A vintage beauty: 1940s Vintage Eberhard Faber Ruby Eraser Box, by Christian Montone.
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CreativeMornings Video: Craig Mod
Our speaker at the April 2011 San Francisco/CreativeMornings was Craig Mod, a writer, designer, publisher and developer concerned with the future of publishing and storytelling in the iPad and Kindle era.
A big giant thank you to Chris Whitmore for offering to shoot and edit the video. Photos were graciously provided by Richard Something.
June 2011 CreativeMornings
Here’s an overview of the upcoming June CreativeMornings in New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, San Francisco and now Chicago.
N E W Y O R K
Date: June 24th, 2011
Speaker: Yancey Strickler, Kickstarter Co-Founder
Host: Galapagos Art Space
Sponsors: Mailchimp and Freshbooks
Organizer: swissmiss
More info and rsvp at creativemornings.eventbrite.com
Z U R I C H
Date: June 24, 2011
Speaker: Markus Mettler
Host: Cafe Casablanca
Sponsor: Cafe Casablanca
Organizer: Daniel Frei
More info and rsvp at zurichcreativemornings.eventbrite.com
L O S A N G E L E S
Date: June 10, 2011
Speaker: Josh Nimoy
Host: mediatemple
Sponsor: Blik
Organizer: Jon Setzen
More info and rsvp at losangelescreativemornings.eventbrite.com
S A N F R A N C I S C O
Date: June 24, 2011
Speaker: Adam Tobin
Host: The glorious Typekit headquarters
Sponsors: Happy Cog and Typekit
Organizer: Erika Hall
More info and rsvp at sfcreativemornings.eventbrite.com
C H I C A G O (first one, hoooray!)
Date: June 24, 2011
Speaker: Jim Coudal
Host: Gravity Tank
Sponsor: Neenah Paper
Organizer: Mig Reyes
More info and rsvp at chicagocreativemornings.eventbrite.com
In July we will be kicking off CreativeMornings/London with Michael Johnson as our speaker and Drew Smith as our Host!
Check out our site creativemornings.com for more info and for links taped talks.
enormously insignificant
“You are 1 person out of 7 billion people
On 1 planet out of 8 planets
In 1 star system out of 100 billion star systems
In 1 galaxy out of 100 billion galaxies
And you are enormously insignificant.”- unknown
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Rare Book Feast #1
Now here’s a gem of a discovery that stopped me in my tracks this morning: Rare Book Feast is new short movie series about the timeless character of books. Their message and what they look like are what is celebrated here. Nate Burgos believes that as our culture becomes digital in a lot of ways, it is all the more important (not to mention inviting) to revisit and learn from the early design challenges, creative solutions and general lessons that the “old” print world keeps relevant.
Kicking off this series is the “World Geo-Graphic Atlas” (1953) designed by Herbert Bayer with Martin Rosenzweig, Henry Gardiner and Masato Nakagawa: 2,200 diagrams, graphs, charts, symbols spanning 368 pages about our planet earth. All done before computers.
Video concept, script and narration by Nate Burgos of DesignFeast.com. Video creation, direction and production by Joe Giovenco of BRNeyes.com.
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♥ / Herman Miller
A big thank you to Herman Miller for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.
You know their furniture designs; they set the tone for mid-century modern and next-century cool. That makes them right for nearly any space. Most recently, Herman Miller has turned its savvy to creating great offices for small businesses. The focus is called the Herman Miller S3 program. Think hybrid sports car. Easy on the wallet because it’s a select group of easy-to-own products. Fun because it’s fast (“from idea to installation in about 20 days”). Worth a test drive. hermanmiller.com/s3
(Interested in sponsoring a week of my RSS feed, learn more here.)
Pandagram
My studiomates Jason Hawkins and Larry Legend released a simple (and free) iPad app called Pandagram last week. It’s a bare-bones but elegant Instagram photo viewer for your iPad. Check it out. (This is the app with the cutest icon ever, designed by yet another studiomate, the lovely Meagan Fisher)
Natural Rubber Flip Flops
Here’s the latest product curated by the lovely Holstee folks: Feelgoodz Flip Flops, made of natural rubber which means they are biodegradable. When the life of your Feelgoodz come to an end, chop them up and bury them in your backyard – and in a few years they will completely biodegrade. In addition to the 10% for Kiva that Holstee lends out for every purchase, every purchase of Feelgoodz benefits Pencils of Promise, an organization which builds schools in the developing world and trains young leaders to take action at home and abroad! “Feel good” on so many levels!
Twig Pod
The Twig Pod is a collapsible outdoor tripod. Actually, it’s more of a monopod that stakes into the ground. When you’re done with it, you can fold it up neatly into a tiny canvas pouch — it’s like a tent rod tripod!
Cardboard Sheep
A cardboard sheep shelf? Yes, please!
Printing at Home
This Printing At Home Piece by Xavier Antin made me chuckle. Combine art with some humor and you got me.
Letter Holder Bookend
I just tried to convince my desk neighbor Rob that this bookend would look lovely with his rainbow of A Book Apart books on his desk.
Type Town: 60 Years of Book Design in St.Gallen, Switzerland
I have the honor to be moderating an AIGA/NY panel with iconic Swiss Book Designers Joost Hochuli and Roland Stieger next week. Together, they will look back at sixty years of beautiful book design in the Swiss town of St. Gallen as well as discuss the future of design.
As special guests we’ll have Aswin Sadha and Paul Shaw join the discussion.
Talk-O-Meter
Talk-o-Meter monitors voice conversations to show who is dominating and who is wallflowering. More.
(via curiositycounts)
Fake Books
I couldn’t help but chuckle when I discovered these Fake Books by Emanuela Ligabue. They are handpainted wooden blocks, made to look like a book. (Please everyone, let’s welcome Emanuela to the internet. She just launched her site *today*, oh, and she happens to be the mother of wonderfully talented Olimpia Zagnoli)
Internet Access: A Basic Human Right
“Given that the Internet has become an indispensable tool for realizing a range of human rights, combating inequality, and accelerating development and human progress, ensuring universal access to the Internet should be a priority for all states”
- United Nations Report
(“Internet access is a human right.”)
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Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
In this TED talk, Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.
(via Brain Picker)
Dear Children of Troy
Found this letter from Dr. Seuss to the children of Troy over at Jack Cheng’s blog. It is a reply from 1971 to Marguerite Hart, the children’s librarian of Jack’s hometown of Troy, Michigan. She wrote to dozens of politicians, writers, artists and otherwise notable individuals asking them to send in a few inspirational words for the children of Troy on the opening of its first public library. See more letters here.
Behind The Scenes
This selection of Behind-the-scenes shots over on angusrshamal.com made me look (and chuckle). Those were the days when set designs were huge and handmade, when special effects were mechanic and photographic.
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Rocking Lamp
Slightly silly and therefore wonderful: Rocking Lamps, by Miniheart.
Gestalt-Ingenieur
“I am troubled by the devaluing of the word ‘design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.”
- Dieter Rams
(in this telepgraph.co.uk article)
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Chanel Robots
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