Anna and Nathan Bond’s boutique stationery company now has an online store offering cards, prints, paper goods and — soon — invitations (plus very nice use of widely-spaced Futura).
Just when I thought the scrapbook design meme was played out, MetaLab’s Sara White produces what may be the definitive theme of its type for Tumblr, Vintage Scrapbook. It’s a paid theme via Envato’s Theme Forest, but at $12 — and with MetaLab’s customary attention to every single detail — it’s a steal. I’d love to see an option in Tumblr’s Theme Garden for designers to offer paid themes, perhaps with a revenue split akin to the App Store.
“Untitled 2008” by Elizabeth Weinberg, an editor’s pick on Print Society, the new site showcasing the best prints for sale online, from the creators of t-shirt emporium Rumplo. Update: the photo is now correctly attributed.
SongParts
A new venture from You Look Nice Today: buy just the best parts of songs for a fraction of the US$0.99 pricetag. Gold. And taking submissions now. (via Adam Lisagor)
Because old business models won’t change, eMusic now looks broken by the very people who deemed it in need of protection. I suppose I’ll hang on till next month, collect my sorry-about-this bonus, and then cancel.
— From Russell Brown’s backgrounder on eMusic’s new pricing regime, from an Australasian perspective. Short story: so it can deliver Sony’s back catalogue to the US, Canada and the EU, eMusic has roughly doubled the price of its tracks, leaving users outside those territories subsidising a product they can’t buy. I’ll stay for a bit to see how it pans out, but this does not look like a particularly fair deal.
This fantastic-looking (and fully licensed) C64 emulator app for iPhone by Manomio has been rejected for violating the SDK’s rule against running emulated or interpreted code on the device. Such a pity, given Apple’s reported excitement about the project at the outset, and the number of similar apps already for sale in the App Store. Think of the in-app purchasing possibilities! I would give pretty much anything to have Bruce Lee in my pocket. (via John Gruber)
Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.
Online purveyors of high-quality crime-fighting merchandise, including capes, secret identities, mylar force fields, x-ray specs, cloning fluid and gallon buckets of gravity. Pure awesome, even moreso as all proceeds from the sale of its products go directly to support the free writing programs at 826NYC. (via Michael Lopp)
Frank Chimero’s Select Series Threadless tee, “I Overcomplicate Things”. Beautiful.
Courtney and her Mission bike. I recently led investment in a startup called Mission Bicycle, which builds custom and absolutely beautiful bikes. I’m also in the process of redesigning their website and order-kiosk software in collaboration with Jeffrey Kalmikoff, creative director of Threadless.
The site is now up, I love the header and icons.
Airbag listened to the community and is switching TwitShirts to an opt-in model. Good call. A side note on attribution from Renaud gives the flipside of the argument.
