Feel the burn during your workout, not while you’re working. Laptops are notorious for putting out too much heat for the average lap. With the Type Tray as a middle layer, the heat dissipates through 3/4″ of 100% industrial wool felt. Crisis averted. The Type Tray features a lovely typographic design of P22 Kilkenny and Cavetto, laser-cut into the felt. Made from recycled (and recyclable) materials, through an eco-friendly manufacturing process.
Fairy Ring. By Amy Ross. Wonderfully absurd.
Ever think of something for your Twitter that you don’t want to post right away? Birdhouse is the perfect place to put it. Birdhouse won’t replace your favorite iPhone Twitter client, it’ll add to it. Put Birdhouse right next to your Twitter client and use them together.
(via chrisglass)
My latest Cookie Post: Pluunk is a brand new contemporary kids’ furniture line (made in Canada and available at Inquisitive Kid) that is utilitarian, sustainable, and aesthetically pleasing. The first two pieces in the line are a versatile bunk bed and a single bed.
Behance partnered with Cool Hunting to host tomorrow’s “99%”: a conference that focuses less on inspiration, and more on how idea generation and organization come together to make ideas happen. I am excited to be attending tomorrow and curious to see how the speakers are responding to the organizer’s request to share their insights on the part of ‘how to get ideas realized, how to make them happen’. Are you going?
Write any message you’d like within the 2 rows of 8 grooved squares – the raised sections will guide your marker on the right track. LCD Card.
Taken collectively, the stream of messages can turn Twitter into a surprisingly useful tool for solving problems and providing insights into the digital mood. By tapping into the world’s collective brain, researchers of all kinds have found that if they make the effort to dig through the mundane comments, the live conversations offer an early glimpse into public sentiment — and even help them shape it.
Putting Twitter’s World to Use by Claire Cain Miller
Monsieur III, by Blanca Gomez
Monsieur IV by Blanca Gomez.
Bag Girl Polka Dot by Kate Pugsley.
Seat Belt Camera Straps. Excellent!
London design consultancy, Johnson Banks, created a series of nice posters in the mid-nineties based entirely on letterforms made from folded or ‘found’ paper-related objects. Beautiful!
(via letterology)
Video by Sean Fischer. Part of xType Culture Show.
(thank you jennifer)
(A big thank you to Roland Lazarte for filming and editing.)
(design by Ill Studio)
T-shirt Monthly is a t-shirt subscription: one t-shirt a month for six months, straight to your mailbox. Exclusive artwork by talented designers, screen-printed with love on American Apparel shirts.
The documentary Max Bill: The Master’s Vision screens in NYC at 2pm today with a reception sponsored by the Consulate General of Switzerland.
(via Lined & Unlined)
With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father’s wisdom.
(image by wolfram janzer)
He is not a celebrity architect, not one of the names that show up on shortlists for museums and concert hall projects or known beyond architecture circles. He hasn’t designed many buildings; the one he is best known for is a thermal spa in an Alpine commune. And he has toiled in relative obscurity for the last 30 years in a remote village in the Swiss mountains.
But on Monday the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is to be named the winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize, the highest recognition for architects.
Pritzker Prize Goes to Peter Zumthor, by Robin Pogrebin.
Check out the slide show.
We are really pushing the minimalism thing in our family: Swiss Minimalism Hopscotch.
