(Found over at BusinessGuysOnBusinessTrips.com, via @carlc)
Made me laugh:
Your old phone can do good
Hope Phones takes recycled phones and puts them to work on the front lines of global health. Donate yours to a medical clinic in a developing country today. If you’re in NYC, come and drop by your old phone at my studio as I ordered the shipping material for up to 50 phones. Or, get your own collection materials to start a collection campaign!
Playful Learning Experiences
Jolayne from Urbanpreschool pointed me to this amazing resource for parents called Playful Learning. It’s filled with educational activites for parents and their children. What a resource. Hat tip to Mariah Bruehl, the force behind Playful Learning.
Floating Camping
I don’t know about you but this Floating Camping Island looks very relaxing to me.
Brompton Child Seat
The Brompton is definitely one of the most amazing (and expensive) folding bikes out there. This Brompton Child Seat Hack made me look!
Stripped Bare
Made me smile: A piece entitled Zé Carioca No. 4 by Rivane Neuenschwander, currently on display at the new york Museum of Modern Art.
Subdivisions
New York artist Ross Racine creates aerial views of fictional suburbs, examining the relation between design and actual lived experience. No photographs or scanned images are used in the pieces above. Each was drawn freehand directly on the computer and then printed on an inkjet printer. Impressive.
(via badbanana/via the new shelton wet/dry)
Eyebrow Hat
Tom Judd produced this hat as half of his final body of work for his MA in Animation. The concept came about whilst thinking about botox users and their wonderfully emotionless faces. The eyebrow hat allows its wearer to express themselves by altering the pitch and height of each synthetic brow using the lightweight controller. The result is a dignified look that friends and family will admire.
Eyebrow Hat from tom judd on Vimeo.
(via joshspear)
Merlin Mann on Doing Creative Work
Merlin Mann talks about the process of doing creative work, and particularly how to abandon the quest for perfection, get off your butt and get started.
(via @michaelsurtees)
Memory Twins
What a cool idea for a memory game: You have pair twins. Memory Twins.
Portraits
Traditional custom silhouette portraits handcut from leaves by Jenny Lee Fowler. Beautiful.
(via szymon)
Ink Posters
A one-colour screen print with the famous Charlie Mingus Quote: “Anyone can make the simple complicated, creativity is making the complicated simple.” This needs to be put up in our studio. Must!
(via bblinks)
Stretch Shelf
Pete Oyler, a recent graduate of the rhode island school of design is the mastermind behind this Stretch Shelf. They are made of cast rubber and machined aluminum and are, essentially, giant rubberbands that function as wall shelves. Wonderful!
CreativeMornings Video: Khoi Vinh
6/7 Khoi Vinh from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.
(A big huge thank you to Rob Blatt who donated his time and skills to tape and edit this video!)
Rhonda
The hands in the video below belong to James Paterson. He is using Rhonda, a 3D drawing tool developed by Amit Pitaru circa 2003.
(thanks zach)
Step-By-Step Guide To Getting Shot By The Sartorialist
A Step-By-Step Guide To Getting Shot By The Sartorialist, By Christene Barberich & Piera Gelardi, Design by Joshua Covarrubias
In german: Loriot animated
This is a post for my german speaking readers: Students Anna & Sonja Hahn adapted Loriot’s Eheberatung skit as an animated infographic. Made me look and smile.
Loriot Eheberatung Animation from anna on Vimeo.
(thank you tocki)
luckyou
Luckyou is a label from swiss designer Stefanie Luginbühl. She creates jewellery and bowls completely out of recycled paper, i.e. fashion magazines, and sells them to boutiques and directly over the internet. It’s biological, it’s social responsible, and – most of all – it just looks great.
Luckyou also comprises a charity component: the necklaces are produced in the townships of capetown, south africa, mainly by women. One third of the earnings goes into production. The more necklaces are sold, the more people (mainly women) in the townships can get a job and income for their families.
(thank you othmar)
Neue Werkstatt
Neue Werkstatt is a Switzerland based lighting design company with a very distinct, minimal style. Made me look. (I feel like their product shots are not doing their designs justice. Too bad.)
Paper Bag Tote
This Paper Bag Tote by Kit Grover is simply wonderful.
Customized MoMA Summer Planner
With so much to choose from at MoMA this summer, you may need a little help planning your visit. This customized MoMA summer planner will tailor your MoMA experience based on your Facebook profile and personality. Made me look!
