The Week's Links: January 25, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • John Maeda: Why STEM Education Needs the Arts, Too 
  • Trailblazing Storytellers: Meet Sundance New Frontier Story Lab 
  • Remarkable interview with H. P. Lovecraft, conducted in handwriting on a single postcard found in a used book 
  • First Grader Becomes Youngest Person to Ever Develop a Mobile Game 
  • Psychologists and anthropologists debate how different cultures answer the question, “What time is it?”  
  • 20 Great Writers on the Art of Revision 
  • Fantastic: The Birth of Grand Central Terminal 
  • An architectural blueprint of Brooklyn Bridge elevations from Old Blueprints. 
  • Shakespeare in Six Parts 
  • Internet 2012 by the numbers 
  • Failing Productively 
  • Thinking 
  • Ideas 
  • Is What You Are Doing Interesting? 
  • Gorgeous: 60 insane cloud formations from around the world 
  • How Smart Should TVs Be? 
  • Can a Buzzing Fork Help You Lose Weight? 
  • The Hot Condiment of 2013? Barrel-Aged Hot Sauce 
  • How Kraft Uses Patents to Dominate the Mac and Cheese Wars 
  • Designing Scent: An Olfactory Exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design 
  • Jicky, the First Modern Perfume 
  • Can You Make Tea Out of Coffee? 
  • Why Are Chimpanzees Stronger Than Humans? 
  • To Understand the Largest Structure Ever Found, We Need to Rethink the Basic Principles of the Universe 
  • The Up-Goer Five Thing, Where Learned People Explain Hard Stuff With Easy Words 
  • Five New Lessons From Salman Khan On Reinventing Education 
  • Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph 
  • Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture - An exhibition at The American Museum of Natural History  /via @kottke
  • Two People You Might Need In Your Professional Life 
  • Astronaut Chris Hadfield is photo-tweeting Earth, from space - 
  • Preparing Websites For The Unexpected 
  • Understanding The Difference Between Type And Lettering 
  • Think Again: Assumptions About Mobile To Reconsider 
  • 15 Awesome Chemistry GIFs 
  • Out Of India, A Social Network For Creative Expression 
  • Creativity Top 5: January 22, 2013 
  • 20 Eye-Popping Interactive Experiences That Show Off What HTML5 Can Do 
  • Disney’s Mega Video Game To End All Disney Video Games 
  • Study Shows How Classroom Design Affects Student Learning 
  • How Forks Gave Us Overbites and Pots Saved the Toothless 
  • A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 10 - Finale 
  • Shakespeare Uncovered: Which Shakespeare Character are You? 
  • A Memorized Poem 'Lives With You Forever,' So Choose Carefully 
  • Read 30 2012 Oscar Hopeful Screenplays 
  • Forget the Placebo Effect: It's the 'Care Effect' That Matters 
  • Visualizing The Costs And Rewards Of Education 
  • So Great: Child Rules Book Returned to Young Authors 
  • A Look At The Growing Adoption of Creative Commons Textbooks 
  • How Marketing Will Change In 2013: The Strategic Forecast 
  • Every Business Is (Or Should Be) a Social Business 
  • Ideo's Albert Lee On Innovating Ideas 
  • MoMA PS1 Joined Tumblr 
  • Winds Of Change 
  • Between A Rumba And A Roll: Dissecting A Bartender's Beat 
  • Design Thinking for Educators V.2.0 
  • Remembering Aaron Swartz: David Foster Wallace on the Meaning of Life 
  • The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains 
  • How Do Arts Organizations Use the Internet? 
  • How I Gave up Email and Reclaimed 3 Hours a Day 
  • The Year Ahead For...Technology 
  • How I Made Sleep a Priority—And Got More Productive 
  • What We Should Fear: The New Yorker 
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Power of the Negative By Douglas L. Wilson 
  • The Most Creative Women In Advertising 
  • Fantastic: Teach with Portals » Webinar on Portal 2 in Classroom 
  • Who Needs Drugs When You've Got Music? 
  • The Longform Guide to Internet Hoaxes 
  • The iconic London Underground typeface turns 100 
  • For Amusement Only: the life and death of the American arcade 
  • Designing Scent: An Olfactory Exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design 
  • Top 100 Design Blogs To Follow In 2013 [Infographic] 
  • Not adding value is the same as taking it away. 
  • What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion - Conor Neill 
  • US Postal Service pushes the digital envelope in battle for its future 
  • I've Heard That Somewhere: 'Glee' Covers 'Baby Got Back,' And It Sounds ... Familiar 
  • 2 of my favorite things: The Beatles Perform Shakespeare in Color, 1964 
  • 2013's essential design events 
  • The 50 Most Iconic Artworks of the Past Five Years 
  • The iOS Design Cheat Sheet Volume 2 
  • The Edge.org question for the year: What should we be worried about? 
  • The Best 100 Opening Lines From Books 
  • The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational 

