Links for 10/01/09

Um, Martha, Oprah already OWNS Twitter. LINK

Twitter to add Lists feature, soon. LINK

Incubate Innovation Lecture by Andrew Keen – video. LINK

New Music Label trolls YouTube for popular talent. LINK

This person who DID get a Google Wave invite, offers some insight. LINK

An Agency shares thoughts on their failed pitch. LINK

Bro! Some dude named Kimmel, maybe Jimmy’s bro, wrote a book on our prolonged adolescence. Party! LINK

Sculptors, photographed with their sculptures. LINK

An illustrator made an animated reel of his work to be attractive (maybe he should do animation?). LINK

David Lachapelle directed a video for Heatherette and Mac, it features the transsexual icon Amanda Lepore, (insert yawn here). LINK

“Community” needs to be redefined. LINK

The end of neighborhood boutiques? Has it all gone online? LINK

Tracey Baran, photographer who passed away recently at 32, exhibition at Leslie Tonkonow Gallery. LINK

Links for 9/24/09

Concept Feedback: A new crowd-sourced design critique engine (in case you miss your art school days). LINK

The Greg Brady Project (official blog of Greg Williams): LINK

How to Be a Better Brand Planner (BrandTwist): Many agencies talk a good game about striving to understand their client’s business. LINK

Andrei Codrescu: Growing Up The IPod Way (NPR, hat-tip to AshleyRenee21): The treadmill and the iPod are for my generation what the hammer and the sickle were for the early Bolsheviks — articles of faith. LINK

Law & Order Cast Gather To Celebrate 20 Years (All Things Law and Order): Cast members of Law & Order gathered on September 23 in New York City to celebrate their 20th season. LINK

A Teaching Moment for Lilly Allen (TechDirt): “…thanks to today’s technology, it’s quite easy for people to infringe while doing what they think is a good and reasonable thing.” LINK

Links for 9/23/09

Paul Smith for evian! (Style Couch): Sir Paul Smith designed a bottle for evian. LINK

E.Coli Cleans Up Nuclear Waste Cheaply, Efficiently (We Designs): E. Coli does more than just make people sick — it can also be used to clean up nuclear waste, according to researchers at Birmingham University. LINK

Luxury Marketers Move Online but Most Lack Digital Cunning (Fresh Blog):  According to a new study, only 33% of luxury brands were selling online a year ago, but the recession has had a profound effect, as 66% of luxury brands are now peddling their wares on the web. LINK

Marketers to Spend More on Virtual Events and Social Media in 2010 (Small Business Labs): 75% plan to increase their use of social media. LINK

Jean Paul Gaultier for Target? (Style List): “Sources” leaked that the next Target Designer Collaboration Series may be the one and only Parisian chic Jean Paul Gaultier. LINK

The state of design in 2009 (Design Notes): It would be too easy to bash istock photo for treating logos as a cheap commodity. They’ve just announced they’re going to sell them for five bucks. LINK

iStockphoto Will Soon Start Selling Stock Logos, Too (TechCrunch): …the company announced that it will soon start facilitating stock logo sales through its online marketplace. LINK

Arts tax receives criticism (Daily Penn): “It’s a profoundly stupid idea,” said Edward Epstein, executive director of the University City Arts League, a nonprofit organization dedicated to arts education. LINK

Scientists Believe Life Emerged from a Process of “Creative Destruction” and Global Warming (Art Diamond Blog): “(p. A9) In a paradox of creation, new evidence suggests that devastating avalanches of cosmic debris may have fostered life on Earth, not annihilated it.” LINK

Links for 9/22/09

Lego Block Digital Camera (Gommmi Arcade): Lego has announced that they are collaborating with Digital Blue on a line of electronics goods for children including digital cameras and walkie talkies. LINK

The Impossible Project (The Impossible project): The folks who are bringing back polaroid film. LINK

Nielsen, Facebook: Social networking as consumer attitude tracker (ZDNet): Nielsen and Facebook said Tuesday that they have forged a strategic alliance to use the social networking site as a research tool to gauge consumer attitudes and buying intentions. LINK

