L.A. based composer and avant-garde trumpeter Jon Hassell is revered for his minimalist ambient work. We'll have a rare visit when he brings a trio to perform select pieces for Morning Becomes Eclectic listeners at 11:15am.
The artist and visual designer Yang Liu was born in China and lives in Germany since she was 14. By growing up in two very different places with very different traditions she was able to experience the differences between the two cultures first-hand.
I’ve spent much of the last decade travelling around the globe in the service of clients looking to understand the heads and hearts of people that they hope one day to call customers.
Back in the late 1970s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him – “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design?
Since the days of radical printer-pamphleteers, design and designers have a long history of fighting for what’s right and working to transform society. The rise of the literary form of the manifesto also parallels the rise of modernity and the spread of letterpress printing.
A well-known theory of the range of different roles that people perform in teams was developed by Meredith Belbin who has identified nine types of ‘personality’