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conferencesWednesday Jul 15, 2009
Philip Johnson's Glass House Hosts All-Star Architects Retreat
If you're one of those lucky people who have gotten golden tickets to go visit Philip Johnson's Glass House after it opened to the public just over two years ago, we continue to writhe in jealousy and have no other choice but to live vicariously through your awesome life. For the rest of us, we intend to turn to Metropolis' feature by the magazine's editor, Susan S. Szenasy, who recently attended the day-long Architects Retreat at the famous, modern compound (on his 103 birthday, no less). The first part in the two part series finds Szenasy on a tour of the grounds, with Barbara Campagna, the chief architect for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, describing the ins and outs of Johnson's masterpiece. Part two is written by Belinda Lanks, who talks about the Retreat itself, essentially a conference wherein a whole slew of influential people from the NEA's Maurice Cox to Work's Amale Adraos, to talk about things related, mostly, to preservation and sustainability. All in all, it sounds like maybe the best conference ever in the coolest setting of all time, which none of us were able to attend. But although the jealousy writhing continues, we're very happy Metropolis was there to give us some morsels. Thursday Jul 09, 2009
Nathan Reddy: 'Branding Is Not Just About Pretty Pictures'
Thursday Jun 04, 2009
Crowdsourcing for Fun and Profit
Crowds are known for many things: wisdom, madness, overhauling the market for stock photography. WIRED editor and author Jeff Howe touched on these traits and many more in his presentation yesterday at the Mediabistro Circus. His topic? Crowdsourcing, a term he coined and the title of his 2008 book about "why the power of the crowd is driving the future of business." Howe showed the below video—worth it for the whimsical visuals alone—to explain the concept to the assembled crowd: He went on to demonstrate the power of crowdsourcing with examples that spanned multiple industries. Howe pointed to commercial photography, a market that has been transformed in recent years by microstock agencies, as "the canary in the coal mine." Born in 2000 from founder Bruce Livingstone's annoyance at having to pay hundreds of dollars to license a single image, iStockphoto pioneered microstock (and in 2006 was acquired by Getty Images for $50 million). When Livingstone began charging a quarter per image download, he "opened up an ecosystem," said Howe, who then presented the audience with two photos of fiery sunsets. "Which one do you think cost $300 and which cost a dollar?" A quick poll of the audience revealed an evenly divided crowd. So which photo was which? "You know, I totally forget," said Howe with a shrug. Tuesday Jun 02, 2009
At Mediabistro Circus, Data Is King but Design Is Differentiator
Brandishing a whip and clad in gold lame pants, mediabistro.com founder Laurel Touby reprised her ringmistress role as she welcomed hundreds of media types to the second annual Mediabistro Circus, which kicked off today at the TimesCenter in New York City. The theme of this year's media-meets-technology confab, explained Touby, is "Extraordinary Impact: Do More with Less." The focus of the doing? Data, data, and more data, according to many of the day's speakers. But don't count out design.
Where does this leave publishing? In flux, according to "From Gutenberg to Movable Type," a panel discussion ably moderated by Dan Costa, executive editor of PCMag.com. Panelist Eileen Gittins, founder and CEO of Blurb, the self-publishing company, is a believer in the power of branding to best communicate with niche markets. "Gone are the days when you have to guess who your audience is," she said of Blurb's print-on-demand model, which eliminates warehousing and adds a new agility to publishing. "Books no longer need to be static things, where you print one—kerplunk—and then maybe come back later with a second edition. Books can now be the starting point of communication." Monday Jun 01, 2009
Mediabistro Circus Is in Town!
Thursday May 28, 2009
Daniel Pink to Keynote 'Dwell on Design'
Tuesday May 26, 2009
Mediabistro Circus: Where Media Meets Technology
Wednesday May 13, 2009
Mediabistro Circus Is Coming to Town
Thursday Mar 26, 2009
LVHRD Promises Non-Conference 'Heavy on the Non, Light on the Conference'
All work and no play makes for a dull design conference, and so the decidedly non-dull folks at LVHRD set out to plan a "non-conference." They redoubled their efforts in the wake of Rick Poynor's stirring call to arms ("Design Conferences: Isn't in Time We Demanded More?") published last year in Creative Review. "After reading [that] article...our team at LVHRD knew that if we were going to throw a non-conference it was going to have to be really heavy on the non and pretty light on the conference," notes the LVHRD website. "And that's exactly what we've set up." The event, dubbed WRK/PLY, takes place this Saturday in New York City, and tickets (or TCKTS, as the case may be) are available here. What to expect? Seven hours, six speakers, and one open bar. "I'm a little nervous, honestly, and excited," said LVHRD co-founder Doug Jaeger, a panelist at this evening's New Frontiers of Graphic Design panel discussion. "I don't really know what's going to happen. And that's a good thing." The WRK/PLY speakers were chosen for their success in blending play into their work lives, which involve everything from architecture to music: dress code (architecture and design), Chris Rubino (art and photography), Steve Hindy (culture and lifestyle), Gavin McInnes (media and technology), 88-Keys and Izza Kizza (music and performance), Rebecca Turbow (fashion and style). Added Jaeger, "I'm describing it as four years of college squeezed into one day." Monday Mar 23, 2009
