Friday Link Pack

A Spacesuit Ballet

- The New York Times shares refreshing Wine Spritzers for this upcoming long weekend. (via @onehungrymama)

- How To Customize The WordPress Admin Easily

- Geek Alert: Turn your MacBook eject key into a rimshot button

- A dress made out of IKEA bags.

- I would love to do a LEGO Inside Tour.

- Clay Shirky describes five student projects that he thinks are pushing the creative boundaries – from interface design to how people cluster to build new work.

- Oh my! Pixar is looking to hire a Systems Assistant. PIXAR!!

- Beach Days!

- How Jeff Croft is implementing responsive web design.

- Yoga Breakdance. Wow. (via @erinkissane)

- Herman Miller has a pop up shop in Soho until July 1st

- The No Button – A Parent’s Best Friend

- When I was a kid, I loved to make garlands. Here’s a tutorial for a quite charming one.

Dancing on the edge of finished

“Facing a sea of infinity, it’s easy to despair, sure that you will never reach dry land, never have the sense of accomplishment of saying, “I’m done.” At the same time, to be finished, done, complete–this is a bit like being dead. The silence and the feeling that maybe that’s all.”

From Dancing on the edge of finished, by Seth Godin

in.gredients

In.gredients is a new package-free grocery store that is opening in Austin, Texas in the Summer of 2012. Its mission as the US’s first zero-waste, package-free grocery store will support local businesses and farmers, will sell based on seasonal rhythms of farming, will avoid processed foods, will reduce transportation costs and pollution, and will encourage customers to bring their own reusable containers.

(via thekidsshouldseethis)

Mason Jar Drink Dispenser

This Mason Jar Drink Dispenser gets my two thumbs up. Summer! #wishlisted

Chalkboard Tablets

These Etsy Chalkboard Tablets are wonderfully charming, in an old-school way.

(via cielbleu)

REEL

Reel by Yeongkeun Jeong creates some (unusual) bike storage in the main triangle of your bike. Wow!

Frank Chimero takes Australia

Hey Australia, my fab studiomate Frank Chimero is coming to your neck of the woods this June. Make sure to grab a ticket for one of his talks in Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney. More info over on portable.tv

Lucky Ducks!

Oh, and, buy his book! It’s fantastic!

My iPhone = My Camera

Let’s admit it, you take most of our photos with your iphones these days, right? So, why don’t we then all put a case around it that will make it look like a camera? That’s exactly what SNAP! does.

I realize, this is slightly silly, but in my book, silly is good.

Wanderlust

My friends over at the Heads of State just launched a sweet new project that will appeal to everyone that has ever experienced a serious case of Wanderlust.

Pilot & Captain is about the good old days of planes, trains, and discovery. What started as a series of vintage inspired travel posters has grown into its own company. For the maiden voyage they have ten shirts from ports of call around the world and a new print series!

Absolutely love this!

Eau Good



I noticed Eau Good, a water bottle with an integrated filtering system, at ICFF. Binchotan (the filtering material inside the bottle) reduces chlorine, mineralises the water and balances the pH. It can be used for up to 6 months and amazingly recycles for many different uses after this. And, the cork lid is a nice touch.

I am a big fan of Black + Blum. Their dish rack makes me happy every single day.

9 Deadliest Startup Sins

1. Assuming you know what the customer wants

2. The “I know what features to build” flaw

3. Focusing on the launch date

4. Emphasizing execution instead of testing, learning, and iteration

5. Writing a business plan that doesn’t allow for trial and error

6. Confusing traditional job titles with a startup’s needs

7. Executing on a sales and marketing plan

8. Prematurely scaling your company based on a presumption of success

9. Management by crisis, which leads to a death spiral

9 Deadliest Startup Sins, by Steve Blank

(via collaborative fund)

♥ / Wazala!™

A big thank you to Wazala! for yet again sponsoring another week of my RSS Feed.

Wazala is a slick, minimal and beautiful looking ecommerce store and shopping cart that allows you to sell physical or digital goods such as fonts, photos or music. You can create a store in minutes, then add it to your website, blog or even your facebook pages. It is that simple.

I am extremely intruiged by the fact that Wazala works as an overlay, which means your reader/potential customer won’t leave your site. (I like this feature so much I am using Wazala for my swissmiss shop.) If your customers are visiting on mobile devices, Wazala Touch provides a slick shopping experience both on the iPhone and Android devices.

If you are thinking about selling anything online you should consider Wazala!, just signup for a 15 day trial risk free.

(Interested in sponsoring a week of my RSS feed, learn more here.)

Self-Respect

Self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth.
- Joan Didion

(via explore)

Flat Vernacular

My personal highlight of this year’s ICFF was meeting the folks behind Flat Vernacular. They are a Brooklyn-based design company that specializes in original hand-drawn, hand-printed wallpapers. At ICFF they showed me their brand-new glow-in-the-dark wallpaper. It made me squeal! I couldn’t find it on their site but I think to remember they said it will be up soon!

And get this, if your budget allows, they will make you custom, one-of-a-kind wallpaper. Consider this is on my personal wishlist! Also they told me that everything’s designed in Brooklyn and printed upstate. That makes me happy!

Yay for Wallpaper!

whisper

A whisper in a quiet room is all you need.
- Seth Godin


(Ranking for signal to noise ratio, by Seth Godin)

Invisible Dog Song

One of my favorite places in my Brooklyn neighborhood, The Invisible Dog Art Space now has a song thanks to Jonathan Mann.

Lucien Zayan must have been smiling all day as I was able to spot a rainbow over the Invisible Dog from my house tonight. Somebody please make a documentary about Lucien and his story/love for The Invisible Dog. It’s touching and we need more of this.

Readlists

A Readlist is a group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything —bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone. It’s the latest, brand new, Arc90 lab experiment, powered by Readability.

This. Is. Awesome. // Gasp for Air!

I just started a Readlist titled “Advice for Students“. Do you have articles I should add?

Miles Davis

Lovely new Aesthetic Apparatus print: Miles Davis

Purpose

“When launching a new [digital] product, let’s focus more on discussing its PURPOSE and less UI details and features.”
- Fictive Cameron

Key Hiding Rock

This might be my new favorite housewarming gift for my friends moving to the suburbs: Key Hiding Rock.

Number Mugs

Number Mugs. I am all for #8!

DIY

DIY just added the explore stream which makes me want to go home and make something with my kids asap. Kids crafts/art is the best.

Courtesy Table

Photo by Wim de Leeuw

The Courtesy Table by the Dutch designer Marleen Jansen is low on the practicality scale but wins lots of points for its entertainment and sculptural factor.

(via kidsroomzoom)

8-bit Zelda Fireplace Art

Made me smile: 8-bit Zelda Fireplace Art.