In a bid to free up more spare time, this year I’m making a more conscious effort to get organised and stay on top of things. I’ve started using this amazing, letterpressed year calendar from Magma in Covent Garden as a visual heads up on what’s going on this month.

Also if your interested I’ve also recently purchased Things from Cultured Code, it’s a project management app for mac ($49.99). The UI is fantastic and the whole experience is really polished – every apple app should be this good! I think if we are being honest then this is what is really helping me get organised, but the calendar is beautiful!

Another beautiful Fifty People, One Question short. It’s a simple question but I was struggling with it – I think that’s one of the beauties of this series, something simple throws so many.

I have been following the One Question series on Vimeo for a while now. I really love the concept and they are always shot and edited nicely. You might remember that a while ago I posted about the New York one, well they just released a London short and I couldn’t not post it.

On a side note, this is a special post, No. 100 on the dot – thanks for reading guys & gals!

When i first started watching this video the English in me was saying “This chap is a bit OTT wouldn’t you say?” but Gary Vaynerchuk speaks an important message and by the end of the video I found myself shouting with him.

He has certainly got me thinking about video blogging/podcasting and i’m going to trial run an episode or two (don’t hold me to this) soon. Gary is a real inspiration and living proof that if your passionate about something, you want it enough and you are prepared to work for it, you can make it happen! “Clap this up, it’s the real shit!”.

This is the first issue of crumbs. It’s a list format (don’t worry it’s not numbered) round-up of things that have inspired/humoured me recently.

It is not going to be replacing regular posts, I just don’t have the time to blog everything (moreover not all of these things quantify a whole post to themselves) and I feel like you guys (might) be missing out on some of this stuff.

Sir Ken Robinson – Do schools kill creativity?

Sir Ken Robinson voices his opinion on the education system, about nurturing creativity/innovation and the definition of intelligence. This is a truely inspiring talk, one of TED’s finest.
Via the Rissington Christmas Special

Spider payment for overdue account

David Thorne tries to pay a bill with a (crude) drawing of a seven legged spider – truestory. Ok so this is a bit old now and has been covered extensively by the twittersphere and online etc – but still worth a mention!
Originally via this interview with David Thorne

Top 100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers

Smashing Magazine (it was going to be them really wasn’t it) have compiled the top 100 iPhone wallpapers. There are some really lovely ones on there, including one I designed for iLT’s new website typenuts.com (first one, on the left “ILCaslon”).

The launch of the Macbook Wheel

This week also saw MacWorld ‘09, which came baring all sorts of lovely apple treats. The Onion where quick off the mark to spoof this new product, the Macbook Wheel.
Via Gizmodo

This corian timepiece is amazing, made by Alvin Aronson he says the idea behind the project was to add a new characteristic to the digital mediation of time, a physical / third dimension. “The time between 0 and 1″.

Here is one more video of the clock (not as good quality). Really, what an amazing piece of design to kick off the new year with!

I also just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has been reading geenius. I hope you all had a fantastic winter break and are starting the new year on a high (or hangover?). I can’t wait to see what 2009 has in store.