Garret's Universe

BE HERE MONDAY - 2 days ago

Huge giveaway on Monday! Our biggest to date. You don’t want to miss this. Have a great...

Mark Giglio Studio Visit - 3 days ago

Pen Pencil Stencil is the online home and physical workspace of Mark Giglio. Mark is an amazing...

Lotta Nieminen Illustration - 5 days ago

I spy with my little eye—a dapper gentleman suffering from writer’s block! Created for...

Today's archidose #376 - 2 days ago

Here are some shots of Université de Lyon's Porte des Alpes campus (click for PDF map). If you know...

Intensive Fields - 3 days ago

Passing along some information on Intensive Fields: New Parametric Techniques for Urbanism, a...

Today's archidose #375 - 4 days ago

Hargrove Music Library, Berkeley, originally uploaded by CTG/SF. The Jean Gray Hargrove Music...

The Human Factor - 1 month ago

Flickr // Jeremy Farmer Photog I've been listening to a fair amount of Andrew Bird lately and in...

How to Create Advocacy and Conversation (via @FrankInLalaland) - 1 month ago

Frank is presenting a great take on creating advocacy and conversation at Planningness - well worth...

The Next 60 Years In Advertising - 2 months ago

Do you have some ideas for what it will be? I hope so. Why? Because I'd like to have you help...

The Future of Mobile is... Money - 5 days ago

You might have heard some buzz circulating about today's announcement that Twitter founder Jack...

Introducing Twitter Lists - 3 weeks ago

My latest post on the Click Here Blog is an introduction to Twitter Lists, and showcases a few of...

Mary Meeker's Trends 2009 - 1 month ago

Each year, Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley gives a great Internet Trends presentation at the Web 2.0...

Cool Tools' Holiday Gift Guide - yesterday

Originally posted in Cool Tools Written by you. Here's how. In the comments of...

Penny Thoughts on the Technium - 5 days ago

Originally posted in The Technium Why do interviews have to rely on the same old...

The ancillary market is the market. - 5 days ago

Originally posted in New Rules The software is free, but the manual is $10,000....

Green? Orangutans, biofuel, and logging - 18 minutes ago

Green tells the story of one orangutan captured and brought to a rehabilitation facility after her...

Chave a Chappy Chanuka! - 41 minutes ago

Chanuka (which starts this Friday evening) is more than just the Dreidel Song. Listen to Maoz Tzur...

The best of Bleep and Warp Records - 4 hours ago

The Best of Bleep "To celebrate Bleep's 5th birthday, we asked a select cast of people working in...

convenience as interface - yesterday

Khoi Vinh on the tradeoff of convenience v. highdef / hires: "You could re-interpret the idea of...

updated scoreboard - 2 days ago

Matt Jacobs has updated his Canabalt scoreboard; it now includes data summarized by day, and scores...

which reminds me - 3 days ago

At Today and Tomorrow, Unstilled Stills by Laura Brothers; animated GIF interpretations of Clyfford...

NaNoWriMo: A Pep Talk and a Warning - 1 month ago

I honor any project to write something — especially to write a long piece of fiction. It’s...

Fake Rocks, Salami Commanders, and Just Enough to Start - 4 months ago

MaxFunCon: Merlin Mann on Doing Creative Work (via TSoYA) Here’s the audio from a short talk I...

Free as in "Me" - 8 months ago

This unbelievably long article is related to (but not necessarily about) a discussion that I and...

Links for 2008-08-23 - 1 year ago

God, will you look at these Microsoft TV adverts from the last ten thousand years. ...

Links for 2008-05-22 - 1 year ago

The Online Shoppe of Christopher David Ryan includes some lovely bits of design involving...

Jane Austen, emailer - 2 days ago

In London during Jane Austen's lifetime, mail didn't move at such a snail's pace. Austen wrote more...

Quiet your text editor - 2 days ago

Ommwriter is an interesting simple text editor. With multiple windows and applications all vying for...

Unassisted home births - 2 days ago

Whoa, I had no idea that giving birth at home without a doctor or midwife was a thing that people...

A little piece of Glasgow - yesterday

Tinyments are tiny, perfect models of Glasgow tenements, made by Finch and Fouracre. Made from...

New I like postcards are here! - 1 week ago

Due to popular demand, there's a new set of 8 I like postcards. Just in time for Christmas. They're...

