There’s no question, that commerce as we know it is turning green. With all the recent attention to climate control, greenhouse gases, carbon emissions and global warming, retailers and manufacturers have to change the way they do business. (more…)
We are showered with a deluge of icons, symbols and images by screens that cover every previous unused inch of public space, and personal computers and the Internet continues the exposure in the privacy of our home.
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When a film by the late Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni comes to mind, I think of a quiet, contemplative place full of bold, mysterious, almost overwhelming images. Not since the silent era has a director placed such dependence on the image to convey his vision. (more…)
In 1956, with the support of a friend, Touko Laaksonen decided to show the world his hidden art of sexually-charged portraits of men. He sent some of the portraits to an American magazine called Physique Pictorial, under the pseudonym “Tom”. Published in the spring of 1957 edition of magazine and signed by a certain “Tom of Finland”, these “dirty drawings” (more…)
Design in the Service of Science
Scientific models of the atom, molecule and the DNA present a fascinating example of science and design amalgamation. When researchers need to create an actual three dimensional model of the abstract formula they worked on and perfected for years, they become designers. (more…)
Lewis Fry Richardson, the meteorologist who invented a numerical method for weather prediction, also spent much of his life studying environmental conditions conducive to quarrels, rebellions and wars. That he would be equally interested in both weather and human behavior is not surprising. Most of us can relate. If we didn’t have the constant sense that (more…)
Can your surroundings prolong your life? Can where you live provide you with good health? Can you actually reverse your destiny? According to Architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins, yes, and for 45 years they have been building on the mantra that dying is optional.
Artists, poets, architects Arakawa and Gins (more…)
So, you got a Facebook account. Of course you did. And now you can’t stop spending hours checking your friends’ status updates, uploading pictures or finding out which Sex and the City character you most resemble.
But what’s the point, you moaned to your friends in your pre-Facebook days.
And now you know the secret. There is no secret.
While social networking sites (more…)
Autism has been getting a lot of media attention lately which has slowly dispelled myths about the condition. It was once thought that people afflicted with autism were low functioning and were dismissed as mentally retarded. While most people who are autistic lack language and social skills, they generally have extremely high intelligence levels. (more…)
“If you have this really big plan about what your writing should be, then, basically, you’re interested in power,” said New York Times critic Roberta Smith during a 2007 panel discussion. “You cannot write more than what you believe and what you see. And if you do, if you start projecting or if you start deciding you have an agenda (more…)