At Parsons, Aftertaste 3 Is Thrice as Nice
PreviouslyGet Thee to Greener Gadgets 2009 Fringe Fashion: FIT Symposium to Explore Subculture and Style Innovator Saul Griffith to Keynote Greener Gadgets Conference At AIGA's Gain Conference, Tough Crowd for 'Girl-Approved Design Methodology' Talking Both Kinds of Green at Reuters' Global Environment Summit Frog Design's Honest Account of IDSA 2008 Full Recap of the Pictoplasma Festival UnBeige 3.0's Alissa Walker's Advice on Saving Design Conferences At Pop!Tech '08: Scarcity, Abundance, and Malcolm Gladwell Scenes from the Sahre Victore Wilker Workshop Revisiting Cameron Sinclair and CNN's Design for Good MB Circus: Moving Design out of Gift Shop, Art out of Gallery MB Circus: Designing for Speed, Simplicity Armed with 'Lots of Little Ideas' MB Circus: At Economist.com, Redesign Is 'Rolling' Grab Your UnBeige Discount for 'Dwell on Design' MB Circus: Paul Cloutier Lets Images Do the Talking Mediabistro Circus Welcomes One, All with Animal Crackers, New Media Strategies Taking Care of Business: AIGA/NY's Smart/Models Conference Help Debbie Millman Interview Michael Bierut mediabistro.com Under the Big Top Green Opportunity Knocks in Los Angeles Rick Poynor Points Out the Rights and Wrongs of Design Conferences Seed Conference Moves to Mies' "Cathedral of Modernism" 'Ideas' at AIGA's Y Conference To Interiors, and Beyond!: Parsons to Host Design Symposium Laurel Touby Cracks the Whip at Press Conference Come One, Come All to the Mediabistro Circus Drawn to Scale: Conference To Explore "A World in a Grain of Sand" Greener Gadgets: Mary Lou Jepsen on the XO Laptop, Why Being Green Is Easier Than You Think Greener Gadgets Conference Highlights Scope of Consumption, Creative Solutions Visiting Miami for the International Conference on Design Principles & Practices Tomorrow We're Live From Compostmodern Serious Play and Seeds of Change in SoCal This Spring Continuum Posts Entire 'Green Design' Conference More Highlights and Reflections From Cause/Effect Chris Hacker: Sustainability Expert, Smooth Operator Nicholas Blechman's Nozone Is Still All Too Resonant Marc Alt Introduces the Center for Sustainable Design Scott Stowell Does Some Very Good Design Phil Patton and the Case of the Red Cross Frank Baseman Spreads the Love, Or, What Happens When People Hate On Your Pro Bono Project Bobby Martin's Religious Design Experience Carin Goldberg Tells the Truth Complete Design Talks Transcripts, Now Yours for the Reading (or turning into a staged reenactment) Back from Cuba with Icograda Tales to Tell 'Connecting '07' Recap-Fest-A-Polooza IDSA, Part 2: Seoul Is Your New Design Home Catching Up with the IDSA Winners Through Photographic Evidence We've Got Friends in High Places (like San Francisco and Camden, Maine) Visiting Rhode Island and Living to Tell the Tale: A BIF-3 Recap Need Someplace to Stay at IDSA? Airbed & Breakfast Has You Covered Core77 Gets Ideas, Reports Back In Full The Coudal, Fried and Segura Trio The 2008 Art Center Conference Is Just Playin', Y'all Four or Five Things You Need to Know About the AIGA NEXT Conference Packing Up the Wagon for Dwell on Design QBN Session #1: Live and In Concert Dwell's Serving Up Hot Architects, Home Tours, and a Big Helping of Hockenberry @media Opens Up Their (Very Recent) Audio Archives Sweet Swiss Synergy at Seattle's TypeCon Making Serif S'mores and Singing Kerning Songs Around the Campfire Two Shots of Post-'Interesting 2007' First Word on Post-Aspen: Index and AIGA's Grand Plan Linda Tischler Does Dubai, Zaha Doesn't Aspen, No More: The Int'l. Design Conference Shuts Down Gates and Jobs, Together Again and Madly In Love The Interesting Foundations of Interesting2007 AIGA's NEXT Conference Promises Big Names, Beer and Drama The Return of Hockenberry, One More Time Creative Economy Conference Features No Creatives (Don't Even Get Us Started About the Women Thing) Paola Antonelli's Not-So-Humble Masterpiece Curators, Critics and Historians Pack Lazor's FlatPak Pad C6 Symposium: Mau & Company Promote Sustainability in Our Own Backyard @issue Conference Almost Sold out Decoding AIGA NY's Body/Language Design Institute Coordinates Stellar Design Conference Graphic Design Is the New Porn! Sweet! Allan Chochinov and Peter Lunenfeld--From the Future! Jens Gehlhaar and Somi Kim Dish On Graphic Design Back to School With Peter Turchi Coincidence? Synergy? Luck? Or the Greatest Design Conference In History? GM's Design Cries Echo Throughout All of Detroit Yes, the New Yorker's Having an Innovation Conference, and Yes, the Irony Is Killing Us Khoi Hits FOWA (and the notes to prove it) Greenbuild Expo Moves From Brown LA to Green Chicago Mizrahi and Millman Are Speaking Our Body/Language |
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