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- Ignite Bay Area >> Watch it Live
If you’re not among the technologists, writers, engineers, designers, bicycle mechanics, urban astronomers, and violin instructors to take part in the Bay Area celebration of Global Ignite Week on Tuesday night, you can join via Livestream, follow the presentations via @IgniteBayArea and access them later on the newly launched IgniteShow.com.
This week, 15 local talks will [...]
- Blog It Forward Begins This Week
Work by ad art buyer-turned-creator Victoria Smith tends to be of the highest quality, and the “Blog It Forward” project starting on Wednesday will likely bring the same attention to detail as her SFGirlByBay site and adoration as her “Keep Calm and Carry On” prints. Through the end of March, personal inspiration posts by design [...]
- Cork’d Community for Discussing Wine
One of the best things about spending last week in the Big Apple–besides coming back to warmer weather and recycling bins–was the chance to learn more about the wine lovers community Cork’d from CEO Lindsay Ronga. The four person team is based in NY, but I know more than a few Bay Area winos and up-and-coming [...]
- Ignite Bay Area II: Tickets & talks
In advance of Global Ignite Week, Ms. Carmel Hagen and I are excited to announce the speakers for March 2’s event at Automattic. We hope you can join us for five-minute talks to include achieving enlightenment through nightclubs, a contemporary perspective on marching bands in America, and the opportunity costs involved in modern dating. Tickets [...]
- She’s Geeky & Other Weekend Goings-On
I feel fortunate to have two large-scale gatherings for activities I’m passionate about this weekend with She’s Geeky taking place in Mountain View and the Yoga Journal Conference but a mile from my house. (These are in addition to the Design Revolution Road Show sendoff at Stable Cafe on Saturday–or maybe it will be more [...]
- Hatch’s “Modern B-School for Women Entrepreneurs”
Since I first visited the women’s entrepreneurial education startup Hatch Network’s site a few weeks ago, I’ve been visiting every few days and appreciating the clean look of its interaction design. But the vision of local co-founders Alison Covarrubias and Claire Fontana is even more important: to reduce barriers that keep first-time entrepreneurs from launching [...]
- Graphic.ly Launches Comic Print Alternative
While he may not have a San Francisco mailing address, Micah Baldwin’s latest undertaking deserves local attention for the community and innovation expertise he regularly shares here. And if the annual SF -> ComicCon pilgrimage is only indication, I think that area fantasy and visual work aficionados will enjoy the beta for the comic delivery [...]
- IDEO, Altitude Design Summit, et al
In lieu of a post-holiday slump, I’m excited about a January to include a talk by IDEO CEO Tim Brown at California College of the Arts and a benefit party to send the Design Revolution Roadshow duo off in fine Airstream style. The Altitude Design Summit in Salt Lake presented by the Kirtsy partners is [...]
- The Future of Photobooks (& Media Monetization?)
The holidays are a perfect time to catch up on the reading that’s alluded you (even if that takes the form of unread information in open browser tabs), and I’m glad to be catching up on a collaboration by two projects I admire, the portfolio creation assistance co. liveBooks’ RESOLVE blog and Andy Adams’ curated [...]
- In Conversation with Interaction Designer Emily Chang
Many are the SF friends who have said I’d get a lot out of a conversation with interaction and web designer Emily Chang. And they’re right: the UI expert (whose worked with the likes of MIT, IDEO, and GigaOm) is disarmingly knowledgeable about social software and apps. Her ideas about sculpture as a way to [...]
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