New year. New template.

It was time, gentle readers. Things will be jacked for a few days (or weeks) while I clean up sidebar links and format glitches, so bear with me, 'kay?

Fab Don James Poster.

I have no interest in surfing whatsoever, but I'd buy this poster for the design. Pretty web site, too.


Swell :: DON JAMES POSTER

(Via A Cup of Jo)

Creative Time/Jenny Holzer Bag.

To help celebrate Creative Time's contribution to the public art field and the publication of Creative Time:The Book, documenting their many projects over the past 33 years, JACK SPADE has produced a limited edition coal bag with artwork from Jenny Holzer¹s project For New York City (a plane pulling the artist's truism banner "Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise")

JACK SPADE | TEMP_MESSENGER | Creative Time Bag

How my web stats made my day.

I smiled when I saw this. (Click image for detail.)

Words fail me.

A code enforcement inspector in Weston, Florida, took this photo Tuesday while inspecting a glaring spelling mistake on a road.

Your photos: Wild and wacky I-Reports - CNN.com

If They IM'd: Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton

This made me laugh.

(A few days old, but still funny.)

Judge a Book by its Cover.

A blog supporting my hypothesis that, while every good book may not have a good cover, books with really bad covers are often just really bad.



Written by a librarian (the blog, I mean - not Chicks in Chainmail). Lots of sci fi and romance novels as you might expect, but other stuff as well. It made me chuckle.

JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER

(Via Veer who were enchanted by the Harlequin Romance NASCAR series.)

Polish Poster Gallery.

I think I've posted about this site before, but it's worth highlighting again. SUCH amazing posters. These are from ONE artist, Wiktor Gorka. There are dozens on the site.






Polish Poster Gallery Pricelist - Wiktor Gorka

Chuck Norris Google Search.

Go to Google.com.

Type in "find chuck norris".

Click the "I'm feeling lucky" button.

Et voilà.


(via linkbunnies.org)

Adolf Wölfli.

After being weirdly underwhelmed by the Martín Ramírez exhibit at the MAM, I was mesmerized/fascinated/blown away by this man's work. I could spend hours on this site.


At the beginning of the twentieth century, Adolf Wölfli, a former farmhand and laborer, produced a monumental, 25,000-page illustrated narrative in Waldau, a mental asylum near Bern, Switzerland. Through a complex web of texts, drawings, collages and musical compositions, Wölfli constructed a new history of his childhood and a glorious future with its own personal mythology. The French Surrealist André Breton described his work as "one of the three or four most important oeuveres of the twentieth century". Since 1975, our aim is to make Adolf Wölfli's work known through one-man and group exhibitions as well as publications.





Adolf Wölfli

DisturbingAuctions.com

Looks like it started out as an ebay-type auction site, but now it's a bunch of people finding bizarre items on ebay. Like this. (Click image for detail)

1- ECLECTUS PARROT - eBay (item 220196809365 end time Feb-04-08 18:15:00 PST)

See the rest here: Disturbing Auctions | Daily

(via gettrio.com)

A Child Within - Russian Illustrationist

These creative and color-pleasant illustrations are the works by Russian artist, iiyama. She sketches for commercials and children's books.

Architectural E-cards

Guggenheim e-cards are available now for architecture geeks:)

Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Frank Lloyd Wright-designed oculus. Photo by David Heald.

Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

Photo by David Heald.

Some readers know I'm a huge fan of Frank Gehry, and Frank Lloyd Wright (ya, I even put them on my Facebook "I'm a fan of" page), here's a related post I really like: The Visionaries

And also, here's Frank Gehry on TED talk.

Smart guerrilla advertising.

Entrepreneurs armed with little more than a URL and a pair of gloves are taking advantage of what would otherwise be an expensive media purchase. Chancers like playstickball.com are etching their messages into the disgusting layer of soot/scum/pollution that forms on the delivery vehicles that service our urban areas and thereby occupying some premium advertising real-estate. Who knows whether it's legal or not, but it's certainly an effective way of putting your product or service in front of millions of people without blowing your marketing budget!

- reaction [beta]

(via Monoscope)

Valentine's Day Card Poll

Okay, I'm getting down to the wire and need to choose one of these two images for the grandparents' valentine's day cards (yes, that's my daughter, Ellie)! You can help by voting in the poll on the right... Thank you!

By the way, any of your images can be made into greeting cards! If I've taken your photo, drop me a line if you are interested in learning more!

everything is ok.

Lovely concept. Lovely site.



everything is ok

(via It's Nice That)

Sittercity.com.

I clicked on a nicely-designed little banner ad to check this out and was really intrigued. After doing a search, it appears this service is completely legit, and the people who use it seem to love it.




Sittercity: Find Babysitters, Nannies, Pet Sitters, House Sitters, Senior Care, Tutors and More

If you're interested, Baby Cheapskate posted a review, a chance to win a year membership and a discount code for 10% off: CHEAPSK8.

Crow & Trash card game.

I can't help thinking that framing and hanging all of these cards, by Sapporo-based design unit Wabisabi, would make a kickass wall statement.


A card game inspired by the battle between the crow which mess up a trash station and the trash. Graphics on the cards are very stylish.

SHIFT | SELECT ITEM | CROW & TRASH

Filled with shame and cookie dough.

Damn you, John Hodgeman. Instead of cleaning my apartment while I'm waiting for my friends to get here, I've just spent about 30 minutes listening to Paul & Storm jingles and ditties.

