RafaelFajardo

April 25, 2015

“I need to be a hamster!” Robyn yells across a packed hall. Here, at the kick-off of Tekla, the free one-day tech conference that the Swedish pop star has helped organize for 200 teenage girls, she is merely a hamster seeking her other hamsters. As an ice-breaking exercise, the girls have been divided up into…

April 25, 2015

mostlysignssomeportents: Fascinating, wide-ranging discussion with William Gibson Fenwick writes, “I had the tremendous opportunity to have a public talk with William Gibson when my university asked if I’d would to do a public talk with a public figure. I had no idea I’d be so lucky as to talk with William Gibson when I agreed. I…

April 25, 2015

Thinking Ahead

ourrisd: This Friday, April 24, RISD and Brown are co-hosting Critical Design/Critical Futures, a full-day symposium open to everyone with an interest in shaping the future. Conversations will focus on recent advances in speculative design and how designers and social scientists are coming together to rethink the role of design and education in the face of…

April 22, 2015

So maybe the way to build a career in digital journalism is to pretty much ignore the digital bit, and to concentrate instead on gaining the kind of skills which will always be valuable. I don’t mean general things like how to report and write a news story, that’s a commodity at this point. But…

April 22, 2015

louisrielforever: Many wise words can be found in the pages of Calvin and Hobbes.

April 22, 2015

nevver: Let’s play The Shining

April 22, 2015

(via Biodiversity open card game, like Pokemon for science – Boing Boing) Rule set and a starter deck of cards to print at home can be found at Phylo.org. Art contributions are welcomed.

April 21, 2015

designfictions: Paper prototyping our Micro-Service App concepts This week we took our Micro-Service App concepts (from last week’s session) to a low fidelity (LoFi) prototype stage to test the initial UI designs. Our LoFi Masterclass: A presentation taking the class through the many good reasons to paper prototype including a discussion on the best practice…

April 21, 2015

hyperallergic: Last night, The Illuminator was in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District to project mayday messages on the facade of the soon-to-be-opened Whitney Museum, while a group of two dozen protesters supported by 23 sponsoring organizations, launched a guerrilla inauguration for the “fracked gas line museum.” Art Protest Groups Join Forces for Guerrilla Ribbon-cutting at New Whitney…

April 21, 2015