I completely agree with BBlinks, this apron from Merriam Webster is totally ‘adorkable’.
Yummy
Paola Antonelli on Humanized Technology
I truly enjoyed the below interview with former CreativeMornings speaker Paola Antonelli in which she speaks about her latest MoMA show called Talk To Me:
More over on Brainpickings.
Race Tracks Of The World
Race Tracks Of The World is a supercool wall decoration for the Formula 1 fan in you. (Or someone like me that just simply loves the visual quality and overall concept.) They are made from high quality Baltic birch plywood and matte black Formica. You can select from almost every track around the world. The average size is 36″ square depending upon the track shape. Cool? Definitely!
(via Stilsucht)
Inspiring André Da Loba
I stopped by André Da Loba’s studio yesterday and was hit with a big giant brick of inspiration. André lives and breathes creativity. If I could pick a parent for my next life, it would be him. I can only imagine how crafty he’ll get if ever he’ll have a junior. Give him cardboard, paper-mache, cork etc and he’ll turn into into a whimsical work of art. Next time I am going to get crafty with Ella (4yo), I’ll make sure to pull up his site for inspiration!
ps: Just noticed that André is selling his Narigudo Balancing Toy on his site. Ella has one and loves it!
Temptation
This piece called Temptation by Brooklyn based Ian Trask made me chuckle. (He’s done some amazing work as Artist-In-Residence at the Invisible Dog Gallery in Brooklyn!)
NYC Mindrelic Timelapse
Really love some of the NYC scenes of this timelapse video by Josh Owens. (Couldn’t watch it with the music though, it bugged me)
NYC – Mindrelic Timelapse from Mindrelic on Vimeo.
(thank you Antoine)
The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity
This Bermuda Triangle of Productivity by Fuchsia Macaree made me chuckle. (Even though the Facebook corner doesn’t apply to me. It would have to say “Google Reader”.)
(Thank you Fuchsia)
LongReply
I just read Ben Chestnuts post about how until recently he found himself glancing at his Twitter Stream during family time and letting it interrupt his precious personal time. Anyone running a business knows how distracting it can be searching Twitter for your business name or simply checking @ replies. (I do the same for swissmiss, teuxdeux and creativemorning.) In his blog post Ben mentions a service called LongReply: every hour it will search Twitter for non-neutral tweets, and sends them to Ben an email like this:
Ben says LongReply puts things into perspective:
“When you’re just scrolling through (what feels like) billions of realtime tweets, one or two negative ones actually feel like a lot more. It’s all happening in real time, your adrenaline is pumping, and you just think the entire twitterverse is conspiring to totally harsh your mellow with #fail hash tags. When you see even one negative tweet, you get all paranoid, and you want to solve it now. God help any family member who tries to get in my way.
But when you filter through LongReply, you can see that even though you might have 1 negative tweet, there are maybe a dozen more positive ones. Aaaaaah. The twitterverse is not out to get me!”
From what I understand, LongReply is a Mailchimp and not yet open to the public! I’d be the first one to sign up. Consider me ‘virtually standing in line’. More info on LongReply here.
Proxlet
(Of course, I am not muting my studiomate Maria, as indicated on the graphic above.)
Here’s a browser extension I have been dreaming of: Proxlet let’s you block apps, mute users and filter tags on Twitter. You can mute someone for a day, a week or … gasp… forever! It works on the web, with desktop and mobile clients. Brilliant!
I will definitely suggest Proxlet to my followers, next time I live-tweet from a conference.
(Thank you @Amrit)
Nasty Clamps
(image by David Tejada)
A gift exchange just went down at studiomates and one of the gifts was a Nasty Clamp. Yes, they are vaguely obscene looking but the idea is brilliant. Use it for the extra flash during a shoot or to get some cool angles with your camera. Definitely wishlisted. (Watch a video here.)
(via Maria)
Bottle
A love story between sand and snow. Superadorable. Written, directed, animated, edited, and sound by Kirsten Lepore.
Bottle from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.
(via Amrit)
House of Buttons
House of Buttons is a fantastic collection of UI buttons spotted in the wild. Curated by Jason Long. Love it!
Ola-Table
The Ola Table by Petter Danielson and Oscar Ternbom of AKKA is making my heart beat faster. A light-weight folding table, made of aluminium, that is easy to handle and beautiful. According to Minimalissimo it will be manufactured by MATERIA and will be launched at the Stockholm furniture fair in February.
