Paola Antonelli on acquiring video games for MoMA
Paola Antonelli is senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But despite her nearly 20-year tenure ...
New playlist: Design giants
Happy Tuesday! Enjoy a bonus binge this week: a playlist about design. “Design giants” contains 13 talks by iconic modern design...
An in-office TED all about design
Whether we’re conscious of it or not, design affects us in hundreds — if not thousands of ways — each day. Just think back...
Bill Gates, designer? Yes. Public Interest Design honors 100 global thinkers who are designing social good
Good design has the power to improve lives. Yesterday, Public Interest Design — a group dedicated to design for social good — re...
The secrets of TED’s (award-winning!) design
It is, indeed, a monumental day here at TED Towers. We’re winners! Or, as June Cohen, executive producer of TED Media, described this ...
A possible answer for preventing sewage from flowing into waterways in extreme weather
During Hurricane Sandy, 10 billion gallons of raw sewage were released into the rivers, canals and bays of New York and New Jersey — a...
How the TED Machine was built
When illustrator/storyteller Oliver Jeffers and animator/woodworker Mac Premo get together, sketchbooks travel 60,000 miles, suitcases wande...
A visual look at 7 things that make us feel good about work
Last week, Dan Ariely asked an interesting question in a TED Talk: “What makes us feel good about our work?” The TED Blog responded with the...
The future unfolding: Fellows Friday with Skylar Tibbits
Skylar Tibbits makes things that assemble themselves, with potential large-scale applications from self-adjusting water pipes to self-assemb...