creative inspiration
i love these videos that animate the text being sung or spoken, but this one takes it to another level by including all the typos and having the narrator read every one of them.
sustainability
[image: thedieline.com]
the design museum made this awesome young designers kit-but they took it further than simply inspiring young people to get into design, arming them with tools-they did it sustainably with recycled and low-impact materials. bravo! see the whole profile on the dieline.
got a minute to take the first in a multi-part series of steps in learning to go sustainable beyond ink and paper? i'm writing a piece on revisiting all the milestones in a print production process and encouraging we make more sustainable choices over on neenah's against the grain blog. Eco-Friendly 2011: Think Forward…Then Backwards.
i'm loving this LemonAid project on good.is: a german company mixed up the perfect batch of lemon aid [to their taste, anyway], then figured out how to produce it using all fair trade resources, and then they donate a portion of their profits to fund grass-roots organizations in the countries where they source the ingredients. now that's cooking with lemons!
one of the unexpected turnouts of the katrina disaster is that some areas are being rebuilt using much more sustainable materials, read up on utne.com: thanks katrina for greener building materials.
design industry
the first of the reviews are in from AIGA LA: Speakeasy, our fellows celebration for the 2010 AIGA fellows. check out michael dooley's 2-part follow up interviewing john coy: influence and inspiration, part 1: john coy.
smashing magazine has a great round-up: time-saving tips and educational resources for web designers.
with all the talk of annual planning, i think it's important to remember not to plan so hard you miss unexpected opportunities. justin ahrens shares his perspective on the parse blog: rain or shine: embrace the unplanned.
food
i'm on a bender about using more of the food we buy, and this week i get on everyone's case about wasting orange peels [among other things] over at LAist. because i'm a curmudgeon who thinks you should dry them and eat them. but look-this other girl at serious eats is also nutty for citrus seasoning with her deliciously italian lemon salt with fennel and chili!
and speaking of going grassroots on the food industry, what about an old-fashioned food swap!? i joined my friend emily's LAX swappers group here in LA, you should too!
if you're spending time in the garden and want to attract monarch butterflies [while helping restore their dwindling populations of late], re-nest shows you how to get your milkweed going to attract butterflies to your garden!
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