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Book Cover Disguise for Your Wireless Router
Here’s a fab tutorial on how to make a Book Cover Disguise for your wireless router.
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On Building Robots
“You just don’t say no when somebody says ‘Let’s quit our jobs and make robots’!” - Bre Pettis Quote by the CEO of Makerbot, Bre Pettis, during last week’s CreativeMornings talk.
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Memory Bank
There’s not many things that make me squeal, but this Memory Bank did, when I discovered it at this year’s ICFF. It’s a piggy bank designed to save items of emotional value instead of financial value, like ticket stubs...
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Monsters!
(Big thanks to our Swedish model Joseph) It’s Tattly Tuesday and that means we just launched new designs: Check out these adorable Fake Monsters by Dutch Designer Anke Van Der Meer. And have a glance at today’s Tattly Hack....
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Thingiverse
Assume you’d own a Makerbot 3D Printer, then Thingiverse would be your playground: It’s an online community sharing digital designs for real, physical objects: A universe of things!
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Complaining
“Complaining is stupid. Either act or forget.” - Stefan Sagmeister From: Things I have learned in my life so far (thanks Rusty)
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UberConference
This. Looks. Promising: UberConference.
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♥ / Bigstock
A big thank you to Bigstock for yet again sponsoring another week of my RSS Feed. A big thank you to Bigstock for yet again sponsoring another week of my RSS Feed. With a collection of over 11 million royalty free images at affordable p...
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Friday Link Pack
A Spacesuit Ballet - The New York Times shares refreshing Wine Spritzers for this upcoming long weekend. (via @onehungrymama) - How To Customize The WordPress Admin Easily - Geek Alert: Turn your MacBook eject key into a rimshot button ...
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Dancing on the edge of finished
“Facing a sea of infinity, it’s easy to despair, sure that you will never reach dry land, never have the sense of accomplishment of saying, “I’m done.” At the same time, to be finished, done, complete–...
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in.gredients
In.gredients is a new package-free grocery store that is opening in Austin, Texas in the Summer of 2012. Its mission as the US’s first zero-waste, package-free grocery store will support local businesses and farmers, will sell based on ...
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Mason Jar Drink Dispenser
This Mason Jar Drink Dispenser gets my two thumbs up. Summer! #wishlisted
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Chalkboard Tablets
These Etsy Chalkboard Tablets are wonderfully charming, in an old-school way. (via cielbleu)
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REEL
Reel by Yeongkeun Jeong creates some (unusual) bike storage in the main triangle of your bike. Wow!
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Frank Chimero takes Australia
Hey Australia, my fab studiomate Frank Chimero is coming to your neck of the woods this June. Make sure to grab a ticket for one of his talks in Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney. More info over on portable.tv Lucky Ducks! Oh, and, buy his ...
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My iPhone = My Camera
Let’s admit it, you take most of our photos with your iphones these days, right? So, why don’t we then all put a case around it that will make it look like a camera? That’s exactly what SNAP! does. I realize, this is ...
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Wanderlust
My friends over at the Heads of State just launched a sweet new project that will appeal to everyone that has ever experienced a serious case of Wanderlust. Pilot & Captain is about the good old days of planes, trains, and discove...
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Eau Good
I noticed Eau Good, a water bottle with an integrated filtering system, at ICFF. Binchotan (the filtering material inside the bottle) reduces chlorine, mineralises the water and balances the pH. It can be used for up to 6 months and am...
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9 Deadliest Startup Sins
1. Assuming you know what the customer wants 2. The “I know what features to build” flaw 3. Focusing on the launch date 4. Emphasizing execution instead of testing, learning, and iteration 5. Writing a business plan that doesn’t allow fo...
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Self-Respect
Self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth. - Joan Didion (via explore)
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Flat Vernacular
My personal highlight of this year’s ICFF was meeting the folks behind Flat Vernacular. They are a Brooklyn-based design company that specializes in original hand-drawn, hand-printed wallpapers. At ICFF they showed me their brand-...
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whisper
A whisper in a quiet room is all you need. - Seth Godin (Ranking for signal to noise ratio, by Seth Godin)
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Invisible Dog Song
One of my favorite places in my Brooklyn neighborhood, The Invisible Dog Art Space now has a song thanks to Jonathan Mann. Lucien Zayan must have been smiling all day as I was able to spot a rainbow over the Invisible Dog from my house...