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links: January 18, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Comprehensive storytelling analysis: The Avengers script in detail 
  • Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems: A Brief Revisit 
  • Psychologists Uncover Hidden Signals of Trust—Using a Robot 
  • PressPausePlay: The Complete Documentary About Digital Culture 
  • Does Helping Others Hurt Your Creativity? The Cost of Interruption 
  • The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational 
  • The Placebo Phenomenon: An ingenious researcher finds the real ingredients of “fake” medicine. 2013 
  • What's Inside a 2,000-Year-Old, Shipwreck-Preserved Roman Pill? 
  • When Machines See 
  • How Hot is That Pepper? Unpacking the Scoville Scale 
  • The Gadgets of the Future from the Electrical Shows of Yesterday 
  • Love this: Birds of a Feather: Chris Maynard's New Art Form 
  • Telecommuters Are More Productive On Creative Tasks, Less On Dull Ones 
  • Why Do Flowers Smell Good? 
  • Get Ready for the Best Meteor Showers of 2013 
  • Simon Sinek On Intelligence & Creativity 
  • The Science of Why Comment Trolls Suck 
  • Innovation pessimism: Has the ideas machine broken down? 
  • The Joy of Books : Organizing the Bookcase 
  • Cautionary tale: List of inventors killed by their own inventions  /via @curiousoctopus
  • Facebook's Bold, Compelling and Scary Engine of Discovery: The Inside Story of Graph Search 
  • A $1 Billion Project To Remake The Disney World Experience, Using RFID 
  • So great: 125 Years of National Geographic Photos 
  • Attention Must Be Paid 
  • More Evidence Music Training Boosts Brainpower 
  • Designing a responsive, Retina-friendly site 
  • When do You stop being You? 
  • 8 Words of the Year from Other Countries 
  • Bill Gates to speak on education in first made-for-TV TED Talk, airing on PBS in April 
  • The Criminal Lives of 5 Classical Musicians 
  • PepsiCo's CEO Indra Nooyi shares 5 points to deal with Uncertainty 
  • How to design a better world 
  • Is Poor Time Management Limiting Your Potential? 
  • Creativity Top 5: January 15, 2013 
  • Picasso, Kepler, and the Benefits of Being an Expert Generalist 
  • Top 10 Cities for Book Lovers 
  • Will the kids love it? In the UK McDonald's swaps Happy Meal toys for books 
  • Fantastic: Pentagram Updates New York City Parking Signs 
  • Check out the new site for Information Is Beautiful 
  • The Elements Of Typographic Style: Version 4.0: 20th Anniversary Edition 
  • Unleash Your Unconscious: How Switching Tasks Maximizes Creative Thinking 
  • Campfire's Mike Monello Celebrates TV Theme Songs with a repository of classic show intros. 
  • The Elements Song by Theodore Gray (and a Daniel Radcliffe Cover) 
  • Van Gogh as Photograph 
  • A Behind-The-Scenes Look At How Twitter Search Works 
  • Walnut Creek Ballet Company Crowdsources Choreography 
  • Overcoming Procrastination, Money Problems, Self-Doubt & Other Creative Distractions 
  • How should Shakespeare really sound? 
  • The end of history and the last website 
  • New Yorkers are spending more time in libraries than ever: The Future of Libraries 
  • #overlyhonestmethods is the PostSecret of the science world, and it is amazing 
  • Brilliant: White House response to the Death Star petition 
  • Yves Béhar: Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas 
  • The Best Aerial Image of New York City You'll Ever See 
  • Is Umami the key to happiness? 
  • Wow: Live Action Toy Story, A Shot-for-Shot Remake Using Actors & Toys 
  • Is This the First Videogame About Battling Old Age? 
  • European Union urged to adopt Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death 
  • Website lists all the free ebooks available on Amazon 
  • NYC Ballet pirouettes into the hearts of New Yorkers with an art project that can be seen all around the city. 
  • Fantastic: Master Curator Paul Holdengräber Interviews Hitchens, Herzog, Gourevitch & Other Leading Thinkers 
  • So great: 2012 National Geographic Photography Contest Winners 
  • IDEO's David Kelley: How to design breakthrough inventions 
  • Buzzwurgatory: Words and phrases we should use more carefully in 2013 
  • Scanner's Guide to the Joy of Sound 
  • Imagine Radiolab episodes as books, some students did and the results are so great: 
  • AOL and Hotmail Users Spend More than Gmail Users, and Other Research Finds 
  • 21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Words 
  • Key Takeaways From PSFK's Future Of Work Report 
  • 25 words you might not know are trademarked 
  • How does my brain work? 
  • Inside The Library of Congress's Mission To Organize 170 Billion Tweets 
  • Cool: The Big Internet Museum 
  • Creative Aging: The Emergence of Artistic Talents 
  • Great study: Why Does Music Move Us So? 
  • Twitter's Biz Stone And Ev Williams And Charlie Rose: The Long And Short Of Creative Conversations 
  • How to figure out what you want. 
  • Fictional Character Birthday Calendars 
  • How to think like Sherlock Holmes: See and observe to fight attention blindness; be happier. 
  • Visionary Images: The Lost Fractals of Benoît Mandelbrot 
  • Great Interview: David Attenborough - A life measured in heartbeats 
  • Babies Pick Up On Language Before They're Even Born 
  • Important Science Of The Season: Hot Chocolate Tastes Better In An Orange Cup 
  • Why are we so content with umbrellas? They desperately need redesigning 
  • The Dieline's Top 100 Posts of 2012. The best in packaging. 

