5 TED talks to Inspire and Educate

Written By: Jade on March 20, 2010 No Comment

TED, an acronym of Technology, Entertainment and Design. Many of you I expect will be familiar, but for those who new to the joy’s of TED: It’s annual conference but more importantly in this context, a fantastic free online video resource, attracting the crème de la crème of public speakers,and evangelists of all manners.

In their own words “Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world”

Here are a couple of creative talks based on Design, Marketing and IA ranging from 6 to 20 minutes, to whet your appetite, and get the creative juices fired up.

Seth Godin

This Talk is now 7 years old and every syllable still relevant, if not more so in our otaku driven online social revolution. Seth is the author of an astonishing 12 books, a leading voice in new marketing.

Blog: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
Twitter: @sethgodins | @sethgodins http://twitter.com/Sethgodins
TED Direct Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_on_sliced_bread.html

Don Norman

Don Norman studies how real people interact with design, exploring the gulf between what a designer intends and what a regular person actually wants, This is an amusing and energetic talk.

Twitter: @jnd1er | http://twitter.com/jnd1er
Blog: http://www.jnd.org/
TED Direct Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/don_norman_on_design_and_emotion.html

Alexis Ohanian

Captain of Reddit, The Master of Meme’s ‘a postulated unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena’ to be exact!!!!
It’s hard to imagine the web 2.0 landscape without Alexis at its head, driving the barriers down at breakneck speeds.

Twitter: @Kn0thing | http://twitter.com/Kn0thing
Blog: http://reddit.blogspot.com/
TED Direst Link:

Paula Scher

One of my all time favourites, an iconic designer, with an unparalleled typographic approach that can adapt and thrive in a perplexing number of applications. Paula Scher was an early inspiration for me, a guide into the beautiful world of typography.
Check out her blog if your in the mood for more visual treats.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/pentagramdesign/status/2744644277
Blog: http://pentagram.com/en/new/paula-scher/
TED Direct Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/paula_scher_gets_serious.html

Aimee Mullins

Unique Types is a creative marketing project made by AACD, a brazilian NGO that take care of disabled children. They invited designers to create fonts (free for download) inspired by these children, and now they are pressuring famous publicity agencies to use these fonts on their Ads – as a way to increase the visibility of this action, and make these crippled-fonts fashionable…

In their page, they embed this TedTalk below, I’m sure you will find it interesting..
Twitter: http://twitter.com/AimeeMullins
TED Direct Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/482