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Readlists
A Readlist is a group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything —bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone. It’s the latest, brand new, Arc90 lab experiment, powered by Readability. This...
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Miles Davis
Lovely new Aesthetic Apparatus print: Miles Davis
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Purpose
“When launching a new [digital] product, let’s focus more on discussing its PURPOSE and less UI details and features.” - Fictive Cameron
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Key Hiding Rock
This might be my new favorite housewarming gift for my friends moving to the suburbs: Key Hiding Rock.
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Number Mugs
Number Mugs. I am all for #8!
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DIY
DIY just added the explore stream which makes me want to go home and make something with my kids asap. Kids crafts/art is the best.
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Courtesy Table
Photo by Wim de Leeuw The Courtesy Table by the Dutch designer Marleen Jansen is low on the practicality scale but wins lots of points for its entertainment and sculptural factor. (via kidsroomzoom)
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8-bit Zelda Fireplace Art
Made me smile: 8-bit Zelda Fireplace Art.
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Magnetic Hammer
This magnetic hammer design by Jung Soo Park is brilliant. Watch a video here. (via Design Milk)
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Regret
“If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not ...
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Concrete Wallpaper
Not sure what to think of this concrete wallpaper by Dutch designer Piet Boon. I’d definitely would love to see it in person.
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YouTube Time
YouTube Time allows you to link to a specific part of a YouTube video. Neat. (via shoeboxdwelling)
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Selected Data Visualization Tools
The fine folks of data visualization.ch put together a selection of data visualization tools that they use the most and that they enjoy working with. It includes libraries for plotting data on maps, frameworks for creating charts, graph...
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12 year old explains national debt
In this video, 12-year old Victoria Grant explains why her homeland, Canada, and most of the world, is in debt. (via explore)
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♥ / Wazala!™
A big thank you to Wazala! for yet again sponsoring another week of my RSS Feed. Wazala is a slick, minimal and beautiful looking ecommerce store and shopping cart that allows you to sell physical or digital goods such as fonts, photos o...
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Friday Link Pack
(via inspivids) - Love these Anti Portraits - Pretzel Pool Float. Yup. - CardFlick makes Business Cards a thing of the past. Take them digital. YES! - Tali Sharot: The Optimism Bias - Wall mounted clips. - Push to add drama. - Pictor...
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Pickle Bottle Stopper
This Pickle Bottle Stopper made me smile. I believe in the world needing a good dose of silly.
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Advice from Rob Giampietro
Advice by Rob Giampietro to designers getting ready to start their own studio: 1. An untended garden quickly becomes a field: plant what you want to grow. 2. Have partners, but don’t do the same things: make sure you both do something yo...
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Bodies of Water
These Body of Water illustrations by Tamsyn Mystkowski made me giggle. (via Hamilton Hughes)
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Jim Henson Tribute
The Muppets pay tribute to their creator, Jim Henson, who passed away 22 years ago this week. (via explore)
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Nourishing Habits for Nourishing Design
Wonderful talk by Craig Mod on how great design is born from nourishing habits. The best designer is an aware designer. The best design solutions are found by deconstructing problems as they arise in our own lives. What habits can we a...
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Organized Wonder
Organized Wonder is a new way to share and discover the best talks, documentaries, interviews, short films and various other videos scattered across the web. Fantastic! You can follow my collection here.
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David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence
Absolutely wonderful TED talk by David Kelley, founder of IDEO, in which he is telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, offering ways to build the confidence to create.
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Brainwashed
“When exactly were you brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?” - Seth Godin, Brainwashed
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Sombrerou Dish
This Mexican sombrero looking snack dish cleverly solves the Olive pit problem…
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Diamond Brooch
Diamond Brooch by LOTOCOHO. Gasp. #wishlisted
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Blime Light
I had the pleasure to see Alvaro Soto demonstrate this beautiful lamp called Blime Light at last night’s Apartment Therapy Design Evening. Blime Light is a DIY light fixture that ships in a teeny tiny box and then can be assembled...
