Hasta La Ideas

If you’re in New York City tonight, don’t miss Bill’s Design Talk with Tangible Earth inventor Shinichi Takemura:

For the first time in the U.S., participants will be able to see and experience Tangible Earth – the first interactive digital globe. Professor Shinichi Takemura will demonstrate his magical multimedia project, presented on a massive glowing globe, that shows daylight and weather patterns in real time. The globe’s diameter is just over 4 feet and is 1/10 millionth scale of the planet. Professor Takemura spins it with his hands as he explains the meaning of the images, calling up a series of events and predictions about ocean currents, tsunamis, global warming, and earthquake patterns. This digital globe allows him to easily explain the complicated scientific data that he has assimilated, while giving viewers a holistic vision of the state of the planet.

Free for Core77 readers!

Bill’s Design Talks: Tangible Earth
6:30 – 8:00 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 18
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street at Fifth Avenue
New York City

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About the presentation:
Core77’s Hand-Eye Curiosity Club is pleased to host an evening with Chance Walte of Fearless Guitars. Chance is a seeker, questioner and tireless experimenter: for more than twenty years he has utilized guitars and basses as the tools to study organized sound. During this process he recorded modifications to the tuning, setup and construction of the instruments at his disposal, using the same three songs for control. In this way, he became very familiar with the variables involved in sculpting a tone.

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Today’s design world roundup is a little less global but no less newsy. Settle in for 180 words worth of developments from the left coast:

If you’re in San Francisco next Wednesday (Nov 17th), be sure to drop by acclaimed strategy and design firm Cooper, as they host an open studio event with Jennifer Aaker, co-author of The Dragonfly Effect, and social media innovator Robert Chatwani. Join them as they discuss the values of leveraging social media to effect social change, and find out how as designers we can stop missing these opportunities in our work.

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New York Landmarks Conservancy honorees Graydon Carter, Phil Donahue, Marlo Thomas, Larry Silverstein, Bunny Williams, Jonathan M. Tisch, and Howard Dodson with gala co-chair Liz Smith (Photos: Ben Gebbe/Patrick McMullan)

Renowned interior designer Bunny Williams was among the honorees at this year’s New York Landmarks Conservancy Living Landmarks Celebration, held earlier this month at the Plaza Hotel. The annual celebration recognizes New Yorkers who have made outstanding contributions to the City. Joining Williams on the dais to accept their awards and offer heartfelt (and occasionally musical) tributes to New York and its landmarked buildings were Vanity Fair editor-in-chief and restauranteur Graydon Carter; real estate developer Larry Silverstein; actor, author, producer, and philanthropist Marlo Thomas and her talk show icon husband Phil Donahue; Loews Hotels Chairman and CEO Jonathan M. Tisch; and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Director Howard Dodson, who received the Lew Rudin Living Landmark Award for Public Service. Hosted by New York Landmarks Conservancy president Peg Breen and Conservancy board chair Stuart Siegel, the event drew approximately 400 guests and raised just over $800,000, a twenty percent increase from last year’s $640,000 tally. Meanwhile, Williams is not one to rest on her laurels. She’s been busy as a bee (her signature insect) creating buzz around her new book, A Scrapbook for Living (Stewart, Tabori & Chang), a room-by-room approach to creative and practical interiors. And, of course, she’s on Twitter.

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