Can PR ride the Google Wave? (My Media Info): Google Wave, to be released to 100,000 members of the public on September 30. LINK

Real keyboard for iPhones (Traffic Synergy): As we know the iPhone does not have a physical keyboard, however a new attachment has been designed to combat this problem. LINK

The Camper Bike (Senses Lost): The Camper Bike is a great concept, designed by artist Kevin Cyr. He built the Camper Bike in 2008, though there isn’t much information about his creation. Below is a sketch that shows what the interior might look like. LINK

LinkedIn’s changes to personal home page resembles Facebook (Robert Stanke): It looks like LinkedIn made a small, but impactful, change last night to a logged in member’s personal home page. LINK

Is your brain grass or a glass? (MizMercer): Larry Ferlazzo did a post on an interesting lesson he did with his students to get them to think about their own brains. LINK

Links for 9/21/09

Social Capital as part of GDP? (Social Capital Blog): French President Sarkozy’s blue-chip Commission recommends measuring social capital. LINK

World’s ten greatest large urban parks (Infrastructurist): Everyone knows what a urban park looks like, right? LINK

Dell Expands Services in $3.9 Billion Perot Deal (NYTimes): Dell, seeking growth, moves away from hardware and into people-power. LINK

Record Labels Dominate YouTube Views (Contentinople): Record labels are responsible for nearly two thirds of the most-viewed videos on YouTube. LINK

Twitter: A Vampire That Can Legally Suck the Life Out of You (AdAge): The Latest Changes to Its Terms of Service Make Clear the True Price of Using the Microblogging Platform. LINK

Study: Stay-at-home moms dominate social media (Content to Commerce): Mothers with children at home are more likely to use social media than any other average person. LINK

The End of Oil = The End of Suburbia (Grencrawler): 75% of Americans live in suburbs.  We have reached peak oil, and we are now entering a decline in oil production.  Putting these two statements together, what do we get? LINK

ikea catalog: 1965 (The Function Key): LINK

Links for 9/18/09

The Frankencamera (via Paul M. Watson): an open-source (code and hardware design) digital camera from Stanford. LINK

Weekend Reading – The Seeds of the Next Boom? (Total Rewards Blog): The Wall Street Journal
has a great article that discusses one of the positive impacts of the implosion of Wall Street and the so-called Great Recession – the redirection of talented minds into new fields and ventures. LINK

Edward de Bono on creative thinking – Video (veryeasycreativity.com): Edward de Bono, renowned expert on creative thinking, talks about creativity and about thinking outside the box. LINK

What Is Convertising? (The Relationship Economy): With the emergence of social media the audience is expressing it’s dislike of mass media and a preference for “social media”. LINK

Planning for Shrinking Cities (Polis): Today, every sixth city in the world can be defined as a shrinking city. In the United States, these were once the dominant cities of the country… LINK

Live RB2AB: Zoning for the Arts – Cleveland (Rustwire): “Under the live-work zoning, all parking and yard requirements are eliminated. At least 50% of the space must be dedicated to workspace. Although traditional residential zoning will allow home-based work, it does not allow the resident to sell items out of the home. Live-work spaces are designed for the creative entrepreneur.” LINK

A peek inside illustrator “Thumbs” O’Neill’s molsekine notebook (”Thumbs” O’Neill): LINK

What works with small businesses and what doesn’t? (to: communication): Neat graph illustrating Estimated Relative Cost/Lead/Channel. LINK

“Slacktivists” (Uniquely the Epitome): First we heard of the term. LINK

say what? a forkless bike?! (dailyvitamins.com): yes, it’s a forkless bike. LINK

Links for 9/17/09

Find Opportunity in Adversity (Center for Creative Leadership): 9 bullet-points to help ease the transition into the post-recession economy. LINK

Value of Arts and Culture Redefined – Video (Creatively Curious): John Holden (formerly of Demos) describes the expanding and interrelated reach of arts and culture… LINK

Funding Photojournalism in the Future (Gizmotastic): Thoughts on The Digital Journalist’s editorial titled How to Start to Save Photojournalism. LINK

