It’s Nice That Talk #16 – Sam Winston from It's Nice That on Vimeo.
2010 Year Planner
Lovely 2010 Year Planner by Crispin Finn.
The Most Beautiful Swiss Books Showcase
The Swiss Cultural Center in Paris will be showing (and selling) the winners of 2008 The Most Beautiful Swiss Books competition.
(via @Piers and Swiss Legacy)
Experibass
Diego Stocco built an instrument by combining a violin, viola, cello and double bass…played with drum stick, spoons, fork and other stuff.
The Web as random acts of kindness
Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.
Pink Bunny Pajamas
Bunnies are back and pink is the new black! Just what the world needs: Pink Bunny Pajamas.
(thank you yellowphant)
we are colorblind
We Are Colorblind is a pattern library for design around color blindness. About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. The color blind have the inability to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites.
Tic Tic Tac Wafer’s Keyboard
As I doused my keyboard with coffee this morning, I am now using my Wafer’s Keyboard for the rest of the day:
(thank you @dave)
Ceramic Speakers
Joey Roth, the force behind the much talked about Sorapot now has come out with a new, non tea-related product: Ceramic Speakers.
The Ceramic Speakers are made from porcelain, cork, and Baltic birch. Each material is minimally finished, left to add its natural beauty to the design. The included amplifier is made from stainless steel sheet metal, with a cast iron base and paulownia volume slider. Aside from the electronic components, plastic is completely avoided in the system’s construction.
Puzzle Serving Board
The Puzzle Serving Board is probably not all that practical if you serve creamy/runny cheeses on it but it sure is a conversation starter.
Oy!
Early morning at swissmiss studio. I just succesfully doused my keyboard with coffee. Le big sigh.
cortex
Cortex is Xavier Encinas Studio’s Personal Visual Library. Wonderfully inspiring. Note to self: Need to ‘look’ and take pictures again.
I want to make a Documentary about…
At last week’s CreativeMorning our Conversation Starter Tag asked the following question: If I would make a documentary, it would be about…
What’s your answer?
Tissue Paper Cover Book Series
I fully agree with Bauldoff, this tissue paper book cover series by Jenny Grigg is wonderful.
Sandwich Shop Identity
This Sandwich Shop Identity made me chuckle. La Charcuterie is a deli/restaurant hybrid well-known around Vancouver for serving up sandwiches filled with deli meats. To play off this, business cards were created to look like cold cuts then were strung in netting similar to the way salami’s and other cured meats are hung in delis. Finally, Rethink printed meat stickers for the letterhead and envelopes made of butcher paper— the same paper they wrap their sandwiches in.
A simple alternative to Indexhibit: Stacey
Anthony Kolber is a graphic designer who got frustrated with trying to customize Indexhibit for his friend’s portfolio sites. So he decided to create something to make it simpler, it’s a php app called Stacey.
Stacey’s aim is to make the customizing part easier. You edit html files as html, the installation consists of dropping files onto your server and content editing is handled by creating folders and putting images inside them. There is no ‘admin’ interface, it’s all done via basic ftp.
You can see it working and download it at: http://staceyapp.com
At the moment it is running these sites: aestheticallyloyal.com, andmelbourne.com & hollyrose.com.au
Don’t Kill Good Ideas
(thank you sis)
AIGA/NY: Dog and Pony Show
AIGA/NY is on fire! I just bought tickets to two events within 4 days of each other. First, Ji Lee’s presentation this thursday and then monday’s Dog and Pony Show at Galapagos in DUMBO. The line up of presenters is breath-taking:
- Jonathan Alger of C&G Partners will present an instant replay of the Yankee Stadium, er, pitch.
- Debbie Millman of Sterling Brands will present: Tropicana, or how a straw in an orange became such a beloved icon that people fought over it.
- Michael Bierut of Pentagram will present: his maddening identity for the Museum of Arts and Design.
- Liz Danzico of Bobulate and Jessi Arrington of WORKSHOP will sympathetically present: the Charter for Compassion.
See you there?
