I wouldn’t mind owning one of these customizable calendar stamps by Mizushima.
(via bekka)
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.
How To Work With Creative People
How To Work With Creative People is a growing archive of advice and thoughts on how to best work with creative people. A wonderful project by Amrit Richmond.
Ride The City
Ride the City helps you find safe bike routes in cities. At this point their service includes various US, French, Spanish, Australian and Canadian cities. Ride the City finds the shortest and safest distance between two points, avoiding roads that aren’t meant for biking. Fantastic resource!
(Thanks Chris)
Throw & Grow Confetti
Throw & Grow is eco-friendly confetti that grows into wildflowers. Woah!
Perks
Perks.io pulls all job perks currently listed over on Authentic Jobs. Love this.
Twitter Music
Twitter finally launched its much-anticipated Music App. It lets you see what music is trending, emerging and find new music from artists you follow. Smart.
Explosion of Creativity
“The internet has resulted in the biggest explosion of creativity in history.”
— Andy Baio
Watch Andy’s CreativeMornings talk.
Zachary Smith
Who’s with me that these designs by Zachary Smith would make fab Tattly temporary tattoos?
Hand-painted Saw
This hand-drawn saw by Zachary Smith is a beauty. Jude Landry is the lucky owner.
Hopscotch | Coding for Kids
Hopscotch is a brand new iPad app that teaches kids coding. It allows them to create an interactive program on the iPad by dragging blocks of code and dropping them into a scripting area. No typing required. Beautifully designed! This makes me so happy! Can’t wait to try this with my daughter tonight!
Painted iPad Sleeves
These Painted iPad Sleeves, by Mrs. Jermyn made me look. Fun idea.
/Purpose
The fine folks of Fictive Kin created slashpurpose.org. They believe that the world would be a better place if the people trying to shape it spoke openly and plainly about their vision for the future.
The Fictive Kin guys think a fine place to do that is on your own /purpose page, to share the “why” behind your “what”. Like this! yourlovelysite.com/purpose.
Sharing your purpose means being explicit about the place you ultimately want to take people and about the metrics you use for measuring success.
I am determined to create a /purpose for CreativeMornings and Tattly. We already have one for TeuxDeux. Thanks for the inspiration, Fictive Kin.
What’s your /purpose?
Loyalty
“Too often a sense of loyalty depends on admiration, and if we can’t admire, it is difficult to be loyal.”
- Aimee Buchanan
Open Switzerland
I stumbled upon Open Switzerland, a project that examines just how open Switzerland is to the outside world. Is it open or does it remain the walled fortress of Europe?
Open Switzerland is a conceptual design project by GVA Studio and BaseGVA. Go create your own poster!
Wish they would let us upload our own images. Or am I missing that feature? I have so many photos that celebrate all things Swiss. But I understand that allowing just any photo to be uploaded opens a can of worms…
Le Phant
Le Phant Elephant, by the talented Greg Pizzoli. Wrooommmm. Wroooommm.
Radar Sconce
The Radar Sconce, a lamp by Schoolhouse Electric.
Space
Ever think about space? Space is the Place.
Hope
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
- Dalai Lama
