This shrink plastic brooch “KATZI” by danadamki is hand painted with permanent markers on shrink plastic, baked, shrunk and varnished. All of danamaki’s shrink plastic brooches are individual artworks. Etsy find of the day!
Integrity
“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”
― Buckminster Fuller
Full Moon
A Full Moon Kids’ T-shirt, handprinted in Brooklyn. What’s not to love?
Potential
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller
TocaBoca Builder
My kids were lucky to get their hands on a not yet released TocaBoca app called Builders. I have never seen both my 7 and 3 year old more enthralled by a game. Ella kept shouting: “This is so much fun!”
And now that they’re sleeping, it’s my turn! Make sure to watch the above video to see what the fun is all about. The app is scheduled to be released on Thursday!
TocaBoca keeps impressing!
Windcatcher
Windcatcher Airbed inflates in just seconds without using any power or requiring any pumping. Watch the video, it’s all kinds of impressive. You can pre-order one for $90 here.
(via Springwise)
♥ / Fonts.com
A big thank you to Fonts.com for sponsoring a week of my RSS Feed.
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Custom Silkscreen Pet Pillow
Ok, so here’s the ultimate pet owner gift: A custom silkscreened pet pillow.
New Impressive Squarespace Site
The all new Squarespace site is stunning. Simply stunning. Navigate between the different spaces (case studies) with the arrows on the right and make sure to watch the short videos featuring the respective desk (surface) owners.
Squarespace, consider me impressed.
Vintage Film Canisters
A hommage to the old analog photo days: Vintage Film Canisters Print by Peter Hamilton.
Moving upstairs
“A few years ago, a friend shared with me his strategy for decluttering his home. He and his wife lived in a duplex and decided to gather every single thing they had and put it in the bottom level of the duplex. They moved upstairs, lived in just the top level, and as they needed something, they would go downstairs, find it, and bring it up. Little by little, they repopulated their life with only what was necessary.”
Moving Upstairs, by Jack Cheng
PortKit
If you design apps for mobile devices, you will love PortKit. It shows you each Cocoa UI Element in iOS 6 and its Android 4 widget version, side by side, so you can compare them easily and find the correct equivalent when porting an app.
Wow! What an amazing resource. And what a wonderful generous spirit of the Kintek folks to share it all.
(via Khoi)
People
“100% of customers are people.
100% of employees are people.
If you don’t understand people,
you don’t understand business.”
-Simon Sinek
Friday Link Pack
- How To Live an Unremarkably Average Life
- Here’s an awesome Father’s Day DIY gift idea: Make him a cardboard toolbox.
- Easy Origami Business Card Stand
- Evolution of Get Lucky (Love the glasses/year reference on the side)
- Anyone who has ever struggled with putting a price tag on their services should read this brand new, free e-book by Mike McDerment. It’s a quick and fabulous read. Wish it would have been around when I started my design studio.
- Party Time Headband. #Tattlyneedsthese
- Philadelphia Orchestra musicians perform on flight waiting on Beijing tarmac. The space constraint in the plane is fascinating.
- Highly amused that the guy on this crazy JET bicycle is not bothering wearing a helmet.
- Listen to Cameron Moll and Jason Fried chat about Basecamp, remote working and the upcoming book “Remote” in this latest Hired Podcast.
- A quite beautiful Foursquare Time Machine. Your check-ins visualized.
- Front-end Developers! Want to work with the smartest and most talented folks around? My studiomates of Editorially are hiring.
- Giraffe Cup. Made me giggle.
- Like a boss desktop-wallpaper.
See.Me
I just learned about See.Me and I am intruiged. It’s an online community for creative types and aims to help support your passion for what you create, what you do and what you aspire to.
Create a profile, share the best of what you do and gain recognition and support within the vibrant international community. See.Me is a modern version of the old patron concept: See work you like? Support the artist with a small donation. Beautiful! The creative community supporting each other? It doesn’t get better!
(thanks Devin)
USA Shaped Cutting Board
This USA Shaped Cutting Board made me chuckle. Also available in the shape of your US state. Each board is made to order, so give it 2 weeks lead time.
Congrats to the couple behind this lovely idea: Brooklyn based husband and wife, Amy Stringer-Mowat and Bill Mowat.
Konstruktor
Take your analogue DIY experience to the extreme and build your own 35mm plastic SLR camera with the Konstruktor set by Lomography.
(Thanks Matthew)
Three Things
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James
You can buy an illustrated version of this quote by Lisa Congdon
Garden Trug
This contemporary simple Garden Trug is based on the design for the traditional trug invented in 1829 by Thomas Smith of Herstmonceux, East Sussex, England. A beauty.
Made In NY Map
Do you run a digital company in NYC, a co-working space or are you an investor? If yes, did you add yourself on the Made In NY Digital Map? I just did.
Printable Father’s Day Card
Leave it to Mini Eco to come up with a super cool Father’s Day DIY.
Hashtags
Study finds nobody has ever actually found your tweet via a hashtag.
— TechCrunch Onion (@TechCrunchOnion) June 11, 2013
Decisions
“If no good can come from a decision, then no decision should be made.”
- Simon Sinek
Watch Simon explain what he means: Why to Wait Before Making an Emotional Decision.
