This blog is dead
I will no longer be posting to this blog.
Instead, I have launched a blog con sesos. Here lies the shit.
Archive for Theory
TED redesigns and posts more talks
Method redesigns the site for TED, an annual conference dedicated to technology, entertainment and design. One of the best things about it is the easy access to the talks, 20-minute presentations by some of the world’s most interesting minds (e.g., Al Gore, Bono, Goran Levin, Nicholas Negroponte, Julia Sweeney, and many many more). Here is the talk by Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert on the synthesis of happiness.
And this vid of Stefan Sagmeister about designing for happiness is worth a looksy as well.
Postmodern theory meets consumer culture
Article from the Economist explains how pomo notions about fragmentation and such have been appropriated + repurposed to sell us stuff.
