Design house Paperlux designed a beautiful cover for the Novum magazine, combining simple geometry and diecutting to alter the cover slightly to create an active surface and a sculpture-like object. This is the example of simplicity meets beauty, where its only function is tickle your curiosity and make you want to play with it. I am in love with it. (via Graphic Exchange)
I found this cute video of animated video, which reminded me of the good old days of Sesame Street, without the explosion of course (probably would have love it as a kid).
I found these on Gizmodo today, and they are probably the coolest, yet the creepiest watches I have ever seen. It is beautiful in photo, I wonder how it would look on someone's wrist.
For this month's Monthly Design Review, I have invited my friend Rosary Coloma from Australia to lead us in a conversation that is close to our hearts, no matter where you are from and where you live. Moved by the devastating natural disasters that have hit many parts of the world recently we want to explore the ways in which the fields of architecture and design may pro-actively be used for the greater good, in these tragic scenarios.
Rosary Coloma wears many creative and entrepreneurial hats. Rosary is currently the director of Coloma Projects – a new creative enterprise based in Sydney, Australia, that carries out “project management for The Arts and creative industries” (Rosary’s “elevator pitch” to sum up activities ranging from curating to producing and then some). She is also currently undertaking a Masters of Business Administration with a major in Arts Management. Rosary has a background in the Performing Arts, Visual Arts and Design.Rosary’s other passion is raising awareness on social issues. She has been involved with community volunteer work, for example, participating in a service project in a developing nation (The Philippines) as a 19 year old. In 2010 she spoke about the devastating typhoons that struck the Philippines, at the “Global Pecha Kucha for Haiti” fundraising event at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. She is interested in exploring the possibilities of melding creative enterprise with social enterprise.RSVP on Facebook
Thursday, May 19th 8pm at The Salt Space (1158 Broadway 5th Floor Entrance on W 27th St.)
Rosary Coloma wears many creative and entrepreneurial hats. Rosary is currently the director of Coloma Projects – a new creative enterprise based in Sydney, Australia, that carries out “project management for The Arts and creative industries” (Rosary’s “elevator pitch” to sum up activities ranging from curating to producing and then some). She is also currently undertaking a Masters of Business Administration with a major in Arts Management. Rosary has a background in the Performing Arts, Visual Arts and Design.Rosary’s other passion is raising awareness on social issues. She has been involved with community volunteer work, for example, participating in a service project in a developing nation (The Philippines) as a 19 year old. In 2010 she spoke about the devastating typhoons that struck the Philippines, at the “Global Pecha Kucha for Haiti” fundraising event at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. She is interested in exploring the possibilities of melding creative enterprise with social enterprise.RSVP on Facebook
Thursday, May 19th 8pm at The Salt Space (1158 Broadway 5th Floor Entrance on W 27th St.)
A brief background about Monthly Design Review - It started in 2009 as an experimental magazine, it became a salon meet up bringing like minded designers, entrepreneurs and thinkers together to push our understanding of design and how we could make it accessible by creating conversations.
Every year at TED there is a one or two TED talks that captivates me, and this is one of them. This is the story of John Hunter using a complex board game, called 'World Peace Game', to teach his class of 4th grader the problems faced in the world today, and giving them a chance to solve them. It started off as a plywood board game, and has grown to a multi-layer/multi-player complex game with thousands of pieces. Through this game, the school kids learn about the complexity of the world like climate change, politics and economics.
John Hunter has used this game in his classroom for years, and although the problems he throws at the kids are the same, they have the freedom to make their own decisions. Knowing that their decisions are going to affect the world, children becomes surprisingly wise and delivers every time. We should let kids run the world, there will be less 'politics', less 'BS' and more compassion.
When everyone thought that no shoes are manufactured in the US anymore, here is a company that commits to selling 1 of every 4 shoes made in the US.
I found this video by Terje Sorgjerd of how the beautiful the world we live in is. It is a stunning video.
It was amazing go back into the archive of TED to find videos of my heroes. I was just watching one of them, the most successful entrepreneurs of our time, Sir Richard Branson, talking about the decisions that he made and how it dramatically altered his course of life. It is a beautiful story in flesh.
Growing up he was dyslectic child, school never interested him, but being a born explorer and adventurist, he took all his ideas to the limits. You can clearly see his mindset and lifestyle imprinted in everything he does. He's constantly walking on the edge, and when he came to talk about his successes and failures, he said "there is a very thin dividing line between success and failure". He went on to share about his personal experience of nearly losing everything.
Monthly Design Review has been a crucial part of the growth for my company Big New Ideas, started at the end of 2009 as a magazine to explore applications of design theories and methods. It soon became clear that producing a quality monthly publication wasn't sustainable. In January of 2010, the original contributors the magazine gather for beer at SALT Space in Flatiron of New York City, the one-off gathering turned into series of intellectually simulating conversations around design and creativity. Since then, we began to meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month. Towards the end of the year, we began inviting an array of speakers to inspire our creative community and stimulate conversation including Scott Belsky of Behance, Simon Sinek and Viktoria Harrison of Charity:Water.
Check out my Monthly Deign Review Video Interview:
We all kind of like 3D technology, if it wasn't for the ridiculous glasses that you have to wear, and if you already wear glasses, you are out of luck. This is a great 'spoof' of 3D technology, and possibly a clever and somewhat low tech solution of our 3D glasses headache. The French accent makes it even cooler (/funnier), enjoy.
