Hasta La Ideas

Zach Lieberman is a Brooklyn-based interactive artist, hacker and researcher. His installations and performance use custom built hardware and open source software to create new playful modes of expression–and always with an element of surprise! Zach’s extensive body of work includes the EyeWriter project, a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system originally made for legendary LA graffiti writer Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE who was diagnosed with ALS in 2003. And the hugely successful iQ Font campaign for Toyota, Zach collaborated with typographers Pierre & Damiena and pro racer Stef van Campenhoudt to generate a typeface from tracking the movements of a car.

http://thesystemis.com

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Blake Van Roekel: Keuken

“The Intellectual Palette; Design in the Kitchen”
Blake Van Roekel is the owner of Keuken and a co-founder of the successful and popular Art+Palate Supper Club. Her menus are inspired by art and design, literature and music resulting in meals that are thematic and unique to the time and place of the event. Her goal is to introduce greater levels of meaning to the food on our plates by not only stimulating our taste buds, but our emotions and intellect as well.

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Architecture for Humanity, the non-profit architecture and design network of over 40,000 professional architects, engineers, and designers has issued a sweeping long-term reconstruction plan to help the over 2-3 million people without shelter. In just four days they’ve raised over $45,000 in individual donations and have pledges by a number of companies.

Click here to donate to Architecture for Humanity’s efforts.

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