Babies love Mobiles. Uhm, mommies too, especially if they are as minimal and designy like the Blossom Mobile, handmade and ‘one of a kind’ and signed by Australian based Pukapuka.
Debbie Millman on spec work
Daivd Airey currently features a post with some quotes by Debbie Millman, the newly-appointed AIGA President, on the topic of spec work:
I am personally vigorously, passionately and fundamentally AGAINST designers being asked to do work on spec and neither I nor my firm will ever participate in speculative work. I have said it before and I will say it again: Speculative work denigrates both the agencies and the designers that participate. If we give away our work for free, if we give away our talent and our expertise, we give away more than the work. We give away our souls.
Read the full interview over at NO!SPEC with Debbie Millman.
In his post David points to a great list of no-spec articles:
Don’t design on spec, by Jeffrey Zeldman
Spec Work Arithmetic, from the Speak Up Archive
Spec Work Is Evil / Why I Hate CrowdSpring, by Andrew Hyde
Spec Watch on design contests, on Logo Design Love
More logo design contest nonsense, on The Logo Factor
An interview with SpecWatch, on Web Designer Depot
Pay the Designer, on 8164
The Personal Cost of Designing on Spec, by Mark Boulton
Far Foods
Far Foods is an alternative packaging concept for supermarket produce, highlighting the distances that some foods travel from and the resultant carbon dioxide released during the journey. The receipt features a boarding card style tear-off strip. By James Reynolds.
IKEA Kids Slide
During yesterday’s very unsuccessful trip to IKEA (what I wanted was discontinued or out of stock) I did come across a new product that would make our daughters heart jump: VIRRE Slide with Guard Rail. I actually have a feeling that the back could also function as a small desk. Living in small NYC apartments, you have to think multipurpose…
Last Suppers
Last Suppers, by James Reynolds, is a series of photographs documenting former Death Row prisoners’ requests for their last meal before execution.
Narigudo
Our little Ella was lucky enough to get one of these little balancing toys, called Narigudo, made my ubertalent Andre Da Loba a few months back. I am so happy to see that he is selling them now in his shop.
If you’re in need of an extremely talented and yet humble illustrator, make sure to give Andre a call!
No Days Off Shop
I just discovered the Shop over at No Days Off. Some of these prints made me chuckle.
Delusional
Delusional Paper Towel Tube, by Marc Johns. (I finally know why our little Ella is do drawn to these!)
Tim Brown
If i… from Tim Brown on Vimeo.
”If I… is a short film that explores the idea of a young woman with an over exaggerated sense of imagination. The charecter poses a series of rhetorical questions to the viewer that she then tries to visualize by any means possible.” A short film by Tim Brown.
(via fabulous it’snicethat)
Print Factory
I just fell in love with the logo mark of Print Factory. Who designed it?
Call for entries….
Want to launch your design career? Enter Apartment Therapy’s Design Showcase 2009 competition: They just put out the call for great, new designs by independent and student designers that promise to make our homes more beautiful and inspiring places to live.
Apartment Therapy will post the best submissions, allow their readers to vote and then give six finalists an unprecedented chance to feature their design and themselves by building their own original post on their site during prime time in September. Oh, and I’ll be one of the judges. Wheee!
iPod in Tape
This made me smile: Use an old cassette tape as an iPod case. Yay for retro.
A Pencil Rainbow
500 pencils = 25 colors x 20 months
wave books
(Design by Mary Ruefle, with J. Johnson)
The BookArchive in their post on Wave Books:
Wave Books is an independent poetry press based in Seattle, Washington. Dedicated to publishing the best in American poetry by new and established authors, Wave Books was founded in 2005. They’re doing an exemplary job of treating each of their books as a unique experience, with a huge amount of care put into each title. I can’t help but feel that books like this are a glimpse into the future of publishing. While most popular titles will go straight-to-digital, there will be a steady market amongst bookophiles who cherish the physicality of their collections, rewarding publishers like Wave Books for their infatuation with the printed word.
Everyday East River
Our lovely studio mate Chesley Andrews started documenting our studio view onto the East River with a tumblr blog called Everyday East River.
Neil Agarwal
The other day I come into work and there are these beautiful paintings hanging in our hallway! I was stunned and simply wanted to take a few of them home. I happened to run into the artist, Neil Agarwal, today, who unfortunately was taking them down again. It was just a temporary thing. Too bad.
I love his series of hanging shirts and the big giant grapes. Lovely.
ZING
This Wine Bottle Gift Bag made me chuckle. Get it as a set of six (re-giftable) wine bags featuring made-up wine quotes. Hot foil stamped in brushed silver on kraft. Packaged in a vinyl sleeve with a contents backer.
CreativeMornings with Allegra Burnette, MoMA
After our last successful CreativeMornings in Zurich with Daniel Freitag, I am happy to announce next week’s event which will be generously hosted at … drumrolls… MoMA! On august 14th, 2009, Allegra Burnette, Creative Director of Digital Media at MoMA will talk on the subject of how she jumped the fence and went from consultant to becoming the client!
I am sorry but we’ve reached full capacity! Interested in attending? Make sure to r.s.v.p via email. Please tell us your name and what industry you’re in. (We will later on send you a confirmation email with all the necessary details for the event.) Space is *extremely* limited this time, so please don’t be sad if you didn’t make it on the list. CreativeMornings are free. They start at 8.30am and end at 10am.
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A big thank you to fabulous GenevaSound for generously sponsoring Breakfast :
CreativeMornings? ‘CreativeMornings’ is a monthly morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 10 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am. The whole thing closes down at 10am. The events are hosted at studios/gallery spaces in NYC. (We are always looking for potential hosts that are willing to accomodate 50+ people. Please email us if you’re interested in hosting or sponsoring one of our events!)
