Using no ink whatsoever, these 18″x24″ posters are foil stamped and embossed to create an alphabet composed of letters from many of the more famous (and some infamous) logos of all time. Printed in two different colorways, you have the choice of silver foil on black paper or gold foil on cream, both stocks are 100 lb. French Pop-Tone and include the artist’s signature on back.
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This Underground Home in the swiss village of Vals has me wide-eyed. What a stunning piece of architecture. And did you see that long dining table? That’s.what.I.want.one.day!
The house is a collaboration between the Netherlands architects at SeARCH and Christian Muller Architects.
(thank you marcel)
Found this Book Mark over on juststuffifind.com and unfortunately there’s no information on the piece. Does anyone know who we should be giving credit to? Made me look and chuckle.
Note of the Tobias Sommer, Author of Punched Out: This font is a set of cut-out layouts with which you can build 3D pixel style letters. They should all work. Just cut along the solid lines, fold along the dotted lines, put some glue on the shaded flaps, stick them together and there you go…
If you wanna use this for a commercial project, please contact me. I’ll most probably let you use it for free, but I’d like to know what it is for. I also appreciate it if you send me a link/image of non-commercial projects featuring this font.
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A wise man once said “We are all at the mercy of our wild monkey minds. Incessantly swinging from branch to branch.” With multiple windows and applications all vying for our attention, we have sadly adapted our working habits to that of the computer and not the other way around. Ommwriter is a humble attempt to recapture what technology has snatched away from us today: our capacity to concentrate. Ommwriter is a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, vindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.
Two thumbs up from swissmiss. Absolutely love the simplicity and zen’ness of Ommwriter. If you are a scriptwriter, blogger, journalist, copywriter, poet or just someone who enjoys writing, welcome back to concentrating.
Ommwriter from Herraiz Soto on Vimeo.
The official trailer for the new documentary, Between The Folds. Visit http://www.greenfusefilms.com for more information.
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Come and see me give a short presentation at wednesday’s AIGA’s Fresh Dialogue 25:
www.DesignBloggingIsChangingEverything.com
wednesday december 16th, 2009
6.30pm – 8.30pm
Every day, if not hour, if not minute, design blogs draw attention to an unprecedented quantity and ever-expanding diversity of design. Join us to hear what four design blog luminaries see as today’s most prominent design trends, including example projects, and stories from the front lines of today’s design world. This will be followed by a critical discussion of how design blogs are changing design, investigating the unintended consequences of self-publishing, and what blogging can achieve for its readers, writers, and the design community at large. Questions for the discussion will be taken via Twitter leading up to and during the event. To pose a question, use the hashtag #freshd or address @freshdialogue.
This event will feature presentations by Khoi Vinh/subtraction.com, Josh Rubin/CoolHunting.com, Tina Roth Eisenberg/swiss-miss.com, Allan Chochinov/Core77.com with a discussion moderated by Alice Twemlow chair of the SVA design criticism MFA Program and contributing editor at DesignObserver.com
Coolest Bookends Ever: Quote/Unquote Bookends by Eric Janssen, manufactured by MERLO-T, Switzerland.
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In his new book, Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It), author William Poundstone dissects the marketing tricks built into menus—for example, how something as simple as typography can drive you toward or away from that $39 steak.
Read the article: Menu Mind Games
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Google Chrome is a web browser that runs web pages and applications with lightning speed. Click on the notice board in the video to see our other films. google.com/chrome
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(Look, we’re all loving our FieldNotes.Thank you Jim!)
(How cool is this Christmas Tree by Ian Trask which is part of Recession Art?)
Today’s CreativeMorning with Charlie Todd of ImprovEverywhere was a huge success. His talk was incredibly entertaining, I don’t think the crowd has ever laughed so much at a CreativeMorning. A big thank you to Lucien Zayan, the wonderful host at the Invisible Dog Space and to Jim Coudal over at FieldNotes for sponsoring breakfast. Here are all the photos of today’s event.
45 cancelations & no-shows today. Does one really need to start a black list, or as Cameron calls is the ‘swissmissed-list’? :(
Here are a few of the answers of today’s conversation starter tag at this morning’s CreativeMorning with Charlie Todd of ImprovEverywhere. See the entire set of answers here.
