FINDINGS Here’s a beautiful deleted scene from Walt Disney’s Fantasia. This is one of my favorite classical music pieces by Claude Debussy. This popular piece of music was written in the 1890s and still continues to pop up in movie scores today…Twilight, Oceans 13, Atonement just to name a few.
FINDINGS I have horrible posture and being at the computer literally 24/7 doesn’t help my back. I was searching online to see if there were any widgets that could remind me take a break ever so often. I found a few. I’m currently trying the RSIguard.
FINDINGS The Avant Garde Preschool sponsored by Partners & Spade is a workshop that encourages children to make their own mark by drawing with Karen Kimmel’s nature inspired stencils. The workshop focuses on the discovery and integration of abstract thinking and promotes the exploration of color, share, and form. I’m loving the logo mark, too!
FINDINGS Those of you who get the Ikea Catalog in the mail might already be fuming with anger. If you’ve noticed, they decided to switch it up a little and change their iconic usage of Futura to the slightly less popular typeface, Verdana. Yucky. “I think it’s mainly experts who have expressed their views, people who are interested in fonts. I don’t think the broad public is that interested.” – Ikea Spokeswoman.
FINDINGS The Royal Mail has unveiled a series of stamps to celebrate the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games. What do you guys think of the designs?
FINDINGS Just came across this lovely blog. They feature a lot of really great illustrators.
FINDINGS Sweet Meats is the brainchild of Lauren Venell, a San Francisco product designer with butchers on both sides of her family. These awesome meat pillows are handmade in limited editions of 600 and 300 pieces respectively. You can even match them with some meat rugs if you wanna go all out.
FINDINGS If you get the New York Times, you might have noticed a very lovely poster created by GOOD in collaboration with 3rd Generation Prius. Check out their interactive website designed by For Office Use Only. “It’s a look at how different facets of the world—from energy to education to sustenance—affect each other, and how we can keep things in balance.”
