Windcatcher Airbed inflates in just seconds without using any power or requiring any pumping. Watch the video, it’s all kinds of impressive. You can pre-order one for $90 here.

(via Springwise)

Ok, so here’s the ultimate pet owner gift: A custom silkscreened pet pillow.

The all new Squarespace site is stunning. Simply stunning. Navigate between the different spaces (case studies) with the arrows on the right and make sure to watch the short videos featuring the respective desk (surface) owners.

Squarespace, consider me impressed.

A hommage to the old analog photo days: Vintage Film Canisters Print by Peter Hamilton.

“A few years ago, a friend shared with me his strategy for decluttering his home. He and his wife lived in a duplex and decided to gather every single thing they had and put it in the bottom level of the duplex. They moved upstairs, lived in just the top level, and as they needed something, they would go downstairs, find it, and bring it up. Little by little, they repopulated their life with only what was necessary.”

Moving Upstairs, by Jack Cheng

If you design apps for mobile devices, you will love PortKit. It shows you each Cocoa UI Element in iOS 6 and its Android 4 widget version, side by side, so you can compare them easily and find the correct equivalent when porting an app.

Wow! What an amazing resource. And what a wonderful generous spirit of the Kintek folks to share it all.

(via Khoi)

“100% of customers are people.
100% of employees are people.
If you don’t understand people,
you don’t understand business.”
-Simon Sinek

As the only Web font service providing thousands of Web and desktop fonts in a single subscription, Fonts.com Web Fonts subscriptions offer a complete typographic solution for your digital and print design needs. Get started with a free plan or upgrade for added benefits including unlimited desktop fonts, Typecast – the browser-based app for designing with Web fonts and FontExplorerX Pro – the award winning font manager.

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- How To Live an Unremarkably Average Life

- Here’s an awesome Father’s Day DIY gift idea: Make him a cardboard toolbox.

- Easy Origami Business Card Stand

- Evolution of Get Lucky (Love the glasses/year reference on the side)

- Anyone who has ever struggled with putting a price tag on their services should read this brand new, free e-book by Mike McDerment. It’s a quick and fabulous read. Wish it would have been around when I started my design studio.

- Party Time Headband. #Tattlyneedsthese

- Philadelphia Orchestra musicians perform on flight waiting on Beijing tarmac. The space constraint in the plane is fascinating.

- Love you back.

- Highly amused that the guy on this crazy JET bicycle is not bothering wearing a helmet.

- Listen to Cameron Moll and Jason Fried chat about Basecamp, remote working and the upcoming book “Remote” in this latest Hired Podcast.

- A quite beautiful Foursquare Time Machine. Your check-ins visualized.

- Front-end Developers! Want to work with the smartest and most talented folks around? My studiomates of Editorially are hiring.

- Giraffe Cup. Made me giggle.

- Like a boss desktop-wallpaper.

I just learned about See.Me and I am intruiged. It’s an online community for creative types and aims to help support your passion for what you create, what you do and what you aspire to.

Create a profile, share the best of what you do and gain recognition and support within the vibrant international community. See.Me is a modern version of the old patron concept: See work you like? Support the artist with a small donation. Beautiful! The creative community supporting each other? It doesn’t get better!

(thanks Devin)

This USA Shaped Cutting Board made me chuckle. Also available in the shape of your US state. Each board is made to order, so give it 2 weeks lead time.

Congrats to the couple behind this lovely idea: Brooklyn based husband and wife, Amy Stringer-Mowat and Bill Mowat.

Take your analogue DIY experience to the extreme and build your own 35mm plastic SLR camera with the Konstruktor set by Lomography.

(Thanks Matthew)

I am fascinated by the idea of baking an egg in an avocado. Must try this!

(via buzzfeed)

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

You can buy an illustrated version of this quote by Lisa Congdon

This contemporary simple Garden Trug is based on the design for the traditional trug invented in 1829 by Thomas Smith of Herstmonceux, East Sussex, England. A beauty.

Leave it to Mini Eco to come up with a super cool Father’s Day DIY.

Study finds nobody has ever actually found your tweet via a hashtag.

— TechCrunch Onion (@TechCrunchOnion) June 11, 2013

“If no good can come from a decision, then no decision should be made.”
- Simon Sinek

Watch Simon explain what he means: Why to Wait Before Making an Emotional Decision.

Very Semi-Serious is a documentary aiming to go behind the scenes of the New Yorker. It introduces the past, present and future generations of cartoonists who have inspired, baffled—and occasionally pissed off—all of us for decades.

Totally backing this Kickstarter. Let’s make it happen.

(Thanks Joanna)

Apple explaining their evolving design philosophy. Beautiful.