What’s your answer?
I was featured on swiss tv in the TV show called SF Unterwegs, in a show about NYC.
You can view the segment that was filmed at swissmiss studio here.
You can view the entire show online, right here. (It’s in swiss/german!)
I have been looking forward to this moment: the launch of my simple, designy, free, browser-based to-do application called TeuxDeux.
It all started a few months back, when I got into a conversation with my studiomate Cameron about to-do apps. I have tried pretty much every to do-app
there is but always wanted a different layout or feature set, mostly, LESS *fewer* features. I figured out what works for me (a weekview, with the ability to check things off) but I couldn’t find it anywhere. After I gave Cameron my vision of what ‘my’ perfect to-do app would look like, he simply said: “Well, design it and Evan and I will build it!” And that’s exactly what we did. TeuxDeux is the first collaboration between FictiveKin and swissmiss.
TeuxDeux is designed around my personal work-flow and preference of how I like my to-do’s organized. As I pretty much ‘live’ in the browser, I have it set to be my homepage, so, every time I open a browser window (which is every few minutes) I am being hit over the head with what I need to get done, which has proven to be very effective.
In TeuxDeux, you always see and entire week in front of you and you see what day of the week you’re on. Days in the past are light gray, the actual day is red and days in the future are black. You have the ability of checking items off, which is incredibly satisfying. But, you can also ‘x’ an item off, delete it, if you want to get rid of the clutter. Up to you.
Items that you didn’t take care of ‘today’ will automatically be moved to the next day. Also, you can manually drag items from one day to another time in the future.
Then there’s the “Someday Section”: Sometimes you just need to jolt down an upcoming to-do that doesn’t need to be taken care of in the immediate future. Just get it out of your head by adding it to the someday section. My studiomate and avid TeuxDeux tester Chesley actually figured out a nice little hack in making the Someday section more useful: She labeled the columns within that section for different projects and areas on her life. (personal, work, family, email…)
TeuxDeux is as minimal as it gets, and we like it like that. Give it a spin and let us know what you think. (Use the feedback tab at the bottom for your comments)
And yes, we are working on an iPhone app! Promised! Follow us on twitter.com/teuxdeux to stay in the loop!
Watch our little demo video by Cameron:
TeuxDeux Demo from TeuxDeux on Vimeo.
Beverly Hsu created this beauty of a minimal and slightly abstract 2010 letterpress wall calendar. The days of the month are represented by twleve different decorative types that she discovered from various typecases in the letterpress lab. Each decorative piece represents a day, each set of decorative elements represents a month, and all together, the twelve months of 2010. Lovely.
(thank you so much for the surprise, beverly)
Career advice from Charlie Hoehn:
Therein lies the best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things. Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy. Stop acting like you have a set path, because you don’t. No one does. You shouldn’t be trying to check off the boxes of life; they aren’t real and they were created by other people, not you. There is no explicit path I’m following, and I’m not walking in anyone else’s footsteps. I’m making it up as I go.
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Bloom my Buddy is a vase that had me laugh out loud. Not really practical but highly entertaining: This unique vase is made up of three separate parts, each with their own reservoir, and perforated all over so that you can dress it in any way you like. It could be a girl, a boy, or maybe even a strange alien creature.
Infinite Ribbon by Anderson Maschio. Simply pretty. Would love to frame and hang it.
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I bought this LEGO CD Boombox for little Ella yesterday. I hope she is going to be as excited about it as I am. Way cool for a kids room, no?
How incredibly cool is this Candle Light Raclette set that comes with a superhip truck-tarp pouch? Made me smile and want melted cheese at 7:16am.
41 million BILLYs around the world are celebrating their 30th birthday! BILLY? Yes, thats right! The bookshelf from IKEA you buy as a flatpack and then make alive at home. To celebrate this anniversary, BILLY was made alive and sent around Switzerlands most beautiful spots to gather his brothers. Several BILLYs traveled Switzerland and amazed the one or the other pedestrian. From the Matterhorn to a visit on a farm through to St. Moritz but come and have a look where else BILLY has been.
