iQ font - When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.

Two typographers ( Pierre & Damien / plmd.me ) and a pro race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt) collaborated to design a font with a car.
The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary Lieberman. ( openframeworks.cc )

At today’s CreativeMornings at FREITAG in Zurich, I asked the question “What would you do if you had your own storefront?” Here are (some of) the answers in a flickr set. (These tags are meant to help break the ice and facilitate a conversation!)

So, what about you? What would you do if you had your own storefront?

Daniel Freitag, one of the co-founders of Freitag was our speaker and he was simply fantastic. He was flexible enough to spontaneously hold the presentation in English as it turned out that we had about 8 english-speaking only guests. (To all of you that didn’t come because we thought the event would be in swiss-german, I am very sorry!)

Daniel is a great presenter and was an overall gracious, humble host. He even gave a small group of us a tour of the Container Store nearby, as well their graphic design and prototyping atelier. All day I kept saying to G how impressed I was by Daniel’s warmth and generosity.

Below are a few visual impressions of the event. My fab cousin Thilo Hoffmann was so kind to tape the presentation and I will try to get it up asap.

The set up at the Freitag Factory could not have been any better. These guys are thorough. A *big* thank you to the Freitag team and Sascha Koeglmeier in particular who was simply a delight to organize this with. Everything was meticulously thought out and prepared - oh, so, swiss!

In his presentation Daniel was talking about their take on recontextualization. Take their bags made out of truck tarp and seat belts, their store built out of Containers as well their Truck Tarp Presentation Room.

Daniel Freitag presenting under the Truck Tarp ‘Tent’. Fantastic!

Daniel Freitag answering Oliver Reichenstein’s questions. Oliver, of Information Architects was our virtual guest dialing in from Tokyo. Oliver, it was a pleasure to have you!

Jens of Jung von Beck was our delightful breakfast-man! He showed up with two Lavazza espresso makers and lots of yummee bakery stuff - wheee! A big thank you to MailChimp and ROD Communications for sponsoring breakfast! I was particularly happy about the mountains of Gipfeli! :)

I was standing behind this shirt wearing CreativeMorning guest and was tempted to dial the number a few times.

How fantastic are these Freitag Benches? (not available for sale yet, unfortunately) I would love a few of these in our studio!

Here are all the photos of today’s event. Did you take pictures? If so, please consider adding them to our creativemornings group.

Did you attend today’s CreativeMornings? Did you write a post about it? Or do you have some thoughts/feedback? Write it in a comment below. Did you take some pictures?

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Article (pdf), in german only.

White Box from makoto yabuki on Vimeo.

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If we reply to any RFPs in the future, we’ll be letting the prospective clients know that our submission will be online and that we’ll be measuring how much time is spent reviewing it. And we encourage other shops to do the same. If agencies are going to spend weeks preparing their response, the least any client can do is commit 30 minutes to look at it.

Zappos pitch underscores what’s wrong with the review process, by Mike Wolfsohn

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Here’s an event that made me look: DelveUI: A 2-Day Masterclass on Designing (Web) User Interfaces. Think of Delve as the antidote to the bloated conference experience. Basically small, affordable & frequent vs. overwhelming, occasional & costly. Each DELVE consists of a series of masterclasses conducted by expert practitioners, authors and thinkers of the biggest topics facing those of us who design and develop for digital, interactive spaces. Fantastic!

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Would love to get my hands on one of these: A bilingual, expandable book designed for the UK art and design gallery Blanka. It honors Josef Müller-Brockmann as well as conveys the principles of Swiss Graphic Design as exemplified by the leader of the revolutionary Swiss Style.

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Love this newly added Lost and Found print by Oliver Jeffers.

Part inspiration source and part guidebook, the latest edition of PSFK’s Snapshot series features a hand-picked selection of the most interesting happenings from around the dynamic neighborhoods of Brooklyn. From one-of-a-kind food purveyors and meticulously curated shopping experiences to unique performance spaces, the book provides a focused tour of over 40 of the most choice activities and venues Brooklyn has to offer.

fold is a small greeting card company, based in Phoenix, Arizona. The handmade greeting cards are all designed and fabricated by Miro Chun (with occasional help from friends) – with bits of wire, snips of thread, and colorful scraps of paper. All cards are mounted on environmentally friendly, 100% recycled cardstock.

