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modern children
Local indie pop band Modern Children gives you the positive vibe and tunes that is refreshing, young and jolly! They are holding their debut concert Come Come Com Sun Live on 14 January 2012 at Hang Out in Sai Wan Ho, The Pancakes will be there as well! Get their 10 songs album on iTune store by entering the band name.
packaging malcom
I have read most of Malcom Gladwell’s work and got pretty inspired by him. Now I am further inspired by his work because 3 of his books got redesigned! Brian Rea illustrates and Paul Sahre designs it. It’s a brilliant joint project linking the brilliant minds.
Via The Dieline
puma plays ping pong
Behold the Puma Blackout Ping Pong Table. It’s an idea we’ve had brewing for ages but glad to see that New York-based Aruliden has done a nice job of giving our favourite past time a slick new look. It’s sounds like something we’d want in our studio with its angular black ash wood legs, a matte black laminate surface with a white powder-coated metal frame and a steel mesh net — it also includes two paddles and a set of balls. The only downside is that it has no wheels. Each one is custom made-to-order via Conran Shop.
new year reading wish list
Each new year I will put together a new book list for the year to come and Designing for Emotion which just launched last October 2011 gets a space in my list. It’s a book on website design written by Aaron Walter who is the User Experience Lead at MailChimp. An excerpt of the book explains much better than anything I write. “A Brief History of Personality in Design. We have a history of injecting personality into the things we make, in a bid to make mechanical things more human. When Johannes Gutenberg—goldsmith and father of the printing press—experimented with movable type in the mid-fifteenth century, the human hand inspired him. Before the printing press, scribes—usually monks—painstakingly penned each page of religious manuscripts by hand with quill and ink. Transcribing a bible was a sacred duty, as the scribe was thought to be channeling a divine message. For this reason, the hand’s presence in these manuscripts has great spiritual importance.”
I hope you would also compile your reading list as reading is still one of the most mind-changing platform to feel inspired! Happy reading in year 2012!