Grasshopper is an extremely simple virtual voicemail system, that can tie all of your part-time collaborators and dedicated-but-distant colleagues through a single phone number. Sounds like a nice idea. What's an even better idea, is their adorable and inspirational promotion video, and website that claims to be geared towards empowering entrepreneurs.Sure, it's all marketing. But it's a nice reminder on a Monday morning that we're doing something exciting.

Somewhere between fashion, art, performance, technology, architecture, and that mom who dresses her twins exactly the same everyday, lies the work of Di Mainstone. Though she first stretched her creative wings at UK fashion brand Soochi, the collaborations she found herself initiating with architects and dancers would alter her route from the traditional to the experimental, creating wearables that are far from what you’ll find at Forever 21.

When it comes to utilizing design or creative thinking to shape our society, few avenues are more direct or have more potential than reaching out and fostering a commitment to social responsibility within our schools and our children.

The Canadian Center for Architecture is exhibiting Tools for Action: What You Can Do With the City through April 19, 2009. The exhibit presents 99 recent events from around the world in which simple acts of walking, recycling, painting, playing or gardening has transformed some aspect of urban negativity into a place for positive change.