Dzineblog put together a a fantastic Round-Up of User Interface Design Resources.
(via @loopdiloop)
IKEA Patrull Air Purifier
The IKEA Patrull Air Purifier looks like a little robot that was in a fight!
Upcoming Events at Galapagos
Fabulous Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO presents two great events for ideas and design.
On 4/13, AIGA/NY presents Patrick Borelli’s one-man multimedia show “You Should Judge A Book By Its Cover”, in which he dissects thirty of the oddest book covers you’ve ever seen. Joining Borelli’s cover-shredding onstage will be McSweeneys writer and Moth Story Slam host Dan Kennedy, Cat News creator and comedienne Julie Klausner and book cover designer Evan Gaffney. The evening will also include video interviews Borelli did with design luminaries, including the legendary Chip Kidd. The event begins at 7 P.M. and tickets are $28 for the general public and $18 for AIGA members who also receive a free drink. More info here.
The following night, 4/14, Galapagos hosts the the School of Visual Arts’ MFA in Interaction Design’s Dot Dot Dot lecture “The Entrepreneurs”. Ideas are important. Yet as ideas evolve from thoughts to action to revenue, what insights can we gain? With new projects under their belts and major successes underway, entrepreneurs at every stage have a great deal to offer. Hear from four different founders’ perspectives on topics from persistence, engaging with people, the rate of change and growth, the role of unencumbered luck, and more. The event begins at 6:30 P.M. and tickets are $6. More info here.
Insights of Selling a WordPress Theme
In his post Adding Up Basic Maths Khoi Vinh generously shares his experience in selling a WordPress Theme. Khoi shares sales numbers and what helped driving sales and what didn’t. I applaud his openness and send a hat tip to Khoi and his partner Allan Cole.
Post about his experience.
Link to Basic Maths Theme.
PSFK Conference New York 2010
I am delighted to be one of the speakers at the upcoming PSFK Conference New York, this coming friday, April 9 2010.
PSFK will bring together a large crowd of likeminds to learn and share new ideas that will help us make tomorrow better. Over 20 speakers will share their ideas and opinions from the forefront of culture. Topics range from the arts to entertainment to business to the web.
PSFK Conferences are attended by designers, digital creatives, entrepreneurs, journalists, planners, strategists and writers. Scroll to the end of this page to see who’s coming to PSFK Conference New York this year.
Piglet No. 2
Piglet No. 2 by Sharon Montrose over at 20×200.
Keep Calm and Snap On
The Keep Calm and Snap On Print: An inspirational poster reminding you that it’s all about the click of a shutter.
Tukluk
TUKLUK is a kid’s play object based on the shape of a triangle. Integrated magnets hold the elements together. Designed by Benedikt Kirsch+ Katharina Schildgen. Makes me want to be a kiddo.
Bulky Waste Gone Product
Nora and Christoph of Learningfrom.de created a range of fascinating objects all made with things found on the streets of Mainz, Austria Germany. (oh that site is annoying to navigate)
Design Currency: Icograda Design Week In Vancouver
Pretty mesmerizing video for the Icograda Design Week in Vancouver:
(thank you @markbusse)
Water by Numbers
The ChopShop has teamed up with WellDone to provide clean water to those throughout the developing world who need it most – one awesome t-shirt at a time. The designers at ChopShop worked closely with the WellDone team to highlight the various facets of the global water crisis through the visualization of 27 striking water statistics. The icons paint a picture that remind us that we must both conserve earth’s most precious resource, while working to improve clean water access to those most in need.
Napkins are so passé
This is the ‘iPad’ that I will be ordering asap: PixelPad (holding off on the other one, but lusting over it, yes) It will look sooo good on our coffee table. Ha!
(thank you Jonquils)
Honest Interfaces
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.”—Edward R. Murrow
(via Honest Interfaces)
88 Illustrations from REWORK
All 88 Illustrations from Rework, the new business book from 37signals, now assembled in a Flickr Set. (Smart move, 37Signals!)
The above illustrations are all by Mike Rohde.
The Office copier turns 50
The copier may be the most iconic piece of office equipment of the past half-century. Fortune magazine called it “the most successful product ever marketed in America”: The #@*!#*! office copier turns 50 by Brandon Griggs
Packrati.us
Packrati.us follows your twitter feed, and whenever a status you tweet or re-tweet contains URLs, it gets added to your delicious.com bookmarks. Optionally, bookmark URLs in @replies to you, and in tweets you mark as Favorites.
Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious
Barack Obama + ‘awesome things’
US president Barack Obama looking at ‘awesome things’. Made me chuckle.
In praise of nothingness
Excellent entry over at Bobulate on being busy: In praise of nothingness
Obsessive Consumption
I was given the book called Obsessive Consumption by Kate Bingaman-Burt and while I enjoyed the illustrations, I didn’t really know what to make of it at first. Cute, I thought, but what’s the point of drawing pretty much everything one buys? I started reading the intro and all of a sudden the book took another another meaning:
Why focus on consumerism? Money and purchasing and the problems with money and the emotional connection to buying products have been a constant in my life. When the women in my family get together, we go shopping. We discuss important issues in our lives over sale racks instead of the kitchen table. This is how I learned to communicate.
My first venture into documenting what I call Obsessive Consumption began in 2002, when I started photographing everything I purchased. This project lasted two years. In the fall of 2004 I began to hand draw my credit card statements. I’ll continue drawing them until they are all paid off. The drawings in this book started as a quilty pleasure – a break from drawing those statements, which are not too enjoyable to draw (which is the point, of course.)
G and I started talking about how we were raised when it comes to shopping. We were saying how glad we are that we are not ‘shoppers’. After a few minutes we looked at each other and said: “Wait a second, we ARE shoppers, we shop ONLINE. We just don’t go into stores!” Oops!
Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?, by Kate Bingaman-Burt (Make sure to read all her little comments next to her illustrations. Truly entertaining!)
(thank you for the book, katharine)
