The Sheep Market: 10,000 sheep created by online workers.
(via MUG)
thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com
Stefan Sagmeister had an AIGA talk last night which I planned to attend but then couldn’t. Boo. I heard it was truly inspiring. Apparently Stephan created a website with a blog where other people uploaded more “Things I have Learned” type treatments. Check it out here.
good 50×70 – the project that helps social communication
If you ask most people, they’ll say that advertising, and the communications industry as a whole, sells people things they don’t need and can’t afford. It might be occasionally entertaining, but by and large it’s fundamentally wrong and unnecessary. As we work in it, we’d prefer to focus on the positive side. The communications industry is also the best in the world at grabbing people’s attention and getting them to act on what we say.
The aim of Good 50×70 is to use these skills to highlight more important things than beer and trainers. It’s a competition to raise awareness amongst the creative community of the power we have to be a force for good. There are 7 briefs from 7 charities on 7 issues that affect thousands of people around the world. All you have to do is pick a topic that inspires you and submit a poster on that theme. 210 posters (30 from each brief) will be selected by our jury of leading designers and exhibited around the world and published in a catalogue,but more importantly they’ll be presented to the charities for their use as a potential campaign.
Even if you create communication tools every day, this time your poster might really have a positive impact on thousands of lives. It’s time for our industry to give us something back.
Good 50×70 is open for entries from February the 18th, 2008. The entries close on midnight April the 20th, 2008. For more information please visit Good 50×70.
NYTE – new york talk exchange
New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world.
In an information age, telecommunications such as the Internet and the telephone bind people across space by eviscerating the constraints of distance. To reveal the relationships that New Yorkers have with the rest of the world, New York Talk Exchange asks: How does the city of New York connect to other cities? With which cities does New York have the strongest ties and how do these relationships shift with time? How does the rest of the world reach into the neighborhoods of New York?
NYTE on exibition at
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Design and Elastic Mind
February 24th – May 12th 2008
(thank you matthew)
smarties rug
Smarties rug : Nepalese 60 Knot Tibetan wool. Me want! Me want!
Polaroid Photography of Grant Hamilton
DesignCommission presents: Polaroid Photography of Grant Hamilton on March 6th 6-9 P.M. Using a 1975 Polaroid SX- 70 camera, Iowa City-based photographer Grant Hamilton creates one-of-a-kind original photographs from found objects and colors. His subjects are often details of mundane objects like trucks or signs which reveal unexpected areas of quiet in a sea of visual clutter.
I found Grant through Flickr, quite some time ago and am completely in love with his aesthetics. So happy to see that Seattle based DesignCommission is showing his work. I would *love* one of those big prints above… Oh my!
simplicity in a t-shirt: the kreis
Simplicity rules. On so many levels. Love this tee: The Kreis.
Mercury retrograde ends today
Mercury retrograde ends today. Thank god. Resume new projects, purchase major appliances and get married where legal. Mercury retrograde: January 28 – February 19, 2008
(via chrisglass)
rumplo, a place for tshirts
Sahadeva and Crew just emailed me about their latest project called Rumplo. It’s a website hat makes it easy to find t-shirts from around the world. If you’re into typography, for example, you might enjoy browsing tees tagged with “type”. You could also submit some of your favorite shirts from around the web and send your friends a link to your submission page, so whenever you post something new your friends or fans would know, sort of like your own little t-shirt blog. If you just want to see what’s popular you can browse the front page tees.
quote by le corbusier
“A house is a machine for living.”
– Le Corbusier
Green Basics: Carbon Footprint
This post over on Treehugger helps you understand the Carbon Footprint. Green Basics: Carbon Footprint, by Collin Dun, provides a couple of ideas on how to reduce yours.
TV easel
With the form of a traditional painter’s easel, the freestanding TV-rack on wheels is prefect for the open spaces often found in modern apartments. It is optimized for TV-sizes between 32-47” and it is adjustable in both height and angle. Material is solid wood, natural or lacquered.
my paper mind
(via unfolded)
beautiful losers
(via unfolded)
napkin catch placemats
Napkin Catch Placemats: With this placemat, you will never lose those napkin rings again: a holder is cut right out of the mat. Pop the attached ring out of the mat and interlock around the napkin, then tuck safely back in foreasy storage. Material: Black rubber is 100% recycled tires. Colored rubber is 30% post-industrial waste. Note: black rubber gives off slight rubber odor. 18″ x 12
(via girl in the green dress)
Monochromatic New Yorkers
Lovely Joanna wrote this article for New York Magazine about five New Yorkers who dress exclusively in one color. Fantastic!
Sharp Shootin’ Remote Gun Shaped TV Remote
This is the only gun that would ever be allowed to enter my home: Sharp Shootin’ Remote Gun Shaped TV Remote
(via neuerdings)
dottie dress and cap
I have featured this amazing dottie dress before. Enfant Terrible just came out with bigger sizes (hooray, as Ella is outgrowing hers) PLUS they now offer a reversible summer cap in the same fabric. Hoooray!
camera onesie
I am constantly running around with a camera in my hands. Chances are high our little Ella will soon enough have her own. But for now, I might settle for this awesome Camera Onesie!