Sugar for my honey - 2 weeks ago

After a little rest, Nothing To See Here is back with a (IMHO) great find from regular US...

Boundary Matrix - 1 week ago

How to overcome the challenges inherent to cross-disciplinary collaboration: Creating a boundary...

Work in the Conceptual Age - 3 months ago

The three paragraphs on this page at gigaom offer a variety of links leading to some great posts...

Netflix Culture Manifesto - 4 months ago

Apparently NetFlix has a rather enlightened approach to HR and company culture. Exhibit A: this...

Lookalikes - 4 months ago

From the display tables to the "Guru Bar", it's hard not to page through the leaked Powerpoint...

PSFK Talks With Creative Director Bruce Mau

Earlier this week PSFK met with designer Bruce Mau. Bruce runs the design studio Bruce Mau Design...

Field Notes Is Bringing Color To Office Supplies

Pocket notebook company Field Notes has given their recycled covers a make-over.

Media As Watchdog

These days, people spend less and less time listening to or reading from media experts - so perhaps...

Links for 2009-12-03 [del.icio.us] - 2 days ago

SETI@Home sacking and the death of local newspapers That is exactly the sort of thing that bloggers...

Links for 2009-12-02 [del.icio.us] - 3 days ago

Designaside " L'impero invisibile di Juha Helminen Beautiful but dark

MP3: Marina and the Diamonds - Mowgli A new Queen has risen!... - 8 months ago

MP3: Marina and the Diamonds - Mowgli A new Queen has risen! Born alongside Micachu*, Marina was fed...

MP3: Ghost Hunter — In The Early Months of the Emergency I’ve... - 10 months ago

MP3: Ghost Hunter — In The Early Months of the Emergency I’ve been playing with a Buddha Machine all...

MP3: People of Water - Vale of Aching Hearts People Of Water... - 1 year ago

MP3: People of Water - Vale of Aching Hearts People Of Water have forced Afrobeat to go all...

MP3: The Matinee Orchestra — Hide and Seek Forget the showers!... - 1 year ago

MP3: The Matinee Orchestra — Hide and Seek Forget the showers! Don’t cower! The spring is coming....

Online only Football is NOT the future - 2 months ago

So, it seems that they couldn't sell on Setanta's now defunct rights to the England v Ukraine...

Lovely new Beck's tracks - 2 months ago

Haven't had a play on the Beck's Music Mixer for ages. Just popped my head back in and there are...

Sailor Song by the Gadsens - 2 months ago

Lovely song, but far more importantly, our very own super talented Gavin Leisfield created the...

Nike Supersonic goes Machadaynu - 3 months ago

Bizarrely received a Facebook update from the Nike + Supersonic group telling me that the group has...

A Modern Mystery of the Internet - yesterday

Why has Guru Josh Project – Infinity 2008 (Official Video – Klaas Vocal Edit) got nearly...

Mouth Eyes - 4 days ago

So disturbing… Made me feel really queezy, but I sort of like it.

Darwin logo - 1 week ago

The Lazy Designer’s Guide to Success - 2 weeks ago

Michael Bierut has written a brilliant article over on azuremagazine.com called The Lazy Designer’s...

Smokescreen in the Metro - 2 weeks ago

I wrote a little thing for the Metro about Smokescreen, commissioned by C4 Education and made by...

What should Zynga do next? - 1 month ago

Ok, so it's not too difficult to look at a successful company and describe some of the smart things...

30 Must-Download iPhone Apps - 4 months ago

So, you've just purchased a shiny new iPhone 3GS and you're wondering which apps to download? Here's...

BBC Apprentice clips widget - 6 months ago

Suffering Apprentice withdrawal symptoms after last Sunday's final? Here's a bundle of best bits...

let's play darts - 3 days ago

 Actually, let's slightly cheat at darts, using something I saw in a magazine. Some clever man has...

thank you turkish airlines - 1 month ago

Life is a bit slower these days. Hurt my knee you see. But I made it to Hamburg, to see the advert...

sunday, in order of importance - 2 months ago

Holy shit balls - 2 days ago

That’s what Dave Hoffman has to say about free falling 90ft over a waterfall in a kayak,...

