Google Design Guru Ivy Ross on Why Everything Is Pattern and Vibration
Few executives have the profoundly spiritual presence of Ivy Ross, who more than five years ago joined Google as a vice president, helping to lead the launch of the second edition of Glass at Google X...
10 Jul 20191h 9min
Andri Snær Magnason on How Time and Water Explain the Climate Crisis
For the past two decades, Andri Snær Magnason has been on a quest for language that truly gets at the heart of the climate crisis—the images, mythology, and syntax to crystallize the often-abstracted ...
3 Jul 20191h 18min
For Elizabeth Diller, New York City Is Beginning to Feel Like One Big Punch List
When Elizabeth Diller graduated from Cooper Union with a degree in architecture in 1979, she had no intention of necessarily becoming an architect. In fact, the Polish-born, New York–raised Diller cho...
26 Jun 20191h 19min
Stefan Sagmeister Takes a Yearlong Sabbatical Every Seven Years (and Thinks You Should, Too)
Ten years ago, the Austrian-born, New York–based graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister—famous for his attention-grabbing exhibitions, posters, and books, as well as for his impeccable album covers for ba...
19 Jun 20191h 3min
Uzodinma Iweala: From "Beasts of No Nation" Author to Africa Center CEO
Uzodinma Iweala’s journey to becoming the CEO of the Africa Center, a culture and policy institution located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan at the northeast corner of Central Park, defies expectations. ...
12 Jun 20191h 3min
Kai-Fu Lee on the Power of A.I. to Transform Humanity
The media tends to hyperbolize and boosterize technologists and the work that they do, creating all kinds of absurdly over-the-top titles for them. But when CBS’s 60 Minutes dubbed Kai-Fu Lee “the ora...
5 Jun 20191h 19min
Teresita Fernández on the Violent Nature of the American Landscape
Teresita Fernández defies expectations. For more than 20 years, the Miami-born, Brooklyn-based artist has pushed boundaries, literally and figuratively, through her large-scale sculptures, mixed-media...
29 Mai 20191h 4min
Bjarke Ingels to Cities: Take a Longer View
Bjarke Ingels communicates the value—and world-changing potential—of architecture with the giddy enthusiasm and excitement of a sci-fi obsessive anticipating the next big Hollywood blockbuster. This i...
22 Mai 20191h
