These Pipe Puffing Puppies are available as a print over at PrintCollection. Made me chuckle.
Also fantastic: Three Brothers, Old Head-Men of the Kak-Von-Tons of the Chilkat Tribe or The Beach Goers, Atlantic City, N.J.
PrintCollection is a fantastic source for historic museum quality prints.
Why not hang your iPad from your bike? At least that’s what Fahrer Berlin suggests with their iPad Case. (And no, I am not taking this all too serious, but it made me look. )
These crawling knee pads for babies and toddlers made me smile. Reminds me of the days when I played volleyball.
I love this Minimal Art Shelf Idea by Erin Loechner.
Postcardly turns your emails into real-life postcards, delivered by U.S. Mail. Do you have family members that don’t use email? Or do you have friends that have gone so-completely-digital that you would make their day by sending them actual mail? Postcardly is your friend!
You can send postcards from your phone, your computer, or anywhere you have email. Just send an email with an attached photo the way you normally send an email: your photo will be on the front of the postcard, your words will go on the back.
I’ll give this a try and will send some photos to my family in Switzerland.
Did you ever try to download a user’s manual for an electronic product that you own but the manufacturer does no longer offer it on their site? There is hope: Try a search on Amazon.com. It hosts PDF manuals of thousands of electronic products including those of items that have either been discontinued or are no longer available for sale on Amazon.com.
Go to Google and type the following query. Replace the word PRODUCT with actual name of your product as in above screenshot.
PRODUCT filetype:pdf site:ssl-images-amazon.com OR site:images-amazon.com
Read the full post over on labnol.org: Find PDF Manuals for your Electronics using Amazon
(via labnol)
20essentials is a Belgium based pop-up concept with a selection of carefully picked products by a ‘little more’ or a ‘special twist’. The products are different in their concept, shape, material and functionalities and are an attempt to meet 20 of our most basic, daily needs, such as sitting, sleeping, transport, …
20 Essentials is located in Knokke, Belgium. Wish I could stop by. Lovely idea.
(Thank you Pieterjan)
How adorable is this Red Polaroid Plush Camera? Made me smile.
Revolights are a set of thin profile LED rings that you can attach to your bicycle rim to simulate a flashing LED light display so people can see you better on the road when you’re out at night.
They are currently on Kickstarter trying to raise money to go into production. Definitely worth supporting, if you ask me.
revolights. join the revolution. from revolights on Vimeo.
(via doobybrain)
In a recent blog post Fred Wilson explains how he shares his Kindle Highlights. Just like him, when I read a book, I tend to do a lot of highlighting. And if I wanted to save them for later or blog, I would type down my highlights. But no longer! Here’s the exciting news: When you are reading on a Kindle (or a Kindle app), your highlights are sent to a private page at amazon.com. Fred Wilson writes:
The address of my page (and yours too I imagine) is https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights. If you have a kindle and do a lot of highlighting, go visit that page and you’ll see all of your highlights.
From there, via the tumblr bookmarklet, it’s trivial to share the quote on Tumblr. And so I suspect I’ll be doing quite a bit more sharing as a result of this discovery.
Sharing my Kindle Highlights, by Fred Wilson
The Shopping Totem print by David Welch made me smile. Currently available over at 20×200.
What better 1-month birthday present could we get for Tattly than being featured on Fab.com? Yes, I admit it, Team Tattly is quite giddy today.
From today until the end of friday you can buy various Tattly Packs for $14, with the exception of the Complete Tattly Set, which includes all 19 tattoos, and runs for $39.
Here’s the link to the Tattly page over on Fab.com.
Mobile Evolution is a limited edition print I discovered over on vespoe. Made me chuckle.
A big thank you to Butter Lane for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.
There’s a new swissmiss-approved cupcake shop in (Brooklyn) town. Butter Lane officially opened in Park Slope (240 7th Ave, between 4th and 5th) in June. What sets Butter Lane apart from the rest? Maybe it’s that they use high-quality ingredients like real vanilla beans, Callebaut chocolate, fresh fruit and no food coloring. Or is it the fact that one of the biggest debates the three owners ever had involved choosing the high-priced Mrs Eaves over the cost-free Garamond for their logo font? Regardless, the cupcakes taste great and the packaging is cute– what more do you need? Butter Lane… the Better Cupcake.
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“The reason that most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our goals—not for the person we’re going to be when we reach them—we set our goals for the person we are when we set them.” – Dan Gilbert
Jim Coudal quoting Dan Gilbert during a CreativeMornings/Chicago talk.
Our speaker at the June 2011 CreativeMornings/NewYork was Yancey Strickler co-founder of Kickstarter. A big thank you to Sy J. Abudu for filming and editing the talk:
CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. Each event is free of charge, and includes a 20 minute talk, plus coffee!
You can see photos of the Yancey Strickler CreativeMornings over on Flickr. And you can now follow us on Tumblr!
Last night I had the honor to attend a Womens Salon organized by Acumen Fund founder Jacqueline Novgratz. At the event, we were asked to answer the following question:
If you could go back and change one decision in your life, what would it be?
I wish I would have embraced and trusted the entrepreneurial side in me earlier. If only I would have started my design studio BEFORE I had my first kid. For some reason I thought I first need to get a good 6 years of experience working for others until I could do it on my own. That’s not the case! You learn so much, and so much faster, when you are your own boss. And there is really nothing like working for yourself. When you’re younger, you have so much more flexibility. You can easily keep your overhead low and you can work late if necessary. I made it work, starting my first business when I had my daugther, but it could have been a much easier experience would I have started earlier. In my next life, I’ll be starting my first company in my early 20s.
What about you?
Here’s a great find from over at BLTD: If you’re a big reader, and you tend to take notes, perhaps this bookmark pad will come in handy.
The Market Bag by Linus is beautiful and functional. Perfect for the market or a sleep over, carry it in with a shoulder strap, or roll up the sides when not in use. #wishlisted
8 is my favorite number! Stack a number 8 out of books and you make me want to order a print. I heart Paul Octavious’ book stacks.
MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.
EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.
3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage. I heart projects like this one. What a cool way to turn your trip into a art project and change the way you look at things. Hat tip!
Rick Mereki : Director, producer, additional camera and editing
Tim White : DOP, producer, primary editing, sound
Andrew Lees : Actor, mover, groover
(via Paul Octavious’ blog)
These Sandwich Coasters made me laugh.
“We need to remember the value of nothing. It’s like breathing: you can’t inhale all day.
We need to learn to make peace with the information we don’t know, to embrace the zeroes, to relearn the pleasures of hunger, need, interruption, restraint. We need to work up our ignorance muscles. We need to organize our internal absences to create meaning. We are responsible, in other words, now and forever, for our own deletionism.”
- Sam Anderson
(via Bobulate)
Noah Lambert makes beautifully minimal wallets. He creates each from a single piece of leather using only two seams, which makes them last a lifetime. Noah exclusively uses 5oz vegetable tanned bridle leather from Wickett & Craig of Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s oldest and most respected tanneries. Wallets are saddle stitched by hand using Barbour’s Red Hand 5 cord linen thread to create a seam twice as durable as the common lockstitch.
(thank you Steven)
