WEEKLY EMAIL: JUNE 16, 2011
FEATURED THIS WEEK : BARBARA FLANAGAN
Epiphany of an Ocean Swimmer
Last year, when I moved to Santa Barbara, California, home of numerous ocean-saving foundations plus Jacques Cousteau’s relatives, the Pacific looked just fine to me. In fact, it was gorgeous: blue, fragrant, and vast. Coldness was its only flaw, but that kept it empty of everyone but its most elegant fans, surfers.READ MORE
JANE MARGOLIES
How to Start a Movement
An interview with Jeremy Heimans, founder of the website Purpose.org.READ MORE
ROBIN CEMBALEST
Shrink Rap
Pedro Reyes’s Sanatorium, a project sponsored by the Guggenheim Museum that can be visited in Brooklyn this weekend, wobbles between reality and parody as it channels art therapy, theater exercises, speed dating, Lucy van Pelt and Joseph Beuys.READ MORE
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WILLIAM UNDERHILL
Transensing: Glassware for the Blind
Imagine the plight of the blind guest at a party of sighted friends. Chatting becomes a challenge when it’s tricky to know where others in the group are standing. One solution: hand out chunky glass swizzle sticks which create a chink loud enough to identify a person’s location.READ MORE
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MARIA POPOVA
A Voice for LGBTQ in the Middle East
Conversation with the activist Esra'a Al Shafei, founder of the website Ahwaa.org.READ MORE
ROBIN CEMBALEST
Assuming the Position: The Art of Gustav Metzger
The picture is among various images of tragedies — the Holocaust, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Vietnam War — that, since 1990, Metzger has covered, blocked with rubble, or otherwise obscured, forcing us to make an active effort to see them.READ MORE
BY ALEXIA
My Studio H Experience
Adventures in design crits: A high school junior recounts her Studio H year working with onerous classmates and power tools.READ MORE
JULIE LASKY
Everything Must Go
Chappell Ellison is looking for people to adopt her possessions: “In an attempt to learn how to live with less, I'm giving away my things, one by one.”READ MORE
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Cards of Change
Unemployed workers retrofit their former business cards to send hopeful messages.READ MORE
UPCOMING CONFERENCE: JUNE 21, 2011
Re-Thinking the Future of Design
DMI's Design/Management Thinking conversational-format conference will move beyond philosophical arguments on Design Thinking: it will grapple with the real changes in the expectations that all types of organizations are beginning to have about the Designer's potential level of contribution — and the implications for you as a professional.Other Resources
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RECENT BOOKS RECEIVED
Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things MeanRoberto Verganti
Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business ModelJohn Mullins & Randy Komisar
A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of BusinessHartmut Esslinger
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