The many sliders of Photoshop CS4, by Neven Mrgan.
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Hey Milwaukee! Come see me speak!
Hey Milwaukee! I am so excited to announce an upcoming tomorrow’s speaking engagement in your lovely town! Join me for an AIGA Talk on Friday November 6th, 2009 6:30pm at Hanson Dodge who will be generously hosting the event.
We are lucky to hear from contemporary designer and fresh-as-a-minute blogger extraordinaire Tina Roth Eisenberg. Counting her blog Swiss Miss as a vibrant part of her business model, Eisenberg is a Swiss designer who now resides in New York City. She studied design in Geneva and Munich and has worked at several prominent NYC design firms, including Thinkmap, where she was Design Director and helped design the award-winning Visual Thesaurus. Eisenberg now runs her own studio, with recent clients including the Museum of Modern Art and the Food Network. The self-proclaimed “Swiss Miss” says, “My aesthetics reveal my Swiss roots – I am a firm believer in white space and clean, elegant design.” Tina Roth Eisenberg is a well-rounded, gregarious and energetic designer and true lover of design. She will share insights into the work she’s done in New York City and how her blog has opened many doors.
Register Now! See you on November 6th! Yay!
Google Dashboard
Also read the followin article over on Mashable: Google Dashboard: Now You Know What Google Knows About You.
Simplicity is the path, not just the destination
Simplicity, many people think,
is an end in itself
But they’re getting it backwards
Simplicity is the path, the means
It’s not a far off destination,
somewhere in the future
It’s right here, right now
It’s taking things one at a time
It’s asking simple questions
It’s taking simple actions
It’s doing it slowly
It’s considering and being conscious,
with everything
When you find yourself becoming overwhelmed
on the path to simplicity
Taking a complicated, frenzied path
to get there
Stop, consider, and choose
the simpler path
And take it slowly
And easily
And lovely
Simplicity is the path, not just the destination, by Leo Babauta
Did you know I live in Kansas?
Last night I attended the Parsons Networked Design Talk organized by the Parsons AAS Graphic Design Program in which I am an adjunct professor.
So, picture this: The presentation is in full swing and the founders of BurdaStyle.com are talking about the latest redesign of their site and show a “Persona” that their design studio (Area17) put together. And guess what, the picture on this made up persona is ME! I almost fell off my chair laughing.
It’s quite funny to go to a talk of people you have never met, no know much about and then boom, you see yourself on the big screen. In their Presona Profile my name is Janice Hampton, I live in Kansas, am 42 and am considered a “Life Long Hobbyist”. Oh, and I am a bank teller.
Here’s a picture I snapped:
(One of the designers at Area17 is a friend of mine and grabbed the images of flickr. Exactly what I do when I need to come up with a Persona-Face. Thanks for the laugh, Kemp!)
This morning at casa swissmiss:
swissmiss: “Oh no! G! Come Look! We have a water leak in our bathroom!”
G: “Oy!”
silence, staring
swissmiss: “Kinda pretty, huh?” (snapping photos)
G: “Yup!”
Fixing Conferences
“I’ve realized that I can’t stand conferences. To me, conferences are akin to watching television without Tivo, or going to AAA to get a triptik instead of mapping a journey on Google. Conferences are an old workhorse model–a mix of passive consumption and fluorescent lighting–that is at odds with the seeds of inspiration they are supposed to inspire.”
Fixing Conferences: Six Lessons From the Designers Accord Summit, by Valerie Casey
FOWD 16-17Nov 2009 in NYC
Team Carsonified will be returning to New York City in two weeks to bring back The Future of Web Design. They’ve gathered an interesting list of speakers for the two days of workshops and talks. (Happy to see my studio-mate Liz Danzico being one of them!)
If you enter SWISSMISS during online ticket purchase, it will entitle you to 15% off!
See you there?
Mini Rotation Infant
I so need to get this Speaker Onesie for (the still unborn) swissmister.
(thank you for the sweet shout-out on twitter, heavy rotation!)
Look! Authentic Jobs! All New!
I am a proud member of the Authentic Jobs Network and happy to announce that we just relaunched a new and improved site. Cameron did some major UI/Design magic and completely retooled Authentic Jobs to help you better connect with talented web, design, and creative professionals. Post a job and take 20% off with promo code RETOOLED.
Some of the improved features:
Your listing will no longer get lost in the mix. Now candidates can find your listing by employment type, category, location, company name, and keyword.
1. Search by location, company, keyword, or listing description.
2. New categories include the distinction between Interaction and Graphic Design, and we’ve added Mobile and Management. You can choose up to two categories for your listing.
