where is your username registered?
Jon pointed me to this fantastic little site he made that checks the availability of your handle. I sometimes wish I would have chosen something a little less mainstream than swissmiss. Often times it’s been taken when I try to signup for a new site and I end up with ‘the swissmiss” or “that swissmiss” or “swissmiss nyc”… etc. Which results in a big confusion every time I try to log in. Jon put together usernamecheck.com to see where your user name is registered and where it’s still available and ready for you to lock down and secure. Fantastic! Thank you Jon!
Type Addicted
Carl just pointed me to Type Addicted
Breckon Grafica
English Channel by Breckon Gráfica. Mesmerizing Simplicity at play.
The World’s Most Expensive Typos
Jonathan Lieberman of TypoBuddy discusses some of the world’s most expensive typos. Interesting!
(thank you Jason)
Anatomy Class Pig, will you be mine?
I just ordered this Anatomy Class Pig. So psyched.
1 HB Pencil (shavings)
1 HB Pencil (shavings) by Sam Winston. I would *loooove* this print on the wall in my office. Oh my, what a beauty!
(via withassociates)
art crawl through SoHo this wednesday
Join Artlog + SoHo Night for an art crawl through SoHo on Wednesday, September 24, 2008. Discover new art spaces, artists and art works as you visit galleries and non-profit art spaces. The event will bring more than a thousand art lovers together to enjoy art, friends and drinks.
UPDATE: swissmiss readers can get tickets at half off by using the ’swissmiss’ discount code on the ticketing page. Or use this url.
roadsworth
Life Support System, An effort to inject some life into an otherwise dead transition zone, suitable only for “life” forms on four wheels. By Roadsworth.
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Laugh Your Abs Away Exercise Video
I have no words.
(via coudal)
what is graphic design?
(thank you julia!)
400+ Time Saving Photoshop Actions
Photoshop Actions are extremely useful in both saving time as well as learning new features that you may not know. They can be used to help standardize your final project better, cut down on repetitive tasks, and to assist you in a bit of creative inspiration. We have collected a handful of great (and free) downloadable PS Actions in this article and also included a nice tutorial on creating your own Actions.
400+ Time Saving Photoshop Actions
(via urlgreyhot, I think)
Sizes May Vary | A Workbook for Graphic Design
Sizes May Vary
(via coudal)
swissmiss studio coffee + chat
Our studio was filling up quickly…
Scott Bellina had one coffee too many :)
Tom Tinervin toasting to our first ‘virtual skype guest’ Billy Davenport in Knoxville.
So today was the kick-off to our new coffee+chat series here at our studio. What a great turn out! Thanks for everyone that made it out to DUMBO so early and showed the will-power to walk up 6 floors! (What great timing for our elevator to break down!)
I met lots of interesting folks and simply wished there would have been more time! But don’t despair, there will be another one of these events next month! The plan is to connect each meetup with a topic and a potential short presentation. If you have a topic you’re passionate about and would like to present at one of our upcoming events, email me. Also, if you run design studio in DUMBO (or Manhattan) and would like to host one of these mornings, email me as well. You can view some pix of today’s event here.
Thanks again to Saul from Freshbooks who sponsored today’s breakfast!
Microsoft’s “I’m a PC”
My favorite: (enter french accent here) I am a PC and I sell fish!
(thanks peter)
Ice Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream and ice cream. Made me smile. Originally uploaded by Balsamia.
(via 23psi via quipsologies)
erica shires | photographer
Erica Shires came to our coffee+chat meeting this morning and gave me a beautiful set of postcards. (thank you again) I just had a look at her site and the above series caught my eye.
the women
In the viral, an actor play a gay guy who tells his clueless girlfriend that he was hired by a viral marketing firm to date her because she is a “social connector” in order to create buzz for the film “The women”. It’s pretty funny, especially to people in the ad/marketing world, as it takes target audience insight to the extreme and pokes fun at the obsession to “make viral work for you” in a funny way.
(via culturalfuel)
Mauritian Sunset
‘Mauritian Sunset’ by Sandy Smith.
