Top5
- DLD partners W&V Forum
DIGITAL & MEDIA · 07/05/2008 - Joseph (Yossi) Vardi
Speakers 2008 · 13/05/2008 - Lapo Elkann - Made in Italy 2.0
DESIGN & ART · 31/10/2007 - Lufthansa Technology Forum
LIFE & SCIENCE · 19/12/2007 - DLD08 Impressions: Design, Architecture, Arts
DESIGN & ART · 24/01/2008
Top5
- Lufthansa Technology Forum
LIFE & SCIENCE · 19/12/2007 - DLD08 - the countdown begins!
DLD'08 · 30/11/2007 - DLD08 Program
Program · 08/01/2008 - DLD Aenne Burda Award 2008
DLD'08 · 20/01/2008 - Archives and Memory
DESIGN & ART · 22/01/2008
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LIFE & SCIENCE
November 17, 2008
Esther Dyson to train for space travel
Technology visionary, journalist and investor Esther Dyson is currently training for the ultimate travel experience: a private space flight with Space Adventures, the company that provides human space missions on the Soyuz spacecraft. Dyson who is already an investor in // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 17/11/08 · 4:41 PM· 0 comments
November 14, 2008
David de Rothschild's voyage of the Plastiki
David de Rothschild, founder of Adventure Ecology and close friend of the DLD community, will depart in March 2009 on an new expedition: a 7,500-mile voyage from San Francisco to Sydney in a boat made of recycled materials, mostly plastic // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 14/11/08 · 12:36 PM· 0 comments
November 11, 2008
SEED sets science and design to talk
The last issues of Adam Bly's science magazine SEED featured some of our dear DLD friends, including Paola Antonelli who is a senior curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art and biologist Craig Venter. In a // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 11/11/08 · 7:00 PM· 0 comments
October 31, 2008
23andMe: Time's Best Invention 2008
TIME magazine yesterday announced the Personal Genome Service from 23andMe has been named 2008's Invention of the Year. 23andMe was chosen as the year's most significant invention for its exceptional work in making personal genomics accessible and affordable. The company // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 31/10/08 · 3:37 PM· 0 comments
October 15, 2008
Carolyn Porco on Wired's Smart List 2008
The October issue of WIRED magazine features fifteen big thinkers that WIRED editors would like to see as advisors to the next president -- on issues such as climate change, energy, security and defense. Amongst them planetary scientist Dr. Carolyn // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 15/10/08 · 2:34 PM· 0 comments
October 14, 2008
Thomas Huber managed his project at the "Tre Cime di Lavaredo"
When Thomas gave his talk at DLD07 about his passion climbing and base jumping the audience was stunned by his energy, the impressive pictures but also by his way of dealing with failure. Thomas and his brother Alexander are know // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 14/10/08 · 9:00 AM· 0 comments
October 13, 2008
Shai Agassi named Green Hero
Last year we saw the Green agenda taking root in many places - think of Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize raising mass awareness of global warming. TIME magazine just recently published an issue on the Heroes of the Environment 2008, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 13/10/08 · 11:52 AM· 0 comments
October 10, 2008
Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
Today Martti Ahtisaari, veteran diplomat and former president of Finland, was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his "important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts". The citation said these efforts // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 10/10/08 · 5:45 PM· 1 comment
October 09, 2008
Tyler Brulé on the most liveable cities
Last weekend, I listened to Tyler Brul talk about what makes cities attractive. Tyler Brul is the man who founded Wallpaper, a global style bible, in the 1990s. Last year, he launched Monocle, "a briefing on global affairs, business, culture // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 09/10/08 · 7:08 PM· 0 comments
September 12, 2008
Thunder on the rights
For 30 Years, Human Rights Watch has opposed every kind of tyranny. Under Kenneth Roth's leadership, its impact is global - and growing. In Vanity Fair's October Issue, Brad Bitt writes about "The Watchman" and his work as executive director. // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 12/09/08 · 10:16 AM· 0 comments
July 07, 2008
Hubert Burda Prizes for Innovation Awarded
At Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 13 graduating engineering students received the Hubert Burda Prize for Innovation on July 2, 2008. The students were recognized, for "their intellectual creativity and technological innovation which will advance future research and development of // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 07/07/08 · 5:55 PM· 0 comments
April 18, 2008
Pangea Day, May 10, 2008
On Saturday May 10, Pangea Day is taking place (11am-3pm US West Coast, 2-6pm US East Coast, 7-11pm in UK, 8pm-midnight in Europe and much of Africa, 9pm-1am in the Mideast, 11.30pm-3.30am India, etc.). Pangea Day is a worldwide community // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 18/04/08 · 10:45 PM· 0 comments
March 13, 2008
super nomads
Philippe Starck could be called a super nomad. Well perhaps he would see himself this way. When I read about his lifestyle this weekend in ParisMatch, I thought so. He tells there how he permanently travels around the globe for // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 13/03/08 · 10:46 AM· 0 comments
For Dubai
This weekend, I will head to Dubai in the week of Art Dubai and wonder what else shouldn't I miss going there? For sure, the architecture will be amazing, here a pic of the site of Burj-Tower. // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 13/03/08 · 10:36 AM· 0 comments
March 07, 2008
A beautiful day
Ulla-Maaria Mutanen, founder of Thinglink, a Wikipedia for design, and Jyri Engestr m, founder of the mobile internet company Jaiku and speaker at DLD06, celebrated their wedding in Finland. Congratulations from the DLD-Team and all the best on your journey // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 07/03/08 · 5:07 PM· 0 comments
March 04, 2008
Meet at Clift
When we stayed at Clift Hotel in San Francisco last week, we had a spontanous little DLD get together. Loic Le Meur came by who moved there to build his new video venture Seesmic. He just raised 6 Mio. Dollar // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 04/03/08 · 2:50 PM· 0 comments
DLD at Plaza
We had the privilege to host a DLD cocktail at the soon to be opened Plaza Hotel in New York last week. Pictures will follow soon. The famous hotel is so much part of Big Apple's history, placed iconically at // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 04/03/08 · 2:47 PM· 0 comments
No Tipping Point
Just got back from Berlin on a quite windy flight on which I read an article by Clive Thomson in Fast Company negating the tipping point paradigm brought to public by Malcolm Gladwell a few years ago. In his bestseller // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 04/03/08 · 2:45 PM· 0 comments
February 29, 2008
Tyler Brûlé about bloggers and journalism
In spite of spreading digital brands, printed media are not dead and won't die. Maybe circulations shrunk, but according to Tyler Br l (Winkreative) the future of media won't be found in only one of these fields. Br l is // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 29/02/08 · 6:29 PM· 0 comments
January 22, 2008
Africa Revisited
The loop is completed: In the last session of DLD08, Africa is again in focus. In the first DLD panel on Sunday, Martin Sorrell called Africa "the continent of opportunity" for further development in digital technologies. We know that for // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· 22/01/08 · 1:04 PM· 1 comment