TEDxDetroit 2015 Call for Speakers, Early Bird Tickets Available

TEDxDetroit We are the X

Save the date! TEDxDetroit returns to the Motor City with a day of inspiration, ideas, and innovation on October 8, 2015. For its seventh year, the event moves to a new venue: the historic Fox Theatre in downtown Detroit.

The one-day conference brings together entrepreneurs, creators, designers, makers, doers, artists, and geeks talking about and sharing positive ideas for the world from Detroit.Continue reading TEDxDetroit 2015 Call for Speakers, Early Bird Tickets Available

TED: What is the First Secret of Design? [Video]

Tony Fadell showing a Nest thermometer to the TED audience

We’ve all been there. The everyday things that are a part of our lives, that we pay close attention to at first, we stop noticing over time.

But as a designer, it’s up to you to look at those everyday things, go one step further, and find ways to improve them. Continue reading TED: What is the First Secret of Design? [Video]

Photo of the Week: Canoe Fan in Ann Arbor

Canoe Fan sculpture - a half-circle of fans forming an upright sculpture

I was on my way home from visiting the Peony Garden at the University of Michigan Nichols Arboretum this weekend when I decided to stop at Gallup Park.

It’s been a couple months since I last visited Gallup, and I wanted to see waterbirds on the Huron River.

Close to dusk, I pulled into the parking lot of the small craft boat launch east of Huron Parkway. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Canoe Fan in Ann Arbor