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Articles, reflections, and teachings from our community.

Design

Lessons from fashion’s free culture: Johanna Blakley on TED.com

Copyright law’s grip on film, music and software barely touches the fashion industry … and fashion benefits in both innovation a...

May 25, 2010
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Design

Alan Siegel's credit card agreement redesign

In his 2010 TEDTalk, Alan Siegel called for a simple, sensible redesign of legal paperwork — to make it intelligible to the rest of us...

Mar 25, 2010
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Design

Let’s simplify legal jargon: Alan Siegel on TED.com

Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They’re crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. ...

Mar 24, 2010
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The opportunity of adversity: Aimee Mullins on TED.com

The thesaurus might equate “disabled” with synonyms like “useless” and “mutilated,” but groundbreaking r...

Feb 17, 2010
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Art

The painter and the pendulum: Tom Shannon on TED.com

TED visits Tom Shannon in his Manhattan studio for an intimate look at his science-inspired art. An eye-opening, personal conversation with ...

Feb 5, 2010
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Design

Science-inspired design: Mathieu Lehanneur on TED.com

Naming science as his chief inspiration, Mathieu Lehanneur shows a selection of his ingenious designs — an interactive noise-neutraliz...

Nov 17, 2009
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Architecture

The quirky world of "manspaces": Sam Martin on TED.com

Author Sam Martin shares photos of a quirky world hobby that’s trending with the XY set: the “manspace.” (They’re cu...

Oct 9, 2009
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Design

The power of time off: Stefan Sagmeister on TED.com

Every seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative ...

Oct 2, 2009
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Design

A call for "design thinking": Tim Brown on TED.com

Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean w...

Sep 29, 2009
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