This charming charlie.

I love it.

All images adapted from Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic series. All words adapted from Smiths lyrics written by Morrissey.

This charming charlie

Fashion Film.

"Sometimes i think to myself in french and listen to old records from the 60's." 

Thanks, Sami!

Alignment tee.

I spend more time with this tool than I care to admit. I should own this t-shirt. I've earned this t-shirt.

United Pixelworkers — Alignment by Evan Stremke

Lenticular Labeling.

I'm sure it's not exactly eco-friendly, but this is SUCH a smart idea. And could make for some really amazing packaging options.

Using a ‘lenticular’ label on their 100ml products allows for four unique info panels to be seen at different angles. This space saving technology makes for a graphically innovative travel sized solution.

Kevin Murphy: Lenticular Labeling | Trendland: Design Blog & Trend Magazine

Lion | Wallflower

Talk about a serious "wow" factor. A giant vinyl lion sticker. Love it.

Rawr.

Lion | Wallflower

Dove Screen Screen Print from Victoria Eggs

Dove Screen Screen Print from Victoria Eggs | Made By Victoria Eggs

A Breathing Earth

Mesmerizing and lovely. And made by a fellow midwestern User Experience professional. (Yay!)

Made possible by the tremendous folks of the NASA Visible Earth team, I downloaded the twelve cloud-free satellite imagery mosaics of Earth ("Blue Marble Next Generation") at each month of the year.  I wrapped them into some fun projections then stitched them together into a couple animated gifs... 

Having spent much of my life living near the center of that mitten-shaped peninsula in North America, I have had a consistent seasonal metronome through which I track the years of my life. When I stitch together what can be an impersonal snapshot of an entire planet, all of the sudden I see a thing with a heartbeat. 

UXBlog | IDV Solutions' User Experience: A Breathing Earth

make big mistakes.

It made me smile.

+ vintage letters on rustic twine, a vintage modern twist on bunting
+ enamel over metal lithographed letters

make big mistakes / vintage modern bunting by ohalbatross on Etsy

uusi animals.

All woody and cute and fab. I dig.

UPPTÄCKA Suitcase.

IKEA has luggage now? Yay! (I love that it folds flat for storage.)

Maybe it's time for a drive down to Illinois...

UPPTACKA Suitcase on wheels, collapsible - IKEA

Rectangular Wooden Beam Planter with Succulents.

A really lovely alternative to a floral arrangement.

This rustic succulent planter is made from a 100% recycled beam wood. It comes with and easy-to-care-for succulent arrangement inside. Planters vary.

Rectangular Wooden Beam Planter with Succulents | A+R Busch | Scoutmob Shoppe

Vintage Kellogg's Rice Krispies cereal box.

Minimal Rice Krispies. Sweet/

Vintage Kellogg's Rice Krispies cereal box - Doobybrain.com

Painted brick bookends.

Such a great DIY idea.

Light Reading Melbourne

(via Buzzfeed)

Projecteo – a tiny little Instagram projector.

Hee hee! And only $35 w/free shipping. Love it.

Projecteo is a miniature slide projector for your Instagrams. 

Using our unique process, we develop your Instagrams on to a single frame of 35mm Kodak film which we cut and set into a custom wheel. Each wheel holds nine images and is easily replaceable. Multiple wheels are also stackable for easy storage.

A single Projecteo measures 46 x 38 x 27 mm and each wheel is 33mm in diameter. A projector and wheel weighs in at a whopping 1.2oz.

Photo by Aleisha Balle / @prettymyluv

Projecteo

(via better living through design)

Paul Friedrich.

One of my favorite things about Comic Con every summer is checking out the illustrator section of the exhibit floor. The last two years, I've haven't been able to pass up Paul Friedrich's work. If you have a beloved nerd in your life, you might consider checking out Paul's etsy store.

Paul Friedrich by ilovepaul on Etsy

The amazing vegetable figures of the Lambeth Country Show 2013.

Oh, England. I do love you.

"Arty-choke’ featured a cabbage Charles Saatchi throttling a red pepper Nigella Lawson.

Patrick Moore – complete with leek telescope and vegetable mini solar system – and a Damian Hirst skull in pea format.

 The amazing vegetable figures of the Lambeth Country Show 2013 | Brixton Buzz

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Crystal Palace digs: before & after.

Ever since I first heard about the original Crystal Palace in London, I've been enamored by it. So, when I saw this post on Apartment Therapy about a woman who renovated the bathrooms of the old girl, I was completely giddy. So. Fab.

I've long admired the ingenuity of Londoners when it comes to small spaces. Their storied city of eight million has housing prices even higher than New York's, which means crafty Londoners often have to squeeze in wherever they can. (Case in point: this 77 square foot apartment on the market a few years ago for $335K.) But young architect Laura Clark really takes the cake. She's managed to create a beautiful home — out of a public restroom.

Read the rest here:
Before & After: From Public Restroom to Home Sweet Home The Telegraph | Apartment Therapy

Fliike.

This made me chuckle and grimace all at once. (Gruckle? Chimace?) Especially the price - $390??

The Fliike by design studio Smiirl, a French startup that's fond of double-vowel combinations, connects to your Facebook page over Wi-Fi and transmits your Likes in real time via a mechanical flip-board-type setup.

Braggadocious! Fliike, a physical counter for Facebook 'Likes' - CNET Asia

Word map of British Isles.

Although word maps are starting to feel a little tired these days, the more I look at this one, the more I like it. If you're an Anglophile, you might, too. Amazing detail.

Word map of British Isles | twentytwentyone

Create your own View-Master reels.

