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A big thank you to Voice Art Gallery for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed!

Looking for a unique gift idea for the holidays? Take a look at Voice Art Gallery! They create high quality giclee art from the sound of your voice. Yes, from your voice! Voice Art™ bridges the gap between sentiment and design. Since your voice is like a fingerprint each design is 100% unique and personalized. Voice Art Gallery’s groundbreaking technology makes it easy to create beautiful artwork that can motivate and inspire. See for yourself.

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A big thank you to Travel Hacking Cartel for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed!

What would you say if you could earn hundreds of thousands of Frequent Flyer miles… without getting on a plane. There is a service for that, it’s called Travel Hacking Cartel. When you become a travel hacker, you’ll start padding out your mileage accounts, then you’ll redeem them for high-value trips. The guy who started this service is Chris Guillebeau and trust me, he knows what he is talking about, as he is currently on a quest to visit *every* single country in the world.

Cartel membership is backed up by the World’s Greatest Guarantee: you’ll earn at least four free plane tickets for every year you remain a member.

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A big thank you to Houzz for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed!

It’s the Wikipedia of home design, the Flickr of design-idea sites, and the online equivalent of clipping photos from magazines. It’s Houzz — and it has quickly become our daily obsession. Photos? Browse 200,000+ gorgeous spaces and save your faves to an ideabook. Professionals? Search 25,000+ architects, interior designers, contractors and more. Information? Articles from design experts and a vibrant community are ready to solve your design dilemmas.

Best of all, you can get Houzz on your iPad or iPhone – and we can’t think of anything better to enjoy with our coffee on Sunday mornings.

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A big thank you to *emera for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed!

Women love their *emera camera bags because they’re tough, yet chic, right down to their little silver feet. These stylish bags hold and protect expensive equipment – DSLR, several lenses, iPad, cords and power supply gear, plus magazines, wallet, and a few more goodies. Oh, and they are customizable. (as shown in this video)

*emera camera bags are available in tote and messenger styles.

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A big thank you to Glennz Tees for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed!

T-shirts started as a hobby for New Zealand illustrator Glenn Jones, and now, just a few years later, he has a thriving online store based in Austin, Texas. Glennz Tees offers over 100 designs in men’s and women’s sizes, with a selection for kids and babies too.

Glennz Tees’ unique spin on pop culture has become a favorite in the worlds of geekery and technology not to mention anyone else who likes to add a bit of humor to their day. Keep up to date with regular tee releases, reductions and sales on twitter and facebook.

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A big thank you to Dia Art Foundation for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed!

Q: What do you get when you combine a restored 300,000 square foot Nabisco box printing factory with renowned artworks by some of the most influential artists of the last half century, and breathtaking views of the Hudson River?

A: Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, the home for Dia Art Foundation‘s acclaimed collection of artworks from the 1960s to the present, located in Beacon, NY—just a short train ride from Grand Central Terminal and a 7-minute walk from the station. In addition to its museum on the Hudson—where the galleries are illuminated almost entirely by natural light—Dia commissions, presents, and preserves site-specific, large-scale art projects across the country, many of which are among the art world’s best-kept secrets. To plan a getaway to any of Dia’s must-see destinations, or to learn more about its current programs and its thirty-seven year history of supporting artists most ambitious visions, visit www.diaart.org.

Personal sidenote: Dia:Beacon is one of my *favorite* places in the NYC area. It’s the perfect daytrip from NYC. And my favorite photo of Ella, my daughter, has been taken at Dia.

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A big thank you to Wazala! for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed.

Wazala is a slick, minimal and beautiful looking ecommerce store and shopping cart that allows you to sell physical or digital goods such as fonts, photos or music. You can create a store in minutes, then add it to your website, blog or even your facebook pages. It is that simple.

I am extremely intruiged by the fact that Wazala works as an overlay, which means your reader/potential customer won’t leave your site. If your customers are visiting on mobile devices, Wazala Touch provides a slick shopping experience both on the iPhone and Android devices.

If you are thinking about selling anything online you should consider Wazala!, just signup for a 15 day trial risk free.

