Here is an eclectic collection of my favorite spots of Amsterdam after the past 2 months of explorations: 1. Dutch bikes (even if i barely owned one), they’re just so damn beautiful. 2. Japanese Pancake World, pancakes the true japanses way, the only restaurant in Europe. 3. Cafe Latei on Zeedijk 143, a very cute… Continue reading My Dutch favorites
Author: designswarm
Blogging since 2005.
Fresh Start @ Emergence
More than a year ago, I worked, along with Dave Chiu and Haiyan Zhang on designing Fresh Start a service design project to prevent obesity that I am very proud of. The elevator pitch for it is: “Two friends sign up for the Fresh Start service and make a commitment to cook with each other… Continue reading Fresh Start @ Emergence
2D > 3D > 2D
I love the mixture here, a plain piece of paper made into a sculpture, beautifully photographed… so sexy. via Core 77.
Activity update
I am now sitting in my cozy Amsterdam apartment for the last week and I thought I’d update you fine folks as to what I’m up to in the next month or so. First and foremost I’ll be relocating (thanks to a project with Blast) to Newbury, near London, for the month of Septmeber and… Continue reading Activity update
Something cute
Some very cute animation work by Vegetable Fried Rice.
Brunch 2.0
Another 8 hour-long sunday brunch sun-dappling, eating lovely home made food and drinking wine, what else is life for? The weather was a bit moody this time around so we had to move inside for the end of it but we had a lovely time. The nice thing about professionals in my field and the… Continue reading Brunch 2.0
I'm not the only one
Complaining about air travel… check out this edition of the show with zefrank: 08-23-06.
Brunch version 1.0
Alex’s place Originally uploaded by merci. The next version tomorrow starting at 12 on Oldenbarneveldtstraat in Amsterdam…might be rain this time around…: /
Alex's sunday brunch, version 2.0
No there are no pixels involved here… its just that’s its the second one i put together and gosh did i meet a whole bunch of new people. Since I don’t know who will show up until they get here, ill post up who I had the pleasure of meeting last time to entice new… Continue reading Alex's sunday brunch, version 2.0
Feeling left out
Arrived Originally uploaded by mbiddulph. Matt is in San francisco at Foo Camp (Friends of O’Reilly) an awesome sounding invite-only web geek conference (or unconference where participants make up the conference by signing up to give talks and people camp out or in this case sleep on office floors) and I can’t help but feeling… Continue reading Feeling left out