Flipping Typical
Stuart emailed me about one of his recent projects, Flipping Typical, a single-serving-site that allows you to compare text in the typefaces you have installed.
6 Notebooks
6 Notebooks with 6 different lined patterns and colours. Gold cut on the long right edge of each notebook and golden staples.
Customized YogaMats
Print your own photo or design on to the highest quality, eco-friendly yoga mats over at yogamatic.com.
“Innovation” is Dead. Herald The Birth of “Transformation” as The Key Concept for 2009.
“Transformation” takes the best of “design thinking” and “innovation” and integrates them into a strategic guide for the unknowable and uncertain years ahead.
Article by Bruce Nussbaum: “Innovation” is Dead. Herald The Birth of “Transformation” as The Key Concept for 2009.
Architects are sexiest
Architects have been voted the sexiest male professionals, in a survey of women’s ideal partners.
(via my friend Samuel and homerejuvenation)
The Red Balloon
The Red Balloon is a 1956 fantasy short film, directed by Albert Lamorisse. It is a dialogue free film which nonetheless won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Beautiful!
Away from Home
Explore with James Yang the world of seven illustrators who live the global life. (no embedd code, again, ugh!)
(thank you Jon)
Straws
Muji Straws made out of actual wheat straws. Lovely.
howstuffworks videos
The video collection on howstuffworks has completely sucked me in. Didn’t you always want to know how a Teleprompter works? (There’s no embedd code? What?)
(via reubenmiller twitter)
Keep Your (Design) Job Right Now
Well, let’s take a look at a handful of things that we can all do to help protect our design jobs (these tips will nearly all work for non-designers, too, but a few things might need to be translated and interpreted for your own industry/career). There are tough decisions being made in conference rooms and owners’ offices all over the world right now, and your name might be inextricably on one of the cut lists. So, let’s assume, for the sake of this article, that you are on the chopping block, but you are in the gray area. You still have the possibility of affecting whether or not you get pink-slipped.
Great article on how to Keep Your (Design) Job Right Now, by Greg Huntoon.
(via bigspaceship twitter)
DestroyTwitter
After DestroyFlickr comes DestroyTwitter by Jonnie Hallman.
A book recommendation for my german readers:
Below is a video of a book my fabulous friend Nadja of Brainstore recommended I should read: Dinge Geregelt Kriegen
2008 –> 2009
After a two week hiatus in the swiss alps, swissmiss family is back in Brooklyn and ready to post again. Happy 2009 blog world!
(illustration by Craig Frazier)
