In a Q&A with CNN’s Manav Tanneeru, Warren Berger explains the premise of his new book, Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life, Your Business, and Maybe Even the World.
Berger, who collaborated on the book with designer Bruce Mau, suggests that design can be applied to any challenge and design principles are accessible to anyone. [...]

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Iconic French intellectual and anthropologist, Claude Levi-Strauss has died in Paris at age 100 years.
“Part philosopher, part sociologist and entirely humanist, he studied tribes in Brazil and North America, concluding that virtually all societies shared powerful commonalities of behavior and thought, often expressing them in myths,” explained Thomas H. Maugh II for the LA Times.
“A [...]

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[ February 13, 2010 to February 15, 2010. ] The Fourth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices well be held at the University of Illinois, Chicago from February 13th to 15th, 2010. The cross-disciplinary conference will cover a range of design themes such as the “meaning and purpose of ‘design’, as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and [...]

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The Design Research Institute, located in Brighton, U.K., seeks to promote the fundamental significance of design research across multi-disciplinary fields. The institute focuses on themes such as sustainability, material innovations, processes of production and knowledge transfer and the redefinition of contemporary crafts alongside substantive strengths in design history, theory, policy and pedagogy. All courses are [...]

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Musicovery is a plug-in for iTunes that displays information about songs according to Musicovery’s mood/dance matrix. Songs from your music library are played directly by roll-over on the matrix, a click generates a playlist which is played straight.

Equally interesting (to me) is the visualization of songs and how they are connected (see image).

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This infinitely cool site collects not only pictures but researched descriptions of interesting cartography and cartographic art. I just wish that I could find who is behind this project. Very, very cool.

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The Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney Austraila will host two five-day workshops, titled Color, Light, and Vision starting in December 2009. The course will consist of exercises and demonstrations for painters who use either traditional or digital mediums. David Briggs Ph.D. has been teaching this class on theory and the practice of color since [...]

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