Minimal and beautiful shoe rack with the name Gaston.
The Making of The Fiberglass Chair
Watch as the original craftsman makes Eames Shell Chairs recreating the same process they used half a century ago. Film shot at Century Plastics. Using authentic material, a nearly lost art form is revived.
What’s Essential.
“It’s only with the heart that one can see clearly. What’s essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
(via Quora / via @collabfund)
StudentShow
Hey design students, you might want to know that the fine folks over at Behance launched a site featuring student work from all around he globe: StudentShow.com! Fantastic way to find new talent!
(via @amritrichmond)
The Journey of Checked Baggage
Delta Air Lines sent a hardcase with six outward-facing video cameras as checked baggage aboard a flight from Atlanta to New York City to show the behind-the-scenes journey of checked baggage. Quite fascinating.
(via LaughingSquid)
picNYC TABLE
(Photos: Iwan Baan & Alan Tansey)
This picNYC TABLE by Haiko Cornelissen would definitely make it easier to get through the cold NYC winter months.
Outlets
Welcome to the strange world of international outlets.
(via unplggd)
How The Spacesuit Came To Be
A space suit is made out of a flight suit, a Goodrich tire, a bra, a girdle, a raincoat, a tomato worm. An American rocket ship is made out of a nuclear weapon, and a German ballistic missile; a ‘space program’ — a new organization with new goals — is made out of preexisting military, scholarly, and industrial institutions and techniques.
— Monchaux
Fascinating post on Fashioning Apollo: How the Spacesuit Came To Be over on brain pickings.
MFA Products of Design
The School of Visual is starting a new MFA program called Product of Design and I am honored to be part of the faculty.
The application deadline for the new program is fast approaching, on January 15, 2012.
Learn more about the Program over at the department site or download the Interactive Department Brochure.
Veronika Paluchova
This dish rack by Veronika Paluchova made me chuckle. Check out more of her projects over on Designeast.
(via shoeboxdwelling)
Short Order Designer
This Short Order Design Notepad by Adam Oreste made me chuckle.
“In Caffeine We Trust Poster”
The “In Caffeine We Trust Poster” lets you track your monthly coffee consumption on a beautifully designed print. The poster is offset printed on 18×24 Strathmore 140 lb. acid-free heavy weight cold press watercolor paper with black ink. A product by Column Five.
(Thank you Lauren)
unroll.me
I have been spending most of my morning unsubscribing my blog submission email account from newsletters that I never signed up to in the first place. It’s simply unacceptable how companies put my submission email on their mailing list without my permission. As I was tweeting about my frustration my friend Amrit Richmond pointed me to Unroll.me:
Unroll.Me is an email unsubscribe engine that crawls through your inbox and pulls up a list of your subscriptions allowing you to choose which one to keep and which ones to unsubscribe from. After you press unsubscribe, they will take care of the rest.
Might as well give unroll.me a try! (Even though I admit, I am a bit nervous about giving out my email login information)
UPDATE: Doesn’t work on Google App hosted email accounts (yet). Bummed.
Wear Your Pasta
Japanese design studio Microworks created a wearable Farfelle Bowtie. Made from bright acrylic, the clip-on tie is an imitation of the pasta shape, for an amusing twist on men’s party attire. #mademesmile
(thank you Jeannie)
Pixel Perfect Vector Nudging
When nudging vector points, Photoshop exhibits some strange behaviour, linked to how far you’re currently zoomed in. At 100%, nudging using the arrow keys will move your vector point exactly 1 pixel. At 200%, nudging moves the point half a pixel. At 300%, it’ll move a third of a pixel.
Fantastic post on Pixel Perfect Vector Nudging in Photoshop.
(via @khoi)
Ice Cream Clouds
Check out this Tutorial to make Ice Cream Clouds, illustrated by Melinda Josie. Download the recipe as a PDF here.
(Thank you Nate)
CreativeMornings Video: Ben Chestnut
A few weeks ago I traveled to Atlanta to see Ben Chestnut, co-founder of Mailchimp speak at CreativeMornings/Atlanta. That was the best money I’ve ever spent on an airplane ticket. Ben talked about the history of the company and what he does as a manager to cultivate the infamous Mailchimp culture. If you are running a creative business do yourself a favor and watch the talk!
A little background info: Ben Chestnut is the CEO and co-founder of MailChimp.com, one of the most successful e-mail marketing companies around, with over 1.2 million users. They were recently featured in “Fast Company” for their non-traditional corporate culture and creative environment. Ben is one of my all-time personal rolemodels when it comes to running a creative business. Meeting him was my highlight in 2011. (Yes, I am a fan!)
A big giant thank you for the CreativeMornings/Atlanta team, especially Blake Howard, for organizing the morning and Dare Dreamer Media for taping and editing the talk.
Thumbsaver
I am utterly fascinated by the ThumbSaver, a magnetic nail setter. Useful or not?
(via destroytoday)
Valerie Casey: The New Normal
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Wonderful AIGA talk by Valery Casey, founder of the Designers Accord, the global coalition of designers, educators, and business leaders working together to create positive sustainable impact.
Valery is an impressive force in the design industry: She was named a “Guru” of the year by Fortune magazine, a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine, a “Master of Design” by Fast Company and one of the “World’s Most Influential Designers” by BusinessWeek. The World Economic Forum has honored Casey as a “Young Global Leader.”
The Umbrella Man
On the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Errol Morris explores the story behind the one man seen standing under an open black umbrella at the site. Watch it here. #mademetearup
(via Peter Hossli)
Knitted Pigeon
At tuesday’s AIGA winter bash one of the raffle gifts was a huge knitted pigeon. The lovely couple that won it let me hug it and I experienced my first case of SPE (Serious Pigeon Envy).
The stuffed pigeon is from Various Projects and hand-knit from alpaca wool — a soft, cuddly version of New York’s native street bird. #wishlisted
Brain Pickings Bookshelf
My studio mate Maria Popova launched a fantastically visual Tumblr featuring all her Book posts from Brain Pickings. Click on a book and you will be taken to that post over on Brain Pickings. Fantastic!