- RT @designersaccord: Great site to buy eco products and designate 25% of purchase to a school or nonprofit http://www.greenraising.com/ #
- Vinyl records designed to entertain via @DesignObserver http://is.gd/17sGR – Kraftwerk’s is nice, naturally #
- Good to see that http://9carrots.org are progressing. Retailers pledge to take a % of your spend and use it improving energy-efficiency #eco #
- From material pursuit to social capital. How Twitter and Facebook are good for the environment – http://is.gd/17reC #socialmedia #eco #
- Finger make noise! http://is.gd/17qIS – iPhone granular synth fun via @NOTCOT #
- Greenwash your packaging – http://is.gd/17oMw via @osocio #
- The 3/50 project. Pick 3 indy retailers, spend $50 pcm, save the local/national economy. Principle relevant to the UK too http://is.gd/17nNd #
- Enjoying http://www.worio.com so far – keyword search augmented by discovery, kinda like a google/del.icio.us baby. Thanks to @joannejacobs #
- Hey @traidcharity – Guerillagardening.org mentioned by Elizabeth Goodman at #liftfrance09 via @bruces #
- RT @bruces: “Digital” like spraying ourselves with an antiseptic gas that adds to our blindness about the state of the world and our bodies. #
- Record your worst cycling accident here – http://is.gd/16y1h via @guardianeco #
- Blood in our pockets. How our gadgets multiply the suffering in the Congo – http://is.gd/16pKN #
- Fear this is not as sexy as other eco/political campaigns, but it shouldn’t be the one that got away. Looks v.good – http://endoftheline.com #
- http://www.ghostbikes.org/ – we find these really moving and heartbreaking. Don’t feel that people ‘get’ them though. http://is.gd/16gLw #
- Car scrappage scheme – forgot to inc. the URL – http://bit.ly/2MY15E via @makeitandmendit #
- Agreed. Car-scrappage scheme seems to favour commerce > environment. Old cars can be inefficient, but the msg is poor via @makeitandmendit #
- RT @sustainable_: Daewoo in Madagascar land grab – take action here: http://bit.ly/KoLIF #
- Victory for indigenous Peruvian people in the fight against exploitative foreign companies. We hope. http://is.gd/16dlI #
- RT @aegirthor: apparently there are now trees that don’t need roots! What a boon to the greenwashing architect they are: http://is.gd/164wj #
- Harry Pearce quoted Alan Fletcher, ‘the world is full of flowers if you just have eyes to see’ #
- Harry Pearce at Pentagram was great last night. Spoke of executing work ‘in the least moves possible’, which we thought was a nice analogy. #
- Linking on hashtags in the iPhone @tweetdeck app please! Oh, and access to friends list while composing tweets would be nice. #
- @jon_howard Block ‘em! in reply to jon_howard #
- Steven Heller’s timely look at http://neshanmagazine.com, an Iranian design mag – http://is.gd/15pqP #
- How would someone incur £200+ ‘mobile internet browsing and downloads’ charges from O2 on a pay montlhy iPhone contract? #
- High five to @shauninman for http://feedafever.com – highly recommended. #
- Post-update, one of our iPhones has now restarted in Polish. Just as well one of us is fluent… #
- A perfect Flickr set for the recession – http://is.gd/15m6M #
- Happinomics – trying to measure the value of those tricky meatspace social interactions – http://is.gd/15eau #
- Marvelous that iPhone 3.0 still doesn’t allow mass email delete. 100s of unpreventable emails in the sent folder now pollute the new search. #
- Bendy buses in London until 2015?! That was a well-researched election pledge then, Boris. http://is.gd/15d6O #
- The most mudane things become interesting when viewed at a macro level. Flickr set of hand driers – http://is.gd/15cZX (via @FormFiftyFive) #
- http://www.wordnik.com – an untraditional dictionary via @poptech #
- Brilliant – the KnowMore Firefox extension. Get ethical info about brands/companies as you visit their sites – http://is.gd/14vo7 #
- Question your goods, vote with your wallet. http://www.knowmore.org/ – useful, but US-centric ethical business resource #ethics #business #
- Ahmedinajad supporters rally is (badly) photshopped – http://bit.ly/NpibJ via @Glinner @mrchrisaddison #iranelection #
- RT @GreenByDesign: 12 Big Companies Urging Carbon Cap http://bit.ly/IFdd1 @triplepundit #green #business #