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A big thank you to vespoe for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed!

Artists and designers unite! New York-based startup, vespoe, is a new marketplace pioneered by the alumni, faculty and students of art and design schools from all fields to build together a supportive, cross-disciplinary and global marketplace to sell their original works.

Find everything from art to furniture to fashion to jewelry to lighting to all things cool made in batches or as one-offs using 3d printers, hands, digital fabrication and other manufacturing methods.

Want to open up your vespoe shop for free? Ask for an invitation here.

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A big thank you to Brandbook for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed!

Everyone loves notebooks – especially designers. After all, notebooks are the best medium to keep hold of ideas. At Brandbook.de, designers can get their very own notebook edition produced and can choose between a wide range of different cover materials or even Japanese design paper. Brandbook is working for many international design- and advertising agencies, all well-known European brands.

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A big thank you to ConvertMyFlash for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

Attention Flash site owners, online service ConvertMyFlash can open up a HUGE new delicious piece of the market pie for you and help you rake in major $$$$ in just 72 hrs.

How? Flash Fact: Flash sites don’t show up well on the 5 BILLION smartphones and don’t show up at all on 200 Million iPads + iPhones out there. By magically setting you up with an HTML5 version of your site (powered by WordPress), the web wizards over at ConvertMyFlash make your site accessible on the mini screen and infectiously shareable on all social media sites. PLUS: the process can turn your site into a rankings queen on Google. With CMF, your site hits soar (learn more).

*All Swiss-Miss Subscribers get a 10% discount: Promo Code “SwissMiss10%”.
CMF also offers a White-Label option for agencies and freelancers + Affiliate 15% Program.

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A big thank you to ConvertMyFlash for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

Attention Flash site owners, online service ConvertMyFlash can open up a HUGE new delicious piece of the market pie for you and help you rake in major $$$$ in just 72 hrs.

How? Flash Fact: Flash sites don’t show up well on the 5 BILLION smartphones and don’t show up at all on 200 Million iPads + iPhones out there. By magically setting you up with an HTML5 version of your site (powered by WordPress), the web wizards over at ConvertMyFlash make your site accessible on the mini screen and infectiously shareable on all social media sites. PLUS: the process can turn your site into a rankings queen on Google. With CMF, your site hits soar (learn more).

*All Swiss-Miss Subscribers get a 10% discount: Promo Code “SwissMiss10%”.
CMF also offers a White-Label option for agencies and freelancers + Affiliate 15% Program.

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A big thank you to Expired Software for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

First thing designers pick up when inspiration strikes is pen and paper, to quickly sketch out the idea. But sharing sketches on paper is hard. That’s where ScratchBook comes in, a simple, straightforward, easy to use, sketching app for the Android tablets.

Got ideas? Sketch it and share it, right from the app via 37signals Campfire, Email, Dropbox, Evernote, Twitter and much more?

ScratchBook is available in the Android Marketplace and Amazon Appstore. Find out more at: www.expiredsw.com/scratchbook

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A big thank you to Typekit for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

Typekit is the easiest way to use real fonts on your website. Just copy and paste two lines of code, and you’re off: design just like you ordinarily would, and Typekit takes care of the rest. A huge library of high-quality fonts features the best of your old favorites (from Adobe, FontFont, and more), plus new classics from Mark Simonson, exljbris, Veer, and others. And, as our library expands, your subscription just gets better and better—the hardest part is deciding which font to use.

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A big thank you to App Press for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

App Press is the only web-based CMS tool that allows designers and developers to rapidly build quality iPad and iPhone apps, completely code-free. Simply upload custom images arranging each element in App Press and using your App Press app, instantly view your work on your iPad or iPhone. Customize your design with features including Read Mode, Page Share, Web Page Insert and Twitter Integration.

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A big thank you to Butter Lane for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

There’s a new swissmiss-approved cupcake shop in (Brooklyn) town. Butter Lane officially opened in Park Slope (240 7th Ave, between 4th and 5th) in June. What sets Butter Lane apart from the rest? Maybe it’s that they use high-quality ingredients like real vanilla beans, Callebaut chocolate, fresh fruit and no food coloring. Or is it the fact that one of the biggest debates the three owners ever had involved choosing the high-priced Mrs Eaves over the cost-free Garamond for their logo font? Regardless, the cupcakes taste great and the packaging is cute– what more do you need? Butter Lane… the Better Cupcake.

