February 2010
11 posts
Speed Designing: Design Observer →
Snowed in this weekend? You have until 9 p.m. Sunday night to create an innovative and appropriate shelter concept specific to Haiti (or generalized to work in a global context). Competition sponsor Core77 will donate $500 in the name of the winner to Architecture for Humanity’s Earthquake Support Program. Don’t be cowed by the deadline. It’s not called the 1 Hour Design...
WatchCreativeMornings Video: Michael Bierut on Clients
Jeremy Rifkin: 'Empathic Civilization': Is It Time... →
The new sensibilities of the younger generation are beginning to usher in a different idea about human nature and the dream that accompanies it. Today’s youth find little value in the Enlightenment caricature of human nature as rational, calculating, detached, and utilitarian. They prefer to think of human nature as empathic, mindful, engaged, and driven by the intrinsic value and...
What Are You Printing for Dinner? | Institute For... →
A few months ago, I highlighted a home molecular gastronomy kit—effectively, a chemistry set that lets home cooks do design basic recipes at a chemical level—and suggested at the time that giving home cooks these new tools will lead to gradual but dramatic shifts in the ways that we taste and experience food. Cornucopia, theoretically, would take this level of control and...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14) →
The Hold Steady (6)
Them Crooked Vultures (5)
King Khan & The Shrines (5)
The Thermals (4)
Sonic Youth (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7) →
Galaxie 500 (14)
Midlake (12)
Vic Chesnutt (11)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (6)
The Budos Band (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Watchearly twitter video…
WatchBugatti Veyron… Mmmm
