STILL BILL is an intimate portrait of soul legend Bill Withers, best known for his classics “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Lean On Me,” “Lovely Day,” “Grandma’s Hands,” and “Just the Two of Us.” With his soulful delivery and warm, heartfelt sincerity, Withers has written the songs that have – and always will – resonate deeply within the fabric of our times.
Still Bill is opening this week at IFC theater for a week’s run. It opens Wednesday at IFC and in addition, it will screen in a special presentation hosted by Brooklyn’s BRIC, at the Pavilion Theater in Park Slope. The extra incentive this week—and it’s a bigger incentive than you may realize—is that Mr. Withers will be here in person on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. He’s a treat to see in person and he’ll be doing Q+A’s with Alex Vlack and his fellow director, Damani Baker. Listening to Bill speak in person is not to be missed.
How cool is this portable iPhone Solar Charger by Dexim? It can be flipped vertically or horizontally for hands-free viewing and can extend talk time up to eight hours. Solar P-Flip is expected to be released in a few months and should retail for USD79.90.
I don’t know how he does it, but Nicholas raised the bar again: the Feltron 2009 Annual report is out. To order a print edition of the 2009 report, click here. Hat tip off to Nicholas!
A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period that it lets you stop and take a breath but if you want to take a breath you ought to know yourself that you want to take a breath.
If you like my studio mate Jessica’s Daily Drop Cap and also love letterpress, then this brandnew limited edition print is a must have. Jessica brought one into the studio and it made me gasp! It is amazing! Jessica hand printed these two color letterpress posters at The Arm in Williamsburg and according to her stories it was The Most Painstaking Registration Process Ever. She actually ended up destroying her plates while trying to make it perfect, which means that this small first edition of 75 will also be the last edition. The prints are available trimmed or untrimmed from her store (she recommend trimmeds for mount framing and untrimmed for matte framing). They are printed on Crane’s 110lb Lettra and each is signed and numbered with the note “First and only edition”.
Start with the doorknob. Once you become a doorknob expert, you can move on to becoming a room expert, a door expert, a window expert. Make connections, and you can become an expert on how public spaces can foster community interaction, or how city design can alleviate congestion.
WORKSHOP, our fabulous new office neighbors built out their breathtaking studio space and are now ready to fill it with 4 more creative peeps! You?
Renting one of their desks means you will have the most jaw-dropping view of the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridge e-v-e-r and you will be part of a cool group of creatives here on the 6th floor of 10 Jay Street!
By becoming part of Suite606 for $500/month, you’ll get unlimited positive vibes and…
- Your own desk (approximately 6 feet long, which can seat two if you have someone working with you for a day)
- Your own window with your own incredible view
- Your own snazzy white chair
- Your own cabinet cubby
- Wifi
- Laser printer access
- Refrigerator/freezer access
- Vermi-compost bin access (should you want to feed our worms)
- A collaborative work environment with the socially responsible design team, WORKSHOP
- Next door neighbordom with studio612a (swissmiss studio)
Want to become our next door neighbor? Yes? Email WORKSHOP! (Yes, the images above are for real!)
Behance Outfitter premiered their new product line at last week’s CreativeMornings and boy are they awesome! The new products *just* went up on their site. Check them out:
Clever shaped microwaveable (?) cake moulds make up the component parts of retro digital figures, allowing you to make a cake shaped like any number, for any birthday… and we won’t tell anyone if you lick the spoon.
Nina pointed me to Crisis Commons, an organization that brings together professionals to create useful tools in times of need. They have been conducting something called CrisisCamp where people get together on a specific day to work on projects.
In their words:
“Crisis Camp is a gathering of technologists who come together to build platforms to assist with the releif efforts in Haiti.”
“We are an international network of professionals drawn together by a call to service. We are developers, specialists, communicators, first responders, project managers, and people who just want to help!”
Check on their site, top right corner, for upcoming CrisisCamp meet-ups in London, New York, Boston, Boulder/Devner, Los Angeles, Miami, Portland, Sillicon Valley and Washington DC.
A lot of people sort of twist their notebooks when they write in them, this Slant-Ruled Notebook by Matt Brown has lines that are at a 45 degree angle- good if you have to write in a tight spot, like on an airplane. Made me look.
The Zen Humidifier uses no electricity: Instead, water is drawn up through the wood and evaporated into the air. According to the designers — the Japanese firm Okada — this process evaporates water six times faster than if you left in in a glass. At that pace, it’d be quite effective.
NYC based Carbonmade offers one of the easiest ways to display and manage your portfolio online. What you get after uploading your designs is a clean canvas to show off your work. (Have a look at my portfolio as an example: swissmiss.carbonmade.com) Carbonmade’s user interface is extremely intuitive and humorous (ever logged into an account by pressing a mustache button?) Within minutes your portfolio is up and you don’t even need any HTML experience to do so. You can upload images, flash and even video. Carbonmade is being used by over 184,000 designers and artists worldwide.
Swissmiss is a design blog and studio run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a 'swiss designer gone NYC'. Contact me if you have a design project, a link suggestion or just want to say hello.
