In the below video João Machado investigated The Effect of a Book, Extending Beyond The Form. Fascinating. João, you should make a similar video dissecting the gestures of reading on a Kindle or iPad.
Biodegradable Pen
The DBA Pen is the only 98% biodegradable pen in the world. It’s also the only pen to use ink composed of simple, environmentally responsible ingredients. Produced at a wind-powered facility in the United States, it was designed as a responsible alternative to the wasteful and often toxic pens we use almost every day. And with its straightforward design and rollerball tip, the DBA Pen looks good and writes well too.
By the way, DBA is looking for an intern.
DBA 98 Biodegradable Pen from DBA on Vimeo.
A Floating Pool In New York
We desperately need one of these Floating Pools outside our studio.
+ Pool is an initiative by a group of architects and designers to build a floating pool in the rivers of New York City… and they need your help. The project was launched with the ambition to improve the use of the city’s natural resources by providing a clean and safe way for the public to swim in New York’s waters. This site is the culmination of Concept Design for + Pool and they are looking to build a team of interested organizations and professionals to continue the development of the project into a buildable proposal.
Their next step is to partner with local cultural, developmental and environmental groups to raise public and private interest, identify civic potential and approach the municipality, while working with engineers, planners and specialists to refine the social and ecological performance of + Pool.
To find out more, contact them at info@pluspool.org.
(thank you Michael)
101 Things I Learned In Business School
I am a big fan of the Things I learned series and often keep going back to the Archicture School Edition. I just noticed that they now have one out with the following title: 101 Things I Learned In Business School.
(How much do I love Kindle? With the click of a button the book appeared on my iPad. With the exception of beautiful art/photography books, I have no interest in purchasing ‘real’ books anymore. You?)
Chalk-it-to-me Piggy Bank
Chalk-it-to-me Piggy Bank is the cutest Piggy Bank I have ever seen. I am sold!
Stuffed Zucchini Flowers
My friend Jenna is one lucky woman, she is married to a chef. (Don’t worry G, I am not complaining, I am a lucky woman as well!) So, Jenna’s husband can cook. Seriously cook. They share their culinary adventures on their blog called Sweet Fine Day. Check out this Stuffed Zucchini Flower post. Mouthwatering, no? This is one of these dishes that reminds me of my vacations in South of France as a kid. And it also reminds me that there are certain dishes that I’d never dare to try myself. Why? I don’t know. But the thought of cooking Stuffed Zucchini Flowers is intimidating, at least to me. Hat tip to Mark! And to Jenna for the beautiful photographs!
Retro TV iPad dock
Our 4 year Ella old watches her shows on our iPad, as we have no TV. So it comes to no rusprise that this Retro TV iPad dock made me chuckle. #wishlisted
CreativeMornings Video: Rolf Hiltl
Our speaker at the July 2010 CreativeMornings was Rolf Hiltl, of the renowned 102 year old vegetarian Hiltl Restaurant in Zurich, Switzerland. The event was generously hosted at the Hiltl WM Lounge in the patio of the Landesmuseum in Zurich. This was our first outdoor CreativeMornings and hopefully not the last.
To all my Switzerland based readers: We are officially kicking of the Zurich/CreativeMornings chapter on September 10, 2010. Yay Hooray!
2010/07 Rolf Hiltl from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.
A big giant thank you to Thilo Hoffmann for offering his video and editing skills. As well to Sunny Yang for her video compression magic.
Red Scissors
How lovely is this minimal Red Scissors Silk Screen Print by Alanna Cavanagh?
deviantART Muro
Check out this impressive HTML5-based painting tool by DeviantART. Curious to see how our 4 year old will play with this. Impressive.
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Jazz Packing
The below Honda Jazz commercial made me laugh. Nice refreshing take on car commercials:
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Paleoblogging
Tim Carmody of Snarkmarket explains the term Paleoblogging:
Like paleontologists, paleobiologists, and paleoarcheologists, Paleobloggers dig up blogworthy material from the past to see what makes it tick. But instead of our prehistorical past, paleoblogging focuses on our analog past, blending in somewhere in the mid-1960s. See after the jump for my abbreviated field guide to paleoblogging.
