Once Tilo has his own room (in a few month’s hopefully, if everything works out as planned) then I’d like to hang one of these bedtime posters on his wall. What an adorable, typography driven, kids room print. Great gift too!
(via pinterest)
First Stop…
Little Times
Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
- Andy Warhol
(via Liz Danzico’s CreativeMorning talk this morning)
Paris versus New York
Paris versus New York is a friendly visual match between those two cities, as seen by a Parisian-based-and-lover on New York details, cliches and contradictions. Absolutely fantastic.
(thank you Jolayne)
O happy day
This cheery print from Lesley and Pea oiver at Keep Calm Gallery is enough to brighten any room! O happy day!
Studio612A Intern
Studio612A, our collaborative workspace in DUMBO, is seeking a one month studio intern. (Yes, this is an experiment) What does this mean? Hang out with all of us on a daily basis and help us on a variety of projects and tasks. Enjoy our massively awesome view and listen in and participate on our daily geek talk over lunch.
Our collaborative workspace consists of designers, developers, interior designers, copy writers and bloggers. We are:
Cameron Kozcon, FictiveKin
Larry Legend, House of Legend
Rob Weychert
Jennifer Ward, Minor Details
Erica Heinz, Energy7
William Burks Spencer, Spencer Empire
Chris Shiflett, of Analog
swissmiss
Interested? Email us and tell us why you think you’d qualify. Make sure to include a link to your website. (You need to have either designer or coding skills and bring your own laptop.)
But wait, there’s more: Our studiomates across the hall are a superduper perk in this whole thing.
One Hungry Mama
Anyone with little ones knows that feeding time can get stressful. Unless you have a kid that just likes everything, feeding a junior can be tricky.
As a mom, I love One Hungry Mama, a blog run by a Brooklyn Mom called Stacey. ‘One Hungry Mama’ is full of wonderful advice on how to make feeding time playful, easy and delicious. I often find myself perusing her recipes and my mouth watering while sitting at my desk. (Doesn’t the above Brown Buttered Cauliflower Pasta look delicious?) I love how Stacey let’s you filter the content by age, ingredient or type.
(On a sidenote: The site was designed and developed by my former studiomate Chesley Andrews)
Ohio Cushion
Ohio Cushion. Simply beautiful.
Multi Blocks
These MultiBlocks remind me of the colored math blocks we had in school in Switzerland when I was a whopping 7 years old. I vividly remember enjoying playing with them. Little did I know that they were tricking me into learning math! Ha! These MultiBlocks will find their way to casa swissmiss this holiday season.
Letterpress Y
I am in love with Jessica Hische’s Letterpressed Letter Posters. I especially love the Y, the O and the R. Check them all out over at JessicaHische.com. A perfect gift for new parents, or any type-lover that is.
The Black Hole
The Black Hole written and directed by Phil & Olly.Video.
(via RobbiePorter)
New Twitter Microsyntax
Interesting post by Chris Messina spelling out a new microsyntax for Twitter. (If you’re not into Twitter, this will make NO sense to you.)
(via @shiflett)
remember hope
Where were you on November 4th, 2008? Share your memories as a nation celebrated its participation in a historic victory.
Makes sense.
seen over at bobulate’s flickr stream.
placehold.it
Placehold.it is an ingenious, simple service for anyone working on UI designs that entail ads. A total timesaver.
(thank you Andy)
NYC Stamps
Two iconic New York stamps—a taxi cab and the Chrysler Building—let you create handmade gift cards, wrapping paper and stationary inspired by the city that never sleeps. I wish they’d also include the Brooklyn Bridge and a hot dog stand. Or maybe a pigeon? Hmm…
Rainbow Cocktail Napkins
Considering that this coming sunday, for Halloween, swissmiss family is about to dress up as a Double Rainbow (G and moi each one), Ella as Rainbow Princess and Tilo as a pot of gold, it is a given that these Rainbow Cocktail Napkins made me look!
Doll Dress Up Wall Stickers
How refreshing to see a doll dress up design that is not PINK! My 4.5yo daugther has (still) not come out of her pink phase, no end in sight, so it is understandable that this Autumn Dress Up Dolls by Mae caught my eye. Oh, how refreshing to see black, red and even gray?
This Dress Up Doll is a mini-set of “paper doll” style fabric wall decals. Unlike most wall decals on the market, which are made of vinyl, Mae’s stickers are printed on adhesive fabric. They are removable and completely reusable. YES! re-usable! They can be scrunched into a ball and will easily un-scrunch and re-apply to your wall, many times over. They are even washable, which is important when it comes to those precious yet impossibly grubby little ones!
According to the product description, wall stickers by Mae can be applied to almost any surface, and will not damage your walls. Maybe something for the upcoming holidays?
Freelensing
Freelensing means you take photos with the lens detached from the camera but held in place and moved around to focus. This also lets extra light in sometimes causing light leaks and giving a vintage look and feel. You only need to move the lens a few millimetres (fractions of an inch), and doing it this way, there’s not much risk of dust getting in to the sensor. If you want lightleaks or the super-macro kind of effect, you will need to hold the lens a little bit further away (probably no more than a finger width, though). This is a bit more risky if you’re worried about dust, so try not to hold the lens away from the camera for too long and only do it in a dust-free environment.
Here’s an example by Luke Roberts:
More freelensing images on Flickr.
(thank you Karin, via drs.ch)
Tel Aviv Board Walk
Images by Iwan Baan
The Tel Aviv Public Space regeneration project by Mayslits Kassif Architects is absolutely stunning.
(thank you Keren)
Little Ipsum
LittleIpsum is a nifty Desktop Application that will generate Latin Text for you in a jiffy.
(Thank you Aaron)
DesignMatters Podcast
Lovely Debbie Millman was so generous to interview me for her amazing (!) DesignMatters Show. The podcast just went live.
Listen over on DesignObserver
Direct Link to the MP3
Thank you Debbie, it’s such an honor to be part of DesignMatters.
