Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Whole Foods' rooftop greenhouse, the late Roger Ebert, the cell phone's 40th birthday and more in our weekly look at the web

1. AIPAD Photography Show The Park Avenue Armory in NYC is currently playing host to the AIPAD Photography Show, one of the year’s most impressive gatherings of contemporary photography talent. For those unable to make the show, Artsy has gathered a collection of AIPAD works ranging from Pieter Hugo’s haunting portraits to Andrew Moore’s American landscapes. 2. Super Local Whole Foods Brooklyn locavores can rejoice …

Design Indaba 2013: The Conference

Standout themes from an inspirational week at Cape Town's exceptional conference on the power of creativity

“Design is an act of misbehaving.” With those words, legendary artist and designer Paula Scher kicked off Design Indaba 2013. Now in its 18th year, Design Indaba always succeeds in bringing some of the most innovative and provocative creative minds on the face of the earth together in Cape Town, South Africa for three days of discussions around creativity as both idea and practice. At …

Interview: Kate Endress of DITTO

Find the perfect fit for your next pair of spectacles with their highly sophisticated iPad app

As more and more consumers turn to the web as their primary retail space, the necessity to move away from a simple “buy now” button to a more comprehensive interactive marketplace is growing. Trying things on for size in a virtual world is not a novel concept, but most retailers fall flat on execution. DITTO, a relatively new San Francisco-based company, has taken on this …