“
If you’re ever lying on a beach with
80 billion grains of sand beneath you,
700 thousand ocean waves before you,
60 million stars stretched out above you,
and you’re still not at all impressed,
I want you to think about this:
The light you see reflecting from the stars is over one million years old.

But then, just before you start to feel like a mere blip
in the gigantic scheme of things, please remember this:
Yes, you are small, but you’re also irreplaceable
and invaluable and miraculous.
Those stars don’t have anything on you.
Unknown (via gatekeeper) (via tugonheartstrings) (via thesecondstar)
Grass Paper: something Sam drew for us a long time ago ♥ it’s still the most beautiful piece of paper we have in the collection.  Click for high-res photo

Grass Paper: something Sam drew for us a long time ago ♥ it’s still the most beautiful piece of paper we have in the collection. 

Grass Paper: one of our products. Not especially useful, I don’t like my bookmarks to have ribbons..  Click for high-res photo

Grass Paper: one of our products. Not especially useful, I don’t like my bookmarks to have ribbons.. 

Grass Paper: Well, evidently there is much more work to be done before it’s of sufficient quality to be printed on! (NB the grunge effect is not photoshopped.) Click for high-res photo

Grass Paper: Well, evidently there is much more work to be done before it’s of sufficient quality to be printed on!

(NB the grunge effect is not photoshopped.)

ilovecharts: The Citrus Chart (via Saki)

ilovecharts:

The Citrus Chart (via Saki)

The War Logs

duncandavidson:

New York Times coverage of the massive release of documents about the war in Afghanistan by Wikileaks.

davemorin: Zach Klein’s thoughts here rock. All of the airlines could go for a major improvement in user experience around the pieces of their businesses connected to the Internet. My one-hour rethinking of Delta’s Sky Club portal (by Zach Klein)

davemorin:

Zach Klein’s thoughts here rock. All of the airlines could go for a major improvement in user experience around the pieces of their businesses connected to the Internet.

My one-hour rethinking of Delta’s Sky Club portal (by Zach Klein)

simko: Boarding Passes by Peter James Lee… The aftermath of flying over a million miles (within a decade).

simko:

Boarding Passes by Peter James Lee… The aftermath of flying over a million miles (within a decade).

jayparkinsonmd: Intentionally inefficient cigarette packaging concept Erik Askin recently published “Designed to Annoy: A theoretical look at designing inefficient packaging”, a thoughtful twist on the ubiquitous cigarette package. The idea of making something harder to use to encourage a user to rethink their consumption is poignant. Design can make things easier or harder. I firmly believe that a lot of websites nowadays are built to be either cheap at first bill or extra-difficult for you to use. 

jayparkinsonmd:

Intentionally inefficient cigarette packaging concept

Erik Askin recently published “Designed to Annoy: A theoretical look at designing inefficient packaging”, a thoughtful twist on the ubiquitous cigarette package. The idea of making something harder to use to encourage a user to rethink their consumption is poignant.

Design can make things easier or harder. I firmly believe that a lot of websites nowadays are built to be either cheap at first bill or extra-difficult for you to use. 

sorrowsdaggerfall: wewillbesilhouettes: kongming lanterns probably one of the most beautiful human creations (via flickr) Pretty…. Beautiful. The sky doesn’t have to be a highway for a shell. 

sorrowsdaggerfall:

wewillbesilhouettes:

kongming lanterns

probably one of the most beautiful human creations

(via flickr)

Pretty….

Beautiful. The sky doesn’t have to be a highway for a shell.