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!
30 Seconds: Paola Antonelli
30 Seconds is an ongoing series created by Thilo Hoffmann. Hoffmann worked with MoMA members and staff to create short films based on their ideas and experiences in and around the museum.
Focal / Logo Animation
I stumbled across the below logo animation while looking up Flowerpots, a beautiful animated short by Rafael Sommerhalder.
FOCAL — Animated Logo from Crictor on Vimeo.
Reading Table
Uli Budde’s Reading Table is a mix of side table and magazine rack – a logical combinatino of functions and interior products resolved in a simple and unobtrusive way. Gasp-for-air-fantastic!
Seen over on Stilsucht.
UliBudde.com
Letter Stool
These stools in shapes of abstract letters make me rejoice. How fantastic for a pre-school or modern childrens room? They are a brainchild of German Sascha Grewe and go by the label “artcanbreakyourheart.de”. They are available in 147(!!!) different colors. And how funny is their slogan: Kitsch can make you ritsch but art can break your heart.
Seen on Stilsucht.
Where Americans Are Moving
More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves. Click on map to be taken over to Forbes.com and then click on any county to see comings and goings: black lines indicate net inward movement, red lines net outward movement.
(via JayParkinson)
4 Color Monster
4 Color Monster by Andy Smith. Made me smile. Roooooooaaarrrr!
Web 3.0
A story about the Semantic Web. Transcript, interview bios, and other info on kateray.net
Downloadable version on drop.io/web3point0
Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.
(via jeffbeil)
iPhoneBook
Mobile Art Lab in Japan created a picture book using the iPhone.
(via minordetails)
Slipper Socks
Ok, so how stinking cute are these Knitted slipper-socks with soft PVC sole? Now that’s a houseshoe I would wear. Yay!
(thank you cynthia)
ABC Button
It’s not just a simple button, it’s a button with a message: Button type.
Oh, and you can download the Button Type.
(thank you cynthia)
I am wondering…
I am currently trying to consolidate all of my backups, re-organize all my work and personal files, photos, music, videos etc. As I am going through my stacks of harddrives I am realizing that my kids will eventually inherit a mountain of data.
What will they do with all these files? Will I have to go through eventually and pick the good stuff and save them as ‘your mom in a nutshell’ folder? Or a ‘best of’ folder? Seriously, I find it overwhelming to deal with my own data of 15 years plus. How will they feel looking through it all? Should I handle my data the same as how I handle my ‘stuff at home’ – ‘active file only’? Well, that doesn’t work if we want to go down memory line every now and then, right?
Do you ever think about what your kids will do (or not) with all the data we’ll pass on? And is there data that shouldn’t be passed on?
Stripes!
I heart stripes. VARMT RAND Duvet cover and pillowcase(s) by IKEA.
Varmt Rund
Awesome IKEA Carry Bag called Varmt Rund.
CreativeMornings with Paola Antonelli
D A T E
CreativeMornings, June 18th 2010, 8.30am – 10am
S P E A K E R
Paola Antonelli is on a mission to introduce — and explain — design to the world. With her shows at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, she celebrates design’s presence in every part of life.
Since she stepped back from practicing architecture in order to focus on writing about design, teaching and curating gallery exhibitions, Italian native Paola Antonelli has become a force to be reckoned with in the design world. Working at the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1994, she now heads up the gallery’s Architecture and Design department and has worked on shows such as “Humble Masterpieces,” which celebrated traditionally unheralded design icons such as the paperclip; “Safe,” considering issues of protection, and “Workspheres,” a look at contemporary workplace design.
Ever mindful that the majority of visitors to MOMA are attracted by artists such as Picasso and Matisse, Antonelli works to ensure that if they do stumble across a design-related show, they’ll be both entertained and enlightened.
Have you seen Paola Antonelli’s TED Talks?
Paola treats design as art
Design and the Elastic Mind
(And yes, I am humbled by the fact that a two-times-TED speaker is speaking at a CreativeMornings! YAY!)
H O S T
This month’s event will be hosted in the Celeste Bartos Theatre at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
The Celeste Bartos Theatre
Museum of Modern Art
4 West 54 Street
New York NY 10019
A T T E N D I N G
R.S.V.P will open at noon monday june 14, 2010! Please let us know if you r.s.v.p’d but can no longer make it. Our events fill up quickly and we usually keep a waiting list. Thank you! And at the morning of the event, make sure to put on your chatty networking hats!
BREAKFAST SPONSORS
Breakfast will be generously sponsored by our main sponsor MailChimp and this month’s Co-Sponsor Moment.
MailChimp is a fantastic service that makes it easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance. A big yay-hooray to the team over at MailChimp!
Moment is a digital product design firm. They help clients make things that work for people.
ABOUT CREATIVEMORNINGS
CreativeMornings is a monthly morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 10 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off for work at 10am. CreativeMornings are free of charge!
Be the first to know when r.s.v.p’s open up, follow CreativeMornings on twitter!
Check out pictures of previous CreativeMornings over at Flickr.
View all the taped CreativeMorning talks we’ve put up on the web so far over at Vimeo.
wanted: CreativeMornings co-sponsor
I am currently looking to find a co-sponsor for next week’s CreativeMornings on june 18th with Paola Antonelli at the MoMA. (The announcement will go up tomorrow and rsvp will open monday morning.)
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! :)
Your co-sponsorship contribution pays for breakfast and the person filming the event. Next week’s CreativeMornings place at the MoMA Barthos Theatre which can hold about 160 attendees.
More about the event:
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.
UPDATE: Moment has generously offered to sponsor this month’s event! YAY!
urlist
Here’s a nifty little app called urlist, which let’s you create lists of links that you then can share easily. This is excellent for project research. Your client can send you a list of links of sites he likes. Or you can work on a research list together with your collegues. Or let’s say, you are in the market for a new dining room table and you want to have a joint list of bookmarks with you husband. Love it.
(thank you daniele)
Jason Santa Maria’s favorite Typefaces
Next door studiomate Jason Santa Maria was interviewed by FontShop about his favorite typefaces. Thumbs up to Titling Gothic.
Wazala
Tired of selling your products on someone else’s platform and your visitors leaving your site? Have you been toying with the idea of adding a shop to your website but then never got around to do it as the endeavour seems too daunting? Yup? Same here.
Well, I have come across a fantastic new service called Wazala which lets you add a “store” button to your blog or website, and your store will simply pop-up over your content — no more sending your customers elsewhere to make a purchase. Wazala functions as a part of your existing site. An elegant overlay will dim the background and light up the store to allow for a compatible look with your existing site design.
With Wazala you can sell hard goods and digital products. You can sell pictures, designs or music. You can even define different digital downloads for different product options. e.g. Hi Res, Low Res.
If you need to track inventory you can with Wazala’s simple and straight forward inventory management options. They can also alert you when you are getting low on certain products.
They really thought of everything as you can also create coupons for store wide, category or specific product use. Set expiration dates or limit number of uses. Its your call.
Wazala is integrated with Paypal and Google Checkout the two most widely used payment platforms for accepting credit cards and online payment for stores and ecommerce platforms.
Ready to try it out?
Wazala is currently in private beta. Use “BVF8KHC4QN” and it will allow you to sign up to any of the packages offered online during the closed beta.