The perfect day planner for visually orientated creative thinker. This notebook allows you to organize your day, thoughts and notes in a perfect harmonious circle. Your life is not linear so why should your day planner be?

It is a simple idea but like all great design simplicity is key.

The planer organizes your day around a clock icon. The left side of the page is for the AM hours and the right side is dedicated to the PM.

For once creativity and timeliness can work in balance. I picked up a Muji notebook on my last trip to New York and I love it. If you are any thing like me than you are constantly thinking up new ideas writing them on napkins in your cell phone and basically anywhere else you can find. This is a perfect solution for all of us scatter brained ADD thinkers.  And if all else fails it looks cool.

$5-$10: www.muji.com

Tags: Organization.

Here are two designs that I came across that are perfectly suited and inspired to complement your Apple computer and accessories.

The Milk Desk

The perfect desks to complement you’re simplistic, functional, creative personality. This desk is clean and clever with a minimal sturdy look that is packed full of I wish I would have thought of that design features.

The Milk desk has built in organizers designed to hide away all of your lose, messy cables in a simple manner. There are four cubic boxes that sit flush with the table where you can stash away all of your office nick knacks. The best features are the cubic fish tank that fits perfectly into the desk what a nice way to add some life to your office.

The desk measures 55.12x 31.49 inches with a massive aluminum footing and electric controlled height adjustability.

http://www.milk.dk/

The D/A Organic Clock

Although this clock is just a prototype I am sure a consumer version is in production. The D/A clock was designed by RISD design student Alvin Aronson. The clock features a cool digital meets analog face that looks like a LCD but is made up computer cut inlays that constantly fall in and out of the face.

 It is a very nice update on the classic power of a good clock and a perfect complement to your Apple computer. Having this clock in your presence just might inspire your next great idea. Once again style, function and simplicity makes the best designs.

http://www.alvinaronson.com/

Tags: Accessories, Apple, Office.

When this month’s issue of Esquire arrived in my mailbox the cover didn’t Immediately grab my attention, it felt like a predictable modern cover design. However as I read through the issue something caught my attention. It turns out that the cover was designed to be printed using a revolutionary new feature “Electronic Ink”.”.

Electronic Ink? Yes Electronic ink!

A limited number of Esquire’s 75th Anniversary issue will feature an experimental cover that is printed with electronic ink. The electronic ink cover displays moving words and flashing images all on a paper-thin sheet know as “e-paper”. 

Esquire is the first publication to utilize this ground breaking technology that is sure to change the way we view and read paper magazines in the future.

The technology for “E-Ink’ has been around for over 7 years but until now the logistics and cost of using it for print media have been to high. We are still a few years off before we start seeing “E-Ink” on newsstands but this initial move is very exciting.

From a graphic design and marketing stand point electronic ink opens up a whole new avenue of design and message flexibility. This application would allow advertisers to provide customized adds to specific consumers quickly and easily. It would also give readers a chance to customize the content of their publication. No longer will we be forced to wade through irrelevant ads and content. Or at the least bad adds will be in bright flashing “E-Ink”.

The future applications are endless but until the cost of “E-ink” comes down we are still left to dream.

Check out a video featuring the cover! Esquire\’s E-Ink Video 

Tags: Electronic Ink, Esquire, New Media.