Created by Dutch designer Joonsoo Kim, the Cloud Umbrella is carried around in stick form, and then inflated into mini-cumulus clouds of protection when the rain starts to pour. Made me smile and want one.
Photo shoot at casa swissmiss
We had an exciting morning here at casa swissmiss. Maxwell of Apartment Therapy showed up with his fabulous team to photograph our place for their upcoming Small Spaces Book. Very exciting. Ella was a total ham and played along nicely. Maxwell’s team was delightful and consisted of Jim Franco, the photographer, Kan Kanbayashi, Joe Maer and Ben Weber. A delightful team and a fun way to spend one’s morning. Can’t wait for the book to come out!
CreativeMornings Video: Matthew Waldman of Nooka
2/27/09 Matthew Waldman from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.
At February’s CreativeMornings generously sponsored by Nooka and hosted by Parsons, we had a wonderful time with Matthew Waldman. The chief question he posed to the crowd was “What Motivates You” and then he set out explaining how his own biography led him to understand his own motivation. He explained his motivation as questioning what seems intuitive and seeing if that process can be made more intuitive. There was some great talk about universal language and how the Nooka watch was born in a london train station (though he had been sketching the idea before that).
One of the more interesting revelations was that, Nooka is a design agency, not a watch company, its merely a design agency (or lifestyle brand) that has only brought a watch to market. I’m excited to see what they come up with next. As a final note, and more or less a reoccurring theme in terms of creative successes, Matthew asserts “I am not a genius, I had this idea and I had happy accidents.”
You can see the photos of the event here.
A big thank you again to Parsons for hosting, for Cyrilla who supplied us with delicious Nuts&Nuts cashews and to Rolo Lazarte for filming and editing the event.
This has swissmiss written all over it:
I fell in love with this bycicle called Dannebrog by Velorbis. Oh, please be mine!
Refreshing Family Portrait
Fantastic Family Portrait by Bri, Joel & Indy, originally uploaded by Kevin N. Murphy.
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How To Make A Decision
A humorous guide to “How To Make A Decision” by KnockKnock
Hi, I am the Sleeping Bag Man!
Ok, first of all, I am right there with Tim, I think these Selk Sleeping Bags are fantastic and I’d want one for myself. But, more importantly, I need this in a toddler size! Our little Ella refuses to stay under the covers at night and I can only imagine how cold she must be at times. This would solve all our problems…
Sam Messenger
Collage by Sam Messenger. Made me smile. Sounds like my clients when they want to get started on a new project!
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Pelican Bedside Table
The Pelican bedside table by Marc Venot has a hollow undercarriage that unscrews downward to reveal storage space. I agree with Joe, most apropos product name ever.
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Hello there, Coat Tree!
Paradise Coat Tree designed by Oiva Toikka. Spotted over at MinorDetails.
MoMA Site Redesign
The new MoMA.org site went live today. (Congratulations to Allegra Burnette and her team!) They have set a new standard, once again. The term WWMD (what would MoMA do?) is well deserved. And, having spoken to Allegra, I know this is just the beginning. There is much more to come, the site as it is right now is just the starting point.
I have already spent way too much time on the Multimedia Page this morning. Oh, what a wonderful time sucker. One of my favorite new glance into the prestigious organization is MoMA/Voices. Of course, I am biased as these 30second movies of MoMA employees have been done by my fab cousin Thilo Hoffmann. This one is my current favorite:
One comment on the new design: I am surprised at this new trend of having the navigation at the bottom with the content scrolling behind it. I have seen it a few times and to be honest, I am not a big fan of it. But maybe it will just some getting used to. Time will tell.
swissmiss studio: Lydia Denworth
We just launched a web presence for Brooklyn writer Lydia Denworth. The site launch coincided with the launch of Toxic Truth, her first book, which has already received raving reviews. Toxic Truth is the first book to tell the story of two men behind the bitter thirty-year fight to protect children from lead.
One in 8 Million
One in 8 Million, a NY Times weekly web series about the different characters in New York. (I love New York and The New York Times for publishing stuff like this.)
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GE Augments Reality
Watch and the give it ago at plugintotheSmartGrid.com from GE. Wowsers.
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‘Super Dozen’ Print by William Edmonds
‘Super Dozen‘ Print by William Edmonds. I would *love* to see this on a swissmiss-casa wall.
My Cousin in the New York Times
And I am *thrilled* to see one of my cousin Thilo Hoffmann’s MoMA 30second movies featured in today’s New York Time’s Article, covering the redesign of the MoMA website, which is to launch today tomorrow. I’ll be hitting that refresh button on moma.org all day long!
The Cult of Done Manifesto
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6.The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.
The Cult of Done Manifesto by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark
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Kindle iPhone App
I’ve just entered e-book reading nirvana with the Amazon’s Kindle iPhone App. Yes, please!
A Giant Construction Set (that folds flat)
Wonderful find by my fabulous studio mate Jennifer: A giant construction set that can be a hut, a screen, a headboard, a cube, a theatre… (Habitadule by Marie Compagnon)
Yo Gabba Gabba DJ Lance Hat
Yo Gabba Gabba – DJ Lance – Motion Activated Dance Hat. I wish it came in adult sizes, I would get one for G. You don’t know what Yo Gabba Gabba is?
