Writers at Vice are reportedly unionizing.
In a surprise move on a summer Friday, writers at Vice Media have voted to unionize. The Wall Street Journal reports that Vice’s writers will be joining the Writer’s Guild of America, East (WGA), and that sources say Vice is prepared to recognize the union.
Elizabeth Semmelhack, curator of the Rise of Sneaker Culture exhibit talks about the evolution of kicks from the first Converse Chuck Taylors through Run DMC to Kanye’s Dons.
“The sneaker is the most baroque item of dress in a man’s attire,” says shoe expert Elizabeth Semmelhack, and she should know. Senior curator of Toronto’s BATA Shoe Museum, she put together the Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture picture book and traveling exhibition (through October 4 at the Brooklyn Museum) to celebrate the evolution of the athletic shoe from canvas high top to high-fashion status symbol that generates $55 billion a year in worldwide revenue.
The tech, design, and travel leaders have enviable creative cultures. Here’s how they do it.
What do the leaders in the industries of tech, design, and travel have in common? Facebook, Virgin Airlines, and IDEO all pride themselves in their approach to creativity and innovation. And their company cultures reflect their ethos.
In a country where women can’t legally take the wheel of a car, one leader is finding creative ways to offer them other means of control.
“She comes from a country where women can’t drive, can’t go outside, can’t go to restaurants, can’t socialize, can’t, can’t, can’t . . .”
Instagram’s favorite doodle dad drums up collaborations with the likes of J.Crew, Bergdorf’s, and Alice+Olivia. Here’s how he does it.
He’s known for the loud red lips he paints on everything from store windows to designer handbags. The 150,000 fans on his Instagram account are among those clamoring to meet him in person at Bergdorf Goodman, buying the $45 J.Crew T-shirts and $725 Brian Atwood pumps he’s guest-designed.
Move over, spork! Meet the tritensil.
The spork is sort of the ultimate kludge of a design. Take a spoon, put some tines at the end, and voila: you have an eating utensil that isn’t quite as good as either half of its portmanteau. Things get even messier when you throw in a knife, resulting in the so-called splayd, or sporf. (“Sporf?” Horf.) Depending on how the blade is positioned, you either get half a knife shoved in your mouth, or you get a knife in the palm. Brilliant.
Women, legally barred from driving in the country, make up 70-90% of the service’s customer base.
Women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive, leaving them reliant on male relatives or paid services to get to stores, school, and (increasingly) work. So when Uber launched in Riyadh in early 2014, its impact went beyond the general convenience of tech-enhanced ride hailing. The company has made a real difference in Saudi women’s mobility.
But it looked so fun!
What if going in for a medical checkup didn’t involve waiting in a sterile white room decorated with cotton balls and otoscope attachments? What if, instead, you could step up to play a game, as if you’re visiting an old-school arcade?
At Divergent Microfactories, building a car chassis looks a little like playing with super-strong Tinkertoys.
Think of pollution from cars, and you probably imagine gas or diesel exhaust. But manufacturing a car, alone, can add up to an even bigger carbon footprint than years of driving around. So one startup is taking a new approach to building a greener car: Instead of focusing on tailpipe emissions, they’re radically rethinking what happens in the factory.
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