New Summer Tattlys + Pack

We just uploaded new summer Tattlys and added an All Black Set!

With the Mango and the SunSmile we are welcoming two new artists to the Tattly Family: Stina Persson and Jim Datz. The Boombox is by Marc Johns and the Popsicles are by Julia Rothman.

Tattly is a designy temporary tattoo store that I launched 4 weeks ago and that is making me (and my kids) sooo happy! At this point, we are adding new designs by amazing designers approx every other week.

Tattly is possible because of my all star team that consists of Rusty (business brain extraordinnaire), Yoko (design goddess), Juan (fulfillment champ) and Kevin (temporary tattoo model).

PLEASE NOTE: We do not take submissions at this point, I am very sorry. And we are also not able to offer custom Tattlys. We might do both sometime down the road, just keep in mind, we *just* launched!

Let’s Meet And Work

Let’s Meet and Work is a curated map of nice cafés, museums, libraries, etc that provide good working conditions for freelancers. At the moment it’s purely London based, but Alasdair Monk wants to expand it to NYC within the coming months. Yes, please!

UPDATE: Alasdair is taking recommendations for the NYC map.

(thank you Daniel)

Whale Tissue Holder

This whale tissue holder is one of the sweetest things I have seen in a while. Totally made me smile. #ordered

(via ignant)

Calculator Screen Prints


I am pretty sure these prints would make my accountant smile: Five Color Calculator Screen Print by Tom Rowe.

Déjà Vu – Your Visual Memory

It looks as the Déjà Vu is the app I was missing in my life! I keep using my iPhone camera as a memory device, snapping photos of business cards, wine labels, books, products I want to buy etc. But I usually end up having a hard time finding them again in my overflowing photo album.

This is where Déjà Vu comes in. The app helps you remember things visually. Use the iPhone app to snap visual memos on the go. A simple interface and image recognition support you in organizing your visual memos. I am definitely giving this a try!

dejavuapp.com

(thank you Marc)

Mail Sack iPad Case

Talk about old meets new: This Recycled Mail Sack iPad Case is making quite a statement. I like it.

Bally meets Eames Chair

To celebrate its 160th anniversary, Swiss Bally has teamed up with Japanese magazine “Openers” and Herman Miller for an exclusive charity project which entails 16 of these stripy Eames chairs. Oh, how much would I love one of these…

Read more over at CielBleu.

Stationery

When I was a kid I had tons of pen pals, all over Europe. Writing (drawing) letters was one of my favorite things to do. My mom fueled my passion by buying me lots of printed stationery with flowers/hearts/lots-of-pink-stuff-on-it. You get the idea. I just had a flashback to all this when I discovered this super minimal stationery called Lettres d’Hélène Abricot. Beautiful, no? Makes me want to write a letter.

Beakfast Express



This Breakfast Train made me chuckle. I love soft-boiled eggs and a dash of humor. So, I am giving this two thumbs up! Handmade in England by Reiko Kaneko.

Lemon Water Upgrade

Now here’s a simple, cool idea: Freeze slices of lemon in a cupcake baking sheet, then add to your water pitcher for coolness and a twist of lemon. Love it. Reminds me of a coffee shop on the North Fork that adds frozen coffee ice cubes to ice coffee so it won’t get watered down. Brilliant!

Hold Me Tight Pillows

These Hold Me Tight Pillows are adorable. I’d much rather have my kids sport one of these than the cheesy Pillow Pets. (And of course, my daughter would probably disagree and go for the most pink pillow pet there is, the Unicorn)

Leather Mobile Case and Wallet

This gray leather case looks lovely. The front pocket can hold money and credit cards and the main pocket is for your phone.

Freaker America

Freaker is a North Carolina based company that is on the forefront of keeping bottles cool and hands more comfortable. Zach Crain and the Freaker Team are pursuing their American dream of preventing all most handshakes with their patent pending product, the Freaker.

A few weeks back, the Freaker Team visited Brooklyn with their truck and threw us an amaaaazing grilled cheese party. And now, entire Studiomates is sporting Freakers. Get them here.

And Ellen, you should really consider having Zach on your show. He’s quite something:

Zach training for the Ellen Show from freakerusa on Vimeo.

Utility Card

This Utility Card makes me happy. Brilliant!

2012 Stendig Calendar


The Stendig Calendar was designed by design legend Massimo Vignelli in 1966 and is part of the permanent design collection at the Museum of Modern Art. You can currently pre-order it over at Vetted.

(Thank you Antonio)

Formal Collar Apron

Hat tip to the designers of the Formal Collar Apron, both for their design and the product shot. Hanging off a giant baguette to show of your product? Yes, please!

Adam Ostrow: After your final status update

Many of us have a social media presence — a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to that personality after you’ve died? Could it … live on?

Maybe It’s Time for Plan C

Plan B, it turns out, is a lot harder than it seems. But that hasn’t stopped cubicle captives from fantasizing. In recent years, a wave of white-collar professionals has seized on a moribund job market, a swelling enthusiasm for all things artisanal and the growing sense that work should have meaning to cut ties with the corporate grind and chase second careers as chocolatiers, bed-and-breakfast proprietors and organic farmers.

An honest look at what it means to run a small business: Maybe It’s Time for Plan C, by Alex Williams

I Need Nice Things

I Need Nice Things sells prints. Lovely, affordable prints.

(via designworklife)

Happy Double Rainbow Everyone

Discovered this Double Rainbow photo over on Catharina Bruns Twitter Stream. Happy Monday morning everyone!

♥ / App Press

A big thank you to App Press for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

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New Tattly: Popsicles

We just added a brand new summer Tattly by Julia Rothman: Popsicles. These make me happy!

Hipster Lorem Ipsum

Hipster Ipsum offers artisanal filler text for your site or project. Made me smile.

(via bltd)

5 Rules for a Creative Culture

by Ben Chestnut, Founder of Mailchimp

1. Avoid rules. Avoid order. Don’t just embrace chaos, but create a little bit of it. Constant change, from the top-down, keeps people nimble and flexible (and shows that you want constant change).

2. Give yourself and your team permission to be creative. Permission to try something new, permission to fail, permission to embarrass yourself, permission to have crazy ideas.

3. Hire weird people. Not just the tattoo’d and pierced-in-strange-places kind, but people from outside your industry who would approach problems in different ways than you and your normal competitors.

4. Meetings are a necessary evil, but you can avoid the conference room and meet people in the halls, the water cooler, or their desks. Make meetings less about delegation and task management and more about cross-pollination of ideas (especially the weird ideas). This is a lot harder than centralized, top-down meetings. But this is your job — deal with it.

5. Structure your company to be flexible. Creativity is often spontaneous, so the whole company needs to be able to pivot quickly and execute on them (see #1)

(via FastCompany)