In this presentation for 99U, former RISD president John Maeda (now a Design Partner at a venture capital firm and chair of eBay’s Design Advisory Board) covers numerous topics—starting with some big questions like defining design to explaining venture capital for those (like himself) are new to it, making the analogy of launching rockets, as well as discussing the difference between start-ups and “end-ups.”
Making the invisible visible is photographer Meggan Gould, who turns her lens onto the iPad screen. Scanning her husband and daughter’s iPads for the series “Surface Tension,” Gould captures the plethora of smudges and smears made by their fingers. With nary a clean spot, it reveals just how much we touch and interact with touchscreens, but never really consider them.
What is art? Could my kid do that? Is James Franco really real? All these questions and more are addressed in comedian Casey Jane Ellison’s new web series “Touching the Art.” With a legitimate guest panel of acclaimed art world inhabitants, the first sub-seven-minute episode is full of clever quips, perfectly cynical reflections and—believe it or not—some interesting insight on the subject of contemporary art …
