NOOKA founder Matthew Waldman created a new product, called POTHRA a flower pot made out of used coffee grounds. Love the idea.
Check out the POTHRA Kickstarter!
Shopify Build-A-Business Competition Winners
Shopify just announced the five winners of this year’s Build-A-Business competition!
During the 8 months of this year’s Shopify competition, over 10,000 entrepreneurs created Shopify online stores that sold more than $55 million in products. The five businesses that sold the most over any two months of the competition each win a $50,000 US investment.
But not only that, the fine folks over at Shopify are also sending each of the winners on a trip to New York City to meet with the industry experts who served as mentors to the participants throughout the competition (Tim Ferriss, Daymond John, Eric Ries and moi).
I can’t wait to meet and hug Debbie Sterling, the winner of my category, Art & Design! Debbie is a female engineer from Stanford University and created GoldieBlox, a construction toy that encourages young girls to get into engineering, develop spatial skills and hone problem-solving abilities. What’s not to like?
The other four category winners are: Freshtops, Game Klip, SinnyMe Tea and Canadian Icons.
Congratulations to all the winners! And congrats to team Shopify for making this comeptition happen! I am honored to have gone from winner to mentor! Yay, for e-commerce! Yay internet!
Read about the competition over on the Shopify blog.
(A year ago, the phone rang at Tattly HQs and Shopify’s CPO, Harley Finkelstein, told us that we won the Shopify competition in our category! Oh, the memories!)
Happiness
“Happiness is making what you wish existed!”
- Execute Book
A Visual Compendium of Cameras
The Visual Compendium of Cameras is a meticulously illustrated catalog of 100 landmark cameras, culled from over a century of photographic history. A beauty.
(via explore)
Rain Room coming to NYC
I am incredibly excited that Wayne McGregor’s Rain Room is coming to NYC.
(via Jer)
Accomplish Something
“Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.”
- Thomas A. Edison
Leather Card Case
These leather card cases are beautiful. I would definitely use these to give my business cards a home.
Like Knows Like: Lisa Congdon
What a lovely short feature on the very talented Lisa Congdon.
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You don’t have to pander
“Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste.”
- Seth Godin
You don’t have to pander, by Seth Godin
Units of Measure Poster
I just received one of these stunning ACRE Units of Measure Calendar Posters in the mail. It beautifully features traditional units of measure like degree celsius, kilogram and hectare as well as less well-known units of measure like astronomical unit, decibel and aperture.
Wringing A Wet Towel In Space
I guess, dropping the mic is not really an option in space, huh?
(via Business Insider)
CableKeeps
YES! YES! YES! CableKeeps secure your USB docking cable to your iPhone, iPod or iPad power adaptor for neat and tidy storage.
History
«Reporters no longer control the first draft of history.»
When Everyone is an Eye-Witness, What is a Journalist?, by Mark Little
(via David Bauer)
The Last Bookshop
The Last Bookshop short film by Richard Dadd and Dan Fryer imagines a world in which only one bookstore survives.
(via explore)
Be Kind
“Being kind isn’t always easy. Or convenient. But it has the potential to change everything.”
- Cap Watkins
Be Kind, by Cap Watkins
The Death of Upcoming.org
“In hindsight, selling Upcoming to Yahoo was a horrible mistake. Selling your company always means sacrificing control and risking its fate, and as we now know, online communities almost always fail after acquisition. (YouTube is the rare exception, albeit one with billion-dollar momentum.) But Yahoo was a particularly horrible steward for the community.”
- Andy Baio
Read Andy’s full post, The Death of Upcoming.org
Lunch Bag Gone Art Work
David Laferriere has been drawing illustrations on his kid’s sandwich bags since 2008. While he won’t win the go-green award, he sure deserves the creative dad of the year award. Made me smile! Make sure to see the entire Flickr set.
(thanks Keef)
Old School Ruler Growth Chart
I absolutely love this old-school ruler growth chart by Little River Designs.
Friday Link Pack
- Two Promising Places to Live, 1,200 Light-Years From Earth.
- How wonderful is this 1940s Coney Island amusement park ride car?
- These birdhouses, connected to your Twitter account, called #Flock are all kinds of adorable. Developed by Berg.
- Parents, what would you say if there was an app that lets your kid be more involved in what they’ll find in their lunch box? Sounds good, right? Check out LaLa Lunchbox.
- I am ridiculously excited to be part of the Do Lectures this September in California.
- Kim Perfetto is quite an in impressive female NYC bike messenger.
- Wish this woodcut print was a bit more affordable.
- Dove compared women’s self-image with how others see them. Beautiful.
- How to talk about books you haven’t read — and why non-reading is an intellectual choice on par with reading.
- White Unicorn Horn Hair Clip. Of course.
- This is a pretty sexy bike if you ask me.
- Nine cultural innovators pay tribute to their greatest inspiration: Their Mothers
- How to Make Crunchy Caramel Popcorn
- Jonnie and I presented the neux TeuxDeux at the most recent New York Tech Meetup. Our presentation starts at 1:11:58.
- The United States has a problem with income inequality. And it’s particularly bad in New York City—according to recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau,
- Heart Studs.
- Watch Erik Spiekermann’s TYPO SF Talk. Lots of strong language, but hey, it’s Spiekermann. (via @Fontblog)
- SnObama, a blog entirely dedicated to images of President Obama eating snow cones, curated by Morgan Ruby.
- The fine folks of ICON Worldwide are looking for a Web Design Intern in Switzerland, the beautiful area of Appenzell, I am from.
Download Gmail Message App
Merlin Mann built an email app that only lets you *send* email, not read them. It directs you straight to Gmail’s “Compose Message” window in a new tab of your default browser.
Set it as your Mac’s default email app and—BOOM!—every time OS X needs to create an email message, you get to just send email without having to look at email.
Brilliant.
(via 99u)
The YogoMat
The YogoMat is an eco-friendly yoga mat that folds and secures to fit in bags and purses and is easy to clean. Best of all, it’s 100% recyclable.