Recommended This Week: 

 

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links: January 11, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • What's inside Play-Doh 
  • What is a Higgs Boson? 
  • 5 Strategies for Tackling Tough Conversations 
  • The Dieline's Top 100 Posts of 2012. The best in packaging. 
  • Why are we so content with umbrellas? They desperately need redesigning 
  • Study: people consistently believe that they're never going to change 
  • New Year's Resolutions Are A Lousy Substitute To Caring 
  • 10 TED Talks that involve unusual instruments 
  • Next Draft is one of my favorite daily things, this is how @davepell curates the news. 
  • 8 TED Talks about the making of movie magic 
  • Starting An Open-Source Project 
  • Why You Don't Like Donating To Charities That Offer Thank You Gifts 
  • Seth Godin's Blog: Decisions 
  • Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Albert Einstein 
  • Tony Schwartz: The Myths of the Overworked Creative 
  • 7 Stunning Mineral Formations 
  • A Selection of 19-Year-Old Isaac Newton’s Secret Sins 
  • The Value Of Culture
  • The Surprisingly Manly History of Hot Cocoa 
  • How I Got My EGOT: 12 Lessons Mel Brooks Learned Making TV, Albums, Movies, and Theater 
  • Ha! Rational Or Ridiculous? A Book Of 100 Brilliantly Absurd Inventions 
  • 3.2 Million Ink Dots + 210 Hours = Hero 
  • New Series: Wired's Weekly Picks of Stunning Architecture 
  • Louis Vuitton Promotes New Collection With Paper Dolls 
  • What entrepreneurs can learn from artists 
  • Saul Bass’ Advice for Designers: Learn to Draw, and Create Beauty Even If Nobody Else Cares 
  • On Reading Weird Books in Public 
  • Michael Chabon On Entertainment 
  • Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Film Tribute to America’s Great Musical Tradition 
  • Creativity Top 5 
  • Could video simulcasts at your local theater save the arts, or sink them? 
  • On Stephen Hawking's Birthday, Vader and Being More Machine Than Human 
  • Big Hair, No Sitting, Velcroed To Your Pillow: What It's Like To Live Weightlessly 
  • The Title Design of Saul Bass ( A Visual History Lesson ) 
  • Introducing the First Search Engine for Math And Science Equations 
  • National Endowment for the Arts Announces Funding Guidelines Available for Fiscal Year 2014 Grants for Arts Projects 
  • We Used To Actually Set Food on Fire to Figure Out How Many Calories It Had 
  • Babies Start Learning Language in the Womb 
  • Do Humans Have a Biological Stopwatch? 
  • Keith Yamashita: Greatness And Creativity 
  • Physicists Find That “Absolute Zero” May Not Be Quite So Absolute 
  • The future arrives over and over and over again, CES from 1967 to 2012 
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  • Cindy Gallop: 10 Women I'll Be Watching in Adland in 2013 
  • Address Is Approximate: Storytelling & Technology in wonderful animation 
  • How Twitter Gets In The Way Of Knowledge 
  • Gorgeous: The Mississippi Delta seen from 700km above the surface of the Earth. 
  • So Good: Brand new covers for five of George Orwell's works feature in a new series published today by Penguin 
  • James Brown Gives You Dancing Lessons: From The Funky Chicken to The Boogaloo 
  • Iamus: Is this the 21st century's answer to Mozart? 
  • Seven publishing trends that will define 2013 
  • Top 20 Thinkers in Social TV and Second Screen 
  • H.P. Lovecraft’s Advice to Young Writers 
  • True: What We Learned In 2012 - Rob Schwartz 
  • Chronicling Ballet’s Pain and Passion 
  • The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Arduino 
  • 5 Strategies for Tackling Tough Conversations 
  • The top 10 classic fears in literature 
  • Fascinating: The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Russian Crown Jewels 
  • Essential Creative Advice From Joss Whedon, Carrie Brownstein, Jim Stengel And 13 Others 
  • 3 Principles For The Future Of Gaming, From A Google Game Designer 
  • So good: Maurice Sendak’s Emotional Last Interview with NPR’s Terry Gross, Animated by Cristoph Niemann 
  • The Quest For A Copyright-Free Happy Birthday Song 
  • Biggest intelligence test exposes the limits of IQ 
  • 2012 In Review: 50 Wonderful Things From The Year In Pop Culture 
  • 12 Historical Speeches Nobody Ever Heard 
  • How the Calorie Content of Food is Determined 
  • Ray Kurzweil's Top 5 Reasons to Be Optimistic for 2013 
  • Amazing what you can learn from a pickpocket: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket 

Recommended This Week: 

 

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links: January 4, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week and at the end of last year:

