Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Constanza the influencer, the iPad of garages, images of Eyjafjallajokull and more in our weekly web snapshot

1. George Costanza: Heinous or Hip? Spotted on Subtlety In Excess, Sebastian Speier shows how we’re living in an extended “summer of George” with his clever comparison of the Seinfeld character’s infamous garb to today’s fashions. 2. So You Need A Typeface Fast Company breaks down the über-intense flow chart for picking the perfect typeface. Designed by Julian Hansen, the infographic poses clever questions such …

The Official Manufacturing Company

A creative trio of W+K and Ace Hotel vets taking on interiors, branding and marketing

The Portland, OR-based Official Manufacturing Company, made up of three creative types (Mathew Foster, Fritz Mesenbrink and Jeremy Pelley), come up with everything from signage and print materials to interior design for their clients. As the self-professed “thing makers” recently said in an e-mail, “If we come up with a great idea, we will find a way to make it happen.” Like their tweaked acronym …

Flos Soft Architecture

A new lighting system gorgeously integrating fixtures with interiors

Lighting studio Flos recently unveiled Soft Architecture, their latest system that uses an innovative composite material to seamlessly integrate lighting fixtures with their surroundings. Enlisting an assortment of design luminaries to create the unified collection, the roster includes designers Ron Gilad, Philippe Starck, Sebastian Wrong, Marcel Wanders, Antonio Citterio and Fabio Calvi and Paolo Brambilla. The new products represent an evolution of the traditional lamp—they …