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Enjoyed this How I Built This Episode with Patagonia founder Yves Chouinard. He started the company in 1973, to make climbing gear he couldn’t find elsewhere. Over decades of growth, he has imp...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2016/12/how-i-built-this-yves-chouinard.html

David Laferriere has been drawing illustrations on his kid’s sandwich bags since 2008. While he won’t win the go-green award, he sure deserves the creative dad of the year award. Made me smil...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2013/04/lunch-bag-gone-art-work.html

My friends over at The Heads of State (Jason is a former studiomates member) just launched their brandnew site and shop. Seeing their work is quite humbling, to say the least.

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/12/the-heads-of-state-2.html

Book printers said Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Unmakeable” Book “could not be made.” Belgian publishing house Die Keure proved them wrong. Jonathan Safran Foer’s book is an interactive pa...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/11/unmakeable.html

I just spent the last 45minutes reading and flipping through “Inspired“, a book that looks at how creative people think, work and find inspiration. The only reason I put the book down is beca...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/11/inspired.html

So, I admit it, I am over portfolio sites. I can’t remember when I was last completely excited over seeing one. Until just now. Kelli Anderson emailed me and thanked me for blogging the Handker...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/09/kelli-anderson.html

My friend Zachary Lieberman who’s work I highly admire just pointed me to the Kickstarter Campaign he started for his project with and for Tony Quan (aka TEMPT1). TEMPT1 is an artist, publisher...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/09/tempt1-eyewriter-art-by-eyes.html

ProjectThirtyThree is a blog dedicated to vintage record jackets that convey their message with simple shapes. Fantastic! (via @SkinnyShips)

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/06/project-thirty-three.html

PAPPELTALKS from vizage on Vimeo. Random CD Artwork by Hubero Kororo. Absolutely fantastic. Read more about this brilliant packagain over at Kitsune Noir. (thank you jon)

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/01/random-cd-artwork-by-hubero-kororo.html

Here’s an amazingly zen, white-driven blog I just discovered: erasing.tumblr.com (thank you @mattbucher)

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/01/erasing-tumblr-com.html

What a beauty of a site: Mr. Simon Collison (via @jontangerine)

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/01/mr-simon-collison.html

SiteInspire.net is one of these sites I wish I would have come across a long time ago. What an amazing resource of design inspiration. Browse 1,414 websites by style, theme, and type, or view a r...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/01/site-inspire.html

Wow, this unusual wall storage shelf-thingy called Imeüble made me look. Designed by Bjørn Jørund Blikstad, a newly educated furniture designer with a masters degree from 2009 from Oslo Nation...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/12/imeuble.html

Gasp for air — this is so amazing! As Sub-Studio explains the Dirt-Poster: Designed by Roland Reiner Tiangco, Dirt Poster requires your participation to complete it. The back side of each poste...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/12/dirt-poster.html

One of the craziest web interfaces/effects I have seen in a while, over on wonder-wall.com. Intruiging. (via @zachlieberman)

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/10/wonderwall.html

I am not big on flash sites but this Organiggrid.com site made me look. (via webcreme)

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/10/organicgrid-com.html

While visiting W+K Portland yesterday, I noticed this magnificent Fail Harder Mural, done by Wieden + Kennedy 12. Over 100,000 thumbtacks were used over 351 hours to create this typographic mural...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/10/fail-harder.html

What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added to insanely great stuff, and multiplied by communities who are...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/09/the-awesomeness-manifesto.html

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/08/dan-pink-on-the-surprising-science-of-motivation.html

Big Belly Trash Compactors could make a huge impact in today’s garbage and recycling in big cities, like New York. The coolest part: It has a wireless notification system that will tell a contr...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/08/bigbelly-trash-compactors.html

I agree with the crew over at Grain Edit, I’m also blown away by this Olivetti Lettera Manual. Absolutely stunning! You can see the full manual at Ed’s Flickr account.

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/08/olivetti-lettera-22-manual.html

let yourself feel. from Esteban Diácono on Vimeo. Quite mesmerizing animation by Esteban Diácono and music by Olafur Arnalds. No? (via sharesomecandy)

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/08/esteban-diacono.html

The Heads of State (Jason is one of our former studio mates and we miss him dearly) just posted some new work to their site. My favorite is the hypothetical marijuana packaging for Print Magazine...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/08/the-heads-of-state.html

iQ font – When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo. Two typographers ( Pierre & Damien / plmd.me ) and a pro race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt) collaborated to design...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/07/iq-font-when-driving-becomes-writing.html

White Box from makoto yabuki on Vimeo. (via fantastic sharesomecandy)

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/07/makoto-yabuki.html

Pentagram Papers 39 features signs from the personal collection of author and legendary Texas musician Joe Ely, photographed by Randal Ford, and a series of large format portraits of homeless peo...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/06/signs-by-pentagram.html

The Feast is a cross-disciplinary series of programs addressing social innovation and new ways to make the world a better place. Their secret sauce lies in a healthy combination of passion, creat...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/06/the-feast.html

Here’s an event you shouldn’t miss: Seymour Chwast, the quintessential New York designer/illustrator/painter, is launching his newest book with AIGA/NY tonight, June 16th, 2009. Chwast and St...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/06/aigany-seymour-chwast-tomorrow.html

I echo Chris : Can you fall in love with a portfolio? (Yes, you can!)

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/04/network-osaka.html

I saw this at the The Invisible Web and Ubiquitous Computing presentations at SXSW. Very inspiring:

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/03/microsoft-sustainability.html

Kapitza’s Geometric book comes with a CD containing 100 pattern fonts – the most extensive pattern font collection available from any foundry. It also includes a helpful font index and easy t...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/02/geometric-pattern-book.html

If this isn’t poetic, I don’t know what is: Different types of scrap wood turned into a forest. By Mark Giglio. (thank you kathryn)

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/02/forest-of-woods.html

(via sugardew)

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/02/milton-glaser-on-ted.html

Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932), a German artist and professor, captured these ‘art forms in nature’ and used them to instruct his students. Beautiful!

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/02/nature-does-it-best.html

The Sun - Handbag made out of recycled Newspaper. Most probably not all that practical, but definitely a conversation starter.

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/02/the-sun.html

Thread Red is a beautiful knitted (!) font by handmadefont.com. Their archive of experimental, hand-made fonts is impressive.

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/01/knitted-font.html

Behance launched a series of sites that feature some of the most "appreciated" (yet hard to find) projects in the Behance Network: Typography and Industrial Design. The idea is to "serve" a few o...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/11/served-typograp.html

Sharesomecandy.com is a curated site of design and art inspiration that can have unlimited contributors. Each post has nothing other than the image and a "via" text link to the site where the ima...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/11/sharesomecandyc.html

MUJI is not a brand. MUJI does not make products of individuality or fashion, nor does MUJI reflect the popularity of its name in its prices. MUJI creates products with a view toward global consu...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/11/the-future-of-m.html

The idea behind DO is a simple: That people who Do things, can inspire the rest of us to go and Do things too. So each year, they invite a set of people down here to come and tell what...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/10/do-lecture-timo.html