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Paola Antonelli's new column for SEED

Paola Antonelli is the design curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and a two-time TEDTalks star, with her TED2007 talk “T...

Mar 9, 2009
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The 3 ways good design makes us happy: Don Norman on TED.com

In this talk from TED2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design t...

Mar 9, 2009
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On building blocks: exclusive interview with David Merrill on Siftables

David Merrill is a grad student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab. He and his fellow students in this group work on new...

Feb 23, 2009
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Siftables, the toy blocks that think: David Merrill on TED.com

In the latest release from TED2009, MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack an...

Feb 12, 2009
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How great design makes ideas new: Milton Glaser on TED.com

While we are preparing more TED2009 talks for release online, here’s a gem from our archives. At TED1998, the legendary graphic design...

Feb 11, 2009
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Design, discovery and humor: David Carson on TED.com

Great design is a never-ending journey of discovery — and for this journey, it helps to pack a healthy sense of humor. Sociologist and...

Jan 19, 2009
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Great design is serious (not solemn): Paula Scher on TED.com

Speaking at Serious Play 2008, Paula Scher looks back at a life in design (she’s done album covers, books, the Citibank logo …) ...

Jan 16, 2009
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My life in design (from the tofu factory to RISD): John Maeda on TED.com

At Serious Play 2008, John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle tofu factory to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he became pres...

Jan 6, 2009
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New book: Women of Design

From design blog Brand New comes word of Women of Design, a new book that celebrates female designers: In publications, conferences and othe...

Nov 25, 2008
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