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A big thank you to Herman Miller for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

You know their furniture designs; they set the tone for mid-century modern and next-century cool. That makes them right for nearly any space. Most recently, Herman Miller has turned its savvy to creating great offices for small businesses. The focus is called the Herman Miller S3 program. Think hybrid sports car. Easy on the wallet because it’s a select group of easy-to-own products. Fun because it’s fast (“from idea to installation in about 20 days”). Worth a test drive. hermanmiller.com/s3

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A big thank you to German Ruempelstilzchen for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

Looking for that special item? Something useful, designy or a vintage gem?

Take a look at Ruempelstilzchen, a physical store in Bielefeld, Germany, and online destination for people loving to hunt for a vintage treasure. You might find an unusual desks, LEGO Storage Bricks or a bright red mushroom lamp.

Ruempelstilzchen offers you a wide range from antique to modern, vintage but also young European design, useful and useless, furniture, lamps, advertisement objects and much more. You will discover things, you never knew you would need.

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A big thank you to Fab for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

They’ve only been around for about a month and we already can’t imagine life without them. Every day Fab.com delivers a daily dose of design inspiration in our inboxes, not to mention amazing sales of up to 70% off on fresh designs we love. Just this week Fab.com is featuring sales on: vintage modern typewriters from Kasbah Moderne, furniture from Kartell, unique maps from Future Mapping, modern Spanish lighting from Fabbian Lighting, and stationary & jewelry from San Francisco’s Yellow Owl Workshop.

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A big thank you to Felt & Wire for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

Felt & Wire is about the universe of design, paper and print — from posters to packaging, from memorable mail to beautiful books, from invitations to artistic innovations. Felt & Wire reveals the fascinations, avocations and professions of the people who inhabit this continually expanding and evolving universe. It is a community, by and about those of us who are paper-obsessed.

Visit the Felt & Wire blog for daily, inspirational content and visit Felt & Wire Shop for limited edition posters, prints and artists books that you won’t find anywhere else.

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A big thank you to Herman Miller for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

You know their furniture designs; they set the tone for mid-century modern and next-century cool. That makes them right for nearly any space. Most recently, Herman Miller has turned its savvy to creating great offices for small businesses. The focus is called the Herman Miller S3 program. Think hybrid sports car. Easy on the wallet because it’s a select group of easy-to-own products. Fun because it’s fast (“from idea to installation in about 20 days”). Worth a test drive. hermanmiller.com/s3

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A big thank you to Finch Paper for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

It’s no secret that paper comes in all types—standard office supply store-issue, slick & coated, FSC® certified, and touch-worthy uncoated stocks of every weight, Finch Paper falls into the latter two categories. People who love Finch Paper tend to be graphic designers who appreciate beauty, both in terms of paper quality and budget friendliness.

Posters, stationery, brochures, they all have their own personality, but with the right paper they become works of art.

Order samples today. And check out the Finch Paper Blog!

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A big thank you to Nextness for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

Hover cars? Personal jetpacks? No one knows what’s around the corner. But these guys know what’s now and are spotting what’s next on their business and creativity blog, Nextness.

It’s run by STW Group, Australasia’s largest marketing, content and communications group made up of more than 70 specialist agencies. Their mix of think pieces and thoughtful curation make it a must-add to your RSS reader.

Their modest hope? In six months, a year, two years, their blog archives will function as a history of the future unfolding one day at a time.

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A big thank you to PHOSmade for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

Are you into stainless steel and/or German stuff? If so, you’ll love PHOSmade.com. They have just about every possible home-related item, all made from the very best hand-polished stainless steel (remember, Germans build really nice cars). And if you have an idea for some new creation or customization, good chance they can do that too. Visit PHOSmade.com and gain a whole new appreciation for German creations.

PHOSmade.com gets the swissmiss thumbs up!

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