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Good morning everyone, hope you enjoyed the holiday! After a long weekend of delicious food I ran across a video put out by GOOD and Mark Owens that seemed an appropriate followup to the festivities. It is a simple, well designed video with a clear message I think you’ll enjoy.
Happy Thanksgiving loyal OE followers! As a Thanksgiving Freebie we wanted to offer something you can use if you find yourself in a dinnertime pinch this holiday. Here are two recipe cards containing recipes for pumpkin and apple pie on one side and a list of ingredient substitutions on the back side. Simply print the card on an 8.5 x 11″ page, fold the page in half and trim out your 3×5″ or 4×6″ recipe card. We hope you have a safe and enjoyable holiday! Happy baking!
That’s right, Wayzgoose, not to be confused with WYSIWYG. It is actually a gathering happening this coming weekend at the Hamilton Wood Type museum in Wisconsin. It comes from a printer’s dinner given by a master printer to his workmen at the end of summer according to Wikipedia. It also means stubble goose (harvest goose) according to dictionary.com. Regardless of bird knowledge, no one is more knowledgeable on wood type than Hamilton. This weekend Matthew Carter will release Carter Latin Wide, his first wood typeface. Also on hand is the documentary TypeFace about Hamilton from Kartemquin Films. Anyone want to buy me a weekend plane ticket?
We love following the creative work of Ideo and were excited to learn about the mission behind their Living Climate Change project. On their project page they say:
Living Climate Change is a devoted space for the most defining design challenge of our time. It’s also a place to support fresh thinking and share provocative ideas about the future.
We can effect change through our day-to-day design, work and personal decisions. Ideo has set up the site to spark a fire of discussion and offers a collection of resources to fuel more environmentally responsible actions. Check out their great list of topics and resources, and join the discussion. Everyone is talking about it.
Hungry? These little monsters can’t wait to gobble up some turkey grub soon.
Download over 10 Orange Element Monster photoshop brushes.
Simply drag the .abr file into your Photoshop > Presets > Brushes and then ‘Load’ the brushes from your palette or restart photoshop.
Car companies today are doing more than ever to create more energy-efficient cars, cars that get better gas mileage, and cars that rely on emerging technologies like fuel cells, hydrogen, and electric motors. It’s very exciting–and Toyota has taken innovation to a whole new level and decided to make a great effort in reducing CO2 emissions from the actual production of their vehicles.
Toyota has actually developed two new flower species in an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from the manufacturing process of the Toyota Prius at it’s plant in Toyota City, Japan. The flowers, planted on the grounds of the manufacturing plant, are designed to absorb harmful gases and create water vapor in the air, in turn reducing the temperature around the plant, and the need for additional cooling, cutting energy use and CO2 emissions. The plants are derivatives of the Cherry Sage plant (whose leaves have the ability to absorb harmful gases) and the Gardenia (whose leaves create excess water vapor in the air).
These plants, along with many other innovations over the years, have helped Toyota greatly reduce CO2 emissions from the manufacturing process of their vehicles, by up to 55 percent since 1990. Read more here.
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