341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,” wrote W.B. Yeats. I don’t know about the centre, but the tendency of
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Design
325 | Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence
The world is becoming pixelated. As computers and other digital devices become ubiquitous, human knowledge and communication and information is
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257 | Derek Guy on the Theory and Practice of Dressing Well
Putting on clothes is one of the most universal human experiences. Inevitably, this involves choices; maybe you just grab the
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226 | Johanna Hoffman on Speculative Futures of Cities
Cities are incredibly important to modern life, and their importance is only growing. As Geoffrey West points out, the world
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224 | Edward Tufte on Design, Data, and Truth
So you have some information — how are you going to share it with and present it to the rest
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197 | Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities
The concept of the city is a crucial one for human civilization: people living in proximity, bringing in resources from
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162 | Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change
There is no general theory of problem-solving, or even a reliable set of principles that will usually work. It’s therefore
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Episode 52: Frank Lantz on the Logic and Emotion of Games
Games play an important, and arguably increasing, role in human life. We play games on our computers and our phones,
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Episode 26: Ge Wang on Artful Design, Computers, and Music
Everywhere around us are things that serve functions. We live in houses, sit on chairs, drive in cars. But these
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