The media is having a field day with the market decline. People who wouldn’t normally be interested are watching CNBC or Bloomberg TV and reading the business section. If you are making predictions of Dow 2000 or Dow 1000 you will get on TV or quoted in the newspaper. Now there is also a big…
What a treat to hear Kenro Izu talk with Owen Flanagan at the Rubin Museum of Art in conjunction with the opening of his exhibition of photographs, "Bhutan: The Sacred Within." Kenro Izu's been exploring and photographing sacred sites both natural and manmade for decades. To look at his landscapes of sacred places around the…
Chris Jordan's concerned that we can't feel statistics. Our brains aren't hardwired to deal with high numbers. If we're going to make radical changes, we have to fall in love or feel angry enough to do something. His art translates raw data and numbers to the visual language of feeling to help people shift from…
Four Sobering Facts About Women and Money: 70% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck — including those earning six-figure incomes. 90% of women will find themselves the sole keeper of their personal finances at some point in their lives. Thirty million of America’s 40 million-plus boomer women will not be able to afford to…
Every day seems to bring yet another round of pet food recalls, and even the ASPCA recently issued an urgent alert stating that the pet food crisis isn’t over and nobody knows anything, including what’s actually poisoning pets.
Harri Kallio, Domain du Chasseur #1, Mauritius, 2001 Ecotopia – The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and VideoSeptember 14, 2006–January 7, 2007 Dodo birds and power plants looming large in the windows of the ICP grab your attention before you even enter the strange and compelling world of Ecotopia, The Second ICP Triennial of Photography…
Worldchanging.com is one of my favorite daily reads for the latest in creative world problem solving. But how does a site about building a "bright green future" translate into a printed book?
HSIM: How Stuff Is Made is an encyclopedia of manufacturing processes and labor conditions involved in the production of contemporary products. HowStuffIsMade (HSIM) reconsiders engineering/design education as fundamentally connected to the social and political constraints, organizational innovations and global context that inform manufacturing decisions.