January 2010
34 posts
The internet is still wonderful →
“This month my mum will turn your old sweater into a new scarf” Great idea, beautifully designed. ‘What should my mom reknit next month?’ - best use of a vote I’ve seen in ages. Damnit. I wish this site was mine!
‘Product photos by my sister’.
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Oh really? →
right. But srsly?
10 design quotes visualised →
(which means they’ve been styled so hard some are now extremely hard to read. Make of that what you will.)
WatchCameron Moll, talking briefly about his typographic poster. Imagine Eboy using letters and not pixels…
Balloon torch lightsabres →
How flippin’ cute. Found after following a link from Meg, to these most excellent superhero capes.
'We're passionate about print' →
As an employee of the company who ‘loves to print’, I found this most amusing.
'Craftin in turquoise, teal and aqua' →
If there’s one thing you have to love about flickr, it’s how incredibly specific the groups are.
Adding embarrassment into your diet: new way to...
I enjoyed this post, by Emily Flake, on Printmag. She set out to draw everything she ate over the xmas period:
“Always on the lookout for ways to avoid the ill effects of holiday over-indulgence, I thought this year I would put my own skills in the traces and draw everything I ate. The logic behind this seemed sound enough: If I knew I had to go to the trouble to draw it, would I really...
Iggy Pop, redeemed in my eyes
I must admit, those ads Iggy Pop is doing at the moment are terrible. Awful. Crap.
But Look at this. A letter he sent to a fan, and the story behind it. It’s fantastic, and lovely.
It’s on a nice site too, Letters of Note.
In praise of yo' Nana →
I too, am a little over embroidery that says ‘fuck’ or other such shocking things. If you want to make something, make something. Don’t try and be cool by adding swear words, we’re not teenagers. What next, are you going to *smoke* while you craft? ZOMG! You’re like, totally edgy. I’ve been guilty of trying to ‘funk things up a bit’, because I feel...
Is RSS making me unable to read a layout?
I read RSS feeds through Safari. This isn’t a post about browsers - I actually use different browsers for different things - I always have two browsers open at any one time because I am logged in to each one as a different entity.
Welcome to my life as a community manager.
It just so happens some of the sites I where I hang out for work, I also hang out for pleasure, and it’s quicker...
Vote for software engineer Barbie. →
06/17/03: Possible Scenarios for Heaven →
An effective use of a rollover, on a logo. →
“Kudos to you for not spending a single cent of your massive budget on an...”
– http://prttyshttydesign.blogspot.com/2010/01/open-letter-to-james-cameron-from.html
Letterpress necklaces →
I like the idea, not 100% convinced on the look of the final thing though.
“so you studied with paul rand?” ”i did.” “would he remember you?” “um, i guess....”
– http://amassblog.com/?p=631
Wonderful post. (In other news, I’ve been watching a lot of Mad Men).
Datadecs: personalised xmas decorations →
based on your own datafeeds.