I gave a presentation last week in Tel Aviv titled “Creativity in the Age of Anxiety.” My thesis was the same conclusion Ed Catmull, founder of Pixar, once articulated: “The opposite of instability isn’t stability.… Read More »Creativity in the Age of Anxiety
There’s something enchanting about Aspen, Colorado—preserved Victorian architecture, an array of cultural offerings, majestic nature around every corner, and plenty of glitz and glamour if that’s your thing. Herbert Bayer is one of the people… Read More »The Magnetism of Herbert Bayer and Bauhaus Typography on View in Aspen
I’ve worn a beard for 50 years—first a full-black “classic,” then a salt-and-pepper goatee, and now grayish-white semi-full whiskers. I had all sorts of reasons for originally growing it after I left high school in… Read More »The Daily Heller: Beards That Send Mixed Messages
100 Days is an annual project at New York City’s School of Visual Arts that was founded by Michael Bierut. Each year, the students of the school’s Master’s in Branding Program spend 100 days documenting… Read More »‘100 Days’ of Hybrid Hanzi
Women weren’t required in US clinical research until June 10, 1993. Only 1% of global healthcare research is invested in female-specific conditions beyond cancer. Across 770 diseases, on average, women are diagnosed four years later… Read More »“100 Effed Facts About the Gender Health Gap” Lays Bare the Sexism in US Healthcare
Who are our favorites for? If you look around your immediate environment, you’ll probably find that you’ve assembled a lot of objects. Who assembled them? In contrast with Freud, Alfred Adler thought that we are… Read More »My Favorite Things: As If