Top
One Floor Up

A collection of smart products, bright ideas, and fresh approaches.

Search
Follow
Subscribe
Sunday
Apr152012

OK Go Skyscrapers

The new OK Go Skyscrapers music video is so beautifully simple and elegant.  A couple tango slowly across your screen, moving from one color to the next and then back again.  There is something really mesmerizing about the intensity of the colors in combination with the slow, deliberate moves of the dancers.  I can't stop watching...

Sunday
Feb262012

Good Shirts

Justin & Christine Gignac from Wants for Sale have partnered with Threadless and UNICEF to create Good Shirts. Good Shirts are Threadless t-shirts where 100% of your donation goes to UNICEF. The cost of each shirt directly corresponds to the cost of the donated item. For example, the Insecticide Treated Mosquito Nets shirt cost $18.37, and the Water Pump shirt cost $500.00.  Learn more here.

Monday
May022011

Romance Reenacted

Alex Holder and her boyfriend reenacted some classic Harlequin Romance Covers in this Mills & Boom photo shoot for an International Women's Day Exhibit.  She bought the clothing from vintage shops and painted all the backdrops herself.  The photos were taken by Oli Kellett, Alex's colleague and artistic partner (a partnership I'm totally obsessed with after reading this self description).

Monday
May022011

A Lot of Waldos

Do you think you could find the real Waldo in a sea of artist renditions? A Lot of Waldos.

Monday
May022011

The Birth of a Word

This is the best TED talk I've listened to in a long time.  Deb Roy's TED talk The birth of a word.