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From the series Horizonville by YannGross.

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Every Thing Design. The Collections of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich | April 3- July 19, 2009

How is a design object perceived? How does this perception change over time? Why does a museum put it in its collection, and how are meaning and value established? Is everything design today? The museum poses these questions in the presentation of its collections, which have never been previously exhibited to this extent. The overriding theme is the observation of processes of social and cultural change. Such a view reveals signs of quality and developments in the production and reception of design objects that recur over decades. The exhibition, in a mise-en-scène by the renowned Swiss design studio Atelier Oï, and the catalog, designed by the well-known Dutch book designer Irma Boom, make it possible to experience the diverse connections among the museum’s internationally significant Poster, Design, Applied Art and Graphics Collection.

For more information, please visit : http://www.museum-gestaltung.ch

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On our second day in Zurich I made sure to stop by the only 8 week old store called Townhouse in the charming Weite Gasse 4. Not only is the store itself a beauty, the owners Mia Zeltner & Sebastiaan Vadasz are a delight as well. They offered us yummee coffee in stylish cups and were happy to answer all my curious questions while little Ella explored their store. With the exception of two prints I have not seen any of their products anywhere else. Mia and Sebastiaan really manage to have an exclusive, suprising collection of designy things.

I was excited to see polaroids of my friend Grant Hamilton on their walls. Check out some of the items they carry in the e-shop.

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Ardvanderlinden makes fields of painted flags to spread the message “unity through identity”. Hereby the environment changes and the idea of identity and the meaning of the flag are questioned. Ardvanderlinden paints in public space to be in direct contact with people and to invite them into the working process.

This beauty of an expandable table made my heartbeat go a little faster: Avalon Table by Dan Hodler.

How pretty and simple is this modular Pearl Trivet by Adam + Harborth 2004?

Right off the plane we went to FREITAG to check out their factory where the upcoming CreativeMorning will take place on July 17th. Sascha gave us a full blown tour of their production hall. Truly fascinating what the FREITAG brothers have created. Hat tip!

G and I are enjoying our daily Rivella. Rivella is a healthy and natural soft drink from Switzerland. What’s unique about Rivella is the wholesome lactoserum it contains (called milk serum in Switzerland). Sounds crazy, right?

These signs in the Zurich Tram had G and me laugh out loud. The swiss do have a sense of humor, after all. We especially love the guy with the saw, trying to cut apart one of the seats. No, you really shouldn’t do that.

Now if this isn’t ueber-swiss I don’t know what is: Typical condiments arrangement you see at restaurants.

A slice of my childhood: Sausages (wienerli), two slices of bread (Ruchbrot) and Moustard (Thomy Senf). This makes me happy.

I have introduced our little three year old Ella to the 40 year old Rakete Icecream and she fully approves.

Today’s an exciting day: I am being interviewed and photographed for a story that will be in next thursday’s Tagesanzeiger, one of Switzerland’s biggest newspapers. Yay!

With this Swiss Cross Flight Bag I am saying au revoir for a few days. This little family is boarding a plane today to the swiss alps. I shall be occasionally broadcasting from the land of fresh air! Sit tight! Happy July 09 everyone!

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This life-size Dachshund adds a soft light wherever you put it - no bones about it! Replaceable bulb (just unscrew the hidden under-belly panel).

Affordable and beautiful Swimming Pool Print by Tom Fowlks.

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Les Moustaches Single Notecard.

Zigote at Siggraph Vancouver from Alex Beim on Vimeo.

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Joy of dn&co. just pointed me to their latest book which utilises the mechanic of cutting every other page by 5mm so that when flipped in different directions the pages viewed are either graphic content or photography. The photography is by Satoshi Minakawa.

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Red Rabbit from Egmont Mayer on Vimeo.

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Goldfish Bathplug. Made me smile.

Socks for your Chairs by Chris Ruby. Made me chuckle!

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This DIY magnet template is based on the Konigi wireframe stencils and includes 3 sheets of elements that might be useful in whiteboard prototyping. Simply download and print the PDFs onto Printable Magnet Sheets, optionally laminate them so they’re usable with dry-erase markers, and cut. Lamination is recommended for writing on magnets. Konigi uses and recommends the 3M LS950 No-Heat Laminating System.

Yes! Typography Soap!

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