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Charis expresses interest in a McKinsey study that analyzed copious amounts of data over the past 5 years to determine what impact design decisions have on business performance and Eugene wants to talk about the algorithm IBM and Symrise, a major fragrance company, developed specifically for making new fragrances.

Audio, Technology

Allan Yu’s Wilson

Designing an onboarding, registration, algorithm-free podcast app.

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Photoshop on the iPad and myths about the Chinese art market

The new full version of Adobe Photoshop on the iPad with cloud syncing capabilities might change the ways people create and The Chinese art market and how what it looks like on the surface isn’t a good indicator of what’s really happening.

Business, Fashion

A Sense of Community with Jeff Staple

How to fix fashion and giving entrepreneurs money

The current state of fashion as described by 36 industry people in an article published by Elle and The perception of fashion as a superficial area of interest and discuss the possibilities of fashion with regards to identity and depth and The competitions being organized by African governments that award money to entrepreneurs. These competitions are intended to encourage business innovation and to create jobs.

Photography, Society

Ryan Struck’s Curbside TVs

Embracing the aesthetics of the abandoned.

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“Love your work and make it known.”

Low Tech Magazines low tech website and Banksy’s self destructing art

The efforts of Low-Tech Magazine to reduce the energy use required to access their content by building a low-tech, self-hosted, and solar-powered website for themselves and Banksy trolling (or possibly being in complicity with) the art world by orchestrating the self-destruction of his painting right after it had been sold at auction by Sotheby’s for $1.4 million USD.

Business