Whenever I begin a new web project I start with sketching. I am sure most of you agree on just how powerful this first stage of a project can be. And that’s where I like to grab one of my GridBooks. They sport a dot grid that can be divided into numerous columns and used in portrait or landscape orientations. Extremely helpful when sketching a web interface.
How much fun is this secret passageway switch? You can use it to activate a secret passageway (or turn on a lamp). When placed in a bookshelf, this electrical switch uses your favorite hard-bound book, without damaging it, to conceal its true function. It totally made me chuckle. It’s an idea by Ben Light who is also the force behind this Mobile that’s hanging above my desk.
It’s been an exciting day today at Tattly heaquarters! Why? From now until December 31, 2011 you can sign up for our first-time-ever Tattly Subscription!
Subscribe to Tattly and receive some of the newest tattoos in your mailbox every month for six months! With every order also comes a special Tattly tin to hold all of the tattoos your receive. We are just going to offer this during this holiday season as a trial, so subscribe now if you want get on board.
How it works:
You can purchase the subscription up until December 31st. To ensure it makes it to you by Christmas, order by December 18th if within the US and by December 10th if you are international. After December 31st we will not take any more orders for this round of subscriptions.
Once you are subscribed, you will receive your Tattly tin which will come pre-filled with some of our most popular current designs.
After that, you will receive a new shipment of 8 new Tattly designs at the beginning of each month for 6 months. (January – June) You’ll get our favorites of the upcoming months new releases, often before they are even for sale on our site.
It’s as simple as that.
Exciting? YES!
Would this make a good gift? YES!
Does this call for a rainbow? YES!
“Know that the Internet has no eraser.”
— Liz Strauss
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This new LEGO app called Life of George made me look: It combines an interactive iPhone game with real LEGO bricks. Intruiging. And also, George is cute.
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‘Horsey‘ is an attachable bicycle ornament/accessory which makes one’s bicycle look horsey! The ‘horsey’ package includes wooden ornaments (horsey shape body), metal parts, and screws. While it probably makes a spill way more dangerous, it definitely made me smile.
A big thank you to Travel Hacking Cartel for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed!
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This book shelf by Daniel Eatock made me chuckle.
This dustpan & brush set is beautiful.
I am tempted to get this miniature backpack for one of my daughter’s dolls. And I am totally adding this to my Svpply! Ha! (How adorable are thes product shots?)
This iPad case geared towards children made me look. I like the fact that the Speck iPad Guy has handles for the kids to grab onto. Anyone tried it?
I couldn’t help but chuckle when I discovered this Safari Mounted Head Hook.
I just spent a good 20minutes on typeeverything.com. Long live Typography.
Unit 01 Shoulder Bag. A beauty.
Not sure how I missed this fantastic post on The Lost Art Of Design Etiquette by Dan Rose. I especially applaud the ‘name your layers’ portion of the post.
If you didn’t realize yet, today’s a magical date, 11/11/11! I think Paul Octavious captured it perfectly in his stacked books shot.
We kicked off the day with a CreativeMornings talk with Jessi Arrington which ended with a Rainbow Parade. Pretty magical, if you ask me. You can see some photos of the parade here and here.
Oliver Jeffers and the folks of Digby & Iona collaborated. That’s awesome news. Together they created an incredibly adorable jewelry line for kids and kids-at-heart based on Oliver Jeffers’ childrens books characters. If these don’t make you smile then I don’t know what will.
I am so going to put that Airplane Necklace on my wishlist.
Oliver Jeffers, one of my (and my daughter’s) favorite children’s book illustrators, just released a new book. It’s called Stuck. It’s about a determined little boy who wants to get his stuck kite out of a tree. How? Well, by knocking it down with his shoe, of course. But strangely enough, it too gets stuck. And the only logical course of action . . . is to throw his other shoe. Only now it’s stuck! Surely there must be something he can use to get his kite unstuck. An orangutan? A boat? His front door? Yes, yes, and yes. And that’s only the beginning. Ordered!
This bicycle print caught my eye in today’s krrb newsletter. You can find it here and here.
Our speaker at the first CreativeMornings/Portland was the lovely and talented Kate Bingaman Burt . A big thank you to the chapter host, Tsilli Pines for kicking off the Portland chapter with a big bang!
Introducing Mixel for iPad from Mixel App on Vimeo.
My friend Khoi Vinh just launched his latest project, it’s called Mixel, an iPad App that lets you make, share and remix collages in a whole new way. Read about it on his site.
UPDATE: Had the chance to play around with the app a bit tonight and I’d like to say just so much: My daughter (5) would go gaga over this app and I’d like to use it with her and let her play with photos she takes, or just photos of us, our family. But I don’t feel comfortable with the fact that my uploads will be visible and free to grab for everyone. I realize that this is their first iteration of Mixel. I hope that Khoi and his team will figure out a way to have private image libraries. Oh the fun that could be had.
The site mobile-patterns.com features collections of mobile interfaces. Fantastic (growing) resource for UI designers. Created by NYC based graphic designer Mari Sheibley.
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To celebrate the end of another fantastic 2011 CreativeMornings year we thought we’d do something special and turn the mic to our audience.
We’re inviting anyone interested to apply to be a December CreativeMornings speaker in New York City or Los Angeles. Three people will be chosen (for each chapter) to give an eight minute talk.
To apply: submit a quick 60 second “talk-to-the-webcam” video telling us about you, your talk, and why you’d love to speak at CreativeMornings.
The application deadline is Nov 20th, 9pm EST. Hooray for experiments!
More info and short video with our siberian tiger, Kurt.
Apply here
