From the “I have a dream” speech to Steve Jobs’ iPhone launch, all great presentations have a common architecture. At TEDxEast, Nancy Duarte draws lessons on how to make a powerful call-to-action [...]
Mundo Livre S/A, is a Brazilian manguebeat band, formed in 1984 in Recife, Pernambuco. It is also one of the founders of that musical style, which became popular in the 1990s. Fred Zero Quatro, the band’s singer, was one of the authors of Caranguejos com Cérebro, one of the landmarks of the Manguebeat movement, together with Renato L. and Chico Science. Watch “Mexe Mexe”, by Mundo Livre S/A
“Do not Cry“: a tribute to Oscar Niemeyer, recorded live in the studio Móveis Colonais de Acaju (Brasilia-DF) in August 2012. Recorded by Fernando Jatoba. Lyrics and music: Móveis Colonias de Acaju Video with images from the Internet Photo (movie recorded at the Praça dos Três Poderes) by Gui Campos.
Timothy Prestero thought he’d designed the perfect incubator for newborns in the developing world — but his team learned a hard lesson when it failed to go into production. A manifesto on the importance to design for people’s real-world use, rather than accolades [...]
The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub — so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens [...]
UX Hong Kong is an event dedicated to bring all product and service design disciplines together, from research, marketing, design, technology and the business to name a few, who are interested and passionate about designing great experiences for people and business for a better world for all, and it’s organized by my dear friends Daniel Szuc and Jo Wong [...]
Mundo Livre S/A, is a Brazilian manguebeat band, formed in 1984 in Recife, Pernambuco. It is also one of the founders of that musical style, which became popular in the 1990s. Fred Zero Quatro, the band’s singer, was one of the authors of Caranguejos com Cérebro, one of the landmarks of the Manguebeat movement, together [...]
Is your school or workplace divided into “creatives” versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create… [...]
Oldie but Goodie: listen to “Segue o Seco”, part of the album Verde, anil, amarelo, cor de rosa e carvão (distributed in the United States as Rose and Charcoal) from Brazilian singer Marisa Monte, released in 1994. Contributors include well-known artists such as Gilberto Gil, Paulinho da Viola, Naná Vasconcelos, Carlinhos Brown and the group Época de Ouro [...]
John Hodgman, comedian and resident expert, “explains” the design of three iconic modern objects. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.) [...]