Collections Collected

Lots of new listings and exhibits have been posted for the spring at our Museum of Online Museums. The MoOM was featured on All Things Considered and in the NY Times. It was also selected as one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites and was discussed on a recent episode of NPR's Hello Beautiful! Consider joining our Museum Board, a subscription comes with a coffee mug but none of the snootiness so often associated with the patronage of cultural institutions.

A One Day Conference In Chicago

Seed Three

The third edition of our one-day conference on design, entrepreneurship and inspiration is set for Friday, June 6th and includes a new venue in Chicago, a modified and more ambitious format and some very smart guest presenters. Details have been posted and registration is open.

Making Book The Final Tally

5076 New Books
For Kids

Every spring when The Morning News announces the novels that will compete in their annual Tournament of Books we handicap the field and post the "Morning Line" odds for the event. This year we stretched the gambling metaphor a bit further and encouraged readers to wager on which book would win "The Rooster." With the help of 37signals, Metafilter, Happy Cog, Iconfactory, Core77, Daring Fireball, Emma, Business Brickyard, eight6 and skinnyCorp we raised enough money to buy over 5000 books for underprivileged kids. The winners have now been posted.

Layer Tennis The Final Fiasco

Forth and Back

It's super Monday here at Layer Tennis HQ, and we're happy to declare winners in a tightly-contested pair of Layer Tennis finals. Shaun Inman's message of change was more popular than Chris Glass' message of change, and Inman won the first match. We're just getting word that the polls are closed and Jason Koxvold narrowly edged out the 17-0 James Hutchinson in the last period of second match.

It was a long, fun Layer Tennis Season, relive it here while we start planning the next one. The matches were presented by Adobe® Creative Suite® 3, the weapon of choice for creative people and Layer Tennis players everywhere.

An Infrequent Mailing Contest

The Song Does Not Remain The Same

Selections from the hundreds of entries we received to our Cover Me contest that was part of last month's Infrequent Mailing. Our readers demonstrate their ability to find fab stuff once again. Enjoy.

Making An Endorsement

From The Committee To Reelect Our Greatest President Ever

We don't often jump into the political muck here at the site but Hillary Clinton's latest television spot asks a pretty serious question and we thought it was our patriotic duty to give it an equally serious response.

It Started In the Washroom

Abba Karenina

A while ago we hosted a quick contest called Booking Bands in which we asked people to combine the name of a book with the name of a band. We received thousands of entries, posted a ton of them and then randomly selected three and sent those people the book and a CD from the band that they mashed together. The process of coming up with funny or unexpected associations in this contest became a central part of JC's recent presentation at SXSW, A General Theory of Creative Relativity.

How Do You Spell Courage?

Inaction Heroes

For the proper effect, check the trailer first and then please take a few minutes (eleven actually) to watch our short feature film, Copy Goes Here. In case you missed it, here's what our home page looked like when we debuted the movie.

Field Notes The Shipping News

The Shipping News

Our newest brand was created in combination with the unstoppable Draplin Design Company of Portland Oregon. The first offering from Field Notes Brand is a super durable made-in-the-USA memo book inspired by vintage farmers' planting books and other practical, historic, mostly-midwestern American design. Now shipping in handy 3packs $9.95 each.

72° A Film Project

Plus a Share of
the Glory, If Ever
There Is Any

EMILY: Nothing exciting will happen, I suppose. There aren't any bells or whistles or fireworks. It'll just happen and... there aren't bells and whistles or fireworks, are there? ALAN: No.

The first draft of the script for our film project, 72° has gone out to our Producers. As with Copy Goes Here, we're posting about the film as we go along and also looking for a title sponsor and a roster of Executive Producers. Unlike CGH, this time we really started at the beginning. When we began, all we had was an archival photo for inspiration and a lot of enthusiasm. Check the weblog here and scroll down to see the very first entry for details. We're forever in debt to those who are coming along for the ride, like the most recent additions to our Executive Producer credits, Pierre Mai, Kevin Hamm and Andre Torrez.

scott smith's Ten

Thou Shall

In case you missed it, we're proud to be hosting Scott's stylish short film Ten, in which a man breaks all ten commandments before breakfast.

December Guest Kevin Cornell

Bear With Us

Our Guest Editor for July is Lincoln Cushing (lch) the force behind Docs Populi, that rare personal site that combines a serious mission with an infectious enthusiasm for the subject at hand. It's a huge categorized repository of posters and images created for a cause. Lincoln describes his aims as a commitment to "documenting, cataloging, and disseminating socially and politically significant graphic material which otherwise might be left behind in the digital revolution." Right on.

A list of all the brilliant people who have helped us by guest editing Fresh Signals can be found here.