$30 for a View-Master and your own photo reel? Oh, HELL, yeah.

 

If you've picked up an original View-Master in the last few decades, chances are the images were shot by one man. Rich Dubnow(aka the Most Experienced 3D Photographer in the World) was lead photographer at View-Master for twenty years producing work for creative visionaries like Jim Henson and Steven Spielberg.

In 1997, Rich founded Image3D in the picturesque Pacific Northwest. Since then, we've grown from a kitchen table operation to a state-of-the-art facility producing custom-made 3D experiences for everyone from blushing brides to corporate titans.

...We have the patented Reel Builder. Customers are able to create custom, unique, and awe inspiring reels with their very own photographs. Our customers use them for everything from one-of-a-kind gifts, weddings, keepsakes, special announcements, portfolios, school projects, and more.


Image3D - View-Master

It's Hardly Noticeable | john william keedy

I'm completely in love with this photo series (which is clearly about OCD and anxiety). Even if you don't have the disorder, the tension in the photos is totally relatable and disturbing.

john william keedy

iPhone and Android Film Scanner.

Oh, man. I think I need this. I have boxes and boxes of negatives that could use a little love.

 

 
iPhone and Android Film Scanner - The Photojojo Store!

A tiny wooden steamship.

It actually works! Coo.

The ship has an engine – but an unusual type, one that manages without pistons, wheels or cylinders. It consists of a brass pipe and a tea candle. First fill the pipe with water. Then light the tea candle. When the water comes to the boil, it turns into steam and seeks to escape. This produces a partial vacuum in the pipe, which in turns sucks in fresh water. The force of the escaping steam being stronger than that of the incoming water, the ship is propelled in a forward direction – for some time, until the flame of the tea candle goes out.

Steamship with special Pulsation Engine - Manufactum

Tattly™ Traffic Cones

As someone who used to live eight min from work and now drives to the suburbs for work -- during the most ghastly Wisconsin construction season EVER -- I feel like I need these. As a badge of honor. Or badge of shame. Not sure which. Love 'em.

Tattly™ Designy Temporary Tattoos — Traffic Cones

Art Shay: The Sporting Life & Times

I could not be more proud of my bestie, Bradley, for his work on this video and the Art Shay exhibit tonight at HDC.

Art Shay: The Sporting Life and Times from Bradley Rochford on Vimeo.


Art Shay (b. 1922) is a photographer and writer who has captured and helped define the American experience for the better part of seven decades. After flying 52 combat missions during World War II, Shay took a job as a staff reporter at Life magazine. There he wrote a hundred anonymous stories and did time in the New York, Washington, San Francisco and Chicago bureaus, finally leaving to pursue his first love, photography. He was soon shooting pictures regularly for Sports Illustrated, Time, Life, Fortune, the Saturday Evening Post, Forbes, Business Week, Parade and The New York Times Magazine.

Since the opening in 1976 of Northbrook Court Mall in Northbrook, Illinois, Shay has been chronicling life at the mall. He is also working on a project on the life of The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan. Since the end of 2010, he has been writing a weekly photography blog “From the Vault of Art Shay” on Chicagoist.

Art Shay: The Sporting Life &Times

More here: The Sporting Life and Times: Art Shay, a legendary photojournalist at 91 years of age you must know | ISO 1200 Magazine | Photography Video blog for photographers

Artisinal Tinfoil Hats: my new favorite Kickstarter.

Artisanal Tinfoil Haberdashery by Master Haberdasher Patrick Blanchfield — Kickstarter

Tiny paint chip paintings by Seanna Hong

I'm genuinely embarrassed by how long this has been sitting in my blog queue. But, unlike most posts, I feel that, even though it's OFN, it's still worth posting. I love these tiny paintings on good ol' paint store color chips.

Seonna Hong: Selected Works 2011

via JeannieJeannie

Ummmm - I'm back.

Hullo? Is this thing on?

I'm sorry I've been so damned quiet as of late. It's because I've been in the throes of changing jobs after 16 YEARS. Daaaamn. My robot army and I just (well, almost three weeks ago now) moved from HDC to Bader Rutter & Associates - another agency here in the Milwaukee area. I'm now officially commuting from the east side to the 'burbs, which seriously bites, but the new job is ace.

Anyway, I'm happy to be settling into my new job and new life as a Senior UX Architect. Especially since I'm now reporting to my pal, Gretchen, who is, seriously, brilliant, but for some reason, kept sending me pictures of sexy gorillas and things like this before I started my new gig:

That's it. Just thought you deserved an explanation. Carry on.

How to fold a shirt in under 2 seconds.

 Okay, seriously. This is pretty amazing.



via Digg Videos

Rare color film of London in 1927.

My favorite city in the whole wide world looks spectacular in this little film.


In 1927 Claude Friese-Greene shot some of the first-ever color film footage around London. He captured everyday life in the city with a technique innovated by his father, called Biocolour.

Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927 | Death and Taxes

Book dustjacket allows readers to donate books to charity.

This is SOOOOO brilliant. I hope to see more of this!

 

Conceived through a collaboration between creative agency BMF and The Footpath Library charity, the idea is a fairly simple one – dust jackets are redesigned to include flaps that, when flipped around, turn into sturdy packaging that can be wrapped around the book and sealed. The reverse is pre-addressed with the details of The Footpath Library and the postage is pre-paid, although the retail price is slightly higher than standard books. Once they’ve been sent, the charity distributes the books to homeless and poor people who don’t have easy access to literature.

In Australia, dustjacket-envelopes encourage consumers to gift finished books to charity | Springwise