Found over at kylevanhorn.com.
OXO Guardian Nightlight
The OXO Candela Guardian
An Apple A Day letterpress poster
Here’s a quick and easy way to keep in tip top shape. Just peel the little variety sticker from every apple you eat and affix it to a square. Keep it interesting. Try a Belle De Boskoop, a Newtown Pippin, how about a Peasgood Nonsuch, or maybe a Turley Winesap. There’s no shortage of combinations and imagine how good you’ll feel, when, after a years time, you’ve filled each square with a colorful little sticker.
Designing Universal Knowledge: The World as Flatland – Report 1
Knowledge is power. If one possesses a collection of the ‘universal knowledge’ of the world, one has ultimate power. Establishing comprehensive, global collections of knowledge already fascinated mankind thousands of years ago. Today, modern communication and information technologies offer quick and prompt collecting, high memory capacities and wide-ranging access. In addition, globalization and the Internet advance a mentality which moves away from the local and regional towards the international and universal. The author examines collections of knowledge such as archives, encyclopedias, data collections, and libraries that make knowledge accessible worldwide.
Who is collecting the world’s knowledge?
How are knowledge archives structured and designed?
Who determines the access to this knowledge?
What knowledge entails power?
Designing Universal Knowledge: The World as Flatland
What to focus on in 2009
What to focus on in 2009 by Marc Johns.
64 Vector Arrow Icons
I agree with basement, I like arrows. They tell you where to go. Go Squared share their latest 64 Vector Arrow Icons. Thank you!
It’s possible.
Just got a fabulous mailer from swiss BrainStore with a completely yellow Rubik’s Cube. Made me smile.
Accidental Maps
Accidental Maps: Cartocacoethes or Blatant Pareidolia?
belt buckle made of letterpress type
All you letterpress fanatics, beware: Steel Toe Studios, a design and metalsmithing company in Seattle, recently came out with a hand-forged belt buckle made from metal type.
Return of the Mobile Style Sheet
If you’re just getting started with mobile design, you may face a number of hurdles, including the cost or technical challenge of designing and maintaining a second site—or a simple lack of understanding of how people on the go might use your site. This article discusses a first step toward mobile design that uses CSS to maximize interoperability across platforms. By starting simple, you can provide a decent initial experience, solicit user feedback, and iterate toward a more mobile-friendly design. This is the approach we are taking in our redesign of the W3C site.
Return of the Mobile Style Sheet, by Dominik Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Robotan Toiletten
On generalrobots.de, completely dedicated to robots, I found this hilarious toilet paper holder. Yay for robots!
Marlène polka dot suitcases
I agree with Jennifer, these Marlène polka dot suitcases could make for great toy storage.
TinEye. Reverse Image Search. Impressive.
TinEye does for images what Google does for text. Reverse Image Search. Impressive.
(via themexican twitter)
Objectified trailer now online!
I can’t wait to see Gary Hustwits new movie Objectified!
A question for my readers…
Jonnie asked the following question on twitter: Does anyone know if there’s a single font that would allow all international characters? (Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Cyrillic) And now I am curious to know, is there? Anyone?
Monday morning wish.
Here’s my monday morning wish: I would like an etsy-like site that would allow me to have a nice designed online store to sell all my designy stuff (purses, jewlery, cameras etc) that’s too nice to just give away. I just *can’t* get myself to list them on Ebay or Craigslist. I have some really nice designy stuff that would instantly look crap on Ebay and I can’t handle the weirdness of people showing up at my door (Craigslist) and starting to haggle after you negotiated a price… So, I was thinking if etsy would create an off-shoot site that would allow to sell personal things, that would be fabulous, no?! Thoughts?
Engagement Photos
Check out this *fantastic* set of engagement photos of Joanna and Alex by Max Wanger.