Other recent features are listed on Page Two.

Fresh Signals

Hitting the road this Labor Day weekend? Here's to the road trip. ms-today

Spend a little time over at illustrator Dave Perillo's Montygog's Art-O-Rama. Really great stuff. ms-today

Some posters from the Nike Mexico Sportswear ad campaign. ms-today

For your inspiration, a collection of blue logos. ms-today

Sexy People. Only funny until someone finds some old photo of you from high school and sends it in. sd-yesterday

I think I just had my moment of becoming a real Chicagoan, complete with a new found chip on my shoulder, by getting upset at this article on adjusting to life in New York: "City Fits, Eventually, for New Arrivals." sd-yesterday

Liu Bolin's Camouflage series of photographs. (Xie xie, Mrs. BB.) bb-yesterday

Depression Press has a nice Flickr set, Typecase. ms-yesterday

Speaking of Field Notes, Bill sent us a lovely shot of Field Notes (old and new). ms-yesterday

Related to the last, Uppercase is where you can pick up Field Notes when in Calgary. ms-yesterday

To complement our Back To Schoudal savings-a-bration, the gorgeous Old School flickr set from Uppercase. se-yesterday

Brazilian designers create the illusion of a skate bowl in the middle of a metro station to promote a street festival. se-yesterday

HistoryShots, an information graphics firm featuring a shop full of history-related posters and other graphic items. This week is a good time to view their "History of the Political Parties" posters, I and II. se-yesterday

Rachel Papo's Serial No. 3817131, a photo essay about eighteen year old women drafted into the Israeli army. sd-yesterday

Video of the really unusual Japanese Goblin Shark. se-yesterday

Is blood, a bucket of diamonds or a bunch of marijuana worth its weight in gold? The monetary density of things, via Boing Boing. se-yesterday

Rabbit-kun garbage bag + friends. se-yesterday

Amazing work from photographer Ola Bell. ms-yesterday

Moving the Richard Neutra Maxwell house. Via Things Magazine. ms-yesterday

Gorgeous, the Brunopasso espresso machine. ms-yesterday

The winner of the This American Life tee shirt design contest is announced. I am so getting the snowman tee. ms-yesterday

Nice vacation home. Via WorldChanging. dw-yesterday

Stars as Lego characters. Thanks Henry. dw-yesterday

Trailer for the movie Humboldt County. ms-yesterday

Nice collection of mid century ephemera from ships and airlines. ms-yesterday

Brilliant, photographer Steve Schofield's series Land of the Free. ms-yesterday

Forget the princess dolls, keep it real with the kiddies and get them their very own Haz Mat Unit Small Theme Set. Ready, set, create your own disaster! ms-yesterday

Channel surfing last night led to an unexpected bonanza, one of my all-time favorite flicks, Touch of Evil. A must see for anyone who loves cinema, at the very least for one of the greatest opening sequences ever. ms-yesterday

And another for today, Jenny Jacobi just sent in her Field-Tested Books entry about reading Lolita in Telluride, Colorado, just down the road from where Nabokov wrote the novel years before. Have your own story to tell? Send it! sd-08.26

Fabulous student graduation project, Al Dente. ms-08.26

So you know, build your own mid century modern birdhouse. ms-08.26

Gorgeous posters by Alberto Cerriteño, via OMG. se-08.26

"As a child it tastes like: Smoky, beanie, weenie jubilation. As an adult it tastes like: Cat food with an Italian twist." Pixifoods. Via MeFi ms-08.26

Many thanks to Spinning Blue who just signed on as our newest 72° Executive Producers. sd-08.26

Illustrations by Kareena Zerefos. Via d*s. dw-08.26

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Andrew Figgins
Mark Powell
Mike Keen
Chet Yeary II
Greg Storey
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Gridiron Software
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Ben Edwards
Brian Seethaler
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Pierre Mai
Kevin Hamm
Andre Torrez
Greg Hoy
Issa Breibish
Drew Stauffer
Abby Urban
Christopher Ebmeyer
Jeffrey Rutzky
Robert D. Whitson

Your Name Here

the pitch

You can be an Executive Producer of our new short feature film, 72°. If you've always wanted to be a hotshot Hollywood player, or you just want to lend a hand to the project here's your chance.

A Thing We Made:
Jewelboxing

We hated the options available for custom packaging DVDs and CDs so we created a brand that gives creative professionals and hobbyists the tools to make great stuff. Here's a bit from the latest Jewelboxing weblog entry:

"Second to the wedding images, I get the most compliments on these cases." Read the entire post.

Another Thing We Made: The Show

Limited-edition, professionally mixed and mastered, custom-designed live performances on CD. That's The Show. With partners like The Pixies and Dead Can Dance. More news soon.

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