Author Archives: Jason Allen

Great apps: Cartolina Postale

Who doesn’t love receiving something in the mail? (The real mail, that is.) Cartolina Postale is a great app that allows you to write a postcard on the go. Take a pic with your iPhone, customize with a message and some sweet vintage-y graphics and for between $2 and $3, it’ll be mailed as a [...]

The Color Run

Well this is outstanding. Imagine running in a 5k, but getting covered in colour from head to toe. The Color Run is a new phenomenon that promises to be like nothing you’ve tried – well, probably anyway. Register online for the run near you and then show up that day in white. As you run [...]

Colour Oasis

Recently opened in California’s Coachella Valley is the new Saguaro Palm Springs hotel, by Joie de Vivre Hotels. New York architects Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat wanted the property – a former Holiday Inn – to reflect the flowers found throughout the region. And the result is this: Colour adorns every part of the property [...]

Haft2RADIO: Hearts & Kisses

                        Hearts & Kisses by Haft2know on Grooveshark Well by the sounds of this sweet set, DJ Brandi Whytas has swoonin’ on her mind. February’s playlist is called Hearts & Kisses and in it, Brandi has turned to classic songs of love and desire. [...]

A five-year-old analyzes logos

I couldn’t resist posting a final piece this week, purely for fun. Chicago designer Adam Ladd had his five-year-old daughter analyze a number of popular logos. The result is funny and very telling about the visuals we take for granted. Have a great week, everyone. Jason Allen

Bonne année 2012!

Happy 2012 by Haft2know on Grooveshark DJ Brandi Whytas, inspirée par l’arrivée de 2012, a concocté cette compilation de chansons légères et enjouées pour commencer l’année du bon pied.  Voici un mélange de musique pop et dance pour semer la bonne humeur et faire danser. Cette année, c’est dit: on s’éclate! Cette année, ce sont [...]

Happy 2012

  Happy New Year to you, and happy return to work and life. We’ve had excellent reviews from our new fundraising initiative, The Haft2COLOUR Calendar Project, which you can read more about here. We’re so particularly proud of the Calendar Project in fact, that we wish to offer it in every way possible. Click on the [...]

What2Give No. 1: The Haft2COLOUR Calendar Project

Haft2 has the very good fortune of working with some of North America’s foremost not-for-profit organizations, from humanitarian development agencies to healthcare foundations; and from philosophers to cancer fighters. It’s for this reason that we are proud to introduce our no. 1 recommended gift: The Haft2COLOUR Calendar Project. This 2012 printed calendar highlights 11 initiatives from [...]

What2Give No. 2: The gift of survival

UNICEF Canada presents Survival Gifts, their 2011 / 2012 gift guide. When you’re buying for someone whom you suspect has everything, you’re probably right. So instead, buy something in his or name, for a child that needs it more. $75 will send a child to school, and $50 will buy 105 packets of life-saving Plumpy’Nut peanut [...]

What2Give No. 3: A weird brush with celebrity

And here we are, just days – hours perhaps – away that period at the end of every year, when we largely leave our regular ways of life to spend more time at home, with our families and with old friends. So let’s wrap up our Haft2Know What2Give 2011 with our final top three gifts. [...]