The Female Mechanics calendar showcases 12 woman mechanics working hard at challenging, technical jobs, looking competent, happy and awesome. Fantastic.
Bad year to own stocks (or a house for that matter) but a good year to own an ipod. Who knew! NPR listeners cast tens of thousands of ballots, but in the end, only a handful of votes separated some of the bands. Fleet Foxes edged out Vampire Weekend for the year’s No. 1 album, while Coldplay beat out Sigur Ros by just one vote. Meanwhile, some bands you’d expect to see on the list never made it. Check it at NPR.org!
Since 1985, Robitaille’s Candy Co. in Carpinteria, CA has been the exclusive purveyor of handmade chocolate mints for the presidential inauguration parties. Every four years, Robitaille’s switches from its normal pastel color scheme and produces patriotic mints in red, white and blue known as the Inaugural Mints. If you miss your chance to taste one at the upcoming festivities, you can order a box online from the Robitaille’s website. They also make some wicked looking chocolate walnut fudge. It’s a family-run business with no machines; all the mints are handmade.
The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.
Great trailer for a very interesting movie. Check it out here.
Objectified will have its world premiere in March 2009, details will be announced shortly
Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them. Objectified website.
I’ve seen it during the dot com bust and we are seeing it now. Take my work - this too will pass. Good story on CNN.com about doing the right things when being out of work. Take a look. Here are a few of the highlights:
• Create your own jobs
• Don’t limit yourself
• Reassess your life
• Learn a new language
• Look for an internship
• Network, network, network
• Re-invent yourself
• Set up a buddy system
• Take a class
• Volunteer
Great, neat, gadget for when you’re at a place where you can’t hear your phone, but you’re expecting a phone call. The BluAlert bracelet buzzes on your wrist when you get a phone call. And if your phone is ever more than 5 meters away, it buzzes too! You’ll never forget your phone again. On sale for $39.99 at ThinkGeek.
Well, let’s take a look at a handful of things that we can all do to
help protect our design jobs (these tips will nearly all work for non-
designers, too, but a few things might need to be translated and
interpreted for your own industry/career). There are tough decisions
being made in conference rooms and owners’ offices all over the world
right now, and your name might be inextricably on one of the cut
lists. So, let’s assume, for the sake of this article, that you are
on the chopping block, but you are in the gray area. You still have
the possibility of affecting whether or not you get pink-slipped.
Great article on how to Keep Your (Design) Job Right Now, by Greg Huntoon.
