Michael Beirut in his recent piece about graphic design in the age of social media highlights amazing moments and not so effective. At the end he writes:
The graphic designer who has played the most dramatic role in the rise of Occupy Wall Street, isn't Shepard Fairey or Jake Levitas. On ...
Today Bill Gates at the new Techonomy conference (which looks like an amazing event/organization) suggested that In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web. It is a great read via @techcrunch who have been covering this conference really well. But reading this and listening to the Gov. of ...
It's not even an insurmountable disadvantage. Just a disadvantage.
I go back and forth with my appreciation for and my disfavor of open systems. I believe that everyone has taken sides in the world. You either believe in government or you don't. That is to say, you believe that agencies can ...
Today was my first quarterly faculty meeting at SCAD. I was pleasantly surprised that besides the usual boring policy statements and announcements there was a fantastic keynote speaker, James Howard Kunstler. Once more the speaker was somoene I didn't know but whom I really loved listening to.
I took the opportunity ...
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I'm trying to raise $10,000 to help Barack Obama. Go here and to donate:
Dave's Barack Obama Fundraising Site
Tonight I made a decision. After a deep debate with my friend @zakiwarfel (twitter reference ID) I decided to put my money where my mouth is in a direct way. First, I'm going to cut to the chase. Yup! I am going to ask you to donate to the Barack ...
I thought I'd let mey loyal readers know about Humanitarian International Design Organization (HIDO).
I usually stay away from Politics, but this touches home way too much today. Can we really allow paranoia to begin to set customer service policy in our travel?
What sparks this usual design blogger to post such a set of political questions?
Yesteday through the glory of Digg.com I came across ...
Bruce Nussbaum, the design evangelist and managing editor at BusinessWeek, asks people on his blog why aren't designers out there doing more to create social change.
An attempt at such a drastic envisioning was done in a book called "Next Jerusalem". It is a compliation by Public Policy people, Landscapers, Architects, ...
Google's search records have been subpoenaed by the US Justice Department as part of their crack down of pornography. (Pornography causes terrorism! Didn't you hear?) ... Attention is a new market theory that relies on company's abilities to be able to gather data about its users and guarantee that their ...
Right now in Brooklyn there is a battle being waged. The classic battler of progress vs. quality of life. Brooklyn is facing a huge renassaince. Almost every neighborhood has seen huge improvements from East New York to Bay Ridge. Brooklyn is now THE place to live in New York City ...
Well a lot of people probably think I spouted a bunch of nonsense and did nothing about it. The reality is that I spent $35 total on my New Year's celebrating and gave $40 to Oxfam &/or Doctors Without Borders through the host of our event at the "Hope and ...
I have so much; I waste so much. Instead of being decadent tomorrow night, maybe we should take pause, and put the resources of decadence towards a higher priority this New Year's.
http://www.moveon.org/tsunamirelief/
There are many, many, many more places to give to.
My suggestion for the night is to tea-total. Have fun ...