Personal faves:

If James Taylor Were on Fire

Randy Newman's "Theme from The Passion of the Christ"

The Miranda Lullabye

Other Places Jimmy Hoffa Isn't [studio version]

SpaghettiOs

Pillsbury Cookie Dough

Paul and Storm :: Songs

(Big thanks to Fuse #8 because I had NO idea John Hodgeman had a blog.)

advice to sink in slowly.

Advice to sink in slowly is a series of posters designed by recent and established graduates of University College Falmouth for the purpose of passing on advice and inspiration to first year students.








advice to sink in slowly - Home

Photos via their flickr set.

(via the delightful Roadside Scholar whose blog is so much cooler than mine. Get over there.)

Web Trend Map 2008 Beta

What I love the most about this (besides its wonderful IA goodness) is that Coudal, our fellow midwestern creatives, are on it.


We present you with the 2008 Web Trend Map, in all its beautiful beta glory. This time we’ve taken almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites and pinned them down to the greater Tokyo-area train map. By popular demand, we enlarged the poster size from A3 to A0. We guarantee it will make a great addition to your home or office.

Information Architects Japan : iA Notebook : Web Trend Map 2008 Beta

Clickable version with rollovers here.

White Whine.

A new white person complaint every day of the week.

WHITE WHINE

(via linkbunnies.org)

Yummy soup recipe!

I love this time of year because I can make one of my favorite things to cook: soup! I enjoy experimenting with different combinations of ingredients and the more unusual, the better!

All week I've been looking forward to Friday night as we've been invited to a friend's home for a soup and salad potluck dinner. I was told about a particular Rachael Ray recipe for chipotle-pumpkin-blackbean soup and in searching for it on her site, stumbled across another that looked nearly as tempting: chicken tortilla with chipotle and fire-roasted tomatoes. Since my mom was unsuccessful in finding the original curried-tomato soup recipe that I had copied from her a few years ago, I found another one similar to it and bought ingredients for all three soups.

My husband, Nathan, has been a good sport in my experimentation this week which has stretched the limits of even his palate, but tonight gave 2 enthusiastic thumbs up to tonight's experiment, so I thought I would share. The winner...: chicken tortilla soup with chipotle and fire-roasted tomatoes!

My recommendations and substitutions: definitely include the fresh cilantro! It adds a special freshness. I didn't have a bay leaf so I found online that you can substitute some vinegar for extra punch. I also couldn't find fire roasted tomatoes, so I used diced tomatoes with basil, garlic and oregano and added several drops of liquid smoke to give the 'smokey' flavor she was going for. LOVED IT! Definitely outshines the kind you can order at many chain restaurants!

From the twisted mind of VonHerwig.

My co-worker is insane. His description of this beauty:

Just made this ringtone. David Lee Roth vocals. Minus all verses and choruses - leaving just the oohs and ahhs.

I give you DLR minus vocals.

Jeeves & Wooster pendant lamps.

So very, very in love with these...




Part of the Hidden Art Select range, these pendant lights suitable for any aspiring gentleman or conscientious manservant where class and sophistication are the essential components to illumination. Jeeves’s bowler hat is lined with a refined gold interior, whilst Wooster’s top hat has a more distinguished silver lining. Both exude that quintessential British combination of regimented style and eccentricity.

Hidden Art - Shop

Rebate for diamond purchases.

Rebates are a girl's best friend. I have no diamonds, but I know some of you do out there... The offer expires 5/19, so get your claim form in.

Anyone who bought a diamond, or diamond jewelry, any time over a 12-year period could be eligible to collect hundreds of dollars.

It's all because of a class action lawsuit against the diamond supplier De Beers, alleging price fixing.

It means that anyone who bought a diamond or diamond jewelry between 1994 and the first quarter of 2006 may be getting some money back.

Diamond Purchase Could Mean Rebate For Some Consumers - Money News Story - WISN Milwaukee

(Thanks, Anna!)

Happy Cat bowl.

Just what it says on the label. The pic made me laugh.


Lots of cool cat and dog accoutrements here.

GEORGE - high quality pet products.

What information design is all about.

Yet I never get assignments like this. Go figure.


WOW Report: Dead and Deader

(via Defamer)

Lost & Found.

Lost and Found is a project of the New York based public art collaborative, Illegal Art, whose goal is to create interactive public art to inspire self-reflection, thought and human connection. Each piece is then presented or distributed in a method in which participation is simple and encouraged.

Illegal Art : Lost & Found

This clown will not eat you.

I hate clowns. I know I'm not alone in this. But for some reason, this little clown box makes me smile.


Etsy | bluebellbazaar :: Vintage clown box

Red letter alphabet plates.

I love John Derian's plates. I'd never buy them because spending gobs of money on decorative plates just isn't my style, but I do love his designs.


red letters / abitare

Things That Don't Suck.

Part 2 of Wired Magazine's "Things That Suck." A nice way to start the day - thinking about things that don't suck.

(And you can vote on write-in nominations. "Three-day weekend" is currently cleaning up.)

Things that don't suck: TV screens in the back of airplane seats. Twice-baked potatoes. Dryer sheets. DVRs. The set design on Mad Men. Farmers' markets. Tap water. Touchscreens. Scissors. Pocketknives. Thumb drives. Kites. Strike-anywhere matches. Doorstops. Run-flat tires. Netflix. Noise-canceling headphones. Casual carpool. Guitar Hero. Salt-and-vinegar potato chips. Bicycles. Kevlar. Velcro. Carbon composite. Dradis. Flip-flops. The first half hour of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Seat belts. Zippo lighters. Spartan Laser. Heated seats. Public libraries. Remote control. Ice cream.

Wired.com :: Things That Don't Suck

NYT's buzzwords of 2007.

I love words. And this list is quite funny.


All We Are Saying - New York Times