Big Belly Trash Compactors could make a huge impact in today’s garbage and recycling in big cities, like New York. The coolest part: It has a wireless notification system that will tell a control center when it needs to be picked up. Geeky stuff. Love it!
Olivetti Lettera 22 Manual
I agree with the crew over at Grain Edit, I’m also blown away by this Olivetti Lettera Manual. Absolutely stunning! You can see the full manual at Ed’s Flickr account.
Mysterious Letters
In April 2009, Lenka Clayton & Michael Crowe sent a personal, handwritten letter to each of the 467 households in the small Irish village of Cushendall. They hoped these unsolicited letters would prompt neighbourly discussion, spreading across the town, promoting community curiosity. The art work consists solely of the discussion between the recipients about what on Earth these letters are, who sent them and why, etc. Mysterious Letters Project.
Will from It’sNiceThat just sent me over the link to this video where Michael and Lenka talk about their art.
(thank you reina)
School Day Desk
Lovely, simple, minimal and retro: School Day Desk.
Umbrella Contraption
Japan’s Umbrella Shoulder Holder let’s you keep your both hands free in the rain to carry your stuff. Buy it at Amazon Japan for USD$26. This would come in especially handy for when I am pushing Ella’s stroller in pouring rain…
(via noquedanblogs)
Lego Ad Campaign
A new ad campaign done for Lego by agency blattner brunner. Wonderful interpretation of a kids imagination.
(update: thanks for letting me know that the campaign indeed is not very new at all, Nate)
Dieter Rams Flickr Group
I learned over at It’sNiceThat about Dieter Ram’s Flickr Group, celebrating the genius of the former head of design at Braun, Dieter Rams.
Earth Brooch
Earth Brooch: Wear Your Favorite Topographic Landscape as Jewelry. Oh, I would love an Alpstein Brosche!
(thank you peter B)
Esteban Diácono
let yourself feel. from Esteban Diácono on Vimeo.
Quite mesmerizing animation by Esteban Diácono and music by Olafur Arnalds. No?
(via sharesomecandy)
Travel Therapy
My friend Rob Holub wrote a theme song for a book called Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need to Go?, by Karen Schaler. It’s the world’s first theme song for a book to inspire your next vacation. I honstely like the idea of looking up my ailment and a have a book tell me where I should travel to to get better. Ha! Congrats Rob!
to gift peace of mind
Last November, one of my readers, Bryn, was faced with the challenge of choosing a birthday present for her man. Since he’s been hers for a long time, she tried most of the possible gift categories on him before. What would make him truly happy?
She thought of all the little to-do’s, house annoyances, tasks and errands that pile up and nag him every time they come to mind. She decided to make a list of all those things — and do them. Thereby giving him: Peace Of Mind.
Wonderful! See all the images here.
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Our roommate: Google
Be sure to watch Episode 2 and Episode 3.
(via @zen_habits)
Fiat Planters
Fiat and designer Fabio Novembre have installed 20 life-size fiberglass replicas of the automaker’s 500 C compact car in Milan each with a tree planted inside. The cars are parked along the Montenapoleone, Milan’s epicenter for fashion and jewelry.
(via PSFK)
Patience
How incredibly powerful is this Power To The Poster series by Micah Max? I certainly would tear off a few of the patience ones, hoping it would rub off on me.
(via bblinks / via designmilk)
Fluent
One of my loyal CreativeMornings attendees, Matt Convente, pointed me to the t-shirts above t-shirts he designed. They made me chuckle. Matt is a recent graphic design graduate, obviously incredibly talented and in search of a job. Consider hiring him, maybe?
Design Pricing Formula
David Airey has an interesting post about the much talked and agonized about topic on how much should design cost. He came up with a Design Pricing Formula.
He also lists a few interesting links to articles about Design Pricing:
12 Realities of Pricing Design Services, by Steven Snell
Nine Factors to Consider When Determining Your Price, by Collis Ta’eed
Is Charging More the Right Thing to Do? on Men With Pens
The Subtle Effects of Pricing on the Mentality of Clients, on FreelanceSwitch
The Heads of State
The Heads of State (Jason is one of our former studio mates and we miss him dearly) just posted some new work to their site. My favorite is the hypothetical marijuana packaging for Print Magazine. Made me smile.
Hypothetical marijuana packaging for Print Magazine.
Portland Film Fest
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What would make *you* a good client?
We had another successful CreativeMornings today, generously hosted at the fancy Education Wing of the MoMA with Allegra Burnette (MoMA) as our fabulous speaker. Yummee breakfast was sponsored by GenevaSound.
I introduced the Conversation Starter tags a few months back, and today, I asked the question: “what would make *you* a good client?”
Below are some of the answers, see all of them in this flickr set.
The last year of Polaroid film
Grant Hamilton posted a teaser for his upcoming Polaroid Documentary called TIME ZERO: the last year of Polaroid film. Wonderful.
Backpack
Twelve South Created BackPack, a sturdy, sleek looking shelf designed exclusively to attach to the back of iMac and Apple Cinema Displays. This handy little piece of heavy gauge steel is perfectly sized to hold hard drives, USB peripherals or even a Mac mini. You can use the perforated base to tie up that web of cables lurking behind your Mac.
Genius! Backpack gets 2 swissmiss thumbs up!
(via noquedanblogs)
It’s Time for Real
Hellmann’s – It’s Time for Real from CRUSH on Vimeo.
(via noquedanblogs)
transformer
Philippe Malouin designed this child’s chair turned single bed called Tent Sofa. I agree with MinorDetails, it’s a great solution for sleepovers and playtime.
Squirrel in Focus
This made me laugh:
Melissa Brandts wasn’t trying to take a photo of this ground squirrel at Banff National Park. She’d set up the camera’s timer so that she’d have a nice picture of herself and her husband, with spectacular Lake Minnewanka in the background. She hadn’t counted on this ground squirrel hogging the foreground.Photo by Melissa Brandt, from the Your Shot Daily Dozen at National Geographic magazine
(via neatorama/via chrisglass)
Fire Design Fire Extinguishers
Look, cool type on a fire extinguisher. What’s not to like? So far they are only being sold in two stores in Paris: Cadeau Store and Boutique Fire. Let’s hope they make it across the Atlantic soon.
(via unplggd)