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Sorapot Art Contest

Joey Roth, creator of much beloved Sorapot started an art contest! I am happy to be one of the judges. Why don't you enter?

clapper

I have an obsession with hanging my clothes on a drying rack. I am not a dryer girl at all. Hence, I love this Clapper Drying Rack. If only it came with the backyard!

Open InDesign docs in the correct InDesign.

The cursing has already started. You've installed CS4, but most of your studio's active projects are still in InDesign CS3. Now each time you double-click on an InDesign CS3 document in the Mac Finder, it opens up in InDesign CS4.

InDesignProxy is a free utility that fixes this annoyance by working as a ’stand-in’ for InDesign. Drag any INDD file onto the InDesignProxy application, and it automatically opens your file in the correct version of InDesign.

Open InDesign docs in the correct InDesign.

Strawberries & Cream

Strawberries & Cream from Strawberry Earth on Vimeo.

(thanks bas de boer)

You have an event invitation...

Ibraheem Youssef sent me the above picture. Made me smile.

"booksetting"

Book as a block, block as a type = booksetting

Wooden Airport Play Set

This Wooden Airport Play Set made me laugh. A sign of our times? My generation played with Parking Garages, Ella will most probably go straight to Airports.

Wooden Panda

Wooden Animalz Panda.

Jeanne Riddle | Artist

Montreal artist Jeanie Riddle has a self-professed fixation on economy and exhausting potential in simple forms. Beautiful simplicity, no?

Silly Walks and Creative Ruts

Comic genius John Cleese sat down for an interview a few years ago and had a lot to say about creativity and the creative process. Silly Walks and Creative Ruts.

40+ Tutorials for Working with Wacom Tablets

This post features more than 40 Tutorials for woring with Wacom Tablets, including a number of video tutorials. Some deal with the basics of Wacom tablets and getting them setup correctly, while others demonstrate more advanced usage. 40+ Wacom Tutorials.

Age 10 to 60 - through Make-up & Photography

Vogue Paris had a interesting editorial featuring a series of photographs of the 20-years-old model Eniko Mihalik portrayed in the age of 10, 20, … 50, 60 respectively. Age 10 to 60 - through Make-up & Photography.

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa, Is there any chance I could convince you to drop a Nikon D90 through our chimney this year? Yes? Yes?

If I had a dog...

... this would be my "Travel Dog House" of choice.

happy holidays and safe travels

(image found here)

digital polaroids

The first of its kind - a digital camera and ZINK™ printer, all in one!

(via moopshop)

I *heart* improv everywhere.

Welcome Back from ImprovEverywhere on Vimeo.

(via colormekatie)

keeping track on how links are spreading

The anatomy of a viral campaign, by Royal Bacon. Curious to see how this list continues to grow.

The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway

The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway, by Paul Shaw

Herb and Dorothy

I agree with WoosterCollective; This is a move I am looking forward to seeing! You can learn more about Herb and Dorothy here.

requiem for a Tea Bag

Where Do tea bags go to die?. Usually squashed on the side of the saucer next to the cup, or if you have a little less decorum the table will probably be just fine. Jonas Trampedach has been observing the behaviour of tea drinkers and has evidently been learning a lot. Consequently he has developed a solution to the bag dilemma that is as simple as it is ingenious. With the ‘Tea bag Coffin’, the drinker can tidily bury the bag under the cup and out of the way. RIP.

Requiem for a Tea Bag

perspectives

While interviews traditionally present what people say, in Perspectives the interviewees don’t actually say anything. With the spoken portion of the footage edited out, Perspectives leaves only body language, pauses for thought, and interjections to do the communicating.

Typically people think of "content" only as what’s literally being said. The content of "Perspectives" is based on the idea that what’s not being said says something of its own.

Wonderful!

(via chrisglass)

I *heart* Marc Johns

Marc Johns. Big fan here.

Magnetic Dress-Up

The holidays are coming closer in big steps. And I have gift ideas for our little Ella are on my mind. I know she'd love these: Melissa and Doug Maggie Leigh Magnetic Dress-Up. The boy version,Joey, available as well.

oh those pretty colors!

Set of 13 hand blown colored shot glasses. The set is packaged in a long white rice paper box making it a beautiful gift. Hand made in Japan.

I like the Internet.

The header of made me smile. I agree. "Hi, my name is Tina and I like the internet."

Papercutoutalphabet rug

Papercutoutalphabet rug by Alan Fletcher

(via cribcandy)

stackthememory.com

so bad, it made me laugh: stackthememory.com.

seeing eye calendar

"Seeing Eye Calendar" by another swiss gone NYC; Stefanie Brechbuehler.

winter is coming, how do you feel about it?

Are you an Indifferent or Smilin' Snowman?

I Love You But...

I love you but... is a lovely project by Alex Holder and Ross Neil.

(via joanna/smitten)

Fifty People, One Question: New York

Fifty People, One Question: New York from Crush & Lovely on Vimeo.

I agree with Tim, I think this is a lovely question. This just totally put a smile on my face. (enter happy sigh here)

what a lovely name

What a Lovely Name is a web application that not only helps you generate a baby name based on tags — cute, wise, quirky — and a combination thereof but it also generates a (relatively) custom logo that you can then magically export to zazzle and get all kinds of merchandise.

(via quipsologies)

Season's Greeters

Season's Greeters.

Cubic Switchplate

Cubic Switchplate - Lightswitch by DesignGlut.

If Mac is like short skis, PC is like...

Here our metaphor begins to break down. Short skis really don't work as well at high speeds, for good skiers. But that's not necessarily true of short-ski computers. Currently, the Macintosh has only limited memory, but that's more of a financial consideration than a fundamental design problem. There's no reason the Mac can't get more powerful without losing its essential character. In fact, the Macintosh uses the power of a high-technology 68000 chip (the same that's inside many $20,000 computers) to make itself easier. It's inherently more powerful than the harder-to-use IBM PC, but its power makes things easier, not tougher, for the user. Incidentally, when I told Don Estridge, head of the IBM division that developed the PC, that the Mac was short skis, he thought for a moment, then said: "Yes, but tall people need long skis."

"The Mac On Skis", by Esther Dyson

(via tallmatters)

Koolman

Koolman by Kevin Cyr

bloggable?

A reader of mine got in touch and I couldn't help but notice this line in her signature:

The person you love....

Peter Horridge – 'The person you love . . .' Print.

Andrew Bannecker | Illustrator

Lovely shoe illustration by Andrew Bannecker