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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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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
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 by Aestheticus Apparatus. One of the many new posters up on their site. Big fan here.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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 is the cutest Piggy Bank I have ever seen. I am sold!
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!
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
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.
How lovely is this minimal Red Scissors Silk Screen Print by Alanna Cavanagh?
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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The below Honda Jazz commercial made me laugh. Nice refreshing take on car commercials:
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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.
Read full post: Paleoblogging
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Laia Clos’ studio mot designed this data visualization of The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. lesquatrestacions is a graphic information system for visualizing the lead violin of Vivaldi’s masterpiece. The work consists of four posters, a set of stamps and the documentation of the system.
(via datavisualization.ch)
HAPPY is a feature documentary that takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Calcutta in a search of what really makes people happy. Combining interviews with the leading scientists in happiness research and real life stories of ordinary and extraordinary people around the world, HAPPY uncovers the secrets behind our most valued emotion.
MOVIE TRAILER:
Director Roko Belic shares the story of how and why he decided to make a documentary about happiness.
HAPPY – How It All Began from Wadi Rum Productions on Vimeo.
(via GOOD)
Just fell in love with the above piece of art by Ky Anderson. #wishlisted.
When it came time to buy a new wallet, our friends at Holstee couldn’t find what they were looking for so they designed their own, the Holstee way:
The slim Holstee wallet design holds the essentials – cash, credit cards and even has a sliding window for your ID and Metro card. Working with a family-run non-profit based in India that works to collect and recycle litter off the streets of Delhi they were able to create their dream wallet.
This vegan (!) wallet is made primarily of plastic bags and newspapers, collected off the Streets of Delhi in India. Production of this wallet helps reduce waste in Delhi, provides fair wage employment and subsidizes healthcare and education for each employee’s family. Their packing is a minimal slide insert made of (at least) 90% recycled material.
How much do I love Holstee? (spreading arms faaar) Thiiiiiis much!
