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The Making of John Mayer’s Born & Raised Artwork by David A Smith (video by Danny Cooke)
Inspiration to slow down.
Bin and his partners have created an amazing, extremely useful tool to create beautiful Craigslist ads. Their project is now on kickstarter and only need $2,925.00 (thanks to my starter donation of $75!) to go to get funded and keep it free!
For anyone that’s ever tried to sell or buy anything on CL, this is something that we’ve all been waiting for. Please show the project some love.
Kickstarter: Beautiful Craigslist Ads
As some of you know, I recently moved into a new house and have been really happy with the move but prior to that, there were a few months of searching that made me want to tear my hair out.I decided to do something about it so I’ve been working on a project with some friends to make Craigslist ads better and better-looking. This will be a free and easy form that anyone can use to create beautiful craigslist ads that have all the necessary information included and laid out so you know exactly what you’re getting.
What I thought would be a quick and simple exercise in design has grown to be much more and we’ve gotten obsessive with the details, paring everything down to just what you need. I’m hoping that once we solve real estate rentals, this will translate to other parts of Craigslist. I’m happy to announce that we’re close to launching it now.
If you choose to back this Kickstarter for Beautiful Craigslist Ads, know that it will be going towards server costs (EC2 baby!) and anything left over will go to Helen’s snack fund. It’d mean a lot to me if you reblogged and help spread the word!
Oh yeah, we made some cool stickers as part of the rewards:
(via youmightfindyourself)
Wish List: Self Watering Planter by Joey Roth
Joey Roth is on the list of my favorite contemporary designers.
His Ceramic Speakers are still on my wish list, and his latest self-watering planter just got added to my list as well.
“The planter’s naturally porous earthenware allows water in the central chamber to seep into the surrounding soil. The plant’s need for water regulates this capillary action.”
Buy This: TooLs 2012: Real stuff for future classics
I made a trip to midtown yesterday to one of my favorite stores, Kinokuiya, to stock up on some Japanese magazines and books. I was also hunting down the elusive Bear Pond Espresso book, which is sadly out of print and could not be special ordered.
The trip wasn’t in vain though as I picked up the latest edition of TooLs.
TooLs is one of my favorite book series by HUZINE, the publishing offshoot of Japanese Men’s Fashion magazine HUgE.
TooLs bills itself as a users guide book of 365 items, ranging from socks to inflatable rafts to desk lamps. The editors introduce the book with the set of criteria they used to choose the objects.
“An item is listed in the guidebook if it is defined as:
1. Useful as a tool
2. Relevant to creation
3. High quality or right cost
4. Easily handled
Guidebook Policy with suppliers and users:
The guidebook has no influence by suppliers, except for supplying accurate information in exchange. Our responsibility is to the CATALOG users and the goodness of tools that connects one another.
Current Information:
Please bear in mind some products may have sold out or had to stop production for various reasons, such as matter of season or lack of materials. Also, prices are subject to ups and downs. Prices, addresses, suppliers, and all access information re as current as the most recent printing date. “
What I love about this series is not only the variety (here you see a classic varsity jacket along with some plastic buckets), but the catalogs ability to reshape what you consider great design. Any publication can put together a list of fancy items with high price tags to wow readers, but those lists become irrelevant in the context of function because of their price (i.e. it is no longer useful if the people that it is intended for cannot purchase it).
It took me a while to figure out what they meant by “relevant to creation” (Rule 2). It didn’t hit me until I saw these Japanese Safety Helmets (my favorite item in the book) when I realized it was just a slight translation hiccup. Is the item a creative new design? Yes. Not only that, the helmets do what they were designed to do (Rule 1), are the right cost at around $37US (Rule 3) and are easy to handle because they stack easy without slipping like round helmets (Rule 4).
The book ends with a list of places where each item can be purchased, though as noted in the introduction, some items might be harder to get than others.
I highly recommend you tracking this book down if you’re a design geek like me. Though it might be hard to find outside of Japan at its retail price (about $19USD), you can pick it up at Kinokuiya for $29.
