Email Submission - won me over with this... hey NOTCOT, remember the 1991 Keanu Reeves movie Point Break? in it, a young surfer tells him: "surfin's the source. it'll change your life." turns out he was talking about teh internets.
The insane Sony Bravia Paint adspot we've been waiting for is finally here... mindblowing. So so fun. And almost better than the ad really is the making of.
Anyone else ever go through an awkward stage? NOTCOT's summer intern, Caroline, made this site that embodies that nicely, and is cleaning up her web design magic ~ it's a fun distraction to check out!
Love the one year of white pages (one for each month, with holes punched to tell you which you're on) - found at rare devices, featured on betterlivingthroughdesign.
Granted i'm overworked and jetlagged but will be back in LA monday - my obsession/discovery/toy for the day is RADAR.net - its brilliant, pretty, and does what i want it to ~ and well. will share more on .com soon.
Digital Life NYC - helping at ThisNext's booth - seeing the latest in tech. Exhausted - but have a quick roundup of what caught my eye over at .com - from the new Palm to brilliant Blurb.com
How adorable is this new Gooma line by Sergey Safonov, who has been working to get toy design going in Russia... LOVE the teardrop shape... they are apparently based on the seeds of the gooma tree... love those arm spikes.
Just in time for halloween - Corporate zombie cube guys that glow in the dark - Please tell me you'll take action if my overworking leads me to be a laptop wielding zombie?
UnBeige on reading Fast Company's "DESIGN" issue --- But after reading the first line of the letter from the editor, we realized we really didn't have to: "It's official. We are present at the birth of a business fad." *groan*
Sony GPS CS1 - one of the nicest looking gps devices around ~ cool part is it syncs with your camera images. "your photos will be shown on an online map ... The GPS Unit records a location log every 15 seconds."
Executive Coloring Book - "This is my signature. It is big. it is hard to read. Some people have signatures that are easy to read. They never make over a hundred a week."
Skip Hop - they call it a line of Home and Nursery Essentials for the Modern Parent... i beg to differ. (see .com review) Incredible designs by Scott Henderson.
In #1633 Rugenius features the NYTimes Slideshow Feature... but that Bathboat is worth a full feature on its own... Wieki Somer's inverted boat turned bathtub.
Oh SwissMiss, you find the funniest things! Miles Burke's Web 2.0 Color Palette, even has a zip of a Photoshop Color Palette.... now where are the paint swatches? LOVE the naming.
WOW. Although apparently a vintage device, rugenius and i find this amazing tonight ~ go see more images of the great egg cuber packaging as well as video of it in action
Recycled bag roundup - i've just spent far too long digging up my favorite companies in the recycled bag genre (think firehoses, truck tarps, sailboat sails, parachutes, rice bags, sk8boards, etc). i'm up to 21!
Pete Fowler's new TRWG! (pronounced troog) is the go-to expert and insider on all manners of music produced on Monsterism Island. Coming in 10.5" vinyl in Nov.