Blowing bubbles before your next meeting

Posted by William Gallagher

Not you. Your calendar. You can’t actually buy it, I’m afraid, but there is a concept device called monYay: Notifly – and that’s a really hard thing to type because autocorrect goes crazy trying to fix that cap Y and change the second word into notify – which sits on your desk until it’s time to go to your next meeting. Then:

The monYay bit of the name comes from wanting to change Mondays into Mon-yays! and I can get behind that even though I quite like Mondays. Read a little more on the official website, along with lots of other excellent ideas.

Via Swiss Miss.

You are not a storyteller, so there

Posted by William Gallagher

Okay, actually, maybe you are. We’re writers, it’s what we do. But the Swiss Miss site just found this video of a designer being really sarky about how everybody is now calling themselves storytellers. I’ve never heard of him before, I just really enjoyed how he makes his point.

You are not a storyteller – Stefan Sagmeister @ FITC from FITC on Vimeo.

Via Swiss Miss.

Five personal rules by Swiss Miss

Posted by William Gallagher

I’ve long been reading the work of designer Swiss Miss, aka Tina Roth Eisenberg. She’s clever and she has taste and I did not realise until this talk that she is also insane. Admirably so.

This is how – and why – she started a new business the day she gave birth to her daughter. Then she decided she didn’t like having clients, so she stopped.