Dieter pointed me to the Switzerland iPhone Memory App. From the alpenhorn to the Combat des Reines through to the Swiss army knife, the whole originality of the game lies in a selection of symbols that celebrate the culture, the traditions, the particularities and the geography of Switzerland, all within a typically Swiss red and white design. Made me smile.
IdeasProject is an online space that provides a new way to interact with thought leaders and their ideas to the future of connected communications. Brought to you by Nokia. Interesting!
Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
THE technology we have at our disposal is dazzling, and our efficiency is such that clients expect fast solutions and nearly instantaneous updates. We are proud to deliver them. Still, I wonder if we haven’t lost something in the process: the deliberation that comes with a slower pace, the attention to detail required when mistakes can’t be undone with the click of a mouse. Younger designers hearing me talk this way react as if I’m getting sentimental about the days when we all used to churn our own butter.
Drawing Board to the Desktop: A Designer’s Path, by Michael Bierut
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What a wonderful surprise I’ve had in my mailbox this morning! Sam Potts sent me a beautifully designed booklet of Barack Obama’s Speech he gave in March of 2008 in the midst of the Reverend Wright controversy. Sam Potts writes:
With Best Wishes for new year, A New Administration and a New Era
Thank you Sam!
swissmiss has a new home – welcome, come on in! The new site went live just a few minutes ago, thanks to lots of dev magic by brilliant John Ford! (Thank you so much!)
Some of the new features include: search (finally!), fancy filtering (click on ‘filter by category) and a choice in how to acess my content (toggle between ‘swissmiss grid view™’ and list view by clicking on those two small icons next to the search box). We are still ‘unpacking boxes’, so let us know if you see anything funny. Yay! Internet!
For all of you accessing my site through my feed: Please update your feed links to: http://www.swiss-miss.com/feed/.
Writing fro Bloggers. A quick Guide on Style, Substance and Strategy (PDF), by Kendall CopyWriting
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Make your own Save bookmark and mark all those interesting magazine articles you’ve wanted to be able to go back to easily. (Download the PDF).
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Tim O’Reilly’s Draft of a much needed Blogger’s Code of Conduct.
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“Everyday I receive an email from somebody about how their account was hacked, how a friend tagged them in the photo and they want a way to avoid it, as well as a number of other complications related to their privacy on Facebook.”
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know, by Nick O’Neill
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“The subconscious effect of color is a hot area of psychology research, in part because marketers try to use color to hook us on whatever they’re trying to sell.
And the newest research, published Thursday by the journal Science, suggests they’d better be careful — because red or blue can spark very different brain reactions depending on the task involved.”
Blue the hue of creativity? Red for detail?, By Lauran Neergaard
Crossing The Line: Gone from Nick Bennett on Vimeo.
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Kelley makes fantastic one-of-a-kind wool scarves from old sweaters. They are all sold out. Boohooo.
Illustration by Canada based illustrator Alanna Cavanagh.
“At its culmination in 1989, NASA’s two-year research into sustainable methods of indoor atmospheric cleansing in space stations revealed that many common houseplants and blooming potted plants help fight pollution indoors, making the air safer for humans. Certain plants that thrive in apartments eat carbon and other ‘off-gases’, such as formaldehyde and benzene, the way that monstrous shrub from the Little Shop of Horrors ate its owner’s enemies.”
What about some “Metaphys indoor grass planters“?
(thank you keren)
A place to save and share things you enjoy, whether that’s a whole web page or you a specific photo on that page: EnjoysThin.gs.
enjoysthin.gs – The Basics from Ted Roden on Vimeo.
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Massimo Vignelli has published an amazing 96 page book on better understanding typography in graphic design. Wonderful! The book is available for free online in PDF format. Thank you Massimo!
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I was always wondering what I should do with all those pins I have laying around at home. Voila. (Image by Aumayya Alsenan)
“A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design. Featuring five sections, each covering a core aspect of graphic design: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout. Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a great one.”
Mark Boulton’s Five Simple Steps: A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web is available in PDF format for £12.
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H&M is launching a home line! It won’t be sold until february, and then it will only be online and possibly only in Europe. YAY!
