What mode of communication should I use?

What mode of communication should I use? 

Should I Check my Email?

Should I Check my Email? A flowchart by Wendy MacNaughton for a Forbes article on how and why to ignore your inbox.

Sugru Hacking Putty

I don’t know about your iPhone cables but mine break, right where the cable attaches to the connector. The guys over at  Holstee found a perfect hack: SUGRU PUTTY.

Team SUGRU (gaelic for play) was tired of not being able to fix broken gadgets, so they developed SUGRU, a moldable silicone that is sticky like Super-Glue and fun to use like Play-Doh:

1) Roll it to warm it up
2) Mold it the way you want it
3) Let it cure for 24 hours

Stoppy Doorstop

Stoppy is such a cool-looking doorstop that it will stop doors dead in their tracks. Oh, wait…
Available at The Container Store or Amazon.

Email Closing Lines

This blog post is a few years old but still timely: Liz Danzico makes us think about our Email Closing Lines.

How to Work Better

It’s the »How to Work Better« Mural is by Swiss artists Fischli & Weiss and covers an office building in Zurich-Oerlikon. You can prominently see it from the train when you get into Zurich station.

The Market Bag by Linus

The Market Bag by Linus is beautiful and functional. Perfect for the market or a sleep over, carry it in with a shoulder strap, or roll up the sides when not in use.

Tianmen Mountain Restaurant by Liu Chongxiao

A triangulated glass and steel restaurant sits beside a river in a remote forested gorge in southern China. Designed by Liu Chongxiao, the Tianmen Mountain Restaurant is located at the foot of a ravine leading down from the top of a mountain popular with sightseers. The restaurant is constructed from triangular panels of alternating timber and glass strips that allows diners a view of the surrounding landscape. The building is raised off the ground on steel feet to prevent flooding and gives access to the river via an external staircase. Tianmen Mountain forms a national forest park near the town of Guilin and also contains a historic temple.

Architect: Liu Chongxiao

Client: Guilin Zijiang Danxia Tourism Co. LTD
Location: Guilin, China
Planning team: Jiang bo, Mo Keli, Wang Chao
Design team: Liu Chongxiao, Li When, He Rong, Fan Yi, Zhang Yue, Wu Xi, Ren Sijie
Project area: 627 square meters
Project Year: 2011

Edible Parmesan Pencils

This box of pencils packs a cheesy punch! Leave it to a German ad agency to think up this cute — and practical! — way to transport and serve Parmesan cheese. But are they coming to Rio anytime soon?

Disguised as run-of-the-mill over-sized pencils, the "leads" of these pencils are actually flavored Parmesan cheese. Each set comes with a sharpener, allowing one to shave truffle, chili, and pesto flavored Parmesan right from the pencils. Too bad there were only 500 made.....

Chalkboard office

I like the idea behind these old-school looking chalkboard office accessories.

iPhone SLR mount

Photojojo‘s new iPhone SLR mount is one of the coolest iPhone add-ons I’ve seen so far. No need to spend $1000+ on a DSLR body, simple get this adapter and use your own Canon EOS or Nikon SLR lenses with your iPhone 4 – with depth of field and manual focus. You can even hang it around your neck just like your real DSLR using two loopholes on either end of the case.

P-Tree by Aandeboom

Unable to prevent revellers urinating against their trees, Roskilde Festival in Denmark installed tree-mounted urinals by Dutch designers Aandeboom.  The urinals are made of rotational-moulded plastic and can either connect to the main sewage system or a tank with a pump. 50 of the orange urinals were strapped to tree trunks for the festival last weekend.

Playful floor stickers

These playful floor stickers are an initiative by the city of Lucerne (Switzerland) to get people to notice and use garbage cans. 

Tetris Stick Notes

Block Notes from SUCK UK.

Honeycomb necklace

Blend Creations has created this Honeycomb necklace, which looks unsuspecting, but you might never know it doubles as a tool. The hexagons can fit a standard sized bit (not included) and 8, 10, 12 and 14mm bolts, you know, just in case…

Keychain Magnet

It’s a keychain. It’s a magnet. It’s a hook. I like it.

DIY Shower Curtain

Who said shower curtains have to be a bore? This shower curtain comes complete with a permanent black marker to Draw-It-Yourself. 

Comic and Animation Museum in Hangzhou, China by MVRDV

Dutch studio MVRDV have won a design competition to build a Comic and Animation Museum in Hangzhou, China, formed of eight giant balloon-shaped forms. Each balloon will contain a different function within the museum, including two exhibition spaces that will display cartoons, comics and animations.

The permanent exhibition space will spiral out of its chamber and on through the building to connect with three auditoriums and a comic book library. Where balloons touch an opening is created internally, allowing views between spaces.

Gigantic Inflatable Climbing Icebergs.

I wish I had a bigger pool so I could buy one of these Gigantic Inflatable Climbing Icebergs.

WikiLeaks Confetti – Spread the Truth

A tongue in cheek reference to the criminalisation of WikiLeaks: The CONFETTI YOUR LIFE® special edition “WikiLeaks Confetti – Spread the Truth” allows you to uncover the malicious malpractices of the heinous industrial nations. The hacked and shredded king size top-secret confetti files can be chucked in the air, collected or presented as a gift. What’s hot: By buying this WikiLeaks Confetti Box you support the WikiLeaks organisation with one Euro of your purchase price!

Designer: Tim Klinger, Fabio Christ (Germany) 
Manufacturer: CONFETTI YOUR LIFE