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Thursday Edition
"I'm not writing it down to remember it later, I'm writing it
down to remember it now." Field Notes Brand notebooks.
Coudal Partners
Field Notes Collected
Our mighty little memo books are showing up in lots of new places, like shops in The Design Museum in London, The Museum of Contemporary Art in LA and The Museum of Contemporary San Diego. Yowza, that puts us in some fine company. And all that after showing up in the background of a photo in Lego Magazine too. Stock up on what are now surely museum quality products. Buy 4 or more and get one free when you order before Sunday. Get all the details here.
Films About Hand-Made Posters
Screening Documentaries
The Beginning and End Are Up To You, is our mini-documentary about John Solimine who created the limited-edition poster for Field Tested Books 2008.
For our first summer reading feature we asked Jay Ryan of The Bird Machine to design and hand-screen a limited run of posters. We visited Jay and Mat Daly at the Bird Machine Shop and we can tell you that the whole thing is refreshingly analog and deliciously slow. Check 6 Colors, 1,800 Pulls and 2 Dogs. The next Field-Tested Poster was created by Dan and Mike of Aesthetic Apparatus. Steve buzzed up to The Twin Cities for a visit and that resulted in Found & Reused.
The Field-Tested Books Book
Location, Location, Location
Announcing our biggest, best edition of Field-Tested Books yet. We looked over the shoulders of lots of smart people while they read lots of interesting books in lots of familiar and unfamiliar places and now you can too. All the Field Tests from this new collection and previous years are online. Plus, we've created a sweet, new, limited-edition poster with Spike Press and we're totally excited to say that the first-edition of The Field-Tested Books Book, a paperback containing 143 selected reviews, is also available for purchase. We'll be making a donation to First Book for every one we sell, so order a book for yourself and help us buy a truckload of new books for underprivileged kids. The First-Editions are shipping now. Buy one today we'll ship it today.
News: Thanks to everyone who came to our recent live Field-Tested Readings, in Chicago and New York City.
Grey Skies Are Gonna Clear Up
Tips For Tough Times
As a public service, Steve Delahoyde and our pals from Schadenfreude present a new series of handy tips for Surviving The New Depression. Get happy.
Museum Of Online Museums
Summer at The MoOM
Tons of new listings and exhibits have been posted for the summer at our Museum of Online Museums. The MoOM was featured on All Things Considered and in the NY Times. It was also selected as one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites and was discussed on a recent episode of NPR's Hello Beautiful! Consider joining our Museum Board, a subscription comes with a coffee mug but none of the snootiness so often associated with the patronage of cultural institutions.
A CP Film In Five Parts
Laboratory Conditions
While we were in Los Alamos, New Mexico, looking for locations for one film project, we discovered a lot more about the town and its people than we bargained for. So we made a different film and called it Laboratory Conditions. It's being shown here in five pieces and is also available on DVD.
How Do You Spell Courage?
Inaction Heroes
For the proper effect, check the trailer first and then please take a few minutes (eleven actually) to watch our short feature film about words, pictures and bravery, Copy Goes Here. In case you missed it, here's what our home page looked like when we debuted the movie.
A CP Labs: Film
Shift Option Rinse
Can you really clean your computer keyboard in the dishwasher? With the help of the RinseCam 9000, Michele created a short film to find out.
An SD Film Regrets
Passing Fancy
From JC's talk at Seed Conference 3. If you're at all like us and are better suited for starting things than you are for finishing them, you ought to pay attention to the fifth film in Steve's "Regrets" series, Hobbies.
Layer Tennis The Final Fiasco
Forth and Back
It was a long, amazing Layer Tennis Season, relive it here while we start planning the next one. The matches were presented by Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 , the weapon of choice for creative people and Layer Tennis players everywhere. The project has just been shortlisted for Cannes Lions in two categories, "Best Use of Internet/New Media" and "Business Products & Services." Winners are announced Wednesday.
Heather Is The New Black
The Tee
We have made tee shirts for a variety of projects but until now we have never made a simple Coudal Partners shirt. And this one is about as simple as it gets. A tee, perfectly constructed tee from a sweet new blend with just our "Crois" logo on the front. That's it.
