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Design of useful things


Quirky, fascinating talks about the design of practical things we all need, whether we know it or not.
Street Art for Hope and Peace | eL Seed | TED Talks
Chip Kidd: The art of first impressions — in design and life
Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art
What if 3D printing was 100x faster? | Joseph DeSimone
Alejandro Aravena: My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process
Avi Reichental: What’s next in 3D printing
Margaret Gould Stewart: How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too)
James Patten: The best computer interface? Maybe ... your hands
A shark-deterrent wetsuit (and it's not what you think) | Hamish Jolly
Manu Prakash: A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami
Mark Kendall: Demo: A needle-free vaccine patch that's safer and way cheaper
Krista Donaldson: The $80 prosthetic knee that's changing lives
Diébédo Francis Kéré: How to build with clay... and community
Chris Downey: Design with the blind in mind
Xavier Vilalta: Architecture at home in its community
Shigeru Ban: Emergency shelters made from paper
Design for All 5 Senses | Jinsop Lee | TED Talks
Jinha Lee: Reach into the computer and grab a pixel
Juliana Rotich: Meet BRCK, Internet access built for Africa
Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people
Sergey Brin: Why Google Glass?
Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard!
Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff
Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?
John Hodgman: Design, explained.
Yves Behar: Designing objects that tell stories
Gary Lauder's new traffic sign: Take Turns
Thomas Goetz: It's time to redesign medical data
Paola Antonelli: Treating design as art
Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
Jacek Utko: Can design save the newspaper?
Kevin Surace invents eco-friendly drywall
Niels Diffrient: Rethinking the way we sit down
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