The Lost Practice of Resting One Day Each Week →
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. – Benjamin Franklin
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Joshua Becker of Becoming Minimalist.
Ask any physician and they…
Follow The Sign!: How To Get To Hoboken →
You gotta admit, that’s a pretty clever Photoshop job. Granted not as clever as any of your ideas, but that’s because you’re so smart and creative and should probably be hired by some…
Freelancing Together →
Editors Note: In his first article for Think Vitamin Matthew Smith, Principal Designer at Squared Eye Design, discusses the benefits, risks and infrastructure required to work…
Obama Loves Infographic Movies (and Edward Tufte) →
Yesterday, I tweeted the quite surprising news that information graphics guru Edward Tufte will be joining the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel [edwardtufte.com], which aims to track…
Cuuute: Squirrels Pretending To Be Astronauts →
This is a pair of squirrels playing outerspace in the park with a couple of coconut helmets on their heads. YOU TWO ARE CRACKING MY SHIT UP!!
Miss Roberts, 46, leaves out two coconuts…
Headstones Get Interactive With RFID →
RosettaStones are specially-crafted RFID tags that can be embedded on or within any headstone, storing a personal memorial that can be accessed up to 3,200 years from now.
Kodak kiosks to print photos from Facebook and Picasa →
We’ve seen several efforts recently to bring Facebook photos into the offline world, such as HotPrints’ free, advert-supported albums. Now bringing such capabilities to brick-and-mortar…
[Lingo] Slack, YAGNI, and low ceremony →
Three terms that came up repeatedly during our San Diego retreat:
Slack
All the stuff that doesn’t fit neatly into bigger, concept-driven iterations. We save one of our programmer/designer …
Acer working on frameless laptop with touchscreen keyboard? →
High-end thrill-seekers pay to be kidnapped →
Extreme sports such as bungee-jumping from the Macau Tower may well be enough to satisfy the adrenaline needs of the majority of premium thrill-seekers. Those still wishing for more,…
Prizes for academics who solve real-world problems →
We’ve seen the crowdsourcing contest model applied to everything from business documents to doughnut design. The latest spotting? One Billion Minds, a prize-led innovation platform that…
Alberto Seveso →
I spotted these amazing images by Alberto Seveso about a month ago but I never got around to posting them. Th effect is simple, he’s poured varnish into a fishbowl, but the end…
Mario And Luigi Venture Into Food Service →
Not to start any wild speculation or anything, but I haven’t heard from Toad in over a week and the mushrooms on Luigi’s pizzas are f***ing huge. And delicious. ‘But our princess is in…
Subscription service for men's underclothes →
The subscription services are coming thick and fast lately, automating for shopping-weary consumers the routine purchase of life’s little necessities. Most recently it was men’s skincare…
Fade Out-Chair →
This chair, made by Japanese design company, Nendo is really dramatic piece of furniture! The fadeout chair’s legs seem to gently disappear, as though the chair stands in a pool of…
