4 Books That will Change Your Perspective on Business, Marketing, Productivity and the Environment
4 books that changed my thinking I read a lot. Perhaps a bit too much. I figure that with 100 billion humans having lived, there must be a heap of amazing minds that I can learn from. It’s mostly non-fiction; business, marketing, design, creativity, life. So here are four books that I rate as powerful, [...]
TIME magazine list the best Blogs of 2010
From the savvy to the satirical, the eye-opening to the jaw-dropping, TIME makes its annual picks of the blogs we can’t live without. For the record, we have added uncluttered white spaces covertly into the list. It is an interesting list with a few surprises in here. Certainly for us, it is a crime not to see [...]
Bicycle Portraits. Everyday South Africans and their bikes.
Ian Lyons has pointed us in the direction of the the Bicycle Portraits project was initiated by Stan Engelbrecht (Cape Town, South Africa) and Nic Grobler (Johannesburg, South Africa) early in 2010. Whenever they can, together or separately, they’re on the lookout for fellow commuters, and people who use bicycles as part of their everyday work, to [...]
Win a Website Worth $7500 from uncluttered white spaces and 6.2 Digital
uncluttered white spaces and 6.2 Digital is giving you a chance to win a website to the value of $7500. The website will be a wordpress based blog or website created by 6.2 and will include all content pages, seo, newsletter feature and social networking capabilities. To win, simple tweet this hash tag #freewebsite and [...]
OHWOW Book Club Store in New York City
Thinking of starting a Book Club or opening a new book store. An interesting devlopment in the current age of the emergance of the e-book but Aaron Bondaroff unveils his latest project as an extension of his OHWOW art movement. The newly opened OHWOW Book Club Store houses a selection of OHWOW-published books and items [...]
From Max | Cheese, Jedis, Stormtroopers & Holidays
In the annual business cycle there is a particular period I dread – February (for our northern hemisphere readers this would be September … but think return of the masses from summer holidays). The logical conclusion you are drawing is that I don’t enjoy February because this is when I return from summer holidays … [...]
Seth Godin talking Linchpin with uncluttered white spaces
] Yesterday morning we had the absolute privilege of speaking with Seth Godin in regards to the release of his new book LINCHPIN. For those of you who are Seth Godin fans, you will enjoy this discussion, for those of you who are not familiar (the very few left), you will be converted. It was [...]
Copenhagen | Youth In Revolt
The latest issue of VMAN is slated to hit newsstands on April 20th, with one of the issue’s highlights being a 14-page editorial by Hedi Slimane. The piece features inspiration from the cultural landscape in Copenhagen, narrowing in on several creatives to become a part of the shoot, with styling done by Clare Richardson. Images [...]
Chefs Predict Food Trends of the Future
Macrobiotic food, raw food, local food…the list of food trends that have popped up in restaurants in recent years is virtually endless. The Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association (CRFA) recently surveyed 400 chefs to find out what they think about the future of food, with some surprising (and not-so-surprising) results. As you might expect, sustainable [...]
We think you should visit: Books in the age of the iPad by Craig Mod
This is a conversation for books-makers, web-heads, content-creators, authors and designers. For people who love beautifully made things. And for the storytellers who are willing to take risks and want to consider the most appropriate shape and media for their yarns. Craig Mod takes a look at where printed books stand in respect to digital [...]
A Letter for One with Meaning for All
This Valentine’s Day, celebrate love in all forms with Steve Powers’ latest book “A Love Letter for You”. The book explores Powers’ fascination with using graffiti to tell a story. A team of 40 painter collaborated to create Love Letter, a series of more than 50 huge, text-based rooftop murals. Love Letter is a public [...]
We think you should visit:: Fear.less
fear.less is a free online magazine that empowers people through unique stories of overcoming fear. From entrepreneurs, business leaders, artists and scientists to survivors of extreme experiences, these stories demonstrate the hidden potential we have to confront our fears and come out victorious. Co-founded by Ishita Gupta and Clay Hebert, fear.less is their answer to [...]
JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo. TED has pointed us towards JK Rowlands 2008, Harvard University commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.” Please, grab a [...]
Get the BLACK REPORT. If you haven’t already.
Join the other 76 companies who signed up for the BLACK REPORT from uncluttered white spaces in the past 7 days. The BLACK REPORT is a trend, innovation, business, strategy, insights and online report highlighting what you might have missed due to your bust schedule. The Black Report os $49 per month and comes through [...]
LINCHPIN :: Are you indispensable?
Seth Godin’s new book Linchpin comes out today and as with all books released by Seth, you will be inspired. Here is an extract from Seth’s blog in relation to why he wrote the book: The reason I wrote Linchpin: If you want to change people, you must create enough leverage to encourage the change to happen. Books [...]
Seth Godin :: What Matters Now.
Seth Godin has asked his readers to provide insightful commentary. Here is our contribution. Its called sharing. Do 3 things. 1. Find some time. 2. Read this. 3. Share it. What Matters Now
Actions Speak Loudest.
THE BOOK Every generation makes a commitment to see its children lead better lives than they have and to leave the world a better place than they have inherited. Today’s issues are combining to create the first generation of children expected to lead shorter, unhealthier and unhappier lives than their parents. Actions Speak Loudest is designed as [...]
What makes good information design?
David McCandless from the iconic Information is Beautiful again produces some amazing creative insight. Head over to the site to respond and share opinion. Below is an extract from David. To me, these seem like the key components of a good infographic / data visualisation / piece of information design. Information needs to be interesting [...]
INVENTORY: Launches This Month
INVENTORY will debut this month with their Volume 01 Number 01 issue. The magazine’s inaugural publication will look to a list of talents and creatives including Nigel Cabourn, Yuketen, Engineered Garments, Mister Freedom and Willo Perron among others. The magazine will be available for a suggested retail price of $20 USD with a list of [...]
PRE-ORDER: THE VISUAL MISCELLANEUM
Close to one of our favourite websites in the world, Information is Beautiful is taking orders in advance for their new book, the Visual Miscellaneum, due out in the US 10th November. And in the UK on the 4th February. For the cats in Australia, our suggestion is you shoot an email through to the [...]
“GRUNGE” According to Thurston Moore
Renowned Sydney photographer Josh Evans dropped by on Saturday for a cold beer and the conversation quickly swung towards Sonic Youth. An era of rock which ruled the planet according to few. Photographer Michael Lavine has collaborated with author Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) on their book ‘Grunge’ a an illustrated tell-all account of the [...]
