Oh, so simple. Oh, so pretty. Cherry Wood Pencil Boxx.
simple cherry wood pencil box
made in bunch
Bunch decided that it was time to rework their corporate identity and based it around the overarching theme of ‘Made in Bunch’. Much of their work is predicated by the influences they as a collective of designers take from the world around them. So they thought they’d ask other designers how they see them and reflect this in their id. See the response. Inspiring!
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Tools for retaining creative knowledge in an advertising agency
Post by Tim Büsing, on the difficulties of retaining knowledge within creative and planning processes.
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Constructing the Grid of Penguin by Designers
Ministryoftype reconstructed the grid of “penguin by designers” cover.
Productivity & Organization Resources
Best of Mashable: Productivity & Organization
Lookybook | Picture books you can preview, share and talk about
Lookybook allows you to look at picture books in their entirety—from cover to cover, at your own pace. Not only can you share your comments about a particular book, you can share all your favorite books by creating and posting your Bookshelf. PLUS, you can embedd books, like I did with Sparkle and Spin above. This is fabulous! And oh how practical for when you’re traveling and can’t schlepp all your kid’s favorite books with you?!
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Mnml by Grant Hamilton
Nice policeman: What are you doing?
Me: Oh, hi! I’m just taking a picture of this sign.
Nice policeman: You can’t stand on a ladder on the side of a highway.
Me: Really? This will just take a second.
Nice policeman: No.
Me: But I…
Nice policeman: No.
Me: I…
Nice policeman: Now.
Mnml by Grant Hamilton
400 sticky notes.
Bardhi Haliti wrote down 400 things he wants to do in his life on stick notes. Apparently 80% or more are design related. A designer at heart?
christmas tree upside down
Christmas Tree upside down. Made me laugh.
napkin notebook
Napkin Notebook. Brilliant.
Childhood flashback of the day: EAV – Banküberfall
Don’t bother watching it if you didn’t grow up with the Erste Allgemeinen Verunsicherung. It’s completely nutty. Bringing back lots of ‘stonewashed_jeans+pink_lips+permed_hair-memories… Thank you Agnieszka!
oeuf scarf for trendy toddlers
Very stylish Oeuf scarf for little ones. $44 at thisisauto.com
Jewelry Pouch
These hand-stained, leather, circular pouches are ideal for keeping anything from jewelry to coins. $35 at this isauto.com
Corbis offers bloggers free photos, with ads
Corbis is going to let bloggers use their photos for free and embed an ad in it. According to this article, they’re also going to offer “bloggers the opportunity to earn ad revenue based on how many times Web users click on the images posted to their blogs, according to the Web site.
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Global Cities – Exhibition Design by Pentagram
A Time-Lapse film of the construction of the Global Cities exhbition at Tate Modern, from day one of the build to the first day of opening. Global cities was designed by Pentagram Design and curated by the Tate and Dr Richard Burdett
Comic Life
Comic Life 1.0.1 (), an amazingly clever app that lets you easily make comic book pages, or even an entire comic book, using your own images or drawings as panels. If you’ve ever used iPhoto’s Book feature, Comic Life is very similar except that all of Comic Book’s layouts look just like pages of a comic book.
Full article about Comic Life over on MacWorld
bored at work
Bored at work. Had me look and wonder. (“Boredeom” is such a foreign concept to me…)
what to do when the postman only delivers bills…
About 6 or something months ago I got really frustrated with my Postman—he only seemed to be bringing me bills—so I decided to do something about this. I got out my pen, dusted off the paper and wrote some letters to people. I just wanted people to think about writing more, and who better to ask than people who communicate for a living. So, optimistically, I wrote to designers the world over, and this is what they had to say… hand.written.letter.project.
This made me smile. Thank you, Craig. This would make a lovely book, you know, right?
Melissa and Doug Wooden Shape Sorting Clock
Wooden Shape Sorting Clock
vector magic
Need an image vectorized? Quickly? Try this amazing tool called Vector Magic. The tool converts bitmap images to vector art – it’s an online auto-tracer.Just upload your image and it will vectorize it for you. And in case you don’t know: Vector art is useful because it allows you to scale an image without making it blurry or pixelated.
(thank you for reminding me christina)
skitch | easy image sharing
Does anyone have an invite to skitch that you wouldn’t mind sharing with me? I’d love to give it a try. Thank you for the invite Eric L!
UPDATE: I have been playing around with this little app this afternoon and I am seriously impressed. What a fabulous tool! BUT, please, pleeeeeease do something about the branding. It’s so not representing the actual app.
Skitch = fabulous app but branding gone wrong.
(thank you Sean)
hot shot camera ring!
Camera Ring. Kitsch Alert? Yes, but FUN!