I am constantly struggling with keeping up some of the basic staples at home. I was delighted to see that Amazon added a delivery subscriptions functionality. If you click through to these coffee pods or razor blades or dishwasher detergent you can subscribe to have them auto delivered at specific intervals. I agree with Jason over at 37signals, very smart retailing.
Amazon’s delivery subscriptions
street mining
street mining is pretty simple: once a month a bunch of people get together and go walk the streets of NYC. Each month is guided by a different person showing off their favorite gems. Anyone’s invited, so why not come exploring?
Next exploration: saturday, july 28th at 2pm
Subscribe on their site to learn more about upcoming expeditions.
slideshare
slideshare, the youtube of powerpoint.
(via urlgreyhot)
want to wear your coffee?
A perfect gift for the coffee lover friend: Coffee Bean Necklace or Coffee Bean Cufflinks
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mutatoes, a project by uli westphal
During my Berlin visit, two weeks ago, I came across a young artist called Uli Westphal. He had a stand at a farmers market at the Kollwitzplatz, but the produce he was showing looked awfully strange. It was the moment where I was introduced to the wonderfully strange world of Mutatoes: A collection of non-standard fruits, roots and vegetables found at Berlins Super-and Farmers Markets. Uli’s project serves to document and archive these last survivors of biological variety. View the mutatoes collection.
I am completely hooked! I truly hope Uli will sell posters of the collection overview.
iA webtrend map 2007
The 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. A new and improved copy of the Web Trend Map 2007. (YAY, swissmiss made it!)
Go to the clickable online version.
so, where’s that fold?
One of Michael’s posts pointed me to a really cool site called www.foldspy.com. All you need to do is sign up with an email address and url of the domain you want to check out. The site then gives you one line of code to insert into the site, once that’s in, it should give you a guideline as to what people are seeing when they land on a page. If you’re curious to see the function in action – Michael offers you to visit his foldspy implementation: http://designnotes.info/#foldspy
jennyholzer twitters
jenny holzer twitters. made me think.
(via designobserver)
Unclutterer mosquito solution
The unclutterer links to an interesting article on using plants as a mosquito repellent solution. G, worth looking into?
what’s for breakfast?
Breakfast Menu by Plan Toys. Hmm… I am hungry.
vitra panton junior chair
How incredibly cool is this Vitra Panton Junior Chair? What was financially unfeasible over 35 years ago is now possible: Vitra introduces the Panton Junior, whose production is based on the original plans of Verner Panton. Identical to the regular model with regard to material and shape, the Panton Junior is approximately 25 percent smaller and available in seven different colours.
round face male pillow
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Two swissmiss thumbs up to the Round Face Male Pillow. (Is the pillow-euphoria still going strong?)
How to Speak Fluent Lovey-Dovey…
The title of this book made me laugh: How to Speak Fluent Lovey-Dovey in 11 Languages in 24 Hours
Typewriter Ball Rings
Oh, I *love* these Typewriter Ball Rings. A lovely way to pay tribute to typewriters.
Typopgraphica’s Favorite Fonts of 2006
According to typographica.org at least 1,800 new commercial typefaces were released in 2006 alone. This count does not include freebies, custom and proprietary commissions, or even individual weights. Check typographica’s list of favorite fonts of 2006.
do you own a potato warmer?
So, tell me, do you own a potato warmer? If you live in Switzerland, your answer is probably yes. Here’s a very stylish one. Oh, my obsession with felt!
colorist | book
Kobayashi is apparently known as one of Japan’s leading authorities on color theory and psychology and has published numerous books on the subject. According to itsnicethat.com they’re all fantastic, if only for the particularly dry categories assigned to colors.
Get the Colorist
culture shock
Sometimes I wonder if the human race is really made for flying. I don’t think I am ‘here’ yet entirely. Parts of the ‘swissmiss-soul’ are still hanging somewhere over the Atlantic. But then again, it could just simply be a case of good-old culture shock.
you can’t teach talent…
“You can’t teach talent, but you can teach the skills to liberate it.”
– Daniel Weisinger, Junction Films
yoga – swiss style
This swiss yoga cow milk poster had me laugh out loud while driving though the swiss country side. My resepct to the marketing people over at the swiss milk association. You can download it (and two more hilarious images) here.
design within reach airstream
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An avid outdoorsman, Airstream founder Wally Byam married a woman who had little interest in the “adventure” of sleeping on the ground. When he built his bride a tent on a Ford Model T chassis that he could tow behind the car, marital bliss was restored. The project gave Byam an idea for a travel trailer that moved like a “stream of air” and in 1936, America got its first look at an Airstream.
Priced at $49,066, I realize that the Design Within Reach Airstream is way out of reach for most people, one has to have dreams. What a beauty
toy trolley
Simple and inexpensive Toy Trolley. Nice.
30+ AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins
Mashable compiled a list of 30+ AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins.
stylish melamine dry erase boards
I posted about these Melamine Dry Erase Boards before and just saw that the blue one is now on Sale.