(via Laughing Squid)

ELIOOO is a brand new book, by Antonio Scarponi, teaching you how to grow food in your apartment using inexpensive IKEA boxes. The system uses hydroponics, a farming technique that can be used to grow plants in water instead of soil. Hydroponics allows you to save up to 90% of water used in traditional agriculture systems, requires much less space, and you don’t have to worry about watering the plants.

Now go and grow your own food. Available on iTunes and Amazon.

The Lomography Film Scanner affordably scans 35mm film and slides right to your smartphone. It adjusts to fit any phone. Smart, says the woman hat has a stack of negatives in her closet.

Has anyone of you tried this yet?

Consider me intrigued by the bioscope, a project by Jon Stam & Simon de Bakker. It was inspired by an early movie projector of the same name and is a medium to experience memories in relative time. By rotating the handle, the digital (or digitized home) movie is animated frame by frame, forward or in reverse, relative to the speed and direction that is used to turn the dial.

More info.

(via kidsroomzoom)

“I wasn’t trying to make money,
I was trying to make a point!”
- Seth Godin

From the PressPausePlay Trailer.

This is a short trailer of the 2011 documentary called PressPausePlay featuring Seth Godin.

PressPausePlay explores the massive digital revolution of the last decade which has unleashed and democratized creative opportunities. Does democratized culture really mean better art, film, music and literature?

You can download the movie over at PressPausePlay.com. Or you can buy it on iTunes.

Edward Tufte
Presenting Data and Information, one-day course
Arlington, VA, June 17, 18, 19
Portland, July 23
Seattle, July 25, 26

“One visionary day: the insights of this class lead to new levels of understanding both for creators and viewers of visual displays.” WIRED

www.edwardtufte.com

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- Flying, a new iPhone app for all your air travel.

- Literally Tweet your Tweet. Made me laugh. (Thanks Pablo)

- Dots, an iPhone/iPad game about connecting the dots.

- Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes. Fascinating!

- Stunning, geometric, single-piece mobile: Themis Mono Mobile

- A sleeping bag I wouldn’t mind calling my own.

- When words aren’t enough, say it with bacon. Made me laugh. Make sure to watch the film.

- Sixty Seconds of Salary by Bard Edlund

- Google’s sick of your sucky passwords, so it posted a video to help you out

- This teeny tiny DIY Father’s Day gift idea made me smile!

- HUGE congratulations to Caroline Baumann for being named Director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

- 9 Rules for a Simpler Day, by Leo Babauta

- Foldable BBQ Grill!

- Helpful post: How to Fix iCloud’s Biggest Annoyances

- Etch, Personalized Foursquare Check-in Map Prints. Wait, people are still using Foursquare?

- Did you know we made custom Tattly for NPR?

- I totally want one of these old fashioned Popcorn Poppers.

- Most Highlighted books of all time: 1. The Holy Bible 2. Steve Jobbs

- Good news: The Tattly subscription is back. Only happens twice a year. Current signup is open until July 5th.

- A short segment on my coworking space Studiomates from the Collaborative Cities documentary.

- XO Group Inc is looking to hire a Senior Designer. (You’ll get to work with my fab friend Lori.)

- The neighbors have better stuff doormat.

- Best 404 Error Page I have ever seen. There goes your Friday.

How wonderful and smile-inducing is this VW Bus Tent? It actually makes me want to own a tent. But then, maybe not, I just looked at the price tag. Ops! Maybe I’ll stick to the toiletry bag.

“If you’re not living a life on the edge you’re taking up too much space! … You learn the most when you’re out of your comfort zone!”
- Jim Whittaker

Taken from this short by Eric Becker.

Fifty years ago, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Mt. Everest.

“One of the finest protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”
- Alain de Botton

This is one of the most moving things I have seen in a long time. Pascale Honore has been in a wheelchair for 18 years and recently went ‘duct tape surfing‘ on the back of her friend and experienced surfer, Ty Swan. Read more.

(via LaughingSquid)

This is one of Open University’s six Design in a Nutshell videos.

I also recommend Gothic Revival, Arts and Crafts, Modernism, American Industrial Design and Postmodernism.

(via the always amazing Open Culture blog)

Design in a Nutshell is a series of beautifully animated videos by Open Learn, explaining 6 key design movements. Watch short videos on Gothic Revival, Arts and Crafts, Bauhaus, Modernism, American Industrial Design and Postmodernism.

Or Simply discover your design alter-ego. Take the quiz.

(via the always amazing Open Culture blog)

My super talented studiomates of Oak just launched Siteleaf, a simple content management for your site.

Oak believes content management systems should be simple but not overly simplified. They believe you should own your content and that your sites should be able to outlive their CMS. Agreed.

Choose from their three plans and take advantage of the 14-day trial period.

I saw this Fluoro Heart Print at the National Stationary Show. It’s all sorts of stunning and fluorescent. #Wishlisted

Prisms is a beautiful 13″x16″ Giclee Print by Magna Paint.

“The more you know, the less you need.”
- Yvon Chouinard