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.
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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!
(thank you emanuel)
frogMob is based on the idea that anyone can be an ethnographer for an hour, just by paying a little more attention to the world around them. A frogMob is a trend scrape that gathers a quick visual pulse on behaviors, trends and artifacts globally. They publish the call to action on a select topic and gather original photography and stories that describe how products are used globally.
At frog, design research is a tool they use to make sense of human behavior. It helps them to find those nuggets of insight that lead them to create products and services that make people’s lives better. With this in mind, they are opening up their design research process. And they want you to join in.
Learn more and submit to frogMob.
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Compass by TwelveSouth is the iPad stand I have been wishing for. It is made out of gorgeous steel and is incredibly versatile: Used upright as an easel, Compass lets you view and interact with iPad in both portrait and landscape modes, even if you keep your iPad protected in the Apple case. Turn your iPad on its side, in landscape position, and Compass becomes the ultimate portable theater.
It is about the size of candy bar, requiring very little space in your backpack, computer bag or purse. Store it in the included soft travel sleeve, which matches the Apple iPad case, and you’re ready to roll.
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I was impressed by the inflatable Guava Family GoCrib. Anyone who has ever traveled with a regular travel crib knows how bulky and heavy they are. GoCrib is lightweight, sturdy and packs down into a small backpack. Ingenious. (Watch the video below to see how sturdy it is. Looking at the pictures alone, I thought it would be flimsy.)
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David Airey asks: What advice would you give a design graduate? Chris Arnold, founder of Creative Orchestra and former creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi, offers his pearls of wisdom.
My favorite out of the ten:
Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something — it creates a talking point.
Kurt Vonnegut explains storytelling through Cartesian graphs on a blackboard. Read the Article: Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard
(via @brainpicker)
This vinyl wall-sticker in the shape of the back of a chair marks the spot, where to stack up your magazines or newspapers and gradually becomes your Stack Chair. (Shhhh…One could easily also paint a chair to the wall, no?)
So, you just moved into a new place and all you have is a big giant piece of wood but no actual table? Don’t you worry. There’s a solution: Crutch by Nicola Enrico Staeubli. Metal frames are put over the edges of a tabletop and contracted with lashing straps creating a highly solid linkage. Made me look. Not your usual solution, is it?
Saw this fantastic vintage bike camper over at TheSwissGerman. Unfortunately I have no idea who to credit. All I know is that this mobile trailer bed made me look and chuckle. Ingenious, no?
I finally had a moment to download, install and test drive Flipboard on my iPad. I am speechless. It’s another one of these “woah-I-am-touching-the-future-moments”. Here’s a video explaining what Flipboard does:
A big giant yay to the team over at Flipboard. Design and Usability is topnotch. Realizing that this is the first version of the app, I can only *imagine* what the future versions are going to look like. What an impressive first start.
Also, I am superexcited to see that talented Maria Popova’s blog is featured as one of the recommended feeds. Go Brainpickings!
More over at www.diybookbinding.com
(via IamCuriousAbout)
Here’s an interesting SXSW 2010 podcast with Jim Coudal and John Gruber in which they trace their history and share their experiences in how to make a living with running a blog.
How individuals and groups can maintain some shred of dignity and support themselves by creating ad and sponsorship programs that benefit and respect publishers, readers and advertisers. Presented by John Gruber of John Gruber of Daring Fireball and Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners.
Listen to the podcast here: Online Advertising: Losing the Race to the Bottom
(thank you Liz)
‘Journey to the Center of a Triangle‘ (1976) 8m, dir. Bruce & Katharine Cornwell. Another fabulous film by the Cornwells, created on the Tektronics 4051 Graphics Terminal. Presents a series of animated constructions that determine the center of a variety of triangles, including such centers as circumcenter, incenter, centroid and orthocenter.
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Oliver Jeffers – OFFSET 2009 from OFFSET on Vimeo.
Oliver Jeffers makes art. From figurative painting and installation to illustration and picture-book making, his work has been exhibited and published in New York, Dublin, London, Sydney, Washington DC, Belfast and elsewhere.
His picture books, including Lost and Found“>Lost and Found, The Incredible Book-Eating Boy“>The Incredible Book Eating Boy, and most recently, The Great Paper Caper“>The Great Paper Caper. Oliver was brought up in Northern Ireland and now lives and works in Brooklyn.
Consider our 4 year old Ella and me his biggest fans.
Liya Mairson’s cardboard folding play area is designed for children aged 3-6 based around a pop-up technique. ‘My Ppace’ has been developed specifically for small apartments which lack the space for a play room. When closed it uses minimal space and can be stored behind a door or under a single bed. As far as I can tell this is a student project and not yet for sale. Am I right?
More over at designboom.
What an exciting day it must have been yesterday for my friends over at Core77. They opened their first store. Yes, you read right. Core77 opened a real store. As in walk in and buy a product.
They describe it as A Vocational Haberdashery and Supply Store for Creative Activities. Their debut inventory roster includes: Workwear, Shop Tools, Design Supplies and Objects (of Curiosity).
Open 24 Hours-a-Day online at
www.handeyesupply.com
http://www.handeyesupply.com
Open 12-6 pm, Monday – Saturday at
23 NW 4th Avenue
Portland, Ore.
If you’re in the Portland, Oregon area, make sure to go and check it out.
MoviePeg holds your iPhone and iPad so you don’t have to. I own the iPad MoviePeg and I give it two thumbs up!