The Cover design of the new Dazed & Confused Magazine (via Flickr): LINK

Internet Users Spend Majority Of Time With Content Sites (WebProNews): “…up from 34 percent of total time spent in 2003 to 42 percent in 2009, a 24 percent increase.” LINK

Is this an illustration of the PDN Expo? (ekbo): A Tatsuro Kiuchi illustration. LINK

Designer users soundwaves to form table top (Dudecraft): Designer Daniel Dendra used the recorded sounds of the streets in Cairo to create the CNC milling patterns for this incredible tabletop. LINK

Designing Obama — The Book (Simple Station): The design director for Barack Obama has published a book. LINK

Links for 9/16/09

Love is the new black (via so-fauxreal.com): Simple poster with text. LINK

Walkability: Measuring Urban Quality of Life (via Downtown Suites News- Vancouver): This web-based tool allows you to assign a walkable score to a residence, in order to gauge quality-of-life:  LINK

Whuffie Bank (Uniquely the Epitome): A nonprofit organization dedicated to building a new currency based on reputation that could be redeemed for real and virtual products and services. LINK

20 Free Wordpress Themes with Premium-like functionality (ClickLogin): Wordpress is a great blogging platform, these themes (templates) allow you to have a more robust web-presence with an easy to use CMS. LINK

Video: Old Amsterdam -1949 (CitySkip): 6-minute video (MGM travel-film) of Amsterdam in 1949. LINK

Chicago’s Underworld (designslinger.com): Chicago city planners decided to clean up the city’s dingy, dirty riverfront in the early part of the 20th century… LINK

Coupé Concept by Mini (dezeen.com): Car brand Mini will launch a coupé concept car at the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung, which opens tomorrow in Frankfurt, Germany. LINK

Bill Organizer for your Desk (Pretty Little Things): Slots, numbered chronologically to match the calendar. LINK

The Business of Design Talks (The London Design Festival): Listing of the available seminars. LINK

Human 2.0 vs. Web 2.0 (edocumentsciences.spaces.live.com): Can we actually handle all this stuff that we create?  Have we evolved or are we still at Human 1.0? LINK

The Mosquito Bike (aarting):”…a lightweight and attractive E- Bike suitable for urban places. The motor is powered by lithium batteries…” LINK

Facebook Crosses 300 Million Users. Oh Yeah, And They Just Went Cash Flow Positive (TechCrunch): The title says it all. LINK

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NBC Universal Seeking Another Round of Voluntary Buyouts from News Staff (NYO): “…NBC Universal executives have approached a large number of employees…announcing that the company is looking for unspecified number of staffers to take voluntary buyouts  LINK

We’re going to start posting (mostly) daily links of articles/posts/findings we’re either reading or thought were worth noting. These used to go into our “Shorts” section within our sidebar, but we’re going to try fitting them into one daily post.

A New Home for Martha (WWD.com): As her contract with Sears (KMART) expires Martha will be creating new products for The Home Depot. LINK

Planetizen Unveils Its Top 100 Urban Thinkers (SF.STREETSBLOG.COM): Jane Jacobs, the author of The Life and Death of Great American Cities takes the top spot. Her nemesis, Robert Moses, comes in at #23. LINK

Mario Testino’s portfolio of Lady Gaga (Touch Puppet): Testino continues to mine the collective pop-psyche, seeking to make “hip” imagery. LINK

Interview with Design Lab jury member David Fisher (Electrolux Website): David Fisher is the Design Director of Seymourpowell, the internationally-renowned product design consultancy based in London. LINK

Top 10 Fall Trends 2009: Punk Rock (King Boutique): Studs, zippers, skinny black pants, leggings, leather jackets, are all back in for the season. LINK

Living Root Bridges (Living Root Bridges): The living bridges of Cherrapunji, India are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree. LINK

Condé Nast execs to make big cuts, insiders say (Crains New York): The staff of Conde properties await the other shoe to drop. LINK

A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City (WSJ): David Byrne proposed the parts to a perfect city. LINK

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