The Week's Links (5/1/11)
All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week:
- What We Learned This Week http://ow.ly/1crcgr
- The founder of Bose Corporation has donated the majority of the company to MIT. http://owl.li/4KnDc
- Your brain is a rain forest -differences among brains are as essential as differences among plants and animals. http://ow.ly/4lX3M
- How Blind People Make Sense Of Language | Wired Science http://ow.ly/4lVI5
- Grace Coddington: Creative Indeed - a behind the scenes look at a great fashion culture influence.http://owl.li/4J84G
- The Next New Thing: Gamification At Museumshttp://owl.li/4J7JQ
- Charlie Rose: The Brain Series http://ow.ly/4lT02
- The 50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should Know http://ow.ly/4HuYU
- Masaaki Hiromura has made food pictograms part of the kanji characters he created that can be understood in any language http://ow.ly/4lQVH
- Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 69, Gabriel Garcia Marquez http://ow.ly/4lW40
- Tina Fey shows Google’s Eric Schmidt who is really wearing the Bossypants http://ow.ly/1cofz1
- Frank Chimero - Classroom Rules http://ow.ly/4lVZ0
- Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies, or what happens when you trust rogue algorithms.http://owl.li/4J7tp
- Visa Backs Jack Dorsey’s Square - Digits - WSJhttp://owl.li/4J6Rp
- Arcano Type designed by Giuseppe Salerno.http://ow.ly/4lTWM Luscious, hand-drawn typeface, full of visual wit.
- A new study shows that reading fiction can actually improve your social skills. http://owl.li/4IWYm
- Licensing patents for the developing world can bring innovations to the people that needed them most. -On Rethinking IP http://ow.ly/4lQMB
- The Case and Point | a curated selection of custom type and lettering http://ow.ly/4lVwv
- CreativeExecs Blog » Inspiring Creativityhttp://ow.ly/4lVty
- The Seven Deadly Sins That Choke Out Innovation | Co.Design http://ow.ly/4lSsC
- Life Advice from Jennifer Egan and All Your Other Favorite Authors http://ow.ly/4HuUu
- Wired Interview: New MIT Media Lab Director Joichi Ito on ‘Context and Connection’ http://ow.ly/4HF78
- Designers & Books | Book lists and commentary from esteemed designers and architectshttp://ow.ly/4lQju
- VC Joichi Ito Named Head of M.I.T. Media Lab - NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/4HAqz
- Think Tank: Why we all need a ‘To Don’t’ List, just like Moses - Telegraph http://ow.ly/4HzVi
- National Endowment for the Arts rebrands as Art Works. Includes branding guidelines.http://ow.ly/4lU7g
- Researchers are harvesting a wealth of detail from our phones, uncovering the hidden patterns of our social lives. http://ow.ly/4HuuU
- Has the LHC found a hint of the Higgs boson?http://ow.ly/4Hu4Y
- Google Zeitgeist Videos http://ow.ly/4lTbo
- Armenia makes chess compulsory in schoolshttp://ow.ly/4Hjc4
- We worked with 10 category experts to identify 100 voices that matter. | Say100 http://ow.ly/4lSnx
- Facebook launches ‘Send’ button for more private sharing http://ow.ly/4HdMa
- How to Become a Design Visionary Without Really Trying by Steven Heller — AIGA http://ow.ly/4lPZC
- Cranking, a must-read, deeply personal essay about quality of life and quality of work by Merlin Mann. http://ow.ly/4H7Pr
- Charlie Rose - Chris Anderson talks about the TED Conference http://ow.ly/4lRkc
- Learning How To Visualize http://ow.ly/4lR0A
- 7 Ways To Upgrade Your Brain http://ow.ly/4lM6B
- The Art of Video Games @ The Smithsonianhttp://ow.ly/4lLro Help select the video games to be featured.