SERIOUS PLAY is an immersive cultural experience at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena CA.

The three-day conference has compiled an incredibly diverse list of presenters, including a homicide detective, an origami virtuoso, the CEO of IDEO, the founder of the National Institute for Play, hackers, authors and architects.

This year’s attendees will be the first ever to play through hands-on studios with the Conference speakers. This might mean

Last week I spent a few days in Toronto at Explore Design (North America’s first design education fair for youth).

A consortium of educational institutions, associations, and professional groups provided 2 days

All over NYC today parking spaces are being converted into mini parks, cafes and campgrounds as part of a nationwide effort by The Trust for Public Land to give our cities back to the people who live in them.

In NYC our sidewalks are overflowing and cars clog the streets. Consider this: a 250 square foot parking space can hold about 45 standing people, 20 bikes, one

We’re getting ready to shove off from Spring St. The walls are bare; our rooms are pretty much down to essential robots and some power tools. Even the deer head is gone, mounted in our new house on Broome St.

Before we go, however, and in preparation for our farewell Happy Hour next week, we’d like to collect some of your fond (or delirious)

Ponoko's idea for collaboration with designers is a neat one. You submit a design to the Ponoko website, if they like it, they send it to their factory and it gets built by people and machines. Then you take your finished product and post it in the Ponoko online showroom. People see your design, love it, buy it, and you make $.

We have to

There's that old mantra, “With struggle and conflict there can be no growth,” but no one says you have to go that struggle solo. Up and over, out of the trenches and onto the battlefield. Do you really want to be out there alone?

In war the immediate need for teamwork might be more obvious; you're probably more inclined to meet challenges alone when your life isn't being

When we were in Madrid years ago there was this irritating desk clerk at the hotel where our friends were staying in the Chueca district. No matter how many times we’d come in, introduce ourselves, smile, he’d always sneer and say the same thing: “Five minutes for friend.” If we weren’t out in five minutes, he’d kick us out.
Until the day we return to