- Can’t resist it. Injured, hung-over Pokemon – http://is.gd/14mgH #
- @daniel_howells Hmmm. Is it not reliant on an user-specific account, which could expire after, say, 30 days if you don’t make payment? in reply to daniel_howells #
- As per @daniel_howells, http://feedafever.com does look good, but I can’t really see why a trial period can’t be possible #
- If HGVs don’t get you, PM10s might. Boris must consider all aspects of cycle safety http://is.gd/14rdy via @weareblackbird @guardianeco #
- @eyemagazine Absolutely. #justaddstock is also very useful for pro bono design work, hope you can cover that angle. in reply to eyemagazine #
- Brilliant, hope it’s swiftly put to use for more socially-positive comms, as opposed to rotating shoes – http://is.gd/14oni via @gregcarley #
- @eyemagazine A lot of Why Not Associates stuff features stock imagery, if I recall. You probably already know that. #
- Google vox-pops 50 NYC peeps ‘What is a browser?’. Unsurprisingly, they have other interests. http://is.gd/14lI8 via @inspirationbit @ai #
- Liking the @TweetDeck iPhone app already. Nice interface. #
- Lovely vintage turntables (or ‘record players’, if you’re 30+) – http://is.gd/14iIU via @designyoutrust blog #
- Street art in Tehran. Created before or after the #iranelection result, we wonder. http://tinyurl.com/ndxxb3 via @osocio and others #
- The RationalWiki. Refuting and analyzing anti-science, crank ideas and fundamentalism – http://is.gd/12BWc #
- Gordon gassing about broadband is all very progressive, but he should get his house in order first – http://is.gd/13qYa #digitalbritain #
- Everything you ever wanted to know about propaganda but were persuaded not to ask – http://is.gd/12C0J #
- Watch some cats inadvertently reenact the New Orleans graveyard scene from Easy Rider – http://is.gd/13mhO (via @benrmatthews, @abougo) #
- It’s Tuesday, so, for those of you that enjoy Flight of the Conchords, here’s a poster archive – http://is.gd/13hcI #
- Ghostly Swim – been knocking around for a while, but some free electronica from Adult Swim – http://is.gd/13hTb via @bruces #
- A sad alternative to the vibrancy of @ewebber’s London Shop Fronts – http://is.gd/13hz6 via @kateandrews #
- Currently enjoying a flash flood in north London http://twitpic.com/7h6ug #
- Passive aggressive (but mainly aggressive) notes – http://is.gd/12xoY – via @LDN_interesting #
- ‘The global internet’s nearly organic interdependence, emerging sentience make it wild, its wildness draws our affection’ http://is.gd/12sIh #
- Anti-stab knife design http://is.gd/12ym2 – admirable idea, but people are unlikely to carry it when they want to hurt/kill someone #
- Great Twitter/signage mashup – http://is.gd/11LCg. Tweets (partially) rendered with photos of ‘found’ words #typography #
- @joannejacobs Thanks for the return tip – duly bookmarked. in reply to joannejacobs #
- @joannejacobs MIght not be what you’re looking for, but stumbled across this today – http://thinkature.com/ – not used it though. in reply to joannejacobs #
- An enormous collection of Russian posters, 1800s to present – http://is.gd/12sYB #
- RT @DesignObserver: OBSERVED: Which Student Are You? http://tinyurl.com/p9hd99 #
- Paul Rand, rationalising the NeXT logo, ‘Jobs liked cutesy things’. A collection of Paul Rand resources – http://is.gd/11R8V #graphicdesign #
- A well-measured view on the #iranelection issue from @AmnestyUK – http://tinyurl.com/m9jufj #
- £10 = 10 eggs, 10 bacon, 10 sausages, 10 toasts, 5 black puds, tomatos, beans, ‘shrooms. Free heartburn – http://is.gd/12oBG via @scaryideas #
- A good looking Venn diagram of good business sense, for designers, for anyone – http://is.gd/11RQg #
- @Calverts – we think we recognise this fine piece of print – http://is.gd/12owh #
- The formula for a good life. An extraordinary 72 year-long study – http://is.gd/11SRr #happiness #
- Spam, spam, spam, spam and spam – lovely hand lettered spam subject lines http://is.gd/11Lb7 #typography #
- Newspaper blackout poems. A black marker, newspapers and some skill/serendipity – http://is.gd/ZMRx – they look great too. Via @designfeast #
- Congrats to Trevor Robinson of Quiet Storm on his OBE! We’ve worked with him & QS and it’s richly deserved. http://tinyurl.com/kpq8w3 #
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