Falling Back in Love with Technology

The inimitable Elaine Stritch, a crazy cooler, Wired's innovation fellows and more in our weekly look at the web

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.”

Screen Art

The inimitable Elaine Stritch, a crazy cooler, Wired's innovation fellows and more in our weekly look at the web

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.

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

The inimitable Elaine Stritch, a crazy cooler, Wired's innovation fellows and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Vale Elaine Stritch Broadway legend and all-round sassy broad Elaine Stritch passed away this week and the outpouring of grief has been a testament to how special and appreciated she was. In his tribute to the icon, Steve Reiss writes, “She wasn’t traditionally beautiful, she didn’t have a particularly melodious voice, and her sole fashion imitator might be Diane Keaton. But she projected integrity, …