Here’s a gem of a find by Brainpickings: Poet and singer-songwriter Tanya Davis and filmmaker Andrea Dorfman address the forgotten art of How To Be Alone — a beautifully hand-illustrated, simply yet eloquently narrated visual poem full of all these things we so often need to tell ourselves and believe, yet so rarely do.
Hot Gloo
HotGloo is a web based service that let’s you build functional online wireframes for a website or web project. The beauty of their service is that you can create and share fully interactive online prototypes. Collaborate with colleagues and share the output with clients. HotGloo seem perfect for folks working on web projects. Matias of Behance just gave it a stellar review on twitter.
(Dear HotGloo, why don’t you let me embedd your video?)
Design is History
Design is History, a great overview on centuries of design. Part of the graduate thesis of designer Dominic Flask, Design is History was created as a teaching tool for young designers just beginning to explore graphic design and as a reference tool for all designers. It is supposed to provide brief overviews of a wide range of topics rather than an in-depth study of only a few. It is a constantly evolving, changing, expanding reference library.
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Joshua Viertel: Slow Food USA
The below talk by Joshua Viertel was my favorite presentation at last year’s FEAST conference. Enjoy:
How Not to Be a Bad Email Marketer
Go MailChimp making us smile and adding a dose of fun into the rather dry world of sending email campaigns. Eep Eep!
Pad Pressed
PadPressed is a WordPress plug-in built to deliver the best browsing experience for your readers on an iPad. When a reader visits your blog from their iPad it is automatically formatted to be tablet ready with swipe to advance gestures, accelerometer aware column formatting, touch navigation, and more. PadPressed makes your blog function like a native iPad app. Click here to check out a demo.
(via @smashingmag)
Journalism Warning labels
Tom Scott thought it seemed a bit strange that the media carefully warns about and labels any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content. He figured it was time to fix that, so he made Journalism Warning Label Stickers.
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Lucky So and So
The internet just got a little more colorful. Why? My lovely studiomate Jessi Arrington of Workshop just launched her brandnew shiny blog. Yay!
Remember Rainbow Birthday? Well, that was Jessi. I am not surprised that she sports a rainbow and color categories on her site.
Make sure to have a looksie at her about page. Jessi makes me smile on a daily basis here at the studio and I am glad I can get my digital fix now, when she’s not around. The world needs more Jessis.
Please enjoy: LuckySoAndSo.com
ErgoErgo Stool
I’ve noticed this ErgoErgo Stool over a year ago at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair here in NYC and was so excited about them. Yay hooray for them finally being available for sale. Just discovered that the MoMA store sells them. Now, please, add a white one to your collection, please?
UPDATE: They’ll be selling ErgoErgo from their showroom from friday august 20th, 2010 on. They’re available for $100.
(Dear MoMA Store people, please get rid of the Zoom feature setup on your site. It’s impossible to get a good picture of your products!)
Totally Spoked
Totally Spoked by Aestheticus Apparatus. One of the many new posters up on their site. Big fan here.
A house by the Park
I just listened to a super interesteting live interview with Mike Davidson over at 5by5.tv. In this interview that was held by Dan Benjamin Mike mentions the blog that he kept up while building his dream house. I am impressed how generously Mike shared his insights on what it takes to build a house. What an amazing resource for anyone who is in the process or about to undertake such a construction endevaour.
Gestures
In the below video João Machado investigated The Effect of a Book, Extending Beyond The Form. Fascinating. João, you should make a similar video dissecting the gestures of reading on a Kindle or iPad.
Biodegradable Pen
The DBA Pen is the only 98% biodegradable pen in the world. It’s also the only pen to use ink composed of simple, environmentally responsible ingredients. Produced at a wind-powered facility in the United States, it was designed as a responsible alternative to the wasteful and often toxic pens we use almost every day. And with its straightforward design and rollerball tip, the DBA Pen looks good and writes well too.
By the way, DBA is looking for an intern.
DBA 98 Biodegradable Pen from DBA on Vimeo.
