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)
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)
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?
Modern Play House
How ridiculously awesome is this Modern Play House?
(thank you keren)
CreativeMornings Icebreaker Tag
The icebreaker tag of this morning’s CreativeMornings asked the following question: If you could have any artist do a portrait of you, who would you pick? A few answers above, see all the answers in this Flickr Set.
Paola Antonelli, CreativeMornings
Yet another fantastic write-up of a CreativeMornings by Paul Soulellis:
Paola talked about design of course, and how the design community in NYC has shifted during the last 16 years. She started by comparing Milan’s regional strength (design) to New York’s (art) in 1994, when she arrived here. There’s a kind of normalcy in the way design belongs to life in Europe, and how it breeds a kind of everyday design culture that she felt was lacking in America (I admit, I still feel this). She traces this inferiority complex back to the 18th century, when we began importing culture from France. But she recognized New York’s strength in contemporary art (“in Italy art ended with Dada”) and today she traced the coming-together of art, design and architecture through technology and economic crisis from 1994 until now.
MoMA / Talk to Me
Talk to Me is an exhibition on the communication between people and objects that will open at The Museum of Modern Art on July 24th 2011. It will feature a wide range of objects from all over the world, from interfaces and products to diagrams, visualizations, perhaps even vehicles and furniture, by bona-fide designers, students, scientists, all designed in the past few years or currently under development.
As you can tell, our net is cast very wide and the exhibition happens at the end of a long hunting and gathering exercise. The team over at MoMA put together an online journal that will document the process and progress of Talk to Me.
At moma.org/talk_to_me they will share their findings, considerations, and explorations as they research, investigate, travel and hear from their networks of designers, artists, scientists and scholars.
Under the queue tab you’ll find projects that piqued MoMA’s interest and are awaiting further research, whereas if something is tagged as checked, it has already gone successfully through that phase and it sits in their preliminary database, which will not be final until, probably, the opening day of the show.
By allowing you behind the scenes of Talk to Me, the MoMA Team hopes not only to shed some light on the curatorial process, but also to gather feedback in the form of comments to the posts, free-floating ideas, and suggestions.
Wonderful!
Go (Fullcodepress) Team USA
No, we are not talking about soccer. We are talking about our Team USA at Fullcodepress currently happening in NewZealand. Being held in Wellington on 19 and 20 June, FullCodePress is a competition where teams of web professionals compete to build a website for non-profits in 24 hrs.
Our friends and studiomates are currently working hard, competing against team New Zealand and Australia. Team USA, know that Suite606 and studio612a is cheering for you! Go Team USA! Wheeee!