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Reinventing the Camera Strap

“Cam­era slings aren’t new, they’ve just got­ten pop­u­lar in recent years. When we set out to make the Loop, we chal­lenged our­selves to sur­pass every aspect of exist­ing cam­era slings and make some­thing bet­ter…”

Mayfair Steamer Secretary Trunk

Tim­o­thy Oul­ton’s May­fair Steam­er Sec­re­tary Trunk opens into a full-fea­tured sec­re­tary equipped with a pull-down desk­top, mul­ti­ple draw­ers, cub­bies, wire man­age­ment, and book­shelves.

Type Desk Welcomes Yoko Sakao Ohama

Yoko joins Type Desk to report from New York on design and log­i­cal process. Log­i­cal as apposed to illog­i­cal. Hav­ing worked with Yoko, I guar­an­tee it’s a priv­i­lege to expe­ri­ence Yoko’s “log­i­cal process.” Wel­come aboard Yoko!

WANTED: Graphic Designers + a Ruby or Python Programmer

I’m search­ing for tal­ent to fill five posi­tions: (1) a full time graph­ic design­er (web & print), (2) a con­tract or free­lance graph­ic design­er (web & print), (3) a con­tract or free­lance pack­age design­er, (4) a free agent graph­ic design­er (web & mobile), and (5) a free agent Ruby...

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Typographic Keyboard Layout

Typ­ing ×, or any oth­er spe­cial char­ac­ter, takes a frac­tion of the time it used to with Ilya Birman’s Typog­ra­phy Key­board Lay­out. Beware it will adjust some key­board short­cuts, but switch­ing back to your old lay­out will fix it. Link via mul­ti­ple sources

Helvetica Moleskine

If only Swiss bank accounts were what they used to be, I’d go old school and keep record in one of these Hel­veti­ca Mole­sk­ines. Link via i love typog­ra­phy → nubbytwiglet.com

TDR Book Release Party

Join us to cel­e­brate the release of The Typo­graph­ic Desk Ref­er­ence, Fri­day March 20th, 5:30 – 9:00 pm at Atlanta’s (con­text)…

Gepostet von Stani’s €5 Font

The Dutch Min­istry of Finance orga­nized an archi­tec­ture com­pe­ti­tion for which a select­ed group of archi­tec­tur­al offices and artists were invit­ed to design a 5 euro coin around the con­cept of “Nether­lands and Archi­tec­ture.” Gepostet von Stani’s win­ning design ren­ders the tra­di­tion­al por­trait of the queen with a list of...

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Gepostet von Stani’s €5 Font

The Dutch Min­istry of Finance orga­nized an archi­tec­ture com­pe­ti­tion for which a select­ed group of archi­tec­tur­al offices and artists were invit­ed to design a 5 euro coin around the con­cept of “Nether­lands and Archi­tec­ture.” Gepostet von Stani’s win­ning design ren­ders the tra­di­tion­al por­trait of the queen with a list of...

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Objectified

At a screen­ing of Hel­veti­ca in Atlanta, direc­tor Gary Hus­twit said if you want to meet peo­ple you admire, make a doc­u­men­tary about them. True words of wis­dom. Gary’s newest project is Objec­ti­fied, a doc­u­men­tary film on indus­tri­al design. It pre­mieres ear­ly 2009.

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RIP Bill Stumpf

“…there is more risk in copy­ing than there is in inno­vat­ing. In oth­er words, there’s more risk dwelling over gra­tu­itous dif­fer­ences than there is try­ing to cre­ate real dif­fer­ences.” Bill Stumpf, Co-Design­er of the Aeron Chair, passed away at 70, on August 30, 2006.

DANISH – framing the future of design

Just open­ing at the Dan­sk Design Cen­ter in Copen­hagen, “DANISH – fram­ing the future of design” will be show­ing from 22 Jun 2005 — 13 Nov 2005. Exhi­bi­tions at the DDC are always inspir­ing.

Copenhagen International Furniture fair

My favorite stop for all things design, Copen­hagen is hold­ing the Copen­hagen Inter­na­tion­al Fur­ni­ture Fair at the Bel­la Cen­ter from the 19 — 22 May 2005. Among some of the exhibitors are Bang & Olufsen A/S, Boli Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed, Cube Design A/S, Habi­tat and WHERE2GO.

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