Books need hugs too

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Hug by Thomas Keeley.

Is that camera looking at me?

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Hawkeye camera by Brooklyn based designer Thomas Keeley. Made me smile. Great find, itsnicethat!

Book Mobile

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I agree with Szymon: I love the idea of this BookMobile.

Artsy Money Merger

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Libra+Yuan+Euro+Dolar+Peso by TintaiMpresa

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Quad Animator for the Quad Camera

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How cool: Michael found out about the QuadCamera on swissmiss, and I now learned about the Quad Animator that will turn images into an animated gif on his blog. Going full circle!

C is for Cow

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I fully agree with BBlinks: I am constantly amazed by the cool art to be found on Etsy. Like this WalkingToJericho Cow Print.

The Known Practice of Using Domesticated Bears as Cushions While Drinking.

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This print by Michael Hsiung made me smile. Available over at Little Paper Planes.

(via bblinks)

Leica Icons

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Leica icons for Mac OSX and Windows folders, memory cards and discs. Yes, please.

(thank you holger)

Fifty People / One Question: Brooklyn Version


Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn from Crush + Lovely on Vimeo.

How funny was that ‘closet answer’? And also watch what people in London answered.

Obama keeps his PDA! YAY!

Designing Web Interfaces

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12 Standard Screen Patterns, by Theresa Neil

(via chrisglass)

New: TwTip

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TwTip is a tool designed to find and show awesome tips that are shared by Twitter fellows.

Lorem Ipsum Generator for Web Designers

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Handy options in this dummy text generator are: number of words or characters, specifying pixel width, number of paragraphs (with tags), etc. Fantastic!

(via simplebits)

A Gotham Hooray!

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Jonathan Hoefler just delivered fabulous news to my inbox: “Fans of our Gotham typeface will be pleased to find that as of this morning, there are three times as many Gothams in the world as there were yesterday.” Hooray!

Anonymous Postcard: Claims

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Anonymous Postcard is a suggestion box for the world, designed to allow anyone to openly communicate to a third party without the complications of personal contact. Claims submitted by the public are turned into vague and largely indecipherable postcards and mailed toward the intended recipients. Tucker Nichols founded Anonymous Postcard in August 2008 in partnership with his friend Dakin Hart. Beautiful! And now, Submit a Claim!

(Thank you Susan!)

Blogging in a window display

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Maxwell from Apartment Therapy is taking blogging to a whole new level: He’ll be live blogging out of his temporary office (above) in the Bloomingdales windows from 12p-5pm, as part of the Big Window Challenge. Congrats Maxwell!

Messa di Voce: “Pitchpaint”

I am about to meet Zach Lieberman, one of the masterminds behind Messa di Voce. Yay!

A hole in a Fence

Last night, I watched A Hole in a Fence which plays in Red Hook, Brooklyn and was filmed in Spring 2006, Pre-Ikea. Living in a neighboring neighborhood to Red Hook and having gone to IKEA many times already, this documentary hit home.

(thank you peter)

Oh No!

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oh no! Sculptures by Nick Van Woert

Who said you can’t fit a washing machine in that bathroom?

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Smeg LBL16RO: Washing Machine with sink.

Layered PSDs from Screen Captures

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Layers for the Mac, captures your displays as a Photoshop layered image. Press the capture hotkey or customize your capture in the inspector and you’ll obtain a full fledged PSD file with one layer per window, including menu and desktop icons, dock and menubar. Woo hooo!

(via konigi)

Quad Camera

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QuadCamera is the the 4th release by Art&Mobile of their ToyCamera series and features continuous shooting. Just pressing the button, and it takes 4-8 serial shots to create one image in multiple dimensions and repetitions: a 4×2 portrait, 4×1, 2×2 landscape, and 8×1 landscape. Love. Love. Love.

(via EmilyChang, that lady has her finger on the pulse)

Paul Rand on Simplicity

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(via fabulous jasonsantamaria)

This made me smile.

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Installation by spanish artist SpY.

(via itsnicethat)