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simple cherry wood pencil box

Oh, so simple. Oh, so pretty. Cherry Wood Pencil Boxx.

made in bunch

Bunch decided that it was time to rework their corporate identity and based it around the overarching theme of 'Made in Bunch'. Much of their work is predicated by the influences they as a collective of designers take from the world around them. So they thought they'd ask other designers how they see them and reflect this in their id. See the response. Inspiring!

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Tools for retaining creative knowledge in an advertising agency

Post by Tim Büsing, on the difficulties of retaining knowledge within creative and planning processes.

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Constructing the Grid of Penguin by Designers

Ministryoftype reconstructed the grid of "penguin by designers" cover.

Productivity & Organization Resources

Best of Mashable: Productivity & Organization

Lookybook | Picture books you can preview, share and talk about

Lookybook allows you to look at picture books in their entirety—from cover to cover, at your own pace. Not only can you share your comments about a particular book, you can share all your favorite books by creating and posting your Bookshelf. PLUS, you can embedd books, like I did with Sparkle and Spin above. This is fabulous! And oh how practical for when you're traveling and can't schlepp all your kid's favorite books with you?!

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Mnml by Grant Hamilton

Nice policeman: What are you doing?
Me: Oh, hi! I'm just taking a picture of this sign.
Nice policeman: You can't stand on a ladder on the side of a highway.
Me: Really? This will just take a second.
Nice policeman: No.
Me: But I...
Nice policeman: No.
Me: I...
Nice policeman: Now.

Mnml by Grant Hamilton

400 sticky notes.

Bardhi Haliti wrote down 400 things he wants to do in his life on stick notes. Apparently 80% or more are design related. A designer at heart?

christmas tree upside down

Christmas Tree upside down. Made me laugh.

napkin notebook

Napkin Notebook. Brilliant.

stunning diamond necklace

Another childhood memory: TRIO Da Da Da

Childhood flashback of the day: EAV - Banküberfall

Don't bother watching it if you didn't grow up with the Erste Allgemeinen Verunsicherung. It's completely nutty. Bringing back lots of 'stonewashed_jeans+pink_lips+permed_hair-memories... Thank you Agnieszka!

oeuf scarf for trendy toddlers

Very stylish Oeuf scarf for little ones. $44 at thisisauto.com

Jewelry Pouch

These hand-stained, leather, circular pouches are ideal for keeping anything from jewelry to coins. $35 at this isauto.com

Corbis offers bloggers free photos, with ads

Corbis is going to let bloggers use their photos for free and embed an ad in it. According to this article, they're also going to offer "bloggers the opportunity to earn ad revenue based on how many times Web users click on the images posted to their blogs, according to the Web site.

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Global Cities - Exhibition Design by Pentagram

A Time-Lapse film of the construction of the Global Cities exhbition at Tate Modern, from day one of the build to the first day of opening. Global cities was designed by Pentagram Design and curated by the Tate and Dr Richard Burdett

Comic Life

Comic Life 1.0.1 (), an amazingly clever app that lets you easily make comic book pages, or even an entire comic book, using your own images or drawings as panels. If you’ve ever used iPhoto’s Book feature, Comic Life is very similar except that all of Comic Book’s layouts look just like pages of a comic book.

Full article about Comic Life over on MacWorld

bored at work

Bored at work. Had me look and wonder. ("Boredeom" is such a foreign concept to me...)

what to do when the postman only delivers bills...

About 6 or something months ago I got really frustrated with my Postman—he only seemed to be bringing me bills—so I decided to do something about this. I got out my pen, dusted off the paper and wrote some letters to people. I just wanted people to think about writing more, and who better to ask than people who communicate for a living. So, optimistically, I wrote to designers the world over, and this is what they had to say... hand.written.letter.project.

This made me smile. Thank you, Craig. This would make a lovely book, you know, right?

Melissa and Doug Wooden Shape Sorting Clock

Wooden Shape Sorting Clock: Combines shape sorting and learning to tell time - two toys in one! How much do I love this brand?

vector magic

Need an image vectorized? Quickly? Try this amazing tool called Vector Magic. The tool converts bitmap images to vector art - it's an online auto-tracer.Just upload your image and it will vectorize it for you. And in case you don't know: Vector art is useful because it allows you to scale an image without making it blurry or pixelated.

(thank you for reminding me christina)

skitch | easy image sharing

Does anyone have an invite to skitch that you wouldn't mind sharing with me? I'd love to give it a try. Thank you for the invite Eric L!

UPDATE: I have been playing around with this little app this afternoon and I am seriously impressed. What a fabulous tool! BUT, please, pleeeeeease do something about the branding. It's so not representing the actual app.

Skitch = fabulous app but branding gone wrong.

(thank you Sean)

hot shot camera ring!

Camera Ring. Kitsch Alert? Yes, but FUN!

shoe shine tin box

Handy, 'shoe shine' tin containing a 50cm square cotton cloth in our moss rose print, two wooden shoe brushes, two dusters and two tins of polish (black,brown). Tin: 19 x 23 x 8cm.

iGo Everywhere | Universal Wall and Auto Charger

Every day, there are lots of gadgets to be charged in the swissmiss household. What a hassle to find the right charger for each device. So, when my fabulous G introduced me to the iGo Everywhere | Universal Wall and Auto Charger it has been seriously life altering. One charging device for all our gadgets. All you need to buy is the matching tip. Brilliant!

Moooi Carpet, model 11

Moooi Carpet, model 11 by Marcel Wanders, 2005

moodboard

I am rejoicing, THIS is exactly what I need to display all my magazines/prints/cards and so on.

a schizophrenic design conversation

a schizophrenic design conversation over on moooi.nl (click on the circle on the left that says: a schizophrenic design conversation - ugh to flash sites!!!)

swing lamp | BCXSY

swing lamp, by holland based BCXSY, a studio run by Boaz Cohen and Sayaka Yamamoto.

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Laboratory Conditions {3/5}

Laboratory Conditions, a fve-part documentary — a new episode each day this week — from the crew at Coudal Partners.

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How to move a 100 year old church

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ponoko | Create, make and trade your product ideas

The post-industrial revolution is changing the way products are created, traded and distributed. Now everyone can engage in the manufacturing process through their PCs - bringing personal manufacturing of individualized products to the masses. Ponoko is the world's first personal manufacturing platform. It's the online space for a community of creators and consumers to use a global network of digital manufacturing hardware to co-create, make and trade individualized product ideas on demand. The ponoko.com marketplace connects creators, consumers, digital manufacturing hardware and service providers to promote, make and trade products on Ponoko and social networking websites.

(Thank you Matthew)

Freelancer or Design Consultant?

Freelancer or Design Consultant - What’s in a Name?

dropio

Dropio. A private place for storing and sharing photos, video, audio, notes, docs, etc. Each is accessible only to those whom you tell exactly where to look. No signup and no 'account'. They e don't even ask for your email. Create as many drops as you want, and access each at: drop.io/thedropname. learn more

(I can't remember where I saw this, I apologize)

Decanter N°2

This Decanter N°2 is a definite conversation starter.

Pentagram 07

Pentagram 07 | A movie by Hillman Curtis.
Boy, Paula Scher can talk...

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Baah! Baah!

Made me smile: Blown Up Frosted Sheep Light, by Thelermont Hupton

sarah hood: sculptural jewelry artist

Oh, how amazing are these designs of Seattle based jeweler Sarah Hood, whose interests in Botany and Buddhism greatly influence her design. More of her designs here.

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Hey there, Mushroom!

Mushroom Nightlight