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PINCH is a slipcast porcelain salt and pepper set which brings the experience of adding ‘a pinch of salt’ to the dining table. The bottom vessel is filled with salt and acts as a tabletop salt cellar, and the top sphere is a traditional pepper shaker, filled through a corked opening in the bottom. The curved opening in the cellar accepts the shaker, which acts as a cover when not in use. The act of ‘closing’ PINCH results in the satisfying slide of two pieces of ceramic against each other–a viscerally pleasing interaction that is reminiscent of using a ceramic mortar and pestle.

(thank you jolayne)

tree hanger

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Love this tree hanger from designer Harald Hynel.

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‘average rainfall in the UK’ poster

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David of UK based design company Accept & Proceed pointed me to their fabulous A1 hand printed diagrams, the latest being a graphic diagram that charts average rainfall in the UK between 1971-2000. As you can see on the image above, the graph itself is styled to look a little like a downpour of rain. The bars are plotted directly over the weather station’s that they related to, which also gives an abstracted map of the UK.

This (and other amazing) posters are available through Blanka

quad

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Quad by Nauris Kalinauskas (what a cool first name!)

mixit cd envelopes

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I like these simple mixit cd envelopes.

prost.

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Salud… kampai, à votre santé, le’chaim, prost, cheers. Six handblown glasses raise spirits in a half-dozen world languages expressed in graphic red, black, silver. cheers wine glasses

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doorman.

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Doorman Doormat for the urban dweller without an actual doorman.

goodbye fruit bowl. hello fruit stack.

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Not necessarily practical (what if you want that pear on the very bottom) but at least space saving and different. Hello there Fruit Stack.

folio charging station

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folio charging station

this is what my desk looks like:

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WE LOVE TO BUILD™ isolated communities

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view it here.

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magazine tote

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What a beauty of a faux-leather magazine tote.

The 5, 10, 20 year plan

Just as we don’t believe in functional specs for software, we don’t believe in functional specs for companies. Planning it all out beforehand puts too much faith in the unknown. You know more about something while you’re doing it than before you’ve started. Just as we don’t much about the product we’re going to build before we build it, we don’t know much about the business opportunities before they happen. Books, plans, and documents may tell you how things should be, but only real experience tells you how things really are.

The 5, 10, 20 year plan

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aaron jasinski | artist illustrator musician

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Beautifully designed portfolio of multitalent Aaron Jasinski.

cooking lesson for designers

cooking lesson for designers

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advanced photoshop tutorials

60 advanced photoshop tutorials

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Paula Scher Designs Templates for Download from HP

Hewlett-Packard launches a new website featuring Paula Scher, Jake Burton and Gwen Stefani as part of its $300 million Print 2.0 campaign designed to inspire and empower customers with free customizable, printable content.

“No template is a substitute for hiring a professional designer,” warns Scher, and indeed at Scher’s suggestion the HP site includes a prominent link to the AIGA designer directory. “But at the very least, I hope we can stop a few innocent people out there from using Comic Sans.”

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The themes of the five HP business templates Scher designed.

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it doesn’t matter what you think

Some design wisdom from Milton Glaser:

“Last year someone gave me a charming book by Roger Rosenblatt called ‘Ageing Gracefully’. I got it on my birthday. I did not appreciate the title at the time but it contains a series of rules for ageing gracefully. The first rule is the best. Rule number one is that ‘it doesn’t matter.’ ‘It doesn’t matter what you think. Follow this rule and it will add decades to your life. It does not matter if you are late or early, if you are here or there, if you said it or didn’t say it, if you are clever or if you were stupid. If you were having a bad hair day or a no hair day or if your boss looks at you cockeyed or your boyfriend or girlfriend looks at you cockeyed, if you are cockeyed. If you don’t get that promotion or prize or house or if you do – it doesn’t matter.’ Wisdom at last.

(via monoscope)

feeling guilty ordering steak?

The biggest animal rights groups do not always overlap in their missions, but now they have coalesced around a message that eating meat is worse for the environment than driving. They and smaller groups have started advertising campaigns that try to equate vegetarianism with curbing greenhouse gases.

Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change

Library for Interaction Design

A Pattern Library for Interaction Design

Zurich’s Walker creates world’s fastest poster campaign.

When relatively unknown Swiss printing company Maxiprint wanted to prove it was the fastest printer in the world, Zurich-based agency Walker took up the challenge. more here

success | quote

“Success is moving from one venture failure to another one without losing enthusiasm.”

– Sir Winston Churchill

louise blanche

Elephant

elephant sweat-shirt, by louise blanche

(thank you angelo)