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Design, discovery and humor Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: January 19, 2009 Great design is a never-ending journey of discovery — for which it helps to pack a healthy sense of humor. Sociologist and surfer-turned-...

Great design is serious (not solemn) Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: January 16, 2009 Paula Scher looks back at a life in design (she’s done album covers, books, the Citibank logo ...) and pinpoints the moment when she started reall...

Understanding comics Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: January 13, 2009 In this unmissable look at the magic of comics, Scott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversi...

Ways of seeing Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: January 12, 2009 Rob Forbes, the founder of Design Within Reach, shows a gallery of snapshots that inform his way of seeing the world. Charming juxtapositions, fou...

How calculus is changing architecture Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: January 09, 2009 Greg Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture — and how calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond t...

Does happiness have a price tag? Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 17, 2008 Can happiness be bought? To find out, author Benjamin Wallace sampled the world’s most expensive products, including a bottle of 1947 Chateau Chev...

The playful search for beauty Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 09, 2008 The ceramics designer Eva Zeisel looks back on a 75-year career. What keeps her work as fresh today (her latest line debuted in 2008) as in 1926? H...

The stories and song of Appalachia Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 08, 2008 Folk musician and storyteller David Holt plays the banjo and shares photographs and old wisdom from the Appalachian Mountains. He also demonstrates...

Nick Sears demos the Orb Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 05, 2008 Inventor Nick Sears demos the first generation of the Orb, a rotating persistence-of-vision display that creates glowing 3D images. A short, cool ...

Do the green thing Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 26, 2008 Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green — and some of the fringe benefits.

Shaking hands with the devil Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 11, 2008 Samantha Power tells a story of a complicated hero, Sergio Vieira de Mello. This UN diplomat walked a thin moral line, negotiating with the world’...

Fly the seas on a submarine with wings Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2008 Graham Hawkes takes us aboard his graceful, winged submarines to the depths of planet Ocean (a.k.a. "Earth"). It’s a deep blue world we landlubber...

Creativity, fulfillment and flow Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 23, 2008 Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and la...

Design and the elastic mind Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 15, 2008 MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show "Design and the Elastic Mind" — full of products and designs that re...

Sound stylings by a human beatbox Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 10, 2008 Human beatbox James "AudioPoet" Burchfield performs an intricate three-minute breakdown — sexy, propulsive hip-hop rhythms and turntable...

Learning from past presidents in moments of crisis Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 07, 2008 Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shar...

Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-TB epidemic Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 03, 2008 Photojournalist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a drug-resistant strain of tuber...

Architecture is a special effects machine Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 02, 2008 In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R’s more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fo...

Stefan Sagmeister: Things I have learned in my life so far Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 Rockstar designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design (including ... infl...

Come play with Pleo the dinosaur Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 25, 2008 Pleo the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet — exploring, cuddling, playing, reacting and learning. Inventor Caleb Chung talks about P...

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