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Articles, reflections, and teachings from our community.

Architecture

Someone's thinking big…

Due to open Jan 1, the Grand Canyon Skywalk juts out about 70 feet into the canyon, 4000 ft above the Colorado River.

Nov 19, 2005
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Art

Museum Watch: Darwin in NY, Comics in LA

Two highly anticipated museum exhibits open this weekend: Darwin in New York, and Masters of American Comics in LA.

Nov 18, 2005
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Design

$100 (lime green) laptop unveiled

Nicholas Negroponte unveils his famed $100 (lime green) laptop for the developing world.

Nov 18, 2005
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Architecture

The roots of green design

Following the thread of green design … today’s New York Times profiles Sim Van der Ryn, the Bay Area-based pioneer in sustainabl...

Nov 17, 2005
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Art

Georgia O'Keefe: Software muse?

Was the Firefox logo influenced by the eerily similar Georgia O’Keefe painting, “Goat Horn with Red”?

Nov 16, 2005
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Design

The season's best buyer's guide

Leave it to Mark Hurst to not only write an extraordinary buyer’s guide, but also provide a comprehensive theoretical framework for do...

Oct 31, 2005
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Design

National Design Awards

The 2005 U.S. National Design Awards were announced last week, with several of our TED friends among them. Congratulations to Burt Rutan (Pr...

Oct 31, 2005
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Design

A design space to watch

TEDster Diego Rodriguez, who works with IDEO, teaches at the Stanford d. School, and writes the influential blog metacool, debuts his Busine...

Oct 21, 2005
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Design

Trend-spotting with Murray Moss

Whether you’re surveying a new season of design offerings, or simply considering a new set of spoons, you might find yourself wonderin...

Oct 19, 2005
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