STECK_DICH shelving system is mounted very easily from several units, no tools are required. Although it appears quite delicate, the designer claims STECK DICH stands safely on the ground. Oh, I love this. Simplicity at its best!
Buchhalter 3
Buchhalter 3 is a bookend, table shelf and reading desk in one.
Wine Steles
The Wine Stele is a minimalistic wine rack with a capacity to hold up to 18 bottles; that’s equivalent to three wine boxes, which the slender column can pack into a tight space! Yes, please!
PowerPoint Karaoke
Imagine this: You have to deliver a PowerPoint presentation about an unfamiliar topic, with slides you’ve never seen, to an audience eager to heckle and laugh at you. If you’re in your underwear, you’re having a nightmare. If you’re clothed, it’s called PowerPoint Karaoke. Awesome, made me laugh.
Design Folios with Google Maps
Using an application, like CASA’s Image Cutter or the Automatic Tile Cutter, you can create your own map tiles for Google Maps. This means that you can replace image map tiles with any image tiles you like including other maps, or more importantly for designers and artist, replace them with portfolio images! How incredibly cool!
Click here for 5 examples of design portfolios using Google Maps. The above example is: Microtyp.org
(thank you Rhett)
Happy my 10 year NYC anniversary to you!
It’s a big day at swissmiss studio: Ten years ago today, I moved to NYC.
After a 10minute Interview with Matthew Waldman, at the time running New York Zoom Inc in downtown Manhattan, I was hired for a 3 month internship. A few weeks later, he offered me a fulltime job and a H1B Visa. I have since worked at many prominent studios and made the jump into starting my own. I was one of the people walking home all covered in white dust on 9/11. And even though all signs pointed to leaving NYC after 9/11, I was stubborn enough not to. Thank god, because I met my fantastic husband G in an elevator 5 years ago, and had little Ella Joy 3.5 years ago. And today, I am starting a part-time teaching position at Parsons, the New School.
Every year I have fallen a little bit more in love with NYC. I have in the meantime become a true Brooklynite and could not imagine living anywhere else. I agree with John Updike: “The true new yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
NYC, thank you for being so good to me.
Baby Got Camera
Camera Baby Bib. Made me smile.
Goollery
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Ji Lee just pointed me to one of his latest projects: Goollery is an online gallery dedicated to collect, archive and showcase some of the most creative, fun and innovative Google-related projects from people around the world.
Goollery is an independent project by Ji Lee, Jeanelle Mak, Francisco Hui, Karishma Sheth and Andrew Bonventre. (Please note, Goollery IS NOT a Google website.)
(thank you Ji!)
Happy Socks
Who wouldn’t buy and wear socks that are graphically awesome and are called ‘Happy Socks‘? Love it!
(thank you Nate!)
Arlo/Artists
I had the pleasure of having coffee with Dylan Fareed this morning, mastermind (design and coding power) behind Arlosites.com.
Arlo/Artists is a fantastic way to build a great-looking portfolio site. You can pick from nicely designed themes, custom domains and a truly powerful templating system for full control. Arlo/Artists lets you have unlimited portfolios and a clear interface to let you focus on organizing and promoting your work.
Considering he designed and coded the entire system himself and that they are coming out with a gallery version in the coming weeks, which is even more complex, I am convinced Dylan never sleeps. Ever.
Beware of Reactionary Workflow
In an era of mobile devices, instant connectivity, and automated mailing lists and notifications, it is all too easy for people to contact us. As a consequence, we live our lives just trying to keep our heads above water. Our ability to prioritize and control our focus is crippled by an unyielding flow of incoming communication: email, texts, tweets, facebook messages, phone calls, and so on (and on).
Article by Scott Belsky: Beware of Reactionary Workflow
Nooka Wallet
I had Matthew, mastermind behind all things NOOKA visit me in my studio a few weeks ago and he showed me his Nooka Asset Organizer (=wallet) which is simply stunning. It’s fabulously rubbery and stretchy. Definitely a great gift!
Question for my readers:
Next week I’ll be starting as a part time teacher at Parsons The New School for Design here in New York. (Yay!) My goal will be to educate a group of approx 12 students about web design and give them an introduction to designing and planning a site. I am (cautiously) excited and humbled by the learning curve that’s ahead of me, never having taught before.
Are you a professional teaching part-time? If so, what advice would you give someone like me who starting to teach? What was your biggest teaching epiphany? I would love to hear your experience!
Hook and Pinboard
Hook and Pinboard in one. Nice!
Supermarket Sarah
Sarah decided to leave the corporate world behind her and has set up shop in her own home. Her home, round the corner from Portobello Market where she has a stall, is now overflowing with treasures and delights and she welcomes visitors with tea and cakes. Supermarketsarah.com
(thank you chesley)
Brooklyn Fare
Brooklyn Fare is my alltime new favorite supermarket just around the corner from our apartment in Boerum Hill/Downtown Brooklyn. Their coffee cups made me laugh. Thumbs up to Matteo Bologna and his team over at Mucca, well done! Oh, and by the way, Brooklyn Fare is not a chain, this is their first store. Impressive implementation of beautiful design right off the start.
(via joshspear)
simplify
This simplification of two remotes made me smile.
CableBox
Under or on the desk, next to the computer, or behind the TV, loose tangled cables are always untidy dust traps. CableBox is the solution to solve these issues. Simply place your power strips or surge protector inside CableBox. No need to unplug anything first. Then stow away the surplus cable lengths, close the lid and done. Designed with cable outlets either side of the box, CableBox will fit almost every size power strip with extra space for the cords, adapters, etc. BlueLounge Cable Box hides your cable mess. Yes, please! Ordered!
Mailplane
You like threaded conversations, googling your inbox, and you prefer labels over folders. You really love Gmail. Continue to use the Gmail web interface you know and love, but from Mailplane instead of your web browser: Mailplane brings Gmail to your desktop. (Oh, look, this nifty app has been cooked up by a swiss. Yay!)
City One Minutes
Are you curious to know how people live on the other side of the world? What does Moscow look like between three and four in the afternoon? What happens in Rio de Janeiro between eleven and twelve at night? See the personal impressions of city life which artists across the globe have filmed. Follow what happens from hour to hour in more than hundred cities on cityoneminutes.org.
In City One Minutes life in each city is divided into 24 one minute portraits, each depicting one hour of the day. Every film is a personal impression of the city in which the artist lives or in which he is staying.
(thank you magnus)
