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Swoop Mini
Swoop (LEGO) bags now come in “mini“. Perfect for New York City sized apartments.
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Responsibility
“People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!” - Seth Godin Seth Godin spoke at last Friday’s CreativeMornings/NYC.
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♥ / SupaDupa’s NEW Design Features
A big thank you to SupaDupa for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed.
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Fables, Myths And Narratives: Converting Our Stories Into Multi-Screen Experiences

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What are your design principles?
Whether considering your own site or somebody else’s, how do you make decisions about its development? What are the underlying principles that inform your entire approach to web design?
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"Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals
An anonymous reader writes "Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said
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Some Mother’s Advice as Typography Posters
What’s the greatest advice your mom gave you? Mothers all over the world gave wisdoms and life lessons to their children as they grow up.
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The Question…
“The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?” - Seth Godin Seth Godin spoke at today’s CreativeMornings/NYC.
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Friday Link Pack
(Thank you Jen) - 23 Signs You’ve Lived In New York City Too Long. #18 made me laugh out loud. - What a beauty of a vintage vehicle: Messerschmitt KR200 Kabinenroller.
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Humor and Creativity
“A growing body of research shows that when you share a laugh with someone, you’re mirroring not only one another’s body language, but also the hormonal and neuronal activity, prompt
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LinuxDevices.com Vanishes From the Web
DeviceGuru writes "Embedded Linux pioneer LinuxDevices.com departed from the web earlier this week.
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Peppers Seem To Protect Against Parkinson's
DavidHumus writes "A recent study indicates that consuming vegetables from the Solanaceae family, which includes tomatoes and peppers (as well as tobacco), decreases the risk of contracting Parkinson'
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Hubble Discovers 'Planetary Graveyard' Around White Dwarf
astroengine send this interesting excerpt from Discovery: "The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered rocky remains of planetary material 'polluting' the atmospheres of two white dwarfs — a sign
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Obama Announces Open Data Policy With Executive Order
In an overdue but welcome move, President Obama today issued an executive order mandating "open and machine-readable data" for government-published information.
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Who’s your Favorite Illustrator?
Hey twitter-verse, who is your favorite illustrator? Trying to find new talented folks.
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Humans of New York
Brandon takes photos of strangers in New York and then posts the images on Humans of New York. Simply wonderful.
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Learn How To Code
This video by code.org is talking about the “superpower” that isn’t being taught in in 90% of US schools.
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Freelancing, popups and performance
This week on the Boagworld podcast it’s all about the performance of your site, changing your career and discussing the fact that pop-ups just never seem to die.
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♥ / Squarespace
Squarespace provides everything you need to create an exceptional website for you or your business, all within a single platform.
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Featured Artist: The Inky World of Johanna Basford
Pen, ink and paper. Three of the most common tools that every creative person uses.
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Agile web design and the agency model
Most organisations think in terms of web projects, but successful websites like GOV.UK are developed through ongoing iterative and agile development.
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Friends of Bob Newman
Regular readers will know of New York-based editorial designer Bob Newman, the man behind the Newmanology site and source of daily Facebook archive finds.
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Adobe reformiert sich munter weiter
Immer wieder News von unser aller Lieblingskreativsoftwaremacher Adobe!
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Judge Asks IRS, Feds to Investigate Copyright-Trolling Attorneys
Using terms like "brazen conduct and relentless fraud," a federal judge on Monday sanctioned attorneys running a BitTorrent copyright lawsuit factory, and recommended federal prosecutors investigate f
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Video: Hairy Tongue Helps Hovering Bats Suck Up Nectar
Nectar-feeding bats may have the most dynamic tongues in the mammal world, according to a new study.
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Intel Introduces Silvermont to Battle ARM in Mobile
As the mobile market continues to grow, Intel is going after ARM. For real this time.
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David Heymann: Please Save Modernism (and the Folk Art Museum) from the Modern
On Places, David Heymann makes the case for why the Folk Art Museum is a great modernist building — and why the Museum of Modern Art should reverse its decision to tear it down.
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Celebrate Star Wars Day With These Cool Infographics
Happy Star Wars Day everyone!
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This week on Dezeen
in Design Observer: Main Posts On this episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman talks to Wendy MacNaughton and Caroline Paul about their first book collaboration, Lost Cat; Wendy's journey from advertising to Rwanda to illustratio
Debbie Millman: Wendy MacNaughton and Caroline Paul audio interview on Design Matters
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OBlog: The Craft of Design
American Craft's special 2013 design issue is available online or as an iPad app. in Dezeen in Dezeen in Dezeen in Dezeen in Design Observer: Main Posts "Change of State" — a site specific projection on the facade of the New Museum during Ideas City Festival, Saturday, May 4th, 2013.
Tiny robotic insect takes flight
Floating table by Ingo Maurer for Established & Sons
JDS Architects reveals green office complex for Istanbul
Job of the week: interior designer/architect at Gundry & Ducker
OBlog: Change of State
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Holstee Letterpress Card
Type designer Dave Foster created this beautiful letterpress card with a line from the Holstee Manifesto. Beautiful!
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Reasons Why Designers Enjoy Freelancing
If you are a designer or artist who rely on your creative work to provide for a living for your family, then you might not …
in Boagworld This week on the Boagworld show, awful accents asking about sprites, the thing all non ux people should know and working with long term clients.Sprites, UX advice and long term clients
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You! Be Inspired! — The Smallest Movie by IBM
Just yesterday IBM with their smallest movie entitled “A Boy and His Atom” took the Guinness World Records title of The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film.
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Move Over Apple - Samsung Files For a Patent On Page Turn
Nate the greatest writes "Remember last year when Apple received a patent on the faux page curl in iBooks? Lots of people laughed at the idea that Apple could patent the page turn, but not Samsung.
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Australia's Mandatory Data Breach Notification Bill Revealed
mask.of.sanity writes "Australia's plans for a data breach notification scheme have been revealed which will force organizations to report serious breaches to affected victims.
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Siri and Google Glasses herald a new era on the web
For the longest time the web community has been heralding the arrival of mobile. Now that it has hit the mainstream and turned the industry upside down, what will the next evolution of the web be?


