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On April 9 the PSFK Conference New York will bring together a large crowd of likeminds to learn and share new ideas that will help us make tomorrow better. Listen to over 20 speakers (I have the honor to be one of them!) as they share ideas and opinions from the forefront of culture. Topics range from the arts to entertainment to business to the web.

Published in The New Yorker 03/15/2010 by Mick Stevens. Made me laugh. Totally Tilo (our 4 week old son).

The Guardian, one of the leading UK newspapers, has publish an eight-page supplement on service design - subtitled "Design innovation in the public and private sector - in association with the Service Design Network.

The conference "Designing Slow Life" on 24-25 March in Lahti, Finland brings together international experts of design, service design and wellness to talk about and develop services under the main theme of better, slower and more meaningful life.

Our penultimate session is billed as an innovation master class with the Design Council

Over the past couple of days, there's been a flurry of information coming from our live-blogging team at The Big Rethink, The Economist's Redesigning Business Summit . To make it easier for you to navigate, we've rounded up all their reports in one handy place.

IxDA has done a phenomenal job documenting all of last month's presentations from the Interaction Design 2010 conference in Savannah, GA. There are so many gems here, but we've picked out a few favorites, The first is Ben Fullerton's talk on Designing for Solitude. Alone time— or the "ability to switch off and contemplate"—is becoming harder and harder to find as our media is increasingly socialized; Ben discusses why this is not a good thing. Solitude is important and we now find ourselves with a particular need to create it. What does an off state look like?

Timo Arnall, who works with near field communications and emerging RFID technology, delivered a talk entitled "Designing for the Web in the World." A nice contrast to Fullerton's main points, Timo discusses the 'on' state in depth—we can move off the screen and into the world by embodying our digital services in real, tactile, networked objects.

I posted about this The Dreaded Killer Jellyfish of Graphic Design Favors Poster before. Allan from Core77 just gave me the heads up that the poster is now available for purchase for a mere $20! Read about it over on Core77.

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Our most popular Core-toon illustration, The Dreaded Killer Jellyfish of Graphic Design Favors is now available as a poster! A limited-edition of 150 prints have been silk screened by the Post Family printers in Chicago on French Smart White paper, and Individually numbered and initialed by the artist lunchbreath. The print is 18" x 24" (45.7cm x 61cm) and ships in a super tough reusable metal-capped tube.

During my mother's childhood in her country of origin, a neighbor might swing by your house and deliver a plate full of chow, delicacies or baked goods. Local custom was that when you returned the plate to them a few days later, you never gave it back empty, but loaded it with the fruits of your own kitchen labors.

Sculptor Alex Queral carves up phonebooks to create portraits. Above: James Brown. [via TC]

The Boisbuchet summer 2010 workshop schedule has just been released. From everything we've heard, the experience comes highly recommended—after all, what could be better than spending six to ten days on a country estate in the Southwest of France with Maarten Baas, the Campana Brothers, Tomoko Azumi or Dan Formosa?

Anyone who's ever moved house knows you've got to put everything in boxes, which is why U-Haul sells them.

The Economist's Robin Bew, who opened the conference yesterday by reminding us of exactly how deep the s*** is we're in, posed what are perceived to be the four trends (or challenges for business) that will shape tomorrow's world.

Sir George Cox (former Design Council Chairman), in his calming, measured, reassuring way, offered some reasons why we shouldn't all start panicking and freak out. This was a nice reflective antidote to the information overload of the last two days, and perhaps the most genuinely insightful session for those business leaders who had attended to learn what they should be planning for.

So, the 4 Trends:
1. the shift to emerging markets
2. rich world ageing
3. carbon pricing
4. a lack of capital

One Off has just released the call for entries for their 2010 edition of Food Design, now six years in the running. Open to all, the aim of the competition is to foster design culture through food culture, and vice versa. There are three categories to submit to: Design with Food, Design for Food, and Tasting Kit.

Wooden ships used to set sail from New York fully laden with American goods to bring to the Old World. If the trade balance was perfect, they would unload their stuff in Europe and sail back to America loaded up with an equal amount of European goods; but since more Europeans wanted American resources than vice versa, that wasn't the case.

Print is dying. Digital is surging. Everyone is confused.

The I LEGO N.Y.. Board Book by Christoph Niemann will be my new favorite NYC Book Gift from now on. Absolutely brilliant and hilarious.

I am participating in a silent auction event with the Type Director’s Club and it’s our task to re-interpret an existing classified ad.

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