Giphy lets you search for animated gifs. So much Yes!
Nothing Fancy Wallet
Nothing Fancy, minimalist wallets, created from a single piece of leather, requiring no stitching. Congrats to London based designer Chieh Ting Huang.
(thanks @68design)
FPO Engagement Ring
The FPO Engagement Ring is definitely the most amazing submission I have ever received! Do you know anyone that is about to propose to a lady that knows what she wants when it comes to jewelry? Use the For Placement Only ring when you pop the question and then go shop for the real one together! Congrats to Miriam Farooq for this fantastic idea!
(Not familiar with the term FPO?)
Female Entrepreneurs
Whenever I hear conference organizers talk about how hard it is to find interesting female speakers, I cringe. Would you mind to help me add to this list of female entrepreneurs?
Melissa Miranda, Tiny Post
Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr
Jen Bekman, 20×200
Alisa Volkman, Babble
Soraya Darabi, Foodspotting
Stacey Ferreira, co-founder of My Social Cloud
Debbie Millman, Sterling Brand
Julia Hartz, co-founder Eventbrite
Robin Chase, co-founder of Zip Car
Lauren Bush, Feed
Jennifer Hyman & Jenny Fleiss, Rent the Runway
Alexa Hirschfeld, co-founder Paperless Post
Jessica Jackley, Kiva
Cindy Gallop, If We Ran The World
Jerri Chou, The Feast
Grace Bonney, Design Sponge
Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki, Co-Founders 23andme
Ping Fu, Geomagic
Leah Busque, Task Rabbit
Louise Fili, Louise Fili
Paula Scher, Pentagram
Jessica Hische, Hische Empire
Lexy Funk, co-founder Brooklyn Industries
Let’s grow this list! Add a comment below with names and the company they started?
Tools
(photos by Julia Robbs>)
The anticipation for today’s Tattly launch has been killing me for weeks! We just uploaded Ax and Hammer, Pliers and Ax and Log by the wonderful Fiona Richards. It doesn’t get any better, or does it?
Buetooth talking glove!
Ever wished you could answer a phone call with you gloves, not having to take the phone out of your pocket. Well, then let me rock your world. Check out the Bluetooth Talking Glove.
The thought of having to charge one more thing, especially my gloves, is making me shiver. But it sure is a good conversation piece.
Cyrtoidea
“Cyrtoidea“, from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur “Art Forms of Nature, 1904. Beautiful, no?
Reputation
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”
- Henry Ford
(via)
Heart Potato Print
Jason Polan made heart potato prints.
He bought a potato and cut a notch on the top of it. Each cross section of the potato was then in the shape of a heart. For each artwork, he would cut a sliver of the potato away, added paint and made a print. The first ones were small hearts. The hearts got bigger until the thickest middle part of the potato and then again got smaller until there was nothing left of the potato.
Each print is unique as he made only one print per cut. The edition size was to be however many the potato would make. This potato made 32. He numbered the prints in order of printing so the first few (1 thru 3) and the last few (30 thru 32) were smaller hearts than the middle ones (15 thru 17). They were printed on Fabriano 4.5″x6.7″ (115x170mm) paper and are all signed and dated (all on the back).
(enter smile here) Makes me love him and his work even more.
CreativeMornings Theme: Money
CreativeMornings is continuing with themes for each month. January was Happiness, and for February our Zurich host Daniel chose Money.
Amsterdam-based artist Tim Boelaars collaborated with us to illustrate the topic. And we are thrilled to have Squarespace as our global partner and help us make this month happen.
Jessica Jackley, the founder of Kiva, will be our speaker in New York on February 15th. RSVP will open on Monday the 11th, at 11am. More info here.
I can’t wait to see all the different interpretations of Money in relation to creativity. This will be interesting.
Did you see last month’s moving New York talk by Ping Fu?
I Did That.
“You should bring something into the world that wasn’t in the world before. It doesn’t matter what that is. It doesn’t matter if it’s a table or a film or gardening — everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, “I did that.’”
- Ricky Gervais
From this Ricky Gervais Interview.
(via Mighty Girl)
The Centrifuge Brain Project
All I can say is: WOW.
(thank you Jens)
Bamboo Mixing Bowl Set
I wouldn’t mind giving this Bamboo Mixing Bowl Set a home.
How To Listen
“The best way to honor someone who has said something smart and useful is to say something back that is smart and useful. The other way to honor them is to go do something with what you learned.
Good listeners get what they deserve–better speakers.”
- Seth Godin on How to Listen
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Friday Link Pack
(via Jerri)
- 100 Designers each create a wooden toy car. So much YES!
- 35 Gut Checks When Founding Your First Company. (via Michael)
- 46 Reasons My Three Year Old Might be Freaking Out. (Thank you Maria)
- You’re into lettering? You’ll love this book.
- Interesting read: Eight UX Design Trends for 2013
- YO! It’s the SEO Rapper. (via)
- Starting a new agency/ Check jargonated for an instant tagline.
- Fiona Richards built a beautiful work table and shares the plans with us.
- This list is full of amazing tips and tricks to work more efficiently online! (Thank you Nate)
- Interesting article: Twitter’s Speech Problem: Hashtags and Hate (via Scott)
- Intense but interesting: Discover North Korea in 2 minutes (via Zach)
- Take a Virtual Tour of the Grand Canyon With New Google Imagery
- Saw this deer paper head and same style horse heads at the New York International Gift Fair a few days ago. Can’t wait until the horse is up on their site.
- Saw this nifty Flygrip at the NYIGF. I tried it and it’s impressively practical. Not sure about the price point though.
- Hackdesign: Receive a design lesson in your inbox each week, hand crafted by a design pro.
- Oh, Everlane is looking to hire an Interaction Designer.
- Jim Coudal is one of my role models. Loved listening to him on the The New Disruptors Podcast (buzzwordy name, but great podcast). (Thanks Rusty)
- Is this what potty training looks like in 2013? Filed under Products the World Doesn’t Need. All kinds of sad. (thanks aaron)
How To Master Your Time
“The secret to mastering your time is to systematically focus on importance and suppress urgency.”
How to master your time, by Oliver Emberton
So Good
‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’
- Steve Martin
(via this excellent post over on Michael’s blog)
The Best Of FourSquare
I am not a FourSquare user but these Best of Foursquare City Guides look all kinds of useful.
(via Scott)
DIY 3D Hearts
A tutorial that teaches you how to make 3D paper hearts? Yes, please.
Mode of Communication
What mode of communication should I use? Thank you Wendy MacNaughton for making me smile.
♥ / Brightnest
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