Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Link About It: This Week's Picks

The upshot of Internet wanderings by CH’s editors and designers over this past week, our list ranges from a hybrid vacuum-boombox to sculptures that radically reimagine the concept of the bust. 1. Journey to Zero TED conference founder Richard Saul Wurman and automaker Nissan joined forces t produce Journey to Zero as a way for creative and inspirational thinkers to share their ideas on the …

Four Female Olympic Hopefuls

With the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver just a little over four months out, Nike brought a group of journalists last week to the gleaming Canadian city to check out their female athletes' intensive training as they prep for possible Olympic stardom. In addition to presentations on apparel and shoe launches, journalists at the Women's Training Summit got coveted one-on-one time with eight amazing estrogen-powered …

Tronic: Samsung Olympic Video

by Tamara Warren Set against a clean white backdrop, a running blue figure pumps its arms wildly. The athlete shatters into geometric pieces that morph into the figure of an equestrian, a dribbling basketball player, then a cellular phone, until finally settling into the Olympic rings. The spot is Samsung's Olympic promo video, interpreting man through the lens of machines and currently playing on the …