What do a hip coffee house, a curated general store, a popular sandwich joint, a trendy shoe shop, and a new superfood store have in common? For starters all 5 are featured right in our quaint Vancouver neighbourhood, Gastown. For…
Let’s start with the preposition that if Siri doesn’t start sounding like Scarlett Johansson’s smoky voice in 24 months, we’ve all failed Steve Jobs. Likewise, we will know we are on the right path to a hipster future when we’re…
For the month of August, a series of guest posters will be filling in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from designer and illustrator Karen Kurycki of CMYKaren. For more from Karen, be sure to check out Absurd Overheard and follow…
This video is just all kinds of awesome. The perfect pick-me-up for a Monday morning. Check out the rest of the series by SoulPancake right here. via TED
Need a pick-me-up? Well I just might have the answer for you: Emergency Compliments, an altruistic online project from Megs Senk, a designer at W+K 12. If the first compliment doesn’t make you feel better, you can keep cycling through…
Komboh’s National Hero Registration Forms made me smile this morning. You can download one for yourself right here.
Colabs is a new creative community currently being developed by Brooklyn-based designers Noah Akinson and Jennica Johnstone. Once launched, the site will support connections between creative individuals for the purpose of collaboration, finding roommates and workspaces. This sounds like a fantastic…
Herman Miller just launched an exciting new series called Why Design: At Herman Miller design is the language we use to ask questions and seek answers to the problems our customers face. The design process is a journey into the…
Author/Designer/Filmmaker/Artist/Firestarter James Victore has recently launched a brand new project, Take This Job and Love It: “A one day live event about work, life, and bucking the status quo” taking place this September. He was kind enough to answer a…
Hello Readers! I wanted to give you a head’s up that DWL will be joining internet giants like Wikipedia, Reddit and BoingBoing, as well as many other sites, in tomorrow’s SOPA Strike. We will be blacked out, and therefore inaccessible, between the hours of 8AM and 8PM…
Illustrated Etymology is an intriguing project by Adam Garcia. Illustrated Etymology is just that – a collection of visual correlatives to English word history. These illustrations are an exploration, evolution and celebration of the history and meaning of words and…
Since the advent of the DVR, I pretty much never watch commercials; so it was pure chance that I happened to catch the ad below during last week’s Glee. I have to say that I honestly can’t remember the last…