3. Twitter, email, and RSS subscriptions allow job seekers to be notified immediately of matching listings whenever and however they choose.
Since 2005, Authentic Jobs has offered their unconditional money-back guarantee. If you’re not 100% satisfied with the results from your listing, request a full refund within 30 days after your listing expires. Easy peasy. So, post a job and give it shot. You’ve got nothing to lose, literally. Good luck finding your next hire!
Monty the Fox
Monty the Fox, would you like to come and live at casa swissmiss? We’ll take good care of you.
Parsons Networked Design Talks 02 of 03
November 4th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Parsons The New School for Design
Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, NYC
BurdaStyle.com – The road to collaborative fashion design / a talk by Nora Abousteit and Benedikta Karaisl
Nora Abousteit and Benedikta Karaisl, founders of Burdastyle.com, will share their experiences building an active, creative community based on open source sewing over the past three years. The BurdaStyle community consists of over 260,000 registered members who have uploaded almost 25,000 designs.
BurdaStyle is a collaborative, DIY fashion platform inspired by the open source philosophy of sharing intellectual property and allowing the public to adapt it to their specific needs. BurdaStyle encourages its members to remove copyright restrictions from their designs. These open source sewing patterns are then free to be used as the basis for new designs that can later be sewed and even sold by other community members. In sharing their stories, Nora and Benedikta will discuss their successes and failures in building a platform for a creative community to share instructions and techniques, in creating a balance between open collaboration and authorship, and in enabling a true, networked design process.
About the Networked Design Talks: With the rise of the Internet over the past few decades we have witnessed the rise of networked culture. The effects of this transition extend far beyond the use of tools: they change the ways we communicate with each other and the ways we manage, construct and perceive our individual and group identities. This cultural shift requires the creative industry to reexamine its use of messages, symbols and aesthetics and to study their function within a constantly changing networked environment.
Unique Box
I certainly believe this is the most beautiful, minimal mailbox and outdoor light I have ever come across. Hat tip to Atelier 522.
Luft Wall Shelf
How lovely is this skinny Luft Wall Shelf by Anna Salonen? Only 9 cm wide, it will find its place almost everywhere. The depth is such that the placed books, DVDs or CDs do not completely disappear but remain partly visible. Naturally LUFT can be mounted also crosswise and so serves as storage for small utensils.
FingerFood Ring
Haven’t we all been wondering at one point in our lives how to balance your pig-in-a-blanket with your Dom Perignon? Fortunately, Fred&Friends has got the answer – charming little plates with rings that fit right on your finger. Now you can balance your glass and your hors d’ouevres, and look positively in control the whole time. Genius! One size fits most, ten reusable plates per handy peggable pack.
Made me laugh.
Red Polka Bow Dress
But, does it come in *my* size?
Book Harp
Oh, this custom Book-Harp Shelf by swiss designer Hanspeter Steiger makes me swoon. Here’s what he writes about the piece on his site: “The strings of the book-harp are a play of light and statics, three-dimensional picture and bookend, transparent and complete simultaneously. Depending on the angle of the literary instrument it seems once closed, sometimes translucent – and turns to life upon passing. It captures the passer-by at the corner of his eye and draws attention to itself, the variegated content, or out into the sky.”
Sort By Magic
I just discovered the “Sort By Magic” menu option in Google Reader. Thanks for making me smile, Google.
(And for those of you who know me well: Yes, I am giving it another RSS Reader try, happens every 6months or so and then I go back to reading all my daily links in tabs. Old-School, I know.)
House by The Electric Company
I agree with PitchDesignUnion: Ddelightful old-school collage & cut-paper stop-motion by The Electric Company & Carmen D’Avino. Ella will love this!
Customizable Alphabet Plates
Alphabet Plates are an easy, fun customizable gift option for little ones. The Customization interface is easy to use and the final plate looks and feels fantastic. (I can’t wait to give Ella her ‘Big Sister’ Plate come February 2010.)
Alphabet Plates was created by Laura Paresky Gould, a graphic designer, artist and mom-of-three. The BPA-free plates product line is an environmental answer to disposable plates and are break-resistant. And here’s something to make you feel even better about buying one of their items: a portion of your payment is donated to the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation (www.oif.org).
Andrew Zuckerman | Bird
NYC based Photographer Andrew Zuckerman released another stunning Coffee Table Book, this time on the subject of Birds.
Check out this Behind The Scenes Video:
For more info visit birdbook.org.
