Eye-catching Wood Veneer Magnet Boards. Nice.
seven animals puzzle
I am completely in love with this “Seven Animals Puzzle“. What a great gift for the designy parent.
clothes tree for kids
clothes tree for kids
Dreamed chandelier
Dreamed chandelier, a wallpainting by atelierbbb.
swissmiss heading south…
swissmiss will be heading down to Knoxville early next week for a client meeting. So, what should a design afficionado like me try to see while in Knoxville?
nicholas manion
Set of paper sculptures on various countries currency by Designer Nicholas Manion.
(via itsnicethat)
airplane traces
»Reykjavik, Kingston, Toulouse, Amsterdam, Algiers« and »Tehran, Vancouver, Berlin« by Robert Davies.
(via vvork)
Permit May Be Required For Public Photography in NYC
New York City is planning to mandate photography permits and a minimum $1 million liability insurance for photographers who shoot with one other person on any city sidewalk or street location for 30 minutes or more, or ten minutes for those with a tripod and five people.
Public comments are being accepted on the City’s Film, Theatre and Broadcasting website until August 3rd. I would encourage people to mention the negative effect this will have on NY’s economy, as well as the embarrassment it will bring to the agency in question (and it’s leadership) when the courts declare it unconstitutional.”
Visit Slashdot for more on this story.
(via photoshopsupport)
last august slot anyone?
Who wants the last August slot in The Deck, our targeted ad network? Ads appear on
A List Apart,
Daring Fireball,
37signals,
Waxy.org,
YayHooray!,
The Morning News,
Design Observer,
Kottke.org,
IconBuffet,
Helvetica: The Film,
Computerlove,
Vitamin,
Fortuitous,
Zeldman,
Subtraction,
Airbag,
Coudal
and swissmiss.
Caffeine for the Creative Mind
I just added Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain
Remove unwanted people from public photos.
This tip comes in handy for graphic designers who need a quick way to get pedestrian-free photographs of their signage or environmental projects. There is a classic digital photography technique for removing unwanted people: Take several shots of the same scene using a tripod — then layer those photos in Photoshop. People move around between shots, so you can use parts of one photo to erase an unwanted person from another. A good tutorial is available for this technique: How to remove tourists from your photos.
Creativetechs‘ twist is to use Photoshop CS3’s improved Photomerge feature to automate this task. Simply shoot a collection of photos, erase the unwanted people in Photoshop, and let Photomerge stitch together a finished image.
Surfin Coffee Table
The Surfin Coffee Table is constructed from just three pieces of environmentally friendly SmartWood® and it apparently assembles in minutes. No tools needed! Also available in yellow and black. Love it.
A two-minute animated introduction to typography
A two-minute animated introduction to typography created by Vancouver Film School students Ryan Uhrich and Marcos Ceravolo.
(via designobserver)
The Little Know-It-All: Common Sense for Designers
What is a Meta-Tag? What kind of measurement is DIN A1? What kind of clearance and documents do you need before using copyrighted material? An interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of design is practically requisite these days with the integration and crossover of evolving media.
This book is divided into sections explicating unique vocabulary used in design, printing, typography and photography and includes helpful tips and concise analysis in contiguous areas such as advertising, multimedia, business, copyright and project management. It is structured thematically and equipped with a resourceful index that references numerous sources and links.
The Little Know-It-All: Common Sense for Designers
(via NOTCOT)
BananAlbum | web album tool
Simple and beautiful web album tool: BananAlbum
Maeda on client work
I used to dislike it when a client asked me to do something similar to a previous work. Now I am no longer bothered. It’s much simpler to know what they actually want. Everyone saves time in the end.
(via weightshift)
There are 12 Kinds of Ads in the World
Slate presents Donald Gunn’s list of the twelve types of ads. Read the accompanying article (by Seth Stevenson) here.
(via hello.bauldoff)
bob books
Bob Books are swiss made and feature a specially pantented system of gluing the books open flat to facilitate double page display and durability. Their technology even allows you to design and customize your own hardback cover. (If they are based in Switzerland, why do they have a .co.uk url?, I wonder…)
swissmiss enthused about a toothbrush.
I just brushed my teeth with a Colgate 360
It has a good grip, and its interdental bristles and polishing cups feel like they really do their job. The cheek and tongue cleaner is the feature that won me over, it really felt as if I got a ‘whole mouth cleansing’.
I give this tootbrush two swissmiss thumbs up, all around, but oh boy, the Colgate website is making me cringe.
Order a Colgate 360