Other recent features are listed on Page Two.
Fresh Signals 
Weirdomatic's collection of "Old Creepy Ads."
Rosa Loves.
Music vid of the moment: Shad's The Old Prince Still Lives at Home.
For BB, "The biggest site of the world of shields of soccer teams!"
Taking the Leap from writing on discs with Sharpies to custom designed cases, now at the Jewelboxing blog.
Vegas Dream Projects and Failed Renderings, the buildings you'll never see on the strip, like the Beverly Hillbillies Resort and The Moon.
"Dark! All-encompassing, eternal darkness! Human eyes cannot penetrate the stygian blackness of this unholy confection!" Selections From H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sampler Copywriter.
"The problem of unsightly text is often caused by a designer's failure to use neutralizing techniques. Some of them require time, and some just simple attention. Here we'd like to speak about punctuation in a number of complex situations." -Art Lebedev
X House. Gorgeous.
While we're talking about museums, Matt Lincoln Russell of Icrontic.com has joined the marginally prestigious Board of Directors of our Museum on Online Museums. Thanks for that.
Other Simulated Worlds, fascinating photos from the The American Museum of Natural History, many showing exhibits being prepared.
Posted without comment: Condom a Cappella.
Gallery of Fanta Caps. Absolutely MoOMish. Clipped from Quipped.
If you're looking for something to do tonight Warren Buffett, Pete Peterson and Dave Walker are doing a live discussion and screening of I.O.U.S.A. in theaters across the country.
Someone, please catch that monkey! A macaque is loose in downtown Tokyo.
Wow, that's a lot of silverware.
The Book of Surfing, via It's Nice That.
Breaking news from the back-end of the Olympics, DFL, celebrating last-place finishes.
1923 Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. Luscious.
And one more, sort of related. Experimental Jetset's Lost Format Preservation Society.
Related to the last. Hal4400's video of his collection of Marantz components is hot, nasty audiophile porn, and is featured in the Summer Exhibitions at the MoOM.
"You're about to hear something fantastic." Four Speakers Good, Two Speakers Bad, WFMU on an introduction to Quadraphonic sound.
The Aquabats rock out on Yo Gabba Gabba, the hippest kids show around.
Wow, re-creation of the Olympic village using 140,00 playing cards.
Nice, the evolution of the AT-AT tee.
International trailer for the Ron Howard helmed Frost/Nixon.
Big collection of photos of the abandoned Edgewater Medical Center, birthplace of both Hillary Clinton and John Wayne Gacy.
If you hate taking your laptop out of your bag at airport screening then you might be interested in these. Via Gadling.
Kottke runs down video from some great past Olympic moments. Nice.
Unboxing the Samsung Omnia. Stay with it. Thanks Jesper.
Darden Studio has relaunched its website, a gorgeous array of things typographic.
A bus shelter swing.
Transit token necklaces, by Hanger3.
Perfect for your next road trip, the NPR map.
Typographic Research, a site by a class at Parsons, taught by Rob Giampietro.
Page Two contains the previous 35 Fresh Signals, recent features, a key to the icons and the categorical archives.
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Your Name Here
the pitch
You can be an Executive Producer of our new short feature film, 72°. If you've always wanted to be a hotshot Hollywood player, or you just want to lend a hand to the project here's your chance.
A Thing We Made:Jewelboxing
We hated the options available for custom packaging DVDs and CDs so we created a brand that gives creative professionals and hobbyists the tools to make great stuff. Here's a bit from the latest Jewelboxing weblog entry:
"Second to the wedding images, I get the most compliments on these cases." Read the entire post.
Some Other Things We Made:
Field Notes Brand "I'm not writing it down to remember it later. I'm writing it down to remember it now." A CP/DDC joint.
Pinsetter: Spell with buttons.
Limited-edition, professionally mixed and mastered, custom-designed live performances on CD. That's The Show. With partners like The Pixies and Dead Can Dance. More news soon.
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