This would be perfect in our studio, for when we need an extra desk or two when we have a lot of visitors. Brilliant. Beautiful. I want two.
Little Big Details
LittleBigDetails is a simple tumblr blog showcasing a collection of UI details. I love geeking out over UI details. Definitely will be checking back.
(Thank you Floris)
Wirify
Wirify let’s you turn any web page into a wireframe with the click of a button. Brilliant! Watch the demo video below;
(via curiositycounts.com)
Typefaces of the World
Typefaces of the World is a poster Shelby White created to show the typefaces that are most commonly used in a lot of today’s design. The poster includes information for each typefaces such as the year it was made, the location and the typographer. These 50 typefaces were chosen based on popularity and usefulness in present design. It was by mere coincidence that the typefaces were nearly split 50/50 between Europe and the United States. But it does show that the most prominent locations for typographers were in these areas.
What a beauty! I would love to hang one of these in my studio. Shelby says he is toying with the idea of adding a store to his site. Let’s hope he does soon! Typefaces of the World! Wishlisted!
Designinspiration
Designspiration provides a diverse selection of high quality, user-submitted images as a means of sharing inspiration. It’s an explosion of visual goodness! Totally addictive. Two thumbs up.
CreativeMornings Video: Liz Danzico
Our speaker at the october 2010 CreativeMornings was wonderufl Liz Danzico of bobulate.com. In her insightful talk Liz reminded us about the power of the pause.
A big giant thank you to Sy Abudu for offering her video and editing skills.
Collaborative Fund
What visuals come to mind when you think of an investment fund? Clean, boring, blue (!) logos and websites? Yes. But you have to rethink that from now on. Check out this new investment fund called “Collaborative Fund” by Craig Shapiro. Not only am I am impressed by its mission but am floored by the awesome branding and website. (Check out the navigation!) Kelli Anderson is the mastermind behind it all. Check out her blog post about the design process.
SVA Masters Workshop: Summer 2011
poster by Louise Fili Ltd
Now this makes me swoon, who wouldn’t want to study design & typography in Venice and Rome? The SVA Masters Workshop, now in its third season, is a unique way to learn about type, book and lettering design, as well as architecture, art, archeology and even Italian cuisine. Study with some of the best typographers in Italy. Visit the Trajan Column and the Pantheon, and partake in exclusive visits to the Roman and Imperial Forums. Examine the inscriptions on Roman structures that have long been accepted as a typographic ideal.
This intensive hands-on workshop in design history, theory and practice allows participants to research and analyze the roots of typography, draw type and letters from the classic models while practicing contemporary design along with a faculty of Italian and American designers, historians and publishers. Taught by leading design professionals, this workshop emphasizes the multidisciplinary and entrepreneurial nature of contemporary design. In addition, collaborations with noted Italian design organizations and media businesses result in unique (and potentially publishable) print and Web projects.
Check out the prestigious faculty and photos from previous years.
MoMA has acquired 23 digital fonts
Matthew Carter’s Walker
The Museum of Modern Art has just acquired 23 digital typefaces for its Architecture and Design Collection. Some are of everyday use, like Verdana; others are familiar characters in our world, like Gotham, which was used in President Obama’s election campaign, or OCR-A, which we can find at the bottom of any product’s bar code; and others are still less common, but exquisitely resonant, like Walker or Template Gothic.
The fonts will be on view starting March 2 in MoMA’s Architecture and Design galleries, as part of a collection show entitled Standard Deviations; Prototypes, Archetypes, and Families in Contemporary Design.
Read more here.
(Thank you Paola)
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Moving (Servers)
Lovely readers, pardon the silence for most of this week. I had a great time at the Altitude Design Summit in Salt Lake City where I had the honor to give the ending keynote.
I am already back in Brooklyn and gearing up for our server move tomorrow. Fabulous John Ford is helping me move swissmiss over to Happy Cog Hosting. In order to do so, we will be shutting off commenting temporarily, until everything’s working smoothly over on the new server. Thanks for understanding!
Back to packing up all those thousands of blogposts.
Altitude Design Summit
I am thrilled to be attending and speaking at this week’s Altitude Design Summit in Salt Lake City. Postings will be sparse (if at all), as I’ll be focusing on what my fellow bloggers have to say! But no worries, I’ll be back full force starting next week.
Why don’t you share some of your favorite blogs in a comment below, so we can all discover some new blogs in the meantime? Yes? I’ll comment myself, to kick things off.