Side A is a talk by Donald Norman at TED5 in 1994. The transcript of which I’ve made and published below.
Side B is a now-legendary talk by Muriel Cooper that was published by MIT recently as part of a symposium in her honor.
Read moreGreat Leaps Backward - Richard Saul Wurman + The Next TED
Last night I watched all of the talks from the 2nd day of the TED conference in 1997. Kicking myself the whole time, because the package of TED7 CD-ROMS I’d plucked from a box in Richard Saul Wurman’s garage down in Miami a few months ago proved to be lacking the Day 1 disc.
Read moreTEDMED3 CDROM
All of the videos from the first two sessions of TEDMED3, in Charleston circa 2003. Pulled off from the post-event CDROM that was mailed to each attendee.
Read moreTED 7 - Day 3 CDROM
All of the videos from the Day 3 CDROM that all TED7 attendees were shipped after the conference are now on my YouTube channel, with exceptions for copyright claims that blocked certain clips:
TED 7 - Day 2 CDROM
All of the videos from the Day 2 CDROM that all TED7 attendees were shipped after the conference are now on Dan Klyn’s YouTube channel, with exceptions for copyright claims that blocked certain clips.
Read morePeter Bradford's Visual Presentation Of AIA '76
Richard Saul Wurman has said to me on many occasions that Peter Bradford is the most under-rated graphic designer in the United States. Folx in the field of IA recognize Bradford’s name from the cover of The Information Architects in 1996, where he’s credited as editor. RSW’s collaboration with Bradford on things around IA goes back to the visual presentation of the 1976 AIA Conference in Philadelphia, of which RSW was chairman.
Read moreInformation Anxiety 2 Promotional Films
One of the best days I’ve yet spent working on this project was the 1st day I spent rooting around in Mr. Wurman’s garage. I found so many things that are helping me tell RSW’s story, including this promotional CD-ROM from Que Publishing.
Read moreTED2 Video + Laserdisc
This is the intro to a 7-hour video documenting the 1990 2nd TED conference published by Voyager. Most notable are some of the earliest clips of people trying VR for the first time. As you'll see, the equipment looks similar to what we have today although the graphic resolution was much lower.
Read moreTED Round-Up
This page serves as an aggregation point for the many things that we post about TED
The One Sentence RSW Built TED From - Stefan Sagmeister
I first heard RSW say the phrase If I Don’t Ask, I Won’t Get as part of his explanation for how it came to be that he’s able to do so much dope shit. Richard says this was how his father operated: by this motto. RS Wurman learned from ML Wurman that there’s always a better table at the restaurant. Always a better room at the hotel. And that is up to me to come up with the confidence to ask for what I want.
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