
A big thank you to Sy J Abudu for producing the video!
♥ / Playful Learning
A big thank you to Playful Learning for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed!
Playful Learning Spaces is a six-week online course that is designed by educator Mariah Bruehl to guide parents and teachers through the process of designing thoughtful spaces for children.
Throughout the course, participants will explore and share ideas for creating areas that invite children to engage in reading, writing, science, art, and more. Organization, storage, and selecting materials for different ages and stages of child development will also be discussed.
Each week, participants will receive a video that contains basic educational principles, simple guidelines, and helpful photos. You will also receive weekly assignments and links to relevant research, products, and inspiration. As a community, participants will have the opportunity to look at the spaces they create for their children, tackle overdue projects, post before and after photos, and receive practical feedback and support.
Mariah Bruehl is the founder of the website and newly released book, Playful Learning.
(Interested in sponsoring a week of my RSS feed, learn more here.)
Double Dish
Finally, a unique solution to that age old problem of what to do with the pit after the olive has been consumed. Yay for the Double Dish.
Vernacular Typography
For the past 10 years, Molly Moodward has been photographing environmental typography and organized her images by place and category on VernacularTypography.com. As of now, the website has over 5,000 images of urban typography from 10 different countries, including Argentina, The Bahamas, Chile, Cuba, England, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the US.
Molly just started a Vernacular Typography Kickstarter Campaign to help build up her digital archive. It’s a beautiful projects which helps preserve, and promote the vanishing examples of lettering in the everyday environment.
Totally backing this campaign. Join me?
TinyLetter
Mailchimp’s latest app, TinyLetter, makes it ridiculously easy to start your own mailing list and email newsletter. It’s a matter of minutes and you’re set to go. Pick a username and boom, you have your sign-up-page ready.
Mailchmp is fantastic service for maintaining business newsletters, but has too many bells and whistles for an individual that just wants to maintain a simple mailing list and send text email newsletter. That’s exactly what TinyLetter does best.
As Ben Chestnut, CEO of Mailchimp puts it: “You could think of TinyLetter as a “MailChimp Lite.” A more directionally accurate analogy would be, “Gmail on steroids.”
Read more about TinyLetter in this blog post.
Interested? Give TinyLetter a try yourself or subscribe to mine at: tinyletter.com/swissmiss
Mondrian Sandwich
This Mondrian inspired Sandwich made me laugh. This might be my new way of sending subliminal art messages to my daughter with her lunches.
(Thank you Brittany)
Life-Cycle
Get a bike. Lock it to a post. Take a pic every day for a year. And this is what happens:
A project by RED PEAK For Hudson Urban Bicycles.
(Thank you Tania)
Tattly Hack
Today we launched a new mid-century chair Tattly by the lovely Lisa Congdon AND we introduced Tattly Hacks, which are unusual remixes and collages of existing Tattlys. (Our very analog version of Mixel.)
Today’s Hack consists of:
Take A Seat, by Lisa Congdon
Diamonds, by Kate Bingaman burt
Enamorado, by Blanca Gomez
Childhood Memories by Domogeneous
Wonderwall Desk
Wow, Blu Dot’s WonderWall Desk is a beauty!
Toast Bird Feeder
I couldn’t help but chuckle when I saw this Toast Bird Feeder. Granted, I know nothing about birds. And some of you bird enthusiasts might tell me this totally doesn’t work, or might harm he birds. I just simply love the design/idea behind it.
Rocking Sheep
How cool is this Rocking Sheep? It was handmade by Los Angeles based Max Tyrie who got the inspiration for it from Povl Kjer’s design. Max claims that each prototype and design revision has been fastidiously test ridden by his 18-month old daughter, Rosie. That made me chuckle.
WhimseyBox
With a crafty obsessed 5 year old girl at home, Whimseybox makes me go ‘YES, Please’!
When you register for Whimseybox you’ll receive 4-5 craft product samples in the mail every month for just $15. They’ll select the products based on the things you tell them you like. There’s no contract and you can cancel at any time. They also offer annual subscriptions and 3, 6 and 12 month gift subscriptions.
Check out some of the recent projects. This will make my daughter seriously happy. Crafty surprises in the mail? It doesn’t get better than that. Whimseybox.
PROTECT IP/SOPA Explained
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
More info over on fightforthefuture.org/pipa.
And as a reminder: The New York Tech Meetup is organizing a protest of the PROTECT IP Act (the Senate version of SOPA, the Internet censorship bill) outside of the offices of New York senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. That’s 12:30 PM on Wednesday, January 18th at 780 Third Avenue (at 49th St.) in NYC. Here’s more info.
Mark Your Calendars for Linotype: The Film
Linotype: The Film is a feature-length documentary centered around the Linotype type casting machine. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, it revolutionized printing and society.The film tells the surprisingly emotional story of the people connected to the Linotype and how it impacted the world.
The movie’s world premiere is February 3rd at the SVA Theatre in New York City with Steven Heller moderating the Q&A afterwards. Tickets are on sale now over on their screenings page.
The King Center Imaging Project
My friends at C&G Partners just launched a fantastic new site for The King Center in Atlanta. The new site allows the public to access never before seen artifacts from the King collection. Thousands of documents – letters, speeches, drafts, notes, photos and more – are available for free to the general public for the first time.
I especially like how on archive detail pages the user can pan and zoom and view details of the document. Wear and tear on the paper, handwritten notes scribbled in margins, and the signature of Dr. King himself can all be seen in minute detail.
Impressive.
Small Designy Kids Room
Hat tip off to the parents who turned their little girl’s room into a real gem.
Burning Man 2011 X Dr Seuss
In case you haven’t heard of the amazing kids book Oh, the Places You’ll Go Pop-Up. It’s a fantastic book.
And I admit, I am not the Burning Man Type. But this mashup-of-the-two moved me.
(via michaelgalpert)