LK's Slack channel #check-this-out gets a purge every Friday. We get together, take a break, and recap what everyone's posted. We'd like to share these blobs with you! Enjoy.
My friend put together this conference and I listened to a few of the sessions this morning. They were so amazing with such interesting, thoughtful speakers.
This brand just launched their own body soap with zero waste packaging. The body wash is in the form of single-use sheets that are completely water soluble.
I'm totally amused by these Barilla playlists that are perfectly timed to align with the time it takes to cook a particular shape of pasta. Brilliant branded content. And I find the Italian intros at the beginning incredibly charming.
Ikea made a digital cookbook dedicated to cooking with the little things we usually throw away!
Just found this type foundry? collective? directory? of women type designers and the work is so so amazing! Some of them are making some really experimental work
Street + fine art photographer, Gulnara Samoilova created a curated site that highlights women photographers - bringing more diversity into a very male dominated space. It's easy to get lost in all this amazing work!
Finally, a big business like Unilever is making a push for inclusivity across their wide range of brands. They announced this week that they will stop using the word normal on all hair and skin products (because what is "normal" anyway!?) + they will stop altering model's shapes, size, or skin color. From a strategy perspective, I love to see this. I hope many more brands follow suit!
A sweet website commissioned by a bar in Mexico that wanted to give customers something to look forward to. I love the simple design and low key interactivity.
The movie about the imperfect life in the Villages retirement community premieres in theaters on Jan. 8 and at home through Video On Demand starting Jan. 15.
My awakening to the sound of Elizabeth Cotten. Not sure how I missed this. Did I miss it? Well, I found it now. Heard this sometime ago and assumed it would follow me around. Heard it again this morning and I realized I should grab on before it hides away again. Now I'll never not know. Shake Sugaree
A panel of graphic designers discuss the work of Milton Glaser, a 1951 graduate of The Cooper Union.
Oh the poetry. You can be a billionaire and live in the penthouse overlooking Central Park. And, have water leaking from the ceiling, get stuck for hours in the elevator, be terrified at night from the howling, swaying building in the wind.
The most exclusive sandal ever made is a Birkenstock-like piece of footwear with an official Birkenstock cork-and-rubber sole, but with a leather upper made from purposefully chopped-up Hermès Birkin bags. Shock, horror, fashion sacrilege!
The vibrant, imagined landscapes of this Mozambican painter's new works are in touch with reality but they also represent a deeply allegorical dream life.
It involves a lot of controlled chaos.
This is pretty interesting. These are rejected comps made by Saul Bass for the poster of The Shining, and you can read Kubrick's harsh comments on them.
This group I really like clipping. had a really cool take on the tiny desk performance. The main dude is Daveed Diggs, who has also been on broadway and in plenty of movies.
Don't worry about what this means for civilization once it's in the brains of humans cause they'll probably skip right over us and go straight to dolphins.
I found this Hibiscus Water brand, Ruby, on a web design trends video on youtube and I love that the playfulness extends past the immediate label and packaging and goes into the web design.