For cancer-awareness at the Tour de France, Nike and Lance Armstrong have created Chalkbot which produces very interesting looking type on roads. Very cool! Brand Channel has more.

TED is an amazing source of information regarding Technology, Entertainment and Design. Ideas Worth Spreading is a very appropriate tag line. So it was very exciting to attend our local version called TEDxCLE. My buddy Joseph and I were totally inspired by all the positive stuff happening in town. He’s thoroughly blogged about the event here. Including links to photos and speakers, etc. He also references an article in Forbes listing Cleveland as the most miserable city. Which is totally absurd. Forbes has since covered this event to sort of redeem itself. Meh…

From Stand For Less:

Inspired by Rachel Downey at Studio Graphique and written by the Great Lakes Design Collaborative, here’s a list of 10 tough things to do that will actually help to save the planet.

The Colectivo is great local organization who’s motto “Small Grants. Big Ideas.” sums it up nicely. Anyone can submit an idea for funding and potentially bring it to life using these grants. Larchmere Porchfest was a recipient in 2009. Here are some photos of that event last summer:

Received this award last week, on behalf of the planning committee for Larchmere Porchfest. We utilized social media (myspace & facebook) as well as posters and flyers in the neighborhood. LiveCleveland!, who awarded this honor, does a nice job marketing local neighborhoods individually.

Lovely design of these Winter Olympic medals and they are made from recycled bronze, silver and gold. From Fast Company: “the Olympic committee is saving perfectly good gold, silver, and bronze from ending up in landfills. Because it makes no sense to mine for new gold when a single junked PC has more of the stuff in it than 17 tons of ore.”

This movie called “Food Inc.” is a must see, regarding the food industry. It seems to be along the same lines as Michael Pollan. Good stuff. Monday, it’s only $5 at Cedar Lee.

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The huge specific amounts of money that GM owes several large ad agencies is covered by Media Bistro. This tv spot talks about “getting down to business” and beginning at “chapter one” which seems a decade too late. Michael Moore has really interesting suggestions for the future of GM, from The Huffington Post.

Really enjoyed this book as well as The Omnivore’s Dilemma. From The Colbert Report, here’s Michael Pollan with some excellent, healthy tips for the American diet:

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