Ben Fry, a MIT legend in data visualization, shares his latest work in Computational Information Design at FITC 2006.

MIT Professor Neil Gershenfeld shares a convincing view on how personal fabrication labs are the next step after the digital revolution. At the Center for Bits and Atoms, Neil’s team works to build Fab Labs aimed at developing programmable molecular assemblers that will be able to make almost anything.

The killer app of personal fabrication is products for the market of one person.
- Neil Gershenfeld

Presenting at FITC 2006, Ryan Honey and Orion Tait of Buck Design and Motion Graphics showcase 5 projects and provide a behind the scenes glimpse at the production process. Buck has completed projects for g4, MTV Movie Awards, Nike Battlegrounds, Cingular Wireless, and EA Games 007.

Saul Griffith, an inventor at Squid Labs, shares his work on designing and programming physical materials to behave and function in innovative ways.

Seth Godin gives an entertaining talk depicting various types of brokenness people run into every day and the inspiration behind the website This Is Broken.

Josh Kornbluth speaks with Vicki Vlachakis, a design manager at General Motors. She is the creative mind behind the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice.

Audi highlights a few of the Audi TT’s design elements.

Charles Leadbeater speaks at TED in regards to the evolution of public innovations leading the way in new niche product development and commercialization.

KRS-ONE speaks to students of Temple University describing vividly the cultural movement of Hip Hop.

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Nissan’s 2005 Concept Car demonstrating many great innovations in car design.

Ken Musgrave, Director of Design & Usability at Dell, talks about some of user-centered design decisions incorporated into the XPS 700 high-end gaming computer system.

Luke Wroblewski, a principal designer at Yahoo, discusses during a lecture at SHiFT, how the meaning of design has changed and what it means today.