Are you in need of an office space? Become our studio neighbor and hang out with the lovely folks in Studio612a and Suite606. There are two spaces currently for rent on our floor at 10 Jay Street in DUMBO. Think creative community, nice views on Manhattan and the East River and a daily workout due to not so reliable elevator. Email me if interested and I’ll put you in touch with our landlord.
“A good example of manual curation vs. crowdsourced curation is the competing app markets on the Apple iPhone and Google Android phone operating systems. Apple fans complain that the Android marketplace has too many low-quality apps for any given task. They complain that it’s hard to find an “official” or “sanctioned” app. On the other hand, Android fans criticise Apple for limiting their choices. They don’t want to be beholden to the whims of a select few. Apple is a monarchy, albeit with a wise and benevolent king. Android is burgeoning democracy, inefficient and messy, but free. Apple is the last, best example of the Industrial Age and its top-down, mass market/mass production paradigm. They deal with the big head of the curve, and eschew the long tail. They manufacture cool. They rely on “consumers”, and they protect those consumers from too many choices by selecting what is worthy, and what is not. Google Android is building itself as a platform for bottom-up innovation. Their marketplace publishes first, filters second, utilizing little more than the rankings of the community.”
— P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Crowdsourced curation, reputation systems, and the social graph
(via bmdesign)
Finally, a greeting card to get you through your most uncomfortable situations. This simple design helps you start the awkward conversations you want to avoid, but really shouldn’t. Get them for apologizing, for asking a favor, or for breaking the ice. Sold as a set of 5 cards, with envelopes. Hat tip to the DesignGlut Ladies!
Jet Blue is doing it again: Enjoy unlimited travel from September 7 to October 6, 2010 with our All You Can Jet Pass, now with two great options! Use your AYCJ Pass for business, for pleasure, to visit your favorite cities or to meet with a client. You might as well just do it all. With more than 60 cities to choose from, and for just $699* for the AYCJ-7 and $499* for the AYCJ-5, it’s a deal you can’t pass up.
If I didn’t have little kiddos, I’d be saying hi to my friends all over the US. Yep.
I just watched and thoroughly enjoyed this talk by Cameron Moll. (Who’ll I’ll be finally meeting in person this october for Brooklyn Beta.)
It isn’t enough to choose the best angle from which to take a photograph, it’s also essential to know how to capture a precise moment. In that, Cartier-Bresson had a point.
the right moment to photograph
Thanks to Ursula Held (comment below) in pointing me to the original photographer: René Maltête.
These unique dolls were made in collaboration with Selyn, an organization in Sri Lanka. Designer Alexa Lixfeld worked with children in Sri Lanke and the dolls are based on drawings that they made that were then transferrred to hand woven, 100% cotton fabrics, and printed with non-toxic dyes using fair trade standards.
They just make me giggle.
Does this round polka dot serving tray have swissmiss written all over it? I think so! #wishlisted
Pictos are Drew Wilson’s hand crafted, infinitely scalable and royalty-free icons for user interface designers.
Matt Might, Assistant Professor at the School of Computing University in Utah, explains to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is.
It’s hard to describe it in words, so he uses pictures.
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (also as a PDF)
(via @sandbox_network)
A handy little tool for checking timezones around the world. Excellent for meeting planning. EveryTimeZone.com
(via @aaron)
Here’s a gem of a find by Brainpickings: Poet and singer-songwriter Tanya Davis and filmmaker Andrea Dorfman address the forgotten art of How To Be Alone — a beautifully hand-illustrated, simply yet eloquently narrated visual poem full of all these things we so often need to tell ourselves and believe, yet so rarely do.
HotGloo is a web based service that let’s you build functional online wireframes for a website or web project. The beauty of their service is that you can create and share fully interactive online prototypes. Collaborate with colleagues and share the output with clients. HotGloo seem perfect for folks working on web projects. Matias of Behance just gave it a stellar review on twitter.
(Dear HotGloo, why don’t you let me embedd your video?)
Design is History, a great overview on centuries of design. Part of the graduate thesis of designer Dominic Flask, Design is History was created as a teaching tool for young designers just beginning to explore graphic design and as a reference tool for all designers. It is supposed to provide brief overviews of a wide range of topics rather than an in-depth study of only a few. It is a constantly evolving, changing, expanding reference library.
(via @jasonsantamaria)
The below talk by Joshua Viertel was my favorite presentation at last year’s FEAST conference. Enjoy:
Go MailChimp making us smile and adding a dose of fun into the rather dry world of sending email campaigns. Eep Eep!
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(via @smashingmag)
Tom Scott thought it seemed a bit strange that the media carefully warns about and labels any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content. He figured it was time to fix that, so he made Journalism Warning Label Stickers.
(via @ztf)
The internet just got a little more colorful. Why? My lovely studiomate Jessi Arrington of Workshop just launched her brandnew shiny blog. Yay!
Remember Rainbow Birthday? Well, that was Jessi. I am not surprised that she sports a rainbow and color categories on her site.
Make sure to have a looksie at her about page. Jessi makes me smile on a daily basis here at the studio and I am glad I can get my digital fix now, when she’s not around. The world needs more Jessis.
Please enjoy: LuckySoAndSo.com
I’ve noticed this ErgoErgo Stool over a year ago at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair here in NYC and was so excited about them. Yay hooray for them finally being available for sale. Just discovered that the MoMA store sells them. Now, please, add a white one to your collection, please?
UPDATE: They’ll be selling ErgoErgo from their showroom from friday august 20th, 2010 on. They’re available for $100.
(Dear MoMA Store people, please get rid of the Zoom feature setup on your site. It’s impossible to get a good picture of your products!)
Totally Spoked by Aestheticus Apparatus. One of the many new posters up on their site. Big fan here.
I just listened to a super interesteting live interview with Mike Davidson over at 5by5.tv. In this interview that was held by Dan Benjamin Mike mentions the blog that he kept up while building his dream house. I am impressed how generously Mike shared his insights on what it takes to build a house. What an amazing resource for anyone who is in the process or about to undertake such a construction endevaour.