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The important thing to me about paleoblogging, as opposed to blogging about what’s in the New York Times or in your friends’ twitter feeds, is that this is stuff that would not enter into the conversation otherwise. You’re not just copying it from internet relay to internet relay, but genuinely scanning it, converting it from the physical and/or nonblogospheric universe into this universe of discourse, recirculating it into new channels of information and ultimately into new retinal images and neural paths. This is the fundamental humanist endeavour – taking knowledge that took a tremendous amount of energy and expenditure to achieve, and that would otherwise go Unknown, and giving it a new social life, a new audience.
Read full post: Paleoblogging
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The Four Seasons Visualized
Laia Clos’ studio mot designed this data visualization of The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. lesquatrestacions is a graphic information system for visualizing the lead violin of Vivaldi’s masterpiece. The work consists of four posters, a set of stamps and the documentation of the system.
(via datavisualization.ch)
Happy, the Documentary
HAPPY is a feature documentary that takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Calcutta in a search of what really makes people happy. Combining interviews with the leading scientists in happiness research and real life stories of ordinary and extraordinary people around the world, HAPPY uncovers the secrets behind our most valued emotion.
MOVIE TRAILER:
Director Roko Belic shares the story of how and why he decided to make a documentary about happiness.
HAPPY – How It All Began from Wadi Rum Productions on Vimeo.
(via GOOD)
Ky Anderson
Just fell in love with the above piece of art by Ky Anderson. #wishlisted.
The Recycled Wallet
When it came time to buy a new wallet, our friends at Holstee couldn’t find what they were looking for so they designed their own, the Holstee way:
The slim Holstee wallet design holds the essentials – cash, credit cards and even has a sliding window for your ID and Metro card. Working with a family-run non-profit based in India that works to collect and recycle litter off the streets of Delhi they were able to create their dream wallet.
This vegan (!) wallet is made primarily of plastic bags and newspapers, collected off the Streets of Delhi in India. Production of this wallet helps reduce waste in Delhi, provides fair wage employment and subsidizes healthcare and education for each employee’s family. Their packing is a minimal slide insert made of (at least) 90% recycled material.
How much do I love Holstee? (spreading arms faaar) Thiiiiiis much!
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(thank you emanuel)
frogMob
frogMob is based on the idea that anyone can be an ethnographer for an hour, just by paying a little more attention to the world around them. A frogMob is a trend scrape that gathers a quick visual pulse on behaviors, trends and artifacts globally. They publish the call to action on a select topic and gather original photography and stories that describe how products are used globally.
At frog, design research is a tool they use to make sense of human behavior. It helps them to find those nuggets of insight that lead them to create products and services that make people’s lives better. With this in mind, they are opening up their design research process. And they want you to join in.
Learn more and submit to frogMob.
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Compass Mobile Stand
Compass by TwelveSouth is the iPad stand I have been wishing for. It is made out of gorgeous steel and is incredibly versatile: Used upright as an easel, Compass lets you view and interact with iPad in both portrait and landscape modes, even if you keep your iPad protected in the Apple case. Turn your iPad on its side, in landscape position, and Compass becomes the ultimate portable theater.
It is about the size of candy bar, requiring very little space in your backpack, computer bag or purse. Store it in the included soft travel sleeve, which matches the Apple iPad case, and you’re ready to roll.
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GoCrib
I was impressed by the inflatable Guava Family GoCrib. Anyone who has ever traveled with a regular travel crib knows how bulky and heavy they are. GoCrib is lightweight, sturdy and packs down into a small backpack. Ingenious. (Watch the video below to see how sturdy it is. Looking at the pictures alone, I thought it would be flimsy.)
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I wish I’d known that
David Airey asks: What advice would you give a design graduate? Chris Arnold, founder of Creative Orchestra and former creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi, offers his pearls of wisdom.
My favorite out of the ten:
Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something — it creates a talking point.
Storytelling visualized
Kurt Vonnegut explains storytelling through Cartesian graphs on a blackboard. Read the Article: Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard
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