Emily Davidow

Ann Richards, the famously silver-tongued and silver-haired former governor of Texas, died Wednesday from complications of esophageal cancer.

…A tetrachromat is a woman who can see four distinct ranges of color, instead of the three that most of us live with.

brilliant melanoma awareness campaign in marc jacobs windows. naked celebrity photograph t-shirts with “protect the skin you’re in,” “protect your largest organ,” and “save your ass,” with proceeds going from the sale of t-shirts (and the photographs by bill ) to NYU interdisciplinary school of medicine melanoma cooperative group.

It’s meant as a positive and unconditional expression of luv to be shared, copied, worn, customized, distributed, printed, and otherwise applied, for any non-commercial purpose.

…What we most want is experiences and relationships that give our lives meaning, make them enjoyable, and give us the ability to better prosper.

adorable always-on net wifi device that’s open to mods both inside and out — software, programming and exterior.

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New backpack coming out this fall from Tumi co-designed by Anish Kapoor to benefit Doctors without Borders, coinciding with the launch of Kapoor’s Sky Mirror installation at Rockefeller Center from September 19 through October 27th (also sponsored by Tumi and organized by Public Art Fund).The backpack features a solar panel on top for charging a phone or PDA. Constructed from red-on-gray FXT ballistic nylon with silver metallic lining, a removable padded laptop sleve and temperature controlled neoprene compartments.

I’m no fan of the wedding industrial complex, but i’ve falling in love with this complex industrial-design wedding costume.

I have attended and spoken at many conferences — few have stayed with me like TED.

Nike+iPod Sports Kit ($29) to access distance, time, pace and calories burned on the screen of a nano version of the iPod via a sensor inside the shoes that communicates with the ipod. They also plan to offer a sport music section on iTunes.Did you know Nike already offers free 30 minute workout mixes (updated monthly) on NikeWomen?

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black white & yellow at lulu guinness Originally uploaded by this is emily. Happy fresh black white & yellow windows at Lulu Guinness. When I lived in Firenze for a summer, I navigated by store window displays. Turn left at the red Romeo Gigli. Alas, when the fall fashions arrived, I had to learn my [...]

Hilarious little article in the NYT today on type anachronisms in film, “Good Film, Shame About the Helvetica,” featuring link to Mark Simonson’s Typecasting article. (Note also the ongoing notebook of sightings.*) As one who can’t help recognizing and calling out the name of the typefaces in the world around me, I’m not ashamed to [...]

“Real Sheep” by Christien Meindertsma We are flooded with what appears to be choices in the marketplace, but how much do we know beyond the marketing stories? Recently, American Apparel and Edun have shifted attention to means of production and built it into their brand stories. Christien Meindertsma makes us look back even further on [...]