CreativeMornings with Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan of ApartmentTherapy

Hooray for another CreativeMorning, on March 19, 2010, with Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, Co-Founder of Apartment Therapy.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
“One part interior designer, one part life coach,” Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan is the founder of Apartment Therapy, a unique interior design practice in the New York metropolitan area. In April 2004, Maxwell, with his brother Oliver, launched apartmenttherapy.com, now one of the most popular and influential design weblogs in the country. Swissmiss is a huge fan of Apartment Therapy and our loyal readers know we love to link to their fantastic sites. (Tina especially loves unplggd, the Apartment Therapy’s sub-site with everything gadgety!)

HOST
This month’s event will again (!) be hosted by the generous folks over at the amazing Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO. If you are not familiar with the space, get ready for a real treat.

R.S.V.P
Interested in attending? Make sure to get your free ticket over on creativemornings.eventbrite.com quickly as we usually fill up fast. Please tell us your name and what industry you’re in. CreativeMornings start at 8.30am, end at 10am and are FREE of charge. Also, if you did rsvp but can no longer make it, please do send us a note as we usually tend to have a waiting list. Email us at [email protected]!

BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Breakfast will be generously sponsored by our new main sponsor MailChimp and John Boardley this month’s co-sponsor and founder of I Love Typography.


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!

Not familiar with I Love Typography? Then hurry up, check the world’s most popular type blog.

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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.

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. The whole thing closes down at 10am. The events are hosted at studios/gallery spaces in NYC. (We are always looking for potential hosts that are willing to accomodate 50+ people. Please email us if you’re interested in hosting or sponsoring one of our events!)

Pretty Paper Lane

These adorable letter-pressed houses come as a kit by 1canoe2.

Growing Table

Now if this Growing Table isn’t an important looking kid’s desk, I don’t know what is. It has future CEO written all over it. The smart thing about it, you can extend the legs so the desk growths with your kiddo. Brilliant! Somebody has been using their noggin!

Dog Stache

image by dog-milk.com

This is for you Tim: Dog Stache.

(thank you herrt)

♥ / Polarn O. Pyret

I am delighted to announce this week’s RSS Feed sponsor, Polarn O. Pyret. I have posted many of their stylish kid’s clothing items before, for example this Button Down Shirt or the irresistible Ladybug Onesie.

Polarn O. Pyret is Sweden’s leading and most beloved children’s wear brand, known for their love for stripes. (One of my favorite gifts to buy for little ones: Classic Stripe Moccasin.)

While PO.P has only been available in the US for a year, it’s been a Swedish household name for 34 years. The design-driven timelessness of the brand makes it possible to collect pieces for the next child or the next generation. Pattern designs have always been very important for Polarn O. Pyret. Their Landscape prints, where the print covers the entire garment, have become an annual tradition since 2005. This season they have some fun ones depicting Swedish tradition.

And of course, by being Swedish, they believe children should play outside no matter what the weather. “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.” So they make some of the best outerwear for children which allows them to be dry and warm and still have a blast at the park. (Check out these awesome Rain Pants!)

The Polar O. Pyret team cannot wait to meet their customers as they open their first set of stores later this year in the NY area. (swissmiss can’t wait to set foot in one of them!)

Polar O. Pyret is offering all swissmiss readers 20% off until Sunday March 14th with code SWISSPOP.

Yay for stripes! Yay for Polarn O. Pyret!

If home appliances were inhabited



If home appliances were inhabited by a community of tiny, industrious, architecturally advanced people. Made me look. Photo tour of a senior thesis exhibition of Kyoto University of Art and Design.

(thank you johnny)

The Oldest Living Things in the World

I have posted about Rachel Sussman’s Oldest Living Things project before and she just sent me the latest addition: the 2,000-year-old brain coral that she photographed underwater in Toabgo last month. Spooky and fascinating at the same time!

Twine Tin

Store your kitchen twine or other threads with a little personality! who wouldn’t want to open the utility closet or crafting cabinet and see this guy smiling, at your service and just waiting to help?

Oliver Yaphe



I agree with Jennifer, these children’s room rug designs by Oliver Yaphe are wonderful.

Organic Onesies + Vintage Ties

Organic Onesies + Vintage Ties = Made me smile!

(thank you Kai)

Design Letters

Condensed letters for your kids room? YES! Makes me happy.

Mug and Milk Jug with Chalk Area

How cool (and minimal) is this mug and milk jug with a chalk surface to write on?

How to Transform Your Hoodie into a Computer Sleeve.

A hoodie is not just a hoodie. In a world full of stuff, smart items should be transformable, editable. They should engage the possibility to be transformed into something else. We do not need a new object, a new thing. Rather we need to get rid of some of them, to reduce the complex network of things around us.

Just undo it is a collection of reversible objects that could be made from a hoodie at no cost, no particular knowledge nor tools. See how to videos here.

Instructions about how to make a computer sleeve were published in the last issue of WIRED Italia.

(Thank you Antonio)

Acca Kappa Toothbrush

Made entirely of biodegradable materials, this sleek, zen-looking toothbrush will keep your teeth pearly white.

San Francisco Artist’s Soap Box Derby

The Incredible San Fancisco Artists’ Soapbox Derby, 1975. from Mike Haeg on Vimeo.

(via dinosaurs and robots)

baby cups by isak

Two small cups by Isak for your everyday espresso, snacking or dipping. Adorable.

Nutcase Helmets | Adult Sizes

I am officially in love with Nutcase Bike Helmets. How much fun can a helmet design be? I had NO idea! The earlier posting this morning was for kid’s sizes, these here are grown-ups! Yay!

Triboro Design | Leftovers

Triboro Leftovers is a compilation of unpublished type treatments, photos, sketches, illustrations and logo explorations that we have created over the years. Rather than allow these to remain lost on our harddrives we decided to set them free. We mashed together elements from hundreds of different projects—and in the process—deliberately stripped the elements oftheir original context and meaning. The results are visual remixes which stand on their own.

Helmet and Dots = Awesome



Dear Nutcase, could you please consider offering these Dot Helmets in grown-up sizes? Thank you.

Paul Octavious

Not only are these book sculptures stunning, Paul Octavious also has a seriously cool last name.

I love you because…

I love you because print by SeattleShowPosters: 10 x 20 1-color print on 80# archival paper. Available unframed or framed. The framed version comes with a dry-erase marker – write on the glass and change it daily!

Helveticaca



The Helvetica-Onesie-Madness is getting better and better: Helveticaca. Thanks for the laugh, Royal Stuart.

David Sykes



David Sykes finished his Faux Food series is doing a limited edition print run: 50 prints of each, numbered and signed, due to go on sale end of March beginning of April. (Pricey but oh-so-cool.)

Happiness

Happiness itself is a commons to which everyone should have equal access.

(via bobulate)