A good way to describe the presentation by the Paola Antonelli today, Design Curator of Museum of Modern Art in New York is simple. She said "Design is still mistaken for decoration" and "I'm Italian-- in Italy, Design is Normal..."…
Continue Reading →Amazing Architect Elizabeth Diller had a fantastic presentation this afternoon. She spoke about two projects, one of which readers will be quite familiar with: The High Line, something I've written about a few times. What I didn't know about was…
Continue Reading →TED was not only described to me as inspirational, passionate and unique, but also as mind boggling-- sometimes almost exhaustively so. Today started early, I attended the pre-conference breakfast where TED Prize winners from last year updated attendees on their…
Continue Reading →I had the opportunity to take the BMW Hydrogen 7 car for a spin yesterday afternoon with an engineer from BMW in Munich-- something only open to TED attendees. While the experience wasn't exactly life changing, essentially everything inside and…
Continue Reading →Trying to describe this conference would be like me trying to cut your hair over the phone (Thanks Jonah for the analogy). The energy, enthusiasm and mass of talented and remarkable people in one place at one time is hard…
Continue Reading →In a quite humorous viral stunt to promote the new Spicy Buffalo sandwich, Carl's Jr. enlisted what appears to be your classic blonde centerfold, middle American girl in cowboy boots, wearing a short denim skirt and belly shirt to push…
Continue Reading →Christopher Cox, friend and fellow Spear Collective member recently launched his new portfolio and once again our hats are off-- it's very slick (don't worry, it's not nearly as hard to navigate as his desk, shown here). His new site…
Continue Reading →I'm headed out to the world-renowned TED conference early tomorrow morning-- I received an invite for last year's event but unfortunately wasn't able to attend. I had plenty of warning this time around and I've honestly never been this excited…
Continue Reading →Designer Meg Golden in definitely doing her part-- she's working to raise $10,000 to go towards providing education to poor disadvantaged orphans in Uganda, most of whose parents have died from Aids, a well known and dire issue for the…
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