25 Jul — 25 Nov 2014 at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Project made at Leeds Beckett University answering an ISTD brief where I designed a spec style publication celebrating Adrian Frutiger’s most famous typefaces Avenir, Univers and Frutiger, displaying the technical details behind the design and structure of the typefaces . See
The Oscar-nominated actress and outspoken human-rights advocate talks about acting as therapy, inspiration from her older sister, and more.
Photography: Jonathan Sprague Salman Khan was working as a hedge fund analyst when he started using online tools to tutor his cousins in math. Nine years later, his nonprofit organization, Khan Academy, draws on the same approach to offer more than 5,000 free, web-based video lessons to millions of students across the globe, disrupting not […]
Photography: Mark Seliger, Courtesy of Nikon USA Mikhail Baryshnikov began studying ballet at age nine in his native Riga, Latvia, then part of the Soviet Union. By his early twenties, he had been described by one critic as “the most perfect dancer I have ever seen” and was the star of the famed Kirov Ballet. […]
The comedian on innovation, sustaining popularity, and humor as a leadership tool
Jack Smith’s art and ephemera are seeing the light of day after being hidden away for decades. Emma Allen reports.
The celebrity sex therapist on transitioning to a public career and “rewiring” instead of retiring
The renowned cellist on collaboration, risk taking, and childhood fame
Key life- and career-lessons from people who’ve made it big.
The anime master shows off 40 years of work — from Batman to Stanley Kubrick — and hosts a mural-drawing jam session with fans
Paul Auster shows me a picture of his grandmother. It hangs in the front floor hallway, opposite the stairs of the Park Slope home he shares with novelist Siri Hustvedt, his wife. His grandmother, Anna Auster, sits in black and white, a severe, striking woman. She’s the one, he explains, who murdered his grandfather. Later...
We talk about the importance of self-education and how creating your own curriculum can help you make a career based on your core values and passions.
Hay House for a celebration honoring Louise Hay and her life’s work
Whether or not the name Shepard Fairey automatically conjures images of pop culture subversion, punk rock idolatry or street-art politics is irrelevant at this point. The 48-year-old artist is responsible for some of the most iconic imagery to have ever befouled the sacred real estate of public spac
The interior of Edwards Lifesciences’ Innovation Center near Tel Aviv mixes cool scientific futurism with an organic approach
Kate Bush Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith, London W6 When Kate Bush announced this year that she was planning some live shows, I felt very personally let down. As someone who hasnâ?Tt toured since the year 2000, I often have to defend my position as a non-performer, and when Iâ?Tm backed into a corner I pull out my handy list of fellow refuseniks. â?oDavid Bowie, Liz Fraser, Linda
Salvador Dali’s memory of early childhood was haunted by images that influenced his works throughout life. One was a portrait of the first Salvador Dali, his brother, who died aged two in 1903, nine months before the artist’s birth. Another was a painting of the crucifixion. “When the darkness of the night came, I did not dare to cross my parents’ room because of the portrait of that brother and a reproduction of Velázquez’s Christ,” he recalled in later life. Nearly 120 years after his birth,
Visit the post for more.