  • What People (Mistakenly) Believe About How Memory Works 
  • Amazing what you can learn from a pickpocket: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket 
  • Ray Kurzweil's Top 5 Reasons to Be Optimistic for 2013 
  • Innovation Is About Arguing, Not Brainstorming. Here's How To Argue Productively 
  • The Top Five Career Regrets - Daniel Gulati 
  • What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web? 
  • Big Data Is Great, but Don’t Forget Intuition 
  • Karen May of Google, on Conquering Fears of Giving Feedback 
  • Sydney Opera House and YouTube to live stream events 
  • Tiredness
  • How Joe Biden Accidentally Helped Us All E-Mail in Private 
  • NY Times Culture Editor Jonathan Landman to Leave Paper 
  • Progressive jpegs: a new best practice 
  • Must read: How We Made Snow Fall. A behind the scenes look at that great work of journalism and web development. 
  • Creativity Top 5: Most Creative Advertisers Of 2012 
  • 99% Invisible: The Brief and Tumultuous Life of the New UC Logo 
  • Music therapy offers hope for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s 
  • Alain de Botton On Envy
  • The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time - Tony Schwartz 
  • The Genius Who Invented Brunch 
  • 28 Brilliant Tips for Living Life 
  • Alfred Hitchcock Recalls Working with Salvador Dali on Spellbound 
  • How We’ll Learn in 2013 
  • Why Do We Blink So Frequently? 
  • Six Innovators to Watch in 2013 
  • Adomania
  • A History of Sequins from King Tut to the King of Pop 
  • 52 weeks, 52 places to visit on 2013 
  • Architecture to Watch in 2013 
  • Seven Must-See Art and Science Exhibitions of 2013 
  • There Are Roughly Roughly 2 Million Bubbles in 1 Glass of Champagne 
  • This Nostalgic Private Collection Has 1,713 Photos of Old-Fashioned Cans, Jars and Clippings 
  • Letters of Note: Best of 2012 
  • A Cheat Sheet for All You New Kindle (And Other Ereader) Owners 
  • Life's Work 2012: HBR Interviews 10 Intriguing People 
  • 2012: Science Fiction Dreams That Came True 
  • Is This Hans Christian Andersen’s First Fairy Tale? 
  • One of the World’s Oldest Bibles Is Now Online 
  • Even NASA Doesn’t Know Exactly What Causes Motion Sickness (But There Is a Way to Avoid It) 
  • 36 Bizarre Things Ceremonially Dropped on New Year’s Eve 
  • The worst ideas of 2012 
  • The Amazing Things You Can Build With a $25 Computer 
  • The 10 Tech Terms to Know in 2013 
  • China Passes Law Requiring People Identify Selves Online 
  • The Best of Brain Pickings 2012 
  • 2012: The Year In Graphics - NYTimes.com 
  • Linus Torvalds: The King of Geeks (And Dad of 3) 
  • Are We Born With a Sense of Fairness?
  • Breakdown Graphic: How the Kindle Paperwhite Works 
  • Watch Portrait of an Artist: Jackson Pollock, the 1987 Documentary Narrated by Melvyn Bragg 
  • Birds may get emotional over birdsong 
  • Bumblebees Aren’t Picky Eaters, But They Do Like Variety 
  • Liftoff, like you’ve never seen it before. 
  • Ray Kurzweil: Memorization is For Robots. People Learn By Doing. 
  • MIT discovers a new state of matter, a new kind of magnetism 
  • Inside the Mind of Google's Greatest Idea Man You've Never Heard Of, John Hanke 
  • Big Idea 2013: Charging More for Good Ideas than Bad Ones 
