Random Talks

Masashi Kawamura has an idea lab. In that lab, called PARTY, he and several fellow creatives perform the advertising equivalent of alchemy, fusing raw

Tokyo-based but global in mindset, architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham architecture design everything from public spaces to privat

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-evoluti… What makes a book a book? Is it just anything that stores and communicates information?

Art majors everywhere, take heart: John Maeda is lobbying to ensure your future by fusing art and design with science and infusing technology with sou

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-the-bra… Lingerie has existed for hundreds of years, but it wasn’t until the 1920s that a

“There’s no such thing as a dumb user; there are only dumb products.” Designing for outcomes instead of accolades has the potential

Art Director and Designer Cook, preserve, store, serve—the core sequence of events in any kitchen—is simpler now thanks to the OSORO smart tableware s

Eisuke Tachikawa launched his Wiki web project OLIVE just forty hours after the Great East Japan Earthquake struck. The crowdsourcing database gathere

If Tetsuya Kaida has his way, we’ll soon be driving ultralight cars built of kelp and transparent vehicles featuring “mood training” dashboards that m

Edward Suzuki worked alongside master architect and futurist Buckminster Fuller while attending Harvard on a Fulbright scholarship. Perhaps that’s one

Creating love through design has been Yu Jordy Fu’s goal since she was six, when she had her first solo art exhibition at the Beijing Capital Museum—a

Can anybody make sense of all the random data rampaging through the cloud? Mizuki Oka, a post-doc researcher at the University of Tokyo’s Center for K

Ken Okuyama has spent a lifetime fashioning exotic yet practical things of surpassing beauty. The prizewinning car designer has shaped models for Gene

Space—living space, that is, and the ways we envision it and use it, and particularly how it affects the way we communicate with each other—fascinates

A partner at renowned design firm IDEO and the co-leader of both IDEO’s Bay Area operation and its Asia initiative, Owen Rogers stands squarely at the

In 2008, lacquer artist and Living National Treasure Kazumi Murose began to focus on preserving intangibly important Japanese culture and heritage thr