i type, i think.
Monday, June 16th, 2008a couple highlights on the internal conversations (conflicts?) i see a lot of designers, artists and communicators facing these days.
1.
a talk given by the well known designer Philippe Stark at TED in 2007 on the evolution, mutation and purpose(?) of design in the world today, and opening up possibilities for the future.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/197
2.
“Dave, my mind is going,” HAL says, forlornly. “I can feel it. I can feel it.”
this article, just published in the Atlantic Weekly, discusses the way our interaction with the internet is altering not only what we think about, but HOW we think. buy it or not, matters not. social network internet hopping junkie or long-hand writing library stack lover, matters less. this has incredible implications for all of us, and esp. for those of us involved in communications. (and mcluhan smiles.)