Joi Ito, Director at MIT Media Lab, Discusses The Changing Meaning Of Leadership With Errol Morris
/At IBM's THINK Forum in New York City, Errol Morris interviews Joi Ito, Director at MIT Media Lab, on how leadership is being redefined. Ito discusses the influence of the open source movement on deconstructing the hierarchies of traditional leadership.
PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 5: Hacking Art & Culture with F.A.T. Lab
/PBS Arts: Off Book is a web-based series that explores cutting edge art and the people that make it. The 13 episode series focuses on the process, motivation and meaning of a new generation of artists.
As we become more and more engaged with the internet in every aspect of our lives, powerful questions have arisen regarding the ownership of digital media and information, the relationship between corporations, governments, and individuals online, the power of pop culture influence, and the dissolving border between the digital and physical worlds. Taking these issues head-on is The Free Art & Technology (F.A.T.) Lab. An international group of 21 artists, hackers, thinkers, designers, developers, and entrepreneurs, F.A.T. Lab employs art, activism, pop culture, and a wealth of knowledge about how the internet works to create projects that challenge people and institutions to think a little deeper about this new world we all live in.
Featuring:
Evan Roth
Greg Leuch
Aram Bartholl
The 21 members of F.A.T. Lab
Previous installments:
Episode 1: Light Painting
Episode 2: Typography
Episode 3: Visual Culture Online
Episode 4: Steampunk
All About Fonts‽ Simon Garfield's Just My Type
/The Leonard Lopate Show at wnyc.org
Simon Garfield talks about the history of fonts, from font "pirating" dating back nearly as far as Gutenberg to the creation of Comic Sans and Ikea's font-change controversy. Just My Type: A Book About Fonts shows how something as simple as font choice can speak volumes about our cultural climate and personal tastes.
Garfield will be speaking at the Type Directors Club on September 20, 2011.
The following trailer for the book, featuring 999 fonts in 60 seconds, was designed and directed by Naresh Ramchandani and Michael Bierut at Pentagram.