Design Indaba MASSIMO AND LELLA VIGNELLI 2007

Coming from a generation where architects designed everything and from a family of architects, design was a rather natural career path for both Massimo and Lella Vignelli. They talk about graphic design as an organisation of semantically correct information, and what makes visually powerful and intellectually elegant design.

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The New Humanism

"The conscious mind hungers for money and success, but the unconscious mind hungers for those moments of transcendence when the skull line falls away and we are lost in love for another, the challenge of a task or the love of God."

By DAVID BROOKS in The New York Times.

Thanks for making Science-Fiction real

Adbusters #90: Whole Brain Catalog

Adbusters #90: Whole Brain Catalog

In the spirit of the 60’s Whole Earth Catalog - Access to tools, Adbusters #90: Whole Brain Catalog - Access to therapies is a powerful new guide for navigating the precarious times ahead. Mindspace has become the terrain where our fate as humans will be decided.

Also in this issue: Chris Hedges on the cult of self and American psychosis; Kalle Lasn and Micah White on The Ecology of Mind; Ethan Watters on the Americanization of the world’s understanding of the human psyche; Mike Weilbacher on Last Child in the Woods; Blake Sifton on America’s Identity Crisis.

Interactive Display Window concept

Interactive Display Window Concept from Gustaf Engström on Vimeo.

Jeff Han FTIR

2006!!

FTIR (frustrated total internal reflection)

Sleep is Awesome!

infographic here, by audrée lapierre