Twitter Roundup: Week of 9 February.
Another daily serving of six tweets on issues related to brand, design, and sustainability. We were again taken aback by the outside interest in our little project, with mentions from some of our favorite sources; Ben Pieratt's The Book Cover Archive, i love typography, Dropular and others. We found Studio On Fire's fine new(er) blog, plus a couple of intriguing books and some sound insight from Johnson Banks' Michael Johnson and IDEO's Tim Brown. We announced an upcoming event with our friends at Substance and we reveled in surpassing the 1k mark in followers of the Twitter feed (watch out, Stephen Fry!). As always, we extend a special thanks to you for the opportunity to deliver a little chest-beating about the goings-on at Pinch. A Design Office. We're so very pleased you're listening.
- Press:
- Minneapolis design/letterpress house, Studio On Fire, has a sweet new Weblog; Beast Pieces. Well, it's new to us.
- Admire:
- London's STUDIOaka is an animation production company known internationally for its idiosyncratic works. Visit.
- Study:
- Big. Medium. Small. Does the size of a client have a greater bearing on a working relationship than what it does?
- Fill:
- The Pattern Foundry is an archive of decorative patterns, open for anyone to license and use. A handy resource.
- Reside:
- We've shared our enthusiasm about Form & Forest; modern, modular, bite-sized cabins. Join their list for more.
- Trickle:
- Dropular is media bookmarking based on an idea of a droplet contributing to a pool. Discover, remember, share.
- Devour:
- If you're not periodically checking into Jeffrey Ladd's 5B4, you're missing out on some mighty fine materials.
- Launch:
- Papressblog reports on Leven Betts: Pattern Recognition book event tonight at Parsons The New School for Design.
- Peruse:
- We have our favorite sources for modern design (furniture and accessories). And Nova68 is certainly one of them.
- Plan:
- If you're in (or around) Portland in early March, join Pinch and our friends at Substance for Show and Tell PDX.
- Strip:
- We don't usually cite the same source twice in one week, but Brand New shares that Air France Sheds Some Stripes.
- Commit:
- IDEO's Tim Brown on The Girl Effect, Davos, the Nike Foundation, Ms. Eitel and the UN Foundation. Social impact.
- Compliment:
- Ben Pieratt's The Book Cover Archive picks up on Pinch's work for publisher Hawthorne Books. Take a look.
- Measure:
- "No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended." Adrian Forty
- Appreciate:
- Thanks to you, we're blushing a bit about recently eclipsing 1,000 followers with @Pinch_Bespoke. Let us know how we're doing.
- Balance:
- Scott Edward Anderson (from The Green Skeptic) "On Ideas, Status, Conversation, and Flow: Life and Twitter."
- Ponder:
- Michael Johnson (of Johnson Banks) goes skinny for Design Week. What, really, is the purpose of today's Web?
- Chronicle:
- Swissmiss shares a gift from Sam Potts. A little book of Obama's speech after the Reverend Wright dustup.
- Spec:
- Helvetica: The face all print men are talking about. (Are you?) Helvetica Trade Advertising, 1966. Via @FontBlog.
- Reflect:
- How we love the internets! India, Ink provides a pat and poses questions about Pinch's typographic standards.
- Sustain:
- Another take on "competition". Can it create conservation? The Corporate Carbon Challenge. Via Worldchanging.
- Comment:
- The conversation continues. Fast Company weighs in lightly on designers and crowdSPRING. Democratizing Design?
- Build:
- The Maxxi National Modern Art museum in Rome is the first Italian project by Zaha Hadid. To be completed in 2009.
- Rebrand:
- "The Wrong Kind of Breathtaking" looks at another side of Arnell Group's redesign of the Pepsi logo. Brand New.
- Position:
- Stephen Bau's Fluid 960 Grid System provides a valuable tool for rapid interactive prototyping. Start here.
- Curate:
- Smarthistory is an enhancement (perhaps, a substitute) for the static traditional Western art history textbook.
- Relate:
- "Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful, we project meaning onto it in daily life." Karim Rashid, designer.
- Opine:
- The Designer's Review of Books assesses Gestalten's physical environment offering, Tangible: High Touch Visuals.
- Plug:
- Fixies beware. Gordon Kanki Knight on e-bikes for I.D. magazine. Yamaha, Panasonic, and Andrea Pininfarina's e-Solex.
- Blush:
- We've long been fans of The Week in Type from i love typography. This week, Pinch gets a little love from above.