The 0.99$ I spent on MaddieCam on Sunday have already paid off a hundred times over. Haven’t had this much fun with an app in a while. Maddie is the famous internet coonhound that stands on things and now, you can put her on anything you’d like, thanks to MaddieCam.
There’s also a fantastic book out about her: Maddie on Things. Oh, and she once stood on my desk.
Yes, I am a fan.
I am a big fan of Banter Banners and this new INTERNETS one made me chuckle. Now, if only it came in just white. Which reminds me, you can make your own. Hmm…
My son Tilo has the Magic Surround one in his room.
- Oh, boy. Google is killing Google Reader on July 1st 2013. Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export their data, including their subscriptions, with Google Takeout over the course of the next four months.
- The history of emoticons, an essay by Tom McCormack. (via)
- The Cloud is heavy and design isn’t invisible, by Frank Chimero.
- Robot Calendar. (via)
- How the world has changed: St. Peter’s Square in 2005 and 2013
- House Industries launched a photo fun lettering app.
- Photo Timeline for Cellphones (1980 – 1990)
- Vimeo on demand. Interesting.
- Recent tasks Gabriel Weinberg sent to his virtual personal assistants. (via)
- Ampergram lets you create typographic compositions drawn from Instagram photos of letters.
- The 2012 Feltron Annual Report.
- Underwater photos of people swimming under crashing waves.
- Don’t know what I would do without Dropbox. And now it got even better: Dropbox redesigns desktop client with improved notifications and sharing
- Yoko made a t-shirt: Eligible bachelor million dollar boat.
- The Ultimate Guide to Dropshipping
- I gave a 1 hour talk at SXSW in Austin last week. I keep getting a ton of positive feedback, in case you missed it, here it is again. #humbling
- My friends at Area 17 are looking to hire an Interface Developer.
These Jpeg coat hooks have handy pegs allowing you to personalize them with your photos or notes. Designed by John Caswell for Thabto.
(via shoebox dwelling)
I know for a fact that my kids would get a total kick out of these Rainbow Spaghetti.
Yes, food coloring is bad for you. I get that. Obviously, I wouldn’t feed these to my kids daily.
(via meandering)
Draft seems like a great tool for collaborative writing. Unlike with Google Doc, Draft collaborators can’t overwrite the master copy. When you share your document using Draft, any changes your collaborator makes are on their own copy of the document, and you get to accept or ignore each individual change they make. Interesting. See all Draft features listed here.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a vintage carseat. I admit, it made me laugh. As a parent of two, and having researched a lot of baby gear, I enjoyed this post over on Mental Floss titled: A Brief History of 7 Baby Basics.
Here’s my SXSW talk in which I speak on my path of becoming a designer in Switzerland, making the transition moving to New York and establishing my various businesses. I speak on my 11 rules and values I live by, both in my professional and personal life. In fact, I speak on the fact that I barely distinguish between the two and that my kids have been my biggest career catalysts. Enjoy! (I come on at 4:35)
Also, here’s a Recap Rap by Saul Paul.
I applaud Annette Jung for this fantastic LEGO animation.
(Thank you Astrid)
Love this proposal by Atelier Zündel Cristea to turn an abandoned London power station into a playground and museum.
A supercool dad hacks Donkey Kong so that his three year old daughter can play as Pauline and rescue Mario. Made me smile.
(via Wesley)
I asked the audience during my SXSW talk to do the wave for me. Why? I realized that there were more people in the room listening to me than lived in the Swiss village I grew up in. In this fleeting moment of authority, I figured I might as well see what it would look like if my entire village did the wave. And it worked! Dave Racine was sitting in the way back and took a vine. His perspective was such much better than mine from the stage! Thank you Dave!
ps: Watch my talk here.
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I am currently in Austin, Texas, attending the massive SXSW conference. I have the honor to be be giving the Keynote for SXSW Interactive which will be live streamed: Tune in here for the live stream, at 2pm Austin time, 3pm New York time or 8pm Zurich time. Today, Sunday March 10th!
UPDATE: You can watch my recorded talk here.
(via the kids should see this)
- Pinokio is that Pixar Intro lamp come to live. (thanks Akbar)
- Patakk: Most artsy animated gif collection I have seen to date.
- You’re connected to everyone else on the web via 19 clicks or less.
- William Channer of Dorm Room Tycoon interviewed me for his lovely podcast series. You can listen to it here.
- The Benefits of Optimism are real, by Emily Esfahani Smith
- Smart: Virb teamed up with Etsy to help you create beautiful websites with a fully integrated shop.
- A short interview with yours truly over on Johnson Banks.
- An experiment by web designer Marko Dugonjić has taken the concept of responsive typography to a new level: using face detection, Dugonjić calculates the proximity a user is from his or her screen, and then adjusts font size accordingly. (via)
- The Future of Customer Service: These Companies Are Getting it Right
- Student solves Rubix Cube while juggling. (via Jad Abumrad)
- Moving NYTimes Article: 40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well
- How to win a climate change argument, in one chart.
- What the smartest people do on the weekend is is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years. Interesting read by Chris Dixon.
- Twitter is hiring Designers. One of their perks: 24/7 Bacon. Oh my!!!
- Mid-Century Modern recipes. Consider me intrigued.
- Every recorded meteorite strike on Earth mapped. (via John Maeda)
- Love this minimal, ready to assemble stool by James McBennett.
- Panic Button Pacifier. Made me laugh.
- The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee
- Why teens are tiring of Facebook
- Useful: 50 All-Time Favorite New Uses for Old Things (ugh so much advertising. and boo to slideshows)_
- Very impressive fire fighter drill.
- Model Mothers Slideshow over on the New York Times. (via Joanna)
- Paris in Motion, Timelapse and Stopmotion Photography
- All kinds of nerdy and charming video about how meeting people is complicated: Closer.
- This Baby Beryl just won my heart. And I am not even a kid.
Jake Bronstein, founder of Flint and Tinder, is set out to manufacture a hoodie that will last a lifetime, not like our average clothes these days. Entirely made in the USA.
Tilo’s recent obsession with everything ABC makes me want to splurge and buy this Wooden Letter Puzzle.
This German Vintage Rubber Stamp Set from the 70s is full of wooden stamps, each one being a geometric shape and painted in a solid colour. #wishlisted
Cord tacos will help you clean up all of those wires in your bag. The premium leather taco greatly changes the look from messy to cool and organized.
I have never been thrilled about the idea of a piñata at my kid’s birthday parties until now: The Space Dog Piñata won me over. Definitely made me smile. Even though for that price tag, I don’t think I would let my kids smash it. Hmm…
Also this.
The Diver is a short short narrative about a diver in red speedos. Congrats to James Lancett and his collaborator Sean Weston
Patakk features some seriously artsy animated gifs.
