My name is Tina Roth Eisenberg. I am a 'swiss designer gone NYC'. swissmiss is my visual archive of things that 'make me look'. I am a graphic designer and run my own studio in Brooklyn. Contact me if you would like to team up, have a link suggestion or just want to say hello: submissions {at} swiss-miss.com.
Keith Jarrett is performing thursday night at Carnegie Hall. Oh, how I would love to see that... Yay! Fabulous Jennifer is going to watch our offspring, so G and I can go and see the performance. Can this monday get any better?
ScreenToaster is a free online screen recorder that doesn't require any software. (sample above) Upload videos to YouTube or ScreenToaster, download as an .avi file. Download as a .swf coming soon. Excellent!
Whenever I see the ThreePotatoFour newsletter in my inbox, I drop *everything* and check out their new stuff. Most of the really cool items in Ella's room are from their site. Now check out this fantastic vintage Perpetual Desk Calendar! Is that a beauty?
Derek pointed me to another fabulous iPhone Camera App called CameraBag. Choose from a cool range of retro filters that you can apply to your pictures. Wonderful!
The Konigi OmniGraffle Wireframe Icon Set is a set of grayscale cursors and icons that come in handy when designing wireframes, aka user interface schematics.
How cool: Michael found out about the QuadCamera on swissmiss, and I now learned about the Quad Animator that will turn images into an animated gif on his blog. Going full circle!
Handy options in this dummy text generator are: number of words or characters, specifying pixel width, number of paragraphs (with tags), etc. Fantastic!
Jonathan Hoefler just delivered fabulous news to my inbox: "Fans of our Gotham typeface will be pleased to find that as of this morning, there are three times as many Gothams in the world as there were yesterday." Hooray!
Anonymous Postcard is a suggestion box for the world, designed to allow anyone to openly communicate to a third party without the complications of personal contact. Claims submitted by the public are turned into vague and largely indecipherable postcards and mailed toward the intended recipients. Tucker Nichols founded Anonymous Postcard in August 2008 in partnership with his friend Dakin Hart. Beautiful! And now, Submit a Claim!
Maxwell from Apartment Therapy is taking blogging to a whole new level: He'll be live blogging out of his temporary office (above) in the Bloomingdales windows from 12p-5pm, as part of the Big Window Challenge. Congrats Maxwell!
Last night, I watched A Hole in a Fence which plays in Red Hook, Brooklyn and was filmed in Spring 2006, Pre-Ikea. Living in a neighboring neighborhood to Red Hook and having gone to IKEA many times already, this documentary hit home.
Layers for the Mac, captures your displays as a Photoshop layered image. Press the capture hotkey or customize your capture in the inspector and you'll obtain a full fledged PSD file with one layer per window, including menu and desktop icons, dock and menubar. Woo hooo!
QuadCamera is the the 4th release by Art&Mobile of their ToyCamera series and features continuous shooting. Just pressing the button, and it takes 4-8 serial shots to create one image in multiple dimensions and repetitions: a 4x2 portrait, 4x1, 2x2 landscape, and 8x1 landscape. Love. Love. Love.
(via EmilyChang, that lady has her finger on the pulse)