David Eggers wins the 2008 TED Prize. His wish: to get 1000 stories of meaningful partnerships between creative individuals, educators, and their communities documented on Once Upon A School. In his acceptance, below, he enthusiastically tells the story of 826 Valencia and incites/inspires his audience to get involved with their communities, become advocates for children’s education, and [...]
Fwis (www.fwis.com), beloved for their little ReadyMech cut and paste toys (and for the pinhole cameras for Corbis, above). I just learned that they also have a Covers blog, a commentary on contemporary book design (that is short and pithy). (Print’s NVA profile)
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Holly Gressley [...]
Collaboration is not a piece of pie, by any means. It is an ideal that we all wish to attain in one form or another, but getting there is hard to put into words. I asked Jim Coudal (participation pat on the back for the butterfly heart) about fostering a collaborative environment and his response [...]
Although I was without my handsome half at sxsw, I did try to check out some of the game related discourse for interesting indie tidbits. One of my great surprises was the third keynote, delivered by the animated and bright Jane McGonigal. Her premise: “Quality of Life becomes the primary metric for evaluating interactive brands, [...]
this is the pithy introduction to some of the wonderful things I discovered at sxsw. more profound thoughts are to follow, of course, but why not begin with some fun things seen, observed, heard, etc.
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Due to some overcrowding at the keynote talks, and the promise of podcasts for any seminars missed, Alyssa (friend [...]
I adore ideation tools. Whether or not they help me define a color palette or find synonyms, I appreciate how they help ideas pop out of the ether or consolidate wandering thoughts, inspiring bigger and broader concepts.
I have a couple of tools that I will someday build, which includes: the odd word generator (much like [...]
I am looking forward to see other GOOD lunchbag projects (hint, hint…). Here’s mine on the GOOD site (don’t forget to vote for it! which you do by clicking on the top right hand “it’s good!” little green box)! And a quote that I quite like: “Ann Karash’s lunch in jars for Project 009 proved to be [...]
unless you missed it in the Boston Globe (Bear with him by Meredith Goldstein), you know that there are a bunch of sad bears (and a few happy ones) in central square… opening tonight at Zuzu, Aaron Demuth of assorted cats drawn introduces an adoring public to a whole band of bears (and a few other folks [...]
and get a lovely dose of nostalgic ski area delight at powder mountain.
lots of snow, open areas, and very few folks to share the mountain with.
cat runs at $10 a pop, plenty of untracked snow, and a prairie schooner theme meal completes the picture of our exciting trip to eden, utah. more photos here.
and… I saw [...]