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Cooper-Hewitt: Sourcing Sustainable Fashion
The trend toward organic goods and ethical trade is spreading in the fashion world with a wealth of new initiatives to connect designers to sustainable resources and materials. Hear from Summer Rayne Oakes, Co-founder/CEO of Source4Style — a B2B marketplace that allows designers — both fashion and interior — to search, compare and purchase more...
Designing Media: Roger McNamee
One of 31 video segments featured in 'Designing Media', the new book, DVD and website by Bill Moggridge. More info on 'Designing Media' available at http://www.designing-media.com Roger is both a musician and a venture capitalist. He plays lead guitar in Moonalice and has developed a unique combination of new media to promote music and musicians....
Designing Media: Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Ana Rosling Rönnlund
One of 31 video segments featured in 'Designing Media', the new book, DVD and website by Bill Moggridge. More info on 'Designing Media' available at http://www.designing-media.com Hans is a professor of international health in Stockholm, Sweden. He spent two decades studying outbreaks of disease in remote rural areas across Africa. In 2005 he cofounded the...
Designing Media: Bruce Nussbaum
One of 17 interviews from Designing Media, Bill Moggridge's new book and DVD. As a managing editor for BusinessWeek, Bruce has become a leading voice in design and innovation in the world of business. After more than a decade as a page editor, he launched the Innovation and Design channel online and the NussbaumOnDesign blog...
Designing Media: Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
One of 31 video segments featured in 'Designing Media', the new book, DVD and website by Bill Moggridge. More info on 'Designing Media' available at http://www.designing-media.com Arthur Sulzberger Jr. became the publisher of the New York Times in 1992 and chairman of the board of its owner, the New York Times Company, in 1997, succeeding...
Designing Media: Mark Gerzon
One of 31 video segments featured in 'Designing Media', the new book, DVD and website by Bill Moggridge. More info on 'Designing Media' available at http://www.designing-media.com Transitioning from a career as a screenwriter and producer in Hollywood, Mark has been the president of Mediators Foundation for the past two decades as well as the founder...
Designing Media: Rich Archuleta
One of 31 video segments featured in 'Designing Media', the new book, DVD and website by Bill Moggridge. More info on 'Designing Media' available at http://www.designing-media.com Rich Archuleta, commonly known as Arch, thinks that electronic books and readers will gain widespread acceptance when three attributes come together-namely, consensus about the standards for electronic reading material,...
Designing Media: Alice Rawsthorn
One of 31 video segments featured in 'Designing Media', the new book, DVD and website by Bill Moggridge. More info on 'Designing Media' available at http://www.designing-media.com Alice is the design critic of the International Herald Tribune. In her weekly "Design" column, published every Monday, Alice explores new directions in every area of design and their...
Designing Media: David Fanning
One of 31 video segments featured in 'Designing Media', the new book, DVD and website by Bill Moggridge. More info on 'Designing Media' available at http://www.designing-media.com A self-taught filmmaker from South Africa, David came to the United States in 1973 and began producing and directing local and national documentaries for KOCE, a public television station...
Bill’s Design Talks: From Then to Now—The Trajectory of Design
The design process has progressed from just forming objects to addressing the situations in which objects are used. This is a major theme in Ralph Caplan's seminal book By Design, expressed in the book's subtitle: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors of the Hotel Louis IV and Other Object Lessons. This year,...
Designing Media: Jane Friedman
One of 31 video segments featured in 'Designing Media', the new book, DVD and website by Bill Moggridge. More info on 'Designing Media' available at http://www.designing-media.com Books and authors are part of Jane Friedman's DNA, and she is confident that there will always be books. At the same time, she sees the reading experience changing...
Designing Media: Martin Eberhard
One of 31 video segments featured in 'Designing Media', the new book, DVD and website by Bill Moggridge. More info on 'Designing Media' available at http://www.designing-media.com Martin was the CEO of NuvoMedia, which he cofounded with Marc Tarpenning in 1996 to develop an electronic book, believing that the emerging technologies at that time would make...
Designing Media: Ira Glass
One of 31 video segments featured in 'Designing Media', the new book, DVD and website by Bill Moggridge. More info on 'Designing Media' available at http://www.designing-media.com Ira started work as an intern at National Public Radio more than thirty years ago. He was a reporter and host on several NPR programs, including Morning Edition, All...
Designing Media: Airside
One of 31 video segments featured in 'Designing Media', the new book, DVD and website by Bill Moggridge. More info on 'Designing Medi'a available at http://www.designing-media.com Airside, a London-based creative design agency, demonstrates a fluent approach to using multiple media platforms. Fred Deakin is both a musician and a designer. He brings a rich combination...
Looking into Local Projects
Jake Barton of Local Projects, National Design Award Finalist in 2010 and 2006, warmly welcomed Cooper-Hewitt Members for a behind-the-scenes look at his media-design firm. A great story teller himself, Jake spoke of the clever uses of information design, media production, interactivity, and social media to both solicit and tell stories. Local Projects was the...