Botanicalls is an ongoing collaborative project about communication between plants and people started by 4 former graduate students of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Last fall (September 2008), Kati London (one of those 4 former graduate students) participated in an Ignite show, Pecha Kucha styled presentations, in NYC.

The 21st annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) wraps up today in NYC. I have never had the oppertunity to go to the show, but have enjoyed living vicariously through those that have. Two bloggers I follow regularly, Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge and Jennifer Ward of Minor Details, went to the show this past weekend, and had great posts up on their blogs yesterday of some of their favorite finds.

Check out the Grace’s posts on ICFF here and Jennifer’s posts on ICFF here.

Wallpaper Pattern by chato & co. Image from Design*Sponge

Desk/Chair named Sola by Talitha James. Image from Minor Details.

]]> http://www.gamil.com/2009/05/19/icff-2009-wraps-up-today/feed/ 2 http://www.gamil.com/2009/05/15/cricket-the-green-tea-cola/ http://www.gamil.com/2009/05/15/cricket-the-green-tea-cola/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 14:17:17 +0000 britt http://www.gamil.com/?p=1494

I came across cricket today in my morning internet wanderings, and was immediately drawn to because of its simply/happy/friendly feeling packaging.

Cricket is a Green Tea and Kola Nut Brew. None of those chemically ingredients such as the phosphorics or high-fructoses are included in the Cricket formula.

The past few years, Gamil Design and Gamila Company have taken a joint trip to the NC State Fair. We are so fortunate to live in the State Capital, and have the Fair pop up 4.2 miles from our downtown office every year.

Video Still from NC State Fair "Announcing the 2009 State Fair Theme" Video

I’m not sure what the themes were for past fairs, but I’m loving the “A Whole Lotta Happy” theme for 2009! The talking bubbles in the video kinda make me think of this post we wrote back in April.

Check out the announcement video… It is has that cute homemade feel that makes you smile (Note: People in video definitely reflect the State Fair… Caribbean Music does not really reflect the State Fair… Lastly, If you get motion sickness from shakey camera action beware).

as seen on the Deep Fried Blog

My momma is an amazing woman. She is fun, smart, thoughtful, and so very creative. A month ago she started a little blog to document/share her stamping and crafting projects. It has been such a great fit for her, and so much fun for me to watch her grow in her “new found” digital creativity in the blogging world!

When I was a child, momma hosted kids crafting workshops at our house. She instilled and fostered the “Making” gene in me. I am so thankful for her sharing her gifts, had it not been her love and encouragement growing up who knows if I would have become a designer!

Happy Mother’s Day Momma! I love You!

Blurb Website

Blog vs. Book. Tagable vs. Tangible, Dynamic vs. Analog.

It isn’t as hard or as impossible as it may seem…Blurb (an online publisher), allows you to slurp (upload/import) content from your blog and then translate it into a multi page book. The online publisher provides free software called BookSmart (crossplatform mac/pc) as well as several tutorial videos to help in the designing/publishing/printing of your book! AND if that weren’t enough Blurb provides a “Share, Promote, Sell” service where you can make your book available for other people to purchase.

BookSmart Application

SOMETHING TO TAKE NOTE OF:
One thing to take note of is that BookSmart only can slurp blog feeds/entries from Blogger, Live Journal, Typepad, and WordPress.com blogs. This means if you have a WordPress Platform Blog (like we do here at Gamil) that is not hosted at WordPress.com, you cannot slurp your blog content into BookSmart for the layout/publishing. BooHoo. SO BLURB… Is an update to BookSmart Coming for all us other Wordpress Users?

POSSIBLE WORK-AROUND FOR WP USERS?:
I haven’t tried this so I don’t know if it will work…but I assume If you have a WP platform blog, it may be possible to export your .xml file then import it into one of the supported Blog Platforms?

Blurb Bookstore

That all said, I am definitely impressed with Blurb. Not only do they have the Blog to Book publishing, BookSmart also has Various (70+) page layout templates for Portfolios, Photobooks, Wedding Books, Guestbooks, Cookbooks, Yearbooks, Journals, Text & photos, Text only, and Poetry Books. Making it easy for any novice to jump in and create a book.

If using a Template isn’t for you and you want a book designer to design your book? Well Blurb has a created a directory of designers (BlurbNation) to help you create your entire book from cover-to-cover, write and proofread copy, design pages and organize your content, scan, edit, and restore photos, artwork, and more,
provide creative services you haven’t even thought of yet. WOW.

all photos from Blurb.com

This week charity: water drilled another well in Ethiopia… this one with funds raised from an event called Twestival (Twitter plus festival). In just 2 months, the 100% volunteer effort raised funds from all over the world and has completed the first well for a northern Ethiopian village.

To watch the videos (there are 4) of the drilling visit charity: water, Twestival event site.

seen on eco-modernism

Sorry for the inconvenience. We know we are broken and we wanna be fixed.
Stay tuned.