Hanger Tea by Soon Mo Kang. I agree with NarryLikes : Design that makes you smile and most likely drink more tea.
Food Rules
In Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual Michael Pollan offers an indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or cultural traditions. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat-buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect guide for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat. A pocket compendium of food wisdom-from the author of The The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.
Read an article about the guide over at the HuffingtonPost. Or enjoy an interview on Jon Stewart’s Daily show:
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Christmas Tree
Christmas Tree: Beautiful in the living room, Glorious in the street, a photo project by Gabriel Mauron. This is exactly why I am not getting a real christmas tree over the holidays. How do you explain the dumping on the street to a little one?
plunge into books
The Baleine bookmark by Atypyk.
foodpod
The Foodpod is a modern silicone cooking tool designed to save time when boiling, blanching or steaming by conveniently containing, removing and draining foods like eggs, veggies, shellfish and more in one easy-to-use vessel. Saves time and water when preparing a meal, keeps foods together for easy removal and even cooking and acts as a strainer, reserving the cooking liquid. Easily holds up to a dozen large eggs or several heads of broccoli. Built-in grip clip allows for convenient removal from water. Simply place foods in the Foodpod and put in water to cook. Lift from water, let drain. Remove and enjoy!
Quote on NYC
New York is the city where the future comes to rehearse.
—New York City Mayor Ed Koch at his third inaugural address, January 1, 1986
(via bobulate)
25 User Experience Videos
Smashing Magazine compiled 25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time
everything I have
SIMON EVANS
Everything I Have, 2008
Pen, paper, scotch tape, white out
60 1/4 X 40 1/8 inches
(via butdoesitfloat)
site inspire
SiteInspire.net is one of these sites I wish I would have come across a long time ago. What an amazing resource of design inspiration. Browse 1,414 websites by style, theme, and type, or view a random selection. Hat tip off to kulör, a London-based digital design, strategy, and development agency.
Hurry Up and Wait
GOOD asked some of the world’s most prominent futurists to explain why slowness might be as important to the future as speed: Hurry Up and Wait by Julian Bleecker
Doormat Scale
Doormat scale that measures your guests weight.
Question for my readers: Letterpress Studios
Two days ago I put out this tweet asking for Letterpress studio recommendations:
A lot of my twitter followers asked to share the responses I got. So here they are. Feel free to add more in comments below.
Studio On Fire, Minneapolis
The Mandate Press
Skylab Letterpress, Kansas City
Earl Kallemeyn, Brooklyn
Coeur Noir, Brooklyn
The Mandate Press, Salt Lake City
LetterPressLove, South Dakota
Brown Parcel Press, Athens and Brooklyn
Peter Kruty, Brooklyn
Gilah Press, Baltimore
Letterpress, Austin Texas
Cranky Pressman, Salem OH
Sideshowpress, Charleston South Carolina
Lead Graffiti, Newark Delaware
EM Letterpress, New Bedford MA
Precious Bugarin
Wolfe Editions, Portland Maine
Black Stone Press, Vancouver
Boxcar Press, Syracuse
Bowe House Press, Richmond VA
Pointed Press, Swarthmore PA
Two Paperdolls, Wayne PA
Kyle Van Horn, Baltimore
Cinnamon Kiss Paper Studio
Moontree Letterpress, Brooklyn
Haven Press Studio
Mamas Sauce
Clean Wash Letterpress
Lucky Duck Press
Night Lights
night lights from thesystemis on Vimeo.
In this installation YesYesNo teamed up with The Church, Inside Out Productions and Electric Canvas to turn the Auckland Ferry Building into an interactive playground. Their job was to create an installation that would go beyond merely projection on buildings and allow viewers to become performers, by taking their body movements and amplifying them 5 stories tall.
They used 3 different types of interaction – body interaction on the two stages, hand interaction above a light table, and phone interaction with the tracking of waving phones. There were 6 scenes, cycled every hour for the public.
