Wanted: CreativeMornings co-sponsor

I am currently looking to find a co-sponsor for the upcoming CreativeMornings on July 9th with Rolf Hiltl at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, Switzerland. The event is taking place in the courtyard of the museum in the supermodern Hiltl WM Lounge. The venue is stunning to say the least. (Event info)

Our attendees range from Designers (web and print), UX experts, Marketing, CEO’s of any kind of design related business, to writers, PR people etc. It’s an amazingly diverse group but I would say with a tendency to be more on the creative/designer side.

This month’s Breakfast Co-Sponsorship is $800 and includes:

A co-sponsor mention on the swiss-miss.com announcement post with a visual banner like on this announcement.

A mention and thank you at the beginning of the event with a screenshot of your site or any graphic of your choice, projected onto the screen. If you would like you can set up signs and can hand out print material during the event. We had Mailchimp hand out T-shirts in the past or Behance handed out their actionpads. You can really do whatever you’d like, or let’s say, almost anything! :)

More about the CreativeMornings:

Talks over at vimeo.

Pictures of previous CreativeMornings on Flickr.

swiss-miss.com gets an average of 30k unique visitors a day, and about 900kuniques a month. Your brand exposure would be quite big.

Interested in co-sponsoring the event alongside with our main sponsor Mailchimp?
Email me.

One Village Coffee

Greg of Able pointed to one of their most recent projects, a Coffee Packaging design: “One of our goals was to package the sentiments of “a village” into a customer experience. The bag was printed in white + two colors with a matte finish and gloss trapping over the logo. Because the budget didn’t allow for more than one type of bag, a different label with a customized icon is used to identify each type of coffee.”

Lovely. Made me smile and I’d definitely gravitate towards this packaging would I peruse a coffee shelf in a supermarket.

More photos over at thedieline.com.

The LEGO® Store

New York City just got a little bit more colorful and playful: LEGO opened it’s first retail store in NYC and I can not wait to take our little Ella there. It’s open for business already but its grand opening is on June 29-July 1st!

Mommy Poppins has a thorough post on all the happenings during the opening.

Bounce App

All of you webdesigners and developers, listen up, here’s a fabulous little app that will make your life easier. Bounce is little app from ZURB that let’s people quickly add feedback to any webpage and toss that back and forth with other people. This is fantastic. #yay

To see a quick example I just created, visit this link.

bounceapp.com

Wireless in the world 2

Visualizing wireless networks in the physical world – @TimoArnall is back with round 2

Wireless in the world 2 from timo on Vimeo.

“Utopian and radical architects in the 1960s predicted that cities in the future would not only be made of brick and mortar, but also defined by bits and flows of information. The urban dweller would become a nomad who inhabits a space in constant flux, mutating in real time. Their vision has taken on new meaning in an age when information networks rule over many of the city’s functions, and define our experiences as much as the physical infrastructures, while mobile technologies transform our sense of time and of space.”

from: laboralcentrodearte.org/en/735-concept

(via brainpicker)

Minimal stylish bike basket

I am tempted to buy a new bike just so that I can use this bike basket by Faris Elmasu. (My Strida doesn’t allow for a contraption like this) The Bent Basket is a minimalistic beauty. Totally, entirely, utterly #wishlisted.

(thank you Keren)

Woolfiller

Woolfiller repairs holes and hides stains in woollen jumpers, cardigans, jackets and carpets, for example. How? Through embracing the specific character of wool. The fibres of wool contain miniscule scales which open up when they are pricked with a felt needle. The open scales bind with each other and will not be separated. Not even in the wash. Woolfiller can be used with a special machine or with the hand. It is simple, sustainable and satisfying. A new solution for an age old problem.

(via springwise)

Rainbow Jell-o

Rainbow Jell-o. Yes, I just went to rainbow heaven.

(Jessi, Liz, it has happened, I started a Rainbow Category)

Jell-o Mold Competition

Numerous teams will compete and explore the resilient properties of Jell-O as a design medium, cultural phenomenon, and food that just won’t quit at the second annual Gowanus Studio Space Jell-O Mold Competition this saturday, june 26th!

I just watched last year’s video (below) and it made me chuckle. I loved Designglut’s Caviar Jell-O idea.

