More than 200 people showed up at the University of Kansas Wednesday night for the first stop in “The MFA is the New MBA” tour. Many thanks to KU’s Department of Design for pulling off such a spirited and fun event. Here I am signing a book, my head topped by a nifty new KU […]
A huge congrats to my pals at Wired for winning a richly deserved National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the magazine world’s equivalent of the Oscar for Best Picture. (Check out the three 2004 issues submitted for the prize: February, October, and the ingenious November issue.)
Sean Canty (left) and Quincy Ellis, two CHAD students who appear in Chapter 4 of A Whole New Mind. In the fall, Sean enrolls at the California College of the Arts and Quincy at the Rhode Island School of Design. (Tip: Print this photo. These guys are going to be famous.)
Great day in Philly yesterday. I really enjoyed my conversation with WHYY’s Marty Moss-Coane, who’s a terrific, smart, and engaging interviewer. (Listen to the interview here.) The highlight was visiting the Charter High School for Architecture and Design (CHAD), which I wrote about in Chapter 4 of A Whole New Mind. Here’s a (very right-brain)
This week I’ll be talking about A Whole New Mind in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Monday (sold out!), Philadelphia on Tuesday, and Lawrence, Kansas, on Thursday. Click the links for more information. Meantime, several reviews, including Newsweek and Publishers Weekly, have come in over the last few days — and the reviewers have been (whew!) kind.
That’s the headline on a must-read piece in the new Business Week. Applications at the top 30 MBA programs are down 30% since 1998. And some schools “have gone so far as to quietly reduce the number of students they enroll each year.” The reasons? Tuition is soaring
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia quotes A Whole New Mind in this Boston Globe op-ed. Cool. (The Wired book excerpt to which Gioia refers is here.)
“PlayStation maker Sony Corp. has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain,” Reuters reports.
Chapter Six of A Whole New Mind is about Play, one of the six key abilities of the Conceptual Age. Ernst Lurker writes to say that this idea squares well with the Play Art movement he founded. Check out his site. Among much fascinating information, you’ll find some great quotations about the importance of play
Pretty much nothing. The dreamy CNN doc is smarter, better looking, and more accomplished than I am. But if you pick up the May issue of Worthwhile magazine, you’ll see that we do dress alike. Apparently we take our fashion cues from Steve Jobs.
