Incredible Carved Book Landscape Sculptures by Guy Laramee.
Month: July 2012
Now that just about everyone is in the business of selling their time in some form, it’s important to be aware that even if something doesn’t cost you cash out of your wallet, the opportunity cost is not only real, it’s just as valuable. Not only does it cost money to say ‘no’, it costs money to say ‘yes’.
Seth Godin, Opportunity cost
Minimalistic Pixar Poster Series
I love everything about these movies. How great is it that a hint of a taste of portion of an image from a Pixar movie can evoke an emotional response?
(via DESIGN FETISH)
Techno life skills
Kevin Kelly:
If you are in school today the technologies you will use as an adult tomorrow have not been invented yet. Therefore, the life skill you need most is not the mastery of specific technologies, but mastery of the technium as a whole — how technology in general works. I like to think of this ability to deal with any type of new technology as techno-literacy.
He goes on to list the key skills needed to be minimally techno-literate as well as the ones needed to thrive in a technologically evolving society.
Coffee houses were the distracting social media of the 1600s
Coffee houses were the distracting social media of the 1600s
Tom Standage:
With the promise of a constant and unpredictable stream of news, messages and gossip, coffeehouses offered an exciting and novel platform for sharing information. So seductive was this new social environment — you never knew what you might learn on your next visit, or who you might meet — that coffeehouse denizens found themselves whiling away hours in reading and discussion, oblivious to the passage of time.
Social media today is not about the hot new site. The coffee-house social media of the 1600s were not about the coffee. What makes it social is that people with diverse points of view and varying knowledge convene and converse in public.
Cover Story
A random assortment of book covers from the Book Cover Archive never fails to inspire.
Suitty-up, booty-up, billa-be-do-do-da
Do-da be-de-da, da-da, da-da-da
I love this song.
In my personal paracosm, this tune would come on in the background whenever I start working. I’d be so productive.
Do people still use pens?
For those who constantly forget to wear their Post-it watches, and like to take down notes on their desks, Milan-based design firm SoupStudio created an almost-ideal workstation for designers that always give you access to reminders and free doodling space.
http://designtaxi.com/news/352796/For-Designers-To-Constantly-Doodle-A-Giant-Post-it-Note-Desk/
Wes Anderson – “My Life, My Card” (AmEx Commercial)
I will never ever ever get sick of this.
Ever.