The Feedbag goes to the Jell-o Mold Competition from The Feedbag on Vimeo.

Read more about the Event.

Jell-O just makes me happy.
Make sure to read their Tips section.

(Thank you Ben and Good Luck)

Italian-Designed Space Saving Furniture

Ron Barth, President of Resource Furniture, demonstrates and explains their amazing line of Italian-designed space-savers.

(thank you joelzimmer)

rotating wardrobe

As it looks as this family might be moving sometime in the fall, I am on the look-out for cool apartment ideas. This rotating wardrobe made me almost fall off my chair.

(thank you Pedro)

sick of the swiss

(via HowdyHeidi)

Are you Happy?

Flowcharts make me happy:

(via aPhotoEditor)

Notable

My studio mate Erica just told me about Notable, a nifty way of providing feedback for website projects. Notable allows you to quickly and easily give feedback on design, content, and code on any page of a website or application without leaving your browser. Bonus: It works on iPhone, too!

Demo of Notable from Bryan Zmijewski on Vimeo.

Grid-App for iPhone/iPad



Effektive designed these grid based home screen backgrounds for iPhone and iPad to coincide with the IOS4 software upgrade which allows you to select and image as a home screen background. These grid inspired layouts act as an organised wireframe grid structure to keep your applications in neat and tidy order on your iPhone or iPad. With numbered grid rows and a ‘D’ for Dock you simply press hold and drag and drop your icons into the specific grid spots.

Please note only works on devices running IOS4 and only on 3GS or iPhone 4. More colours and styles will be available soon. See here for download and installation instructions. iPad Grid-Apps will be available soon.

PilotHandwriting.com

Write by hand on your computer! Go to www.pilothandwriting.com, turn your handwriting into a digital font and send handwritten e-mails to your friends.

(via cameronmoll)

Andy Murray Tennis Street Magic

Andy Murray brings his tennis magic to the streets of London in preparation for the 2010 Wimbledon tournament. You can download the song for free at www.head.com/tennis.

This made me realize HOW MUCH I miss playing tennis. #mustfindapartner #mustmaketime

(via ideasareawesome)

Can you smile under water?

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Living on Airbnb

What a fantastic idea: Brian Chesky, co-founder of Airbnb decided that he will live the remainder of 2010 on Airbnb. He will stay 2-3 nights in homes and apartments on his website, across San Francisco. Originally he wanted to stay in every place available in SF on Airbnb. But, with 650 listings, that would take him a couple years. Still, by Christmas, he will likely break a record for living in the most homes in a single city. The benefit is clear; the best way to make a great product is to design something for yourself. By using Airbnb everyday, he will get to know the product and the people like never before.

So, he is either a homeless entrepreneur, or a guy with 650 homes in San Francisco. Depends on your perspective.

Blog Post about his journey: Living on Airbnb: Day 1

“a” stool

Chris Jackson of Hastell.com designed this “a” stool. It’s a Helvetica LT bold lower case ‘a’ stool. Pretty cool, no?

Arnold Odermatt

Swiss police officer and photographer Arnold Odermatt became famous in his retirement on the publication of Karambolage, his photographic journal about the traffic accidents that were part of his professional life in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden.

Arriving at the scene of an accident, Odermatt would take one set of photographs for the insurance or police reports, and then take another for himself. His reasons for doing so are mysterious, but the results are often strangely beautiful.

Swiss Institute Exhibition Info
Write up over on LensCulture

Tree Servings

I agree with BB: How cute are these?? These tiny trees by Stéphanie Marin appear to just be prototypes. I hope they go into production. I’d LOVE one.

Cow-Trekking

Ok, so are you ready for this? There’s a farm in Hemishofen Switzerland that let’s you ride on cows. Yep. For real. We are talking about the beautiful swiss-brown-fluffy-ear-haired cows.

Trekking tours last half a day, so you have enough time to really bond with your cow. If 4h seems too much, there’s also a short-bonding version of 1.5h.

I can’t stop smiling and looking at my calendar, trying to find a date to schedule one of these in july when this family will be spending some time in good old Switzerland!

(via HowdyHeidi)

Necklaces by Digby and Diona

The Stump Necklace made me smile. You can customize it with an engraving. Way cool, right?


Rough Hewn Necklace