Recovery Stamp

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President Obama announced today that his administration will begin stamping an emblem on projects funded by the economic stimulus package so that people can easily recognize the effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Oh, I can already see the many T-Shirts/Mugs/etc making fun of this pop up all over…

(thank you sharon)

Hey you, Pillow!

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A pretty green pillow. Etsy find.

(via twittering kristel)

Urban Camouflage

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Urban Camouflage deals with the question how to camouflage oneself and one’s identity in the urban space. Our costumes are inspired by the «ghillie suits», the military camouflage suit. It was an adventure to wear the suit in the stores because of the conflicts with the employees , the reaction of the customers and also to see the pretty well camouflage effect in a real situation.

Made me laugh!

(thank you Edrea)

CreativeMornings with Armin Vit

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I am excited to be announcing our upcoming March CreativeMornings with Armin Vit on March 13, 2009. Armin will be speaking about branding and brand experiences without pretense and with just enough sarcasm and irony to make your morning a little more interesting. If you want to brush up on his style ahead of time I’d recommend checking out the blog / column / branch of underconsideration, Brand New.

This month’s networking breakfast/lecture series is being generously hosted at HUGE in Dumbo. YAY!

Interested in attending? Make sure to r.s.v.p via email as there are only 50 spots available. We are filling up quickly. Please tell us your name and what industry you’re in. (We will send you a confirmation email with all the necessary details for the event.) I am sorry but we’ve already reached our limit, we can no longer accept r.s.v.p’s.

A post covering last week’s CreativeMornings with Matthew Waldman alongside with the full video of the event will be coming shortly.

The Univserse in 09

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I ran into Florian the other day, grabbing lunch, and he told me about the site he just launched for Seed Magazine called The Universe in 09. A beauty of a site!

Reality Check, Please!

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I agree with Noah: That’s So Yummy’s list of ways restaurants could optimize their menus is interesting. (originally in Food Network Magazine which isn’t online).

British Bus Rollsign Route Numbers

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Three Potato Four strike again: These Route Number rollsign segments were taken from an old bus rollsign that ran in the city of Leeds in the U.K. The signs date back to approximately the 1960′s and are printed on heavy cloth vinyl (very durable). Number two might soon hang in swissmiss studio (that is, if office mates approve!)

Readablity

Lab.Arc90 just launched Readability, a browser bookmarklet (sort of like a bookmark on steroids). Install it by visiting the Readability setup page.

Hudson River Landing Animation

Hudson River Landing Animation

(via twittering designnotes)

Steve Jobs is an Industrial Beethoven

Peter Hossli recently interviewed author and management guru Jim Collins for Swiss magazine Bilanz. He talks about how great leaders are driven to do great things. He elegantly links Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Ludwig van Beethoven:

What does Jobs have that others don’t?

Collins: Steve Jobs is an industrial Beethoven. I think that the Macintosh is like the Third Symphony. And the iPod is like the Fifth Symphony. And maybe the iPhone is the Seventh Symphony. I admire his dedication to creating great things, tremendously. He’s one of the people I really admire.

So Jobs might be admired for the wrong things. He mostly took existing ideas, put them together and turned them into great things.

Collins: They’re no great things without the supreme execution around them. A lot of other people have the same ideas. A lot of people could have had the idea of “Bum bum bum baba baba bum [humming Beethoven’s Fifth].” But not everybody could have written the Fifth Symphony.

Steve Jobs is an Industrial Beethoven, by Peter Hossli

Barry Schwartz: The real crisis? We stopped being wise

Jack Cheng on Denial

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Good denial is marked by action; it’s a reason to do something, rather than an excuse to stay the same. When everyone else says “it can’t be done,” good denial finds a way to do it.

Denial, by Jack Cheng

(Leather) Paper Bag

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(Leather) Paper Bag

(via ignant)

Wood Grain Folders

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Wood Grain Folders

About the Future.

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A submission by Jon. Can anyone tell me who originally created/blogged this?

BlogRollr

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BlogRollr is a lightweight Firefox Extension that monitors the blog posts you read and sends them to your personal feed. Interesting! Created by our fabulous new studiomates Tyler and Cameron of FictiveKin.

Emerge | William Lamson

See more of WIlliam’s work at williamlamson.com.

(thank you james)