Re-worked Twitter Avatars - 3 days ago

Lovely on going collection of re-worked Twitter Avatars by Adam Koford. Reminds me of those cartoon...

180° South - 3 days ago

A commenter put me onto this new movie 180° South, specifically it’s a film about surfing,...

Pop is Short for Popular - 4 days ago

Whilst I was in London last week I popped into the the Tate Modern and experienced the awesome Pop...

PLOT: Data is Beautiful - 3 weeks ago

My mate Lisa just spent her maternity leave [CONGRATS!] conceiving an idea, spawned by many hours...

Meta-Semiotics (Awesome Youtube Composition) - 3 weeks ago

[via - where you may also find the full lyrics]This piece of recombinant awesomesness is...

The Three Ds That Will Make or Break Your Blogging Career - Desire - 5 months ago

Photo by brilliantdandy. In a few days this blog will be two years old. In internet terms, it’...

30 Days to Become a Freelancer - 7 months ago

Photo by Sidi Guariach. If you’ve ever thought about freelancing part-time but never done it,...

Find Your ‘Flow’ and the Money Will Follow - 7 months ago

Photo by muha... The well-worn phrase “Do what you love and the money will follow”...

Web Working Your Way Through a Personal Crisis - 8 hours ago

I’ve written previously about how I find it often more trouble than it is worth to take time off of...

Twittering Causes Blindness: Busting Social Media Myths - yesterday

OK, I know twittering doesn’t really cause blindness, but I am constantly hearing all sorts of...

5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week - 2 days ago

Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily...

Links for 2009-12-02 [del.icio.us] - 3 days ago

Australia and climate change: The pitiless blue sky [The Guardian] "Australia remains the...

Links for 2009-11-29 [del.icio.us] - 6 days ago

The LED-lined Artikcar bicycle [Wired] "In case you were of the opinion that getting around in...

friendly legal 2 - yesterday

Huge thanks for the helpful comments and emails on this post. Lots of useful stuff to look at there....

Links for 2009-12-01 [del.icio.us] - 4 days ago

folksy blog: Festive Sampler Here you see the patented Newspaper Club 'hard sell' in operation

Talking point - 5 days ago

At a (media) event in the Netherlands a couple of weeks ago, the organisers were giving out these...

In Edinburgh - 1 week ago

Years ago, this city was completely familiar to me. Nearly twenty years ago, young(ish) and...

Memo to the women who work at reception at the BA lounge at Amsterdam Schiphol airport - 2 weeks ago

When you try to connect to the free guest wifi in the lounge, a login screen appears, which says -...

Shock and awe - 1 month ago

From 30 ways to shock yourself. Image courtesy of Bre Pettis If there is one enduring fascination...

Dynamic micro brands - Toms - 2 months ago

Image courtesy of StephanieNguyen I’m a bit of a latecomer to the Toms party but then I’m not an...

Brand respsonse - a case of having your cake and eating it - 4 months ago

Image courtesy of Blake E. Marquis. Eddie Izzard has a standup routine about how useless the...

This blog has moved… - 1 year ago

For reasons I can’t even face going into - you will now find me back at good old fashioned...

Think hyperpersonal..not hyperlocal - 2 years ago

Among his other talents, NowPublic’s Len Brody has a winning way with a phrase. During our...

Saturday tech demos @ Monaco Media Forum - 2 years ago

3DSwym - also creators of TVnima. Upload your photo and it creates an avatar of you…then you...

425 – Leo Belgicus, Rampant and Passant - 19 hours ago

Leo Belgicus by Petrus Kaerius (1617), copied from the original design by Michael Aitzinger. Image...

423 – Flow-Charting the Ring Trilogy - 4 weeks ago

  Designed by J.R.R. Tolkien’s son Christopher and included in most editions of the Lord of...

421- Faith, Science and the Flood - 1 month ago

Faith and reason, usually jostling for primacy over one another, unite on this map to describe...

Hôtel Palafitte, Neuchâtel - 1 year ago

Located on the banks of Lake Neuchâtel, the Hôtel Palafitte has 40 suites housed on stilts across...

Nordic Bakery, London - 1 year ago

London's Soho sees the opening of this Scandinavian bakery that sells all manner of rye breads,...

Tokyo Bar, New York - 1 year ago

We are smitten by Tokyo Bar - it's not hard to win us over with manga illustrations and Japanese...