Crazy Ideas + Youth = Innovative Solutions This past weekend, The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a compelling op-ed piece which told the inspiring tale of two young students who started a national, youth movement for energy reform in India. It started out as a kind of crazy idea and grew into a galvanizing mission for a wide range of people.
Posted Tue Feb 17, 2009
Pepsi Logo Design Brief: Branding Lunacy to the Max A leaked pdf outlines the thinking behind the controversial new Pepsi logo. It may be one of the most ridiculous things ever perpetrated by somebody calling himself a designer.
Posted Tue Feb 10, 2009
Shepard Fairey Fights Back Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the famous Obama poster image, and who was accused by the AP last week of copyright violation, has now counter-sued pre-emptively sued the AP claiming his use of the image was fair use.
Posted Mon Feb 9, 2009
Democratizing Design? Questions over quality become the issue on Crowdspring.com where professional design is crowdsourced daily.
Posted Mon Feb 9, 2009
Design for a Difference at TED TED Fellow Tino Chow blogging about his experience at the famous TED Talks.
Posted Wed Feb 4, 2009
RISD Pride: Shepard Fairey's Show Opens in Boston RISD alum Shepard Fairey's first solo show is opening this weekend at Boston's ICA and, as a RISD student, I can hardly wait to go. And not to simply see the Obama poster. (Although it would be fun to calculate just how many millions of times even the average American has seen that image.)
Posted Tue Feb 3, 2009
