I just backed LINX over on Kickstarter. It’s is a super simple toy that will most certainly unleash your inner architect. All you need is lots of LINX and lots of drinking straws.
Kid In
Kid-in is a brand-new online magazine for the diverse perspectives of a wide range of international and local designers and photographers, artists and thinkers, focusing on the singular subject of childhood.
Brooklynites: They have their launch party on february 16th at the Invisible Dog.
Marks + Dinnerware
Here’s a useful post over on Apartment Therapy on how to get rid of those gray scratch marks on plates.
Nerd Valentine
It’s that time of the year again: Nerd Valentine! YES!
hi. postcards. ok.
There are *a lot* of people that would have every reason to send me that first card, on the left, ‘hi. i sent you an email. ok‘.
(via found it loved it)
Liquid Conversion Chart
Thank you Erik Spiekermann, for creating this US Liquid Conversion Chart from US fluid ounces to milliliters.
Magnatab
My kids are completely crazy over this Free Form Magnatab Toy. They draw and write with the magnetic stylus, which raises metal balls to the surface of the sealed Magnatab base. And erase their creation by pushing the magnets back down with the back of the stylus or their fingers.
To me, it feels like taking designing for screen, pixel constraints, to the analog world.
Study No. 1+3
These prints by fellow DUMBOnian Damien Correll make me swoon. #mustorder #ordered
Kern & Burn
Kern & Burn is an online and print publication that curates discussions, interviews and essays about design entrepreneurship
An Automatic Diet Planner
Here’s an interesting site for people want to gain or loose weight: swole.me is an automated diet planter that creates meals according to your goal calorie intake and how many meals you’d like to eat per day. Completely free.
(Thank you Dave)
A fold
Thanks to the above graphic and this post over on brain pickings I will never look at a simple fold the same way again. Same goes for an ant.
London Cafeterias 50s – 60s
Before chains like Starbucks took over the world of cafes, young Londoners of late 50′s and early 60′s met in places like these.
(via bblinks)
Soft Maps
It always puts a smile on my face when I see friends featured on blogs that I love. My studio neighbor Emily Fisher is currently featured on Herman Miller’s blog.
Emily creates stunning Soft-Maps, quilted maps of cities and neighborhoods that represent someone’s unique place in the world. She recently added baby quilts to her collection, such a fantastic gift for (designy) parents.
Maps on Quilts, made in Brooklyn? Yes, please!
A Cabin, in Brooklyn
Hey New Yorkers, need a place to go for a staycation? A Cabin in a Loft in Brooklyn is a two-bedroom loft in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The cabin is available for short-term rental as an alternative to hotels and hostels to those seeking a more local experience of New York.
Made me smile.
(thank you The Design Ark)
The Neche Collection Video
This is a wonderful profile on Veronica Corzo-Duchardt, foce behind Winterbureau, a Chicago-based creative studio. In order to celebrate her grandfather’s collection of ‘things’ she started The Neche Collection. You might have recognized that orange calculator in the beginning, we turned it into a Tattly!
On Parenthood
Jeff Atwood’s graph on what it means to be a parent. Read his post here. Best article I’ve read so far on the topic of parenthood.
(thank you Paul)
CASSETTE
A few months ago, the term cassette tape was taken out of the Oxford English Dictionary. (!!!) It may seem ironic, then, that the cassette has experienced a quiet comeback over the last few years, as independent labels issuing tape-only releases have begun popping up around the world. I can’t even tell you how many fond memories I have of the days when cassette tapes ruled my music life. Do you remember the days being angry at a radio announcers when they’d start talking before the song was over and screwed up your recording of a song? I do!
That’s why I just backed a project on Kickstarter that plans to create a movie, entirely documenting the beauty of Cassette Tapes. They’ll look at all parts of popular culture influenced by the cassette, including hip-hop and B-Boy culture, indie rock, home recording, and beyond.
I just backed CASSETTE on Kickstarter. Will you join me?
(Thank you Kendra)
Liz Openheim
What a beauty of a ring. Hat tip to the designer, Liz Openheim.
Ostrich
OSTRICH offers a micro environment in which to take a warm and comfortable power nap at ease. It is neither a pillow nor a cushion, nor a bed, nor a garment, but a bit of each at the same time. Its soothing cave-like interior shelters and isolates your head and hands (mind, senses and body) for a few minutes, without needing to leave your desk.
Made me laugh and I think our Studiomate Paul could definitely use one.
(thank you Josh)
Magnus
This Magnetic iPad Stand, called Magnus, is as sleek as it can get. Really pretty.
Vernacular Typography
For the past 10 years, Molly Moodward has been photographing environmental typography and organized her images by place and category on VernacularTypography.com. As of now, the website has over 5,000 images of urban typography from 10 different countries, including Argentina, The Bahamas, Chile, Cuba, England, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the US.
Molly just started a Vernacular Typography Kickstarter Campaign to help build up her digital archive. It’s a beautiful projects which helps preserve, and promote the vanishing examples of lettering in the everyday environment.
Totally backing this campaign. Join me?
