We’ve seen quite the gamut of keyboards within the past decade ranging from iterations on the same clickity-clack behemoths of yesteryear to the slim, clean and wireless Bluetooth offerings that can enable a user to type from across the room. More recently, we’ve been seeing various attempts at omitting the keyboard altogether due to an…
In the video age, getting behind the design thinking and production process of many great thinkers has never been easier, and online file transfer service WeTransfer has added even more great videos to this movement with the launch of their Creative Class video series. Aimed at illustrating how some of the most influential people in…
This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist brings an entirely new face-smack of great music to help propel you through those laborious, tedious design tasks for the next few days.
This week we’ve put together a humble tribute to the last surviving original member of the Ramones who passed away this past Friday. Tommy Ramone was the original drummer for the punk rockers who famously helped invent punk rock in New York City in the 1970s.
We’ll start off this week’s radio with a remastered version of ‘We’re a Happy Family‘ and work our way through classics such as ‘I Wanna be Sedated‘, ‘Blitzkrieg Bop‘, ‘Rockaway Beach‘, and others before wrapping it all up with ‘Rock n’ Roll High School‘.
Brooklyn-based jewelry maker Carolyn A’Hearn is known for one-of-a-kind unique pieces that border somewhere on the line between classic and sci-fi. Her process for creating the pieces is almost just as interesting (if not more interesting) than the final pieces themselves. Using scraps of metal ranging from the size of a nail all the way…
Fresh water is in short supply these days…just look at the statistics for California and you will have a pretty good idea of how scarce it really is. Technically speaking, only 3% of the world’s water is fresh, which isn’t saying much considering it still needs to be filtered or treated before it can be…