  • Exercise and the Ever-Smarter Human Brain 
  • Ballet isn’t rocket science, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive, either 
  • The best of TED-Ed: The art of the metaphor 
  • Why Legos Are So Expensive — And So Popular : Planet Money 
  • Game Theory: Considering Video Games as Ballet 
  • Game Theory: Challenging the Industry 
  • Game Theory: A Playwright on the Art of Video Games 
  • Hisham Matar reads "Shakespeare's Memory" by Jorge Luis Borges 
  • A Simple Guide To 4 Complex Learning Theories 
  • Ballet isn’t rocket science, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive, either 
  • 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills 
  • Just in case you missed it: The Requisite End-Of-Year Lists 2012 
  • Which Computer Is Smarter, Watson Or Deep Blue? 
  • Asparagus Prevents Hangovers, Incredibly Useful Study Finds 
  • From ‘Anna Karenina,’ lessons for the ballet world 
  • The Recycled Orchestra: Paraguayan Youth Play Mozart with Instruments Cleverly Made Out of Trash 
  • Overcoming Procrastination, Money Problems, Self-Doubt & Other Creative Distractions 
  • The Requisite End-Of-Year Lists 2012
  • Asteroid Miners Prepare For A Lucrative Future 
  • Beautiful: Wood Animals, Sculptures Made Out of Discarded Furniture 
  • The One Conversational Tool That Will Make You Better At Absolutely Everything 
  • The Science of Creativity in 2013: Looking Back to Look Forward 
  • Improv 101: The Key to Thinking Fearlessly 
  • 20 Free Must-Have Scripts for InDesign Users 
  • CSS Baseline: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 
  • A List Of The Best Annual Tech Startup Events In Europe In 2013 
  • How To Get Paid What You're Worth & Other Negotiation Tips 
  • Is Perfectionism Holding You Back? 
  • The Rhythms of Work vs The Rhythms of Creative Labor 
  • Honey bees trained to stick out their tongues for science 
  • Derek Powazek - I’m Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet 
  • The best of TED-Ed: Rethinking thinking 
  • Seth's Blog: Doing what you love (but maybe you can't get paid for it) 
  • Common Misconceptions About Intelligence III: IQ Tests Are Unreliable 
  • The Last Newsweek Cover Has a Hashtag on It 
  • The Neuroscience Lessons of Freestyle Rap 
  • HTML5 Inches Closer to the Finish Line | Webmonkey 
  • Epic: James Bond: 50 Years of Main Title Design — Art of the Title 
  • Honey bees trained to stick out their tongues for science 
  • Encyclopedia of Life: A primer in primary colors 
  • Seth's Blog: Ridiculous is the new remarkable 
  • The Grateful Brain 
  • Original Creators: Filmmaking Genius Orson Welles 
  • Who Made That Subway Signage? 
  • Celebrity Statistician Nate Silver Fields Questions from Data Wizards at Google 
  • 18 Animations of Classic Literary Works: From Plato and Shakespeare, to Kafka, Hemingway and Gaiman 
  • So great: What To Do When The Bus Doesn't Come And You Want To Scream. An Experiment 
  • Trend alert: small internet publications 
  • The New York Times Compendium 
  • Hacking the Human Brain: The Next Domain of Warfare 
  • This Man Makes Data Look Beautiful 
  • The Macintosh That Saved Apple 
  • Researchers show that memories reside in specific brain cells - MIT 
  • 6 Simple Rituals To Reach Your Potential Every Day 

