Bike Seat Stool

This simple stool evokes the styling of Italian designer, Achille Castiglioni. His Sella chair is a bit out of reach for most of us — especially at £336. Designer, Aldo Parise, created this chair using Everyday bikes retro cruiser saddle and pieces from Home Depot. The base is lemon oil stained poplar. In all it adds up to $40 of material.

Adding a Flickr

August Project has just created a collection of images on Flickr. Available for use under the Creative Commons license, these images can be used in both commercial and non-commercial projects.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/augustproject/

Bavotasan

We work quite a bit with content management systems like Joomla and WordPress. It’s sometimes difficult to find good templates you can adapt for clients. The Magazine Basic at Bavotasan.com is a tight WordPress template.

Typechart

We often get confused making typography work on the web. Typechart really makes it easy.

Evil Scientists

Evil Scientists still exist and they are making stuff.

School of Thought

After a rough start solicting books from design and editorial firms in Montreal, Edmonton, Toronto, San Diego and Chicago, we’re happy to report some success. We’ve been able to donate over $800 in graphic design, photography and typography books to various community libraries in Montreal, Edmonton and Chicago. We’d like to thank Azure, CMYK Design, Windham Partners, Insound, Playboy and Stark Photography for their help and generous donations.