A Floating Pool In New York
We desperately need one of these Floating Pools outside our studio.
+ Pool is an initiative by a group of architects and designers to build a floating pool in the rivers of New York City… and they need your help. The project was launched with the ambition to improve the use of the city’s natural resources by providing a clean and safe way for the public to swim in New York’s waters. This site is the culmination of Concept Design for + Pool and they are looking to build a team of interested organizations and professionals to continue the development of the project into a buildable proposal.
Their next step is to partner with local cultural, developmental and environmental groups to raise public and private interest, identify civic potential and approach the municipality, while working with engineers, planners and specialists to refine the social and ecological performance of + Pool.
To find out more, contact them at [email protected].
(thank you Michael)
101 Things I Learned In Business School
I am a big fan of the Things I learned series and often keep going back to the Archicture School Edition. I just noticed that they now have one out with the following title: 101 Things I Learned In Business School.
(How much do I love Kindle? With the click of a button the book appeared on my iPad. With the exception of beautiful art/photography books, I have no interest in purchasing ‘real’ books anymore. You?)
Chalk-it-to-me Piggy Bank
Chalk-it-to-me Piggy Bank is the cutest Piggy Bank I have ever seen. I am sold!
Stuffed Zucchini Flowers
My friend Jenna is one lucky woman, she is married to a chef. (Don’t worry G, I am not complaining, I am a lucky woman as well!) So, Jenna’s husband can cook. Seriously cook. They share their culinary adventures on their blog called Sweet Fine Day. Check out this Stuffed Zucchini Flower post. Mouthwatering, no? This is one of these dishes that reminds me of my vacations in South of France as a kid. And it also reminds me that there are certain dishes that I’d never dare to try myself. Why? I don’t know. But the thought of cooking Stuffed Zucchini Flowers is intimidating, at least to me. Hat tip to Mark! And to Jenna for the beautiful photographs!
Retro TV iPad dock
Our 4 year Ella old watches her shows on our iPad, as we have no TV. So it comes to no rusprise that this Retro TV iPad dock made me chuckle. #wishlisted
CreativeMornings Video: Rolf Hiltl
Our speaker at the July 2010 CreativeMornings was Rolf Hiltl, of the renowned 102 year old vegetarian Hiltl Restaurant in Zurich, Switzerland. The event was generously hosted at the Hiltl WM Lounge in the patio of the Landesmuseum in Zurich. This was our first outdoor CreativeMornings and hopefully not the last.
To all my Switzerland based readers: We are officially kicking of the Zurich/CreativeMornings chapter on September 10, 2010. Yay Hooray!
2010/07 Rolf Hiltl from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.
A big giant thank you to Thilo Hoffmann for offering his video and editing skills. As well to Sunny Yang for her video compression magic.
Red Scissors
How lovely is this minimal Red Scissors Silk Screen Print by Alanna Cavanagh?
deviantART Muro
Check out this impressive HTML5-based painting tool by DeviantART. Curious to see how our 4 year old will play with this. Impressive.
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Jazz Packing
The below Honda Jazz commercial made me laugh. Nice refreshing take on car commercials:
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Paleoblogging
Tim Carmody of Snarkmarket explains the term Paleoblogging:
Like paleontologists, paleobiologists, and paleoarcheologists, Paleobloggers dig up blogworthy material from the past to see what makes it tick. But instead of our prehistorical past, paleoblogging focuses on our analog past, blending in somewhere in the mid-1960s. See after the jump for my abbreviated field guide to paleoblogging.
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The important thing to me about paleoblogging, as opposed to blogging about what’s in the New York Times or in your friends’ twitter feeds, is that this is stuff that would not enter into the conversation otherwise. You’re not just copying it from internet relay to internet relay, but genuinely scanning it, converting it from the physical and/or nonblogospheric universe into this universe of discourse, recirculating it into new channels of information and ultimately into new retinal images and neural paths. This is the fundamental humanist endeavour – taking knowledge that took a tremendous amount of energy and expenditure to achieve, and that would otherwise go Unknown, and giving it a new social life, a new audience.
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