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Requisite End-Of-Year Lists 2012

In no particular order:

  • The New Yorker: The Hundred Best Lists Of All Time
  • Longform: The Best Of 2012
  • Flavorwire: The Year’s Coolest Literary Magazine Innovations
  • For Print Only: Best Of 2012 Part 1 Part 2
  • CoDesign: 16 Of The Year’s Best Ideas In UI Design
  • Mashable: The 14 Most Inspirational Kids of 2012
  • CNN Photos: 75 Amazing Sports Moments You Missed This Year
  • CoDesign: The Best Infographics Of 2012
  • Adweek: The 10 Best Commercials Of 2012
  • Amazon: Best Books Of 2012
  • Yahoo: 2012 Year In Review
  • Adweek: The 20 Most-Viral Ads Of 2012
  • Mary Meeker: 2012 KPCB Internet Trends Year-End Update
  • New York Times: The 10 Best Books Of 2012
  • New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2012
  • Washington Post: Top 10 Graphic/Comics Reads Of 2012
  • Washington Post: 50 Notable Works Of Fiction
  • Washington Post: 50 Notable Works Of Nonfiction
  • NPR: Best Books Of 2012: The Complete List
  • Publishers Weekly: Best Books Of 2012
  • Esquire: The Best Books Of 2012
  • The Guardian: The Best Books Of The Year
  • Net Magazine: The Top 25 Responsive Sites Of 2012
  • NYT Magazine: 17 Things I Learned From Reading Every Last Word Of The Economist's "The World In 2013" Issue
  • The Creators Project: Best Of 2012: Animations That Will Rock Your World
  • Visual.ly: 20 Great Infographics Of 2012
  • Cover Me: The Best Cover Songs Of 2012

  • Adweek: The Hot List 2012
  • PBS: The 25 "Greatest" Documentaries Of All Time
  • NPR: Recipe Rebellion: A Year Of Contrