Nerd Merit Badges

Mu studiomate Chris just showed me the Inbox 0 Nerd Merit Badge that he received. Mad me laugh. The Being Boinged is supercool!

DIY Outdoor Kitchen

Here’s a project for the crafty backyard owner: Studiomama’s DIY outdoor kitchen! Download pdf to make your own mobile outdoor kitchen here.

Coffee Filters

I had no idea but apparently coffee filters are ideal for cleaning screens/televisions. They’ll catch the dust and cut static on the screen, all without leaving behind any fibers like paper towels would.

Kari Moden



I was sent this wonderful poster by Kari Moden. A beauty. It’s available for sale on the “movement for more birthdays” site by the American Cancer Society. There are quite a few stunning designs available. Check out the “Wish” poster by Andrew Bannecker for example.

See the entire art gallery here.
morebirthdays.com

(Thank you Anya)

Lunch Bots Trio

I really like the minimal approach of these stainless steel lunch containers by LunchBots.

(via coolmompicks)

RSS5000

RSS5000 is a new RSS feed reader for iPad that made me look. I think this could be it, the first RSS reader I will stick with! Why? I don’t like not to see content in its original environment and RSS5000 seems to solve that problem. RSS5000 connects to your Google Reader account and allows you to swipe through your feeds as a stack of whole web pages. It feels sort of like flipping through your favorite websites on magic internet paper.

RSS5000 Demo from daniellestrle on Vimeo.

(via minimalmac)

Apartment Therapy Offline Event

I am honored to be part of next week’s Apartment Therapy Offline Event with Judy Ross & Sandy Chilewich at the New York Design Meetup. We will be discussing how we manage to balance family and business.

What: Apartment Therapy’s New York Design Meetup
Panel: Judy Ross, Sandy Chilewich and moi
Topic: Balancing Family & Business: How 3 Designers Make it Work!
Members: 2,411 (rsvp here)
When: Wednesday, January 12: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Where: Knoll Showroom | 76 9th Avenue (16th Street Entrance) 11th floor, NYC

Read Full Post over on Apartment Therapy. See you there?

Pentagram (new website)

Congratulations to Pentagram for their new site.

(Yay, they are linking to Michael Bierut’s CreativeMorning talk!)

AIGA/NY Data Visualization Event

Here’s an event you shouldn’t miss if you live in NYC: AIGA/NY Data Visualization: Method and Madness

Filip Dujardin – Fictions


Filip Dujardin takes photographs of nondescript, often post-modern buildings and remixes them using Photoshop to create strange hybrids. Stunning!

relativity

The first official exhibition of the london based gallery ‹between› featured 10 young designers and design studios around the world. They were all invited to think and respond to the meaning of the word ‹between›.

Swiss designer Marcus Kraft contributed a triptych which was an attempt to translate Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity into a piece of concept art: Sometimes, one second can change your whole life. On the other hand, a whole year can feel very boring, unimportant and dull. What if one year is as long as one day or even one second? — Maybe there’s no difference at all.

AirBnB

In case you like to travel but don’t know about AirBnB yet, watch this brand new video:

Architectural Range Hood

Architects Lhoas & Lhoas renovated a typical Brussels’s house and decided to go custom and designy for the kitchen hood. They managed to turn this common functional object into an abstract sculpture. Absolutely beautiful.

(thank you Tom)

Milton Glaser on using design to make ideas new

From the TED archives: The legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser dives deep into a new painting inspired by Piero della Francesca. From here, he muses on what makes a convincing poster, by breaking down an idea and making it new:

Plexiroids

Lucky me, I received one of these Super Awesome Plexiroids in the mail last week. It’s a scan/print of a Polaroid 600 integral photo by Grant Hamilton. Check out his entire series.

Type Directors Club Competition

I’ve had the honor to be a judge in the Type Directors Club Competition in the past and am excited to see what this year’s competition will bring forward. If you’re a type snob and have created beautiful typography driven designs or even a typeface then don’t miss the Type Directors Club Competition Entry Deadline on January 12th!

Long Live Typography!

#matteomademedothis

The Universe and Forever



Today’s 20×200 edition by Wendy MacNaughton made me smile: The Universe and Forever.

Raumgestalt Woodtower

The Raumgestalt Woodtower is a nice take on storing your fireplace wood in your living room. I love its sculptural quality.

January 2011 CreativeMornings

Here’s an overview of the upcoming January CreativeMornings in New York, Zurich and LosAngeles.


N E W Y O R K
Date: January 13, 2011 (yes, it’s a Thursday!)
Speaker: Design Legend Milton Glaser
Host: School of Visual Arts Theater
Sponsors: Mailchimp and Freshbooks

More info and rsvp at creativemornings.eventbrite.com


Z U R I C H
Date: January 14, 201
Speaker: Mischa Gubler of Massloss (Amboss-Bier and Café Noir)
Host: Amboss Rampe
Sponsor: Amboss-Bier and Café Noir

More info and rsvp at zurichcreativemornings.eventbrite.com


L O S A N G E L E S
Date: January 14, 2011
Speaker: Andrew Gibbs, Founder of The Dieline
Host: Ford&Ching
Sponsor: proxart

More info and rsvp at losangelescreativemornings.eventbrite.com


Exciting News: Starting February 2011 we will have a S A N F R A N C I S C O chapter, which will be led by Greg Storey, the force behind Happy Cog SF and Airbagindustries. Follow Greg on Twitter @brilliantcrank.

Milton Glaser on teaching

Fundamentally I teach because it makes me feel good. It helped me certainly clarify my own objectives. There’s nothing more exciting than seeing someone’s life affected in a positive way by something you’ve said.

— Milton Glaser on why he teaches

Milton Glaser (by Hillman Curtis)

I still can hardly believe it but Milton Glaser will indeed be our January NewYork/CreativeMornings speaker. This documentary about Milton is by Hillman Curtis. Check out his entire Artist Series here.

Brooklyn Living

Are you in the market for a 2 bedroom in BoCoCa, Brooklyn? You should read on, as we are selling our place.

With the birth of our second child Tilo Red we realized that we will be outgrowing our wonderful 2 bedroom within a year or so. The time has come. We are heartbroken, but if we only had one child, we would never leave this place. The view is killer, the location couldn’t be any more perfect and the walk-in-closet and master bathroom makes every woman’s heart beat faster.

The apartment is in a designy new construction (3 years old). With many design-focused readers based in Brooklyn, it only makes sense for me to share this on my blog. So, please, bear with me.

Here are the facts:

Our apartment is a generous 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with a super-awesome walk-in-closet (Currently Tilo’s bedroom) and a huge master bathroom. (The separate shower in there is to die for.)

We live on the 8th floor on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Smith Street. As I mentioned, it’s a new construction and we are the first owners.


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We are south facing which means our apartment is extremely bright. We see over the brownstones of Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens and even see the Verrazano bridge. And if you peek out the window, to the right, you can also get a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty.

Some of you might have seen pictures of our lovely Brooklyn home in last year’s DesignSponge feature or in Apartment Therapy’s Big Book of Small Spaces.

If you have visitors and don’t feel like having them stay with you, just tell them to stay in the design/boutique Hotel NU below. (Floors 1-4 are Hotel, floors 5-12 are condos) It has proven incredibly practical to have a hotel right underneath us. And if you’re into working out, you can pay the hotel $60 a month and they let you use their always empty gym. And you don’t even need to go outside, all you need to do is take the elevator to the C level.

And then, of course, there’s Smith Street right outside your door. That means, lots (!) of wonderful restaurants and shops in close proximity.

If you have kids, you might want to know that we’re in a fantastic school district and zoned for PS 261. (literally one block away, in fact you can see the school from the living room)

There’s literally every Subway line you can think of in a 2-3 block radius, which makes this location so desirable. No matter where you need to go in the city, there will be a train closeby that will take you there. (In fact, we love this location so much that our new place is a whopping one block away!)

If you like you can see photos of our place over on Flickr.

If you’re interested in adopting our beloved home, check out the real estate listing and get in touch with our lovely broker Terry Naini.

REcreate

Katie Thompson is the force behind REcreate, a furniture line made from upcycled objects. Totally charming, no?

(via Brainpickings)

Skip Hop

My loyal readers might know by now that I am quite fond of Skip Hop. Every day, our little Ella walks off to school with her adorable Skip Hop Owl Backpack. Makes me smile every single time. I just learned that Skip Hop came out with tableware and bookends in that same design. A possible Owl Obsession in the making?