“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
- Teddy Roosevelt
Glorious Triumphs
Friday Link Pack
- Stylish Bicycle Accessories for ladies.
- This week felt a lot like this.
- Musical Chairs, choosing the right seat.
- For my German speaking readers: Der Spiegel Online wrote about my desk swap project.
- Refreshingly different: Diablo Toilet Roll Holder
- Really enjoyed this New York Times video piece: Navigating the Supermarket Aisles
- Pretty Cables. Yes! (via)
- Business or Pleasure? Try Both. Professional Conferences Double as Vacation Venues
- How to Transform Your Email into a Productivity Tool, by Jason Womack
- A creative commons flow chart.
- It’s a desk. It’s a bed. It made me look.
- In Lambert’s Cafe in Sikeston, MO, they just throw your bread to you from across the restaurant.
- Photos of White Men Wearing Google Glass
- USA TODAY did a feature on DUMBO, my office neighborhood.
- 9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions from Around the World
- Don’t Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything by my studio mate Kio Stark is now available on Amazon.
- The History of Typography, an animated Short (via)
- Wanted: 25 special customers.
- Tattly is looking to hire a Community Manager and a Summer Design Intern.
- Clip Folding Table. Yes.
- Research confirms that, counterintuitively, relaxing makes you more productive.
- Team Behance is introducing the first 99U book: “Manage Your Day-to-Day”
- All kinds of touching: Steve Harvey meets the Florida couple that helped him before he became famous and successful
“Anyone can complain, but people who provide solutions make a difference.” Barrett Garese
- Animated GIFs, I love you: Popcorn bomb.
Arena
“If you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I am not interested in your feedback.”
- Brené Brown
A quote by Brené Brown, today’s keynote at the 99% Conference here in NYC. Watch her popular TED talk.
Holstee Letterpress Card
Type designer Dave Foster created this beautiful letterpress card with a line from the Holstee Manifesto. Beautiful!
iFontMaker
iFontMaker is an iPad font editor allowing you to create typefaces with the iPad touch interface in a matter of minutes. I’ll definitely try this with my daughter!
(via iA)
GameKlip
Two days ago I had the pleasure to meet all of this year’s Shopify Competition winners. One of the winners, Ryan French, left a huge impression. He is a student at the University of Washington, majoring in Applied Computational Math Science and the inventor of the GameKlip.
The GameKlip attaches your Android phone to a PlayStation3 controller and allows you to use a real controller to play your games on your smartphone. I’ve tried it, it’s all kinds of fantastic.
Ryan has single handedly built this business and created everything himself; the clip, the packaging, the site and he even currently still ships the items himself.
If you are a buyer for a big retailer, please reach out to Ryan. He is currently looking for large retailers to carry his product. He deserves to be picked up by a big chain.
Vintage Billiard Balls
I find these vintage billiard balls oddly charming.
McDonald’s Theory
“I call it the McDonald’s Theory: people are inspired to come up with good ideas to ward off bad ones.”
-Jon Bell
An interesting post by Jon Bell in What I learned Building on Medium.
(Thanks Rusty)
Your DIY Print Shop
Thanks to Print Liberation for creating DIY Print Shop. I totally want to get one of these so I can start printing with Ella, my seven year old.
Silent Ambassador
“Design is the silent ambassador of your brand!”
- Paul Rand
(via Bekka)
♥ / Naked Binder
A big thank you to NAKED Binder for sponsoring this week of my RSS Feed.
Over the past four years, Naked Binder has made it their mission to design the best looking and longest lasting environmentally friendly binders in the universe. Constantly on the lookout for new and better ways to improve the look, function and recyclability of their product, the folks at Naked Binder feel they’ve done just that with their brand new, totally redesigned Project Binder—100% good looking, 100% recyclable (everywhere!).
(Interested in sponsoring a week of my RSS feed, learn more here.)
Friday Link Pack
I am all for music videos that feature Ira Glass.
- 8 Ways to Recycle Your Old Smartphone
- YES! NYC’s Expanded Recycling Program to Include All Rigid Plastics for the First Time
- An introduction to Google Analytics for ecommerce
- Touching NYTimes piece: Listen to personal stories of Boston Marathon runners that were right there when the explosion happened.
- Want to learn how to combine typefaces? Tim Brown has you covered! (via)
- This video was shown at the Publishing Luxury Summit to get the audience riled up and thinking positive thoughts about luxury! (thanks Steve)
- My friends at Mailchimp are looking to hire a Software Engineer Intern.
- These Pattern Click Pens make for a really good gift.
- Your manifesto, your culture, by Seth Godin
- 3D color printer that uses paper, not plastic. (via)
- Herman Miller’s best selling office chair sheds 18lbs and piles of plastic to become slimmer, more elegant.
- How To Wash Your Hands In Space
- 25 Summer get-together food and drink ideas.
- I recently bought one of these ridiculously adorable Kikkerland USB Airplane Fans. It’s all kinds of cute and practical.
- 22 Unbelievable Places that are Hard to Believe Really Exist. (via)
- Envelope, a super minimal ipad sleeve.
- Contact Lens Owl Case. All kinds of adorable.
- Woof!
- Three years of the Sun in three minutes. Thanks NASA.
- My friends of Done Not Done are looking to hire a Product Designer, a Frontend Developer and a Python Developer.
The Secret of Success in Creative Work
Ira Glass on the Secret of Success in Creative Work.
Tools
“Make your own Tools!”
- Bruce Mau
From The Designer Says, by Sara Bader
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I spent the last 30 minutes flipping through The Designer Says, a compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history’s leading designers. What a great gift! Well done, Princeton Architecture Press!
Happiness
“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
-William Morris
Hot And Cold Pack + Ice Pop
How adorable is this reusable Ice Pop gel pack ? Use it to soothe aches and pains or to cool your sandwich in your lunchbox.
Individual Commitment
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
Vince Lombardi
You’re Officially Awesome
Are you a creative person that constantly submits to competitions but never gets in? Are you over 30 and bummed that you missed your chance to be a 20 under 30? or a 30 under 40? or some other random number under some other random number? Well, Jessica Hische has an award for you. Then you can put “award winning designer” or whatever on your resumé.
thousandsunder90.com Please note the awesome cats in the background.
Car Pillows
These Car Pillows would make both my three year old Tilo and myself happy.
(via Joanna)
Brooklyn Derby
Did you get your ticket to this year’s Brooklyn Derby yet?
