The amazing Amit Gupta is currently recovering from his recent bone marrow transplant. Love that CBS Boston featured his story on the news.
Lucky me, I just got my hands on the latest issues of Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design by Michael Bierut. Michael is not only an incredibly talented designer but also able to so eloquently and hum...
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson (via Shopify Blog)
The wonderful and incredibly talented Kelli Anderson recently gave a talk at TEDxPhoenix. This morning, her talk went live for the world to see. Kelli is one of the most passionate, hardworking and t...
A big thank you to The Manual for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed! The Manual is a beautifully crafted journal with a focus on designing for the web and who we are as designers. The Manual is not abo...
Today’s CreativeMornings/NewYork with Charles Renfro was generously hosted by Park Here, a gallery turned indoor park. It was packed and seriously fantastic. What a fun venue! A big giant thank...
“From my experience, you can’t wait around to find what you love. You gotta work your ass off. And then you find what you love by doing piles and piles of work.” - Kate Bingaman Burt Kate...
I just backed LINX over on Kickstarter. It’s is a super simple toy that will most certainly unleash your inner architect. All you need is lots of LINX and lots of drinking straws.
Kid-in is a brand-new online magazine for the diverse perspectives of a wide range of international and local designers and photographers, artists and thinkers, focusing on the singular subject of ch...
TANTO is not your normal bean bag. It’s giant and magical – the perfect place to read (and write) fairy tales. TANTO is manufactured in Italy and you can place an order on Etsy their Shop...
The original Pennsylvania Station was razed in 1963. (Collection of the New-York Historical Society, negative number 59044) A passionate NYTimes article addressing the calamity that is Penn Station: ...
Instagram by Douglas Wray I tweeted this a few days ago. Made me smile.
Linen Closets, Traverse City State Hospital, Michigan Patient Toothbrushes, Hudson River State Hospital, New York Bathtub, Fairfield State Hospital, Connecticut Autopsy Theater, St. Elizabeth’s...
The EUScreen site is an astounding digital archive aiming to preserve Europe’s television heritage, 1900-present. (via @dwell)
Here’s a useful post over on Apartment Therapy on how to get rid of those gray scratch marks on plates.
In my desperation of finding a solution to my guilt-inducing-email-problem I am considering The Single Sentence Email Project: “Respond to emails with as few words as possible. Aim for a senten...
The above video is embedded in a fantastic post on work-life balance over on Deliberatism. (via @Aarron)
Kaleidoism turns your browser into customizable Kaleidoscope! #somuchfun Little tip, after the image is loaded, click on it and move your mouse around and mouse hover the bottom of the browser window...
Lovely Melissa Easton has an entire post dedicated to creating vintage 3 dimensional shapes out of paper. I found Le Cheval (The Horse) particularly charming, in a very analog way. She found them ove...
Top five regrets of the dying: 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. 2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. 3. I wish I’d had the courage to exp...
This is quite an impressive chart on animal longevity. Go turtles! (via Maria)
Jay Parkinson and his team just launched Sherpaa, an around the clock email and phone access to friendly, NYC-based doctors (or Guides as they call them). Whenever you have a health question or conce...
“When my correspondents reproach me for tardiness, I can only say that I give as much attention to a letter as I do to anything I write, and I work at least six and sometimes sixteen hours a d...
I saw my friend Chris Glass tweet about his project of finding duplicate files on his computer over the weekend. Being the queen of multiple backups and duplicates I reached out and asked for more in...
How seriously cool is this Pixel-y Pop-Up Card? Click here for Full instructions and printable templates! See full instructions over at Mini Eco.
I have currently 6 guilt-inducing e-introductions sitting in my inbox, flagged of course. While I am extremely grateful for being introduced to interesting folks, I do not appreciate surprise-introdu...
This Brooklyn Beta video made my day. Thank you @boltron! Brooklyn Beta is a fantastic conference organized by my studiomates Cameron and Chris. Brooklyn Beta is my twitter stream come to live. A sma...
A big thank you to A Book Apart for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed! A Book Apart publishes highly detailed and meticulously edited examinations of single topics. We produce brief books of about 100 ...
I find this MRI cross section of leg muscles utterly fascinating (and sobering). (via JayParkinson)
It’s that time of the year again: Nerd Valentine! YES!
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