Credits:
Interaction Design and Software:
YesYesNo — Joel Gethin Lewis, Zach Lieberman, Pete Hellicar, Kyle McDonald, Todd Vanderlin w/ Daito Manabe sound design
(thank you Zach)
Bouncy Hopper
Silver (!) Kids Retro Bouncy Hopper.
Baby Barolo Sleeping Bag
How comfy does this Baby Barolo Sleeping Bag look? (Only 6-7 more weeks until swissmister will be keeping me busy day and night. Yes, I am finally coming out of my denial and am getting the necessary items for the little man. No, this sleeping bag is not part of it, but one can always look. It sure looks cozy.)
Guerrilla Handbell Strikeforce
For Improv Everywhere’s latest mission, a 13-member handbell choir provided some unexpected accompaniment for a Salvation Army bell ringer on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Enjoy the video first and then go behind the scenes with their report. Made me smile.
Mini Boxes
The Mini Car Company made it look as if their small cars were delivered in a cardboard box, like a fridge or tv. After the holidays, these boxes were put out on the street to get picked up by garbage men. Made me smile.
(via creativecriminals)
Flip Clock Screensaver for Snow Leopard
Many of my readers keep asking me about the screensaver on my monitor on my about page. It’s the Flip Clock from 9031.com, which unfortunately doesn’t work in Snow Leopard. One of my readers, Richard Skinner, pointed me to who went ahead and built the same Screensaver but for Snow Leopard. Yay!
(thanks richard)
Dream CAPTCHA
If Native Americans Worried About Spam: Jeffrey Augustine’s Dream CAPTCHA. Made me laugh.
Slot Desk
The super-sleek Slot Desk by Jennifer Newman is made of welded steel top and aluminium and features de-mountable legs with unique access gap for plugs and wire management. A beauty.
(via designmilk)
CreativeMornings with Michael Bierut of Pentagram
How incredibly excited and honored am I to announce our January CreativeMornings speaker, Michael Bierut? (gasp!)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Prior to joining Pentagram in 1990 as a partner in the firm’s New York office, he worked for ten years at Vignelli Associates, ultimately as vice president of graphic design. His clients at Pentagram have included The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Harley-Davidson, The Minnesota Children’s Museum, The Walt Disney Company, Mohawk Paper Mills, Motorola, Princeton University, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the New York Jets.
Bierut’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal. He has served as president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1988 to 1990 and is president emeritus of AIGA National. Michael was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1989, and was elected to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2003. Michael is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art. He writes frequently about design and the co-editor of the four-volume series Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphicpublished by Allworth Press. In 1998 he co-edited and designed the monograph Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist. His commentaries about graphic design in everyday life can be heard nationally on the Public Radio International program “Studio 360.”
HOST
This month’s event will be hosted by the folks over at the amazing Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO. If you are not familiar with the space, get ready for a real treat. Also, this will be the first time ever there will be a bar (!) serving Mimosa’s and Bloody Marys. Yes, you read right! We are starting off the new year with a bang!
Interested in attending? Make sure to get your free ticket over on creativemornings.eventbrite.com quickly as we usually fill up fast. Please tell us your name and what industry you’re in. CreativeMornings start at 8.30am, end at 10am and are FREE of charge.
BREAKFAST SPONSORS
A big thank you to this month’s breakfast sponsors Blurb and Behance Outfitter.
At this month’s CreativeMorning Behance Outfitter will be celebrating the launch of a new line of yet-to-be-announced products, designed for productivity. I can’t wait to see what Scott and Matias came up with this time!
Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them. Blurb developed a creative publishing service simple and smart enough to make anyone an author – every blogger, cook, photographer, parent, traveler, poet, pet owner, marketer, everyone. (This means you.)
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Check out pictures of previous CreativeMornings over at Flickr.
View all the taped CreativeMorning talks we’ve put up on the web so far over at Vimeo.
CreativeMornings? ‘CreativeMornings’ is a monthly morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 10 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am. The whole thing closes down at 10am. The events are hosted at studios/gallery spaces in NYC. (We are always looking for potential hosts that are willing to accomodate 50+ people. Please email us if you’re interested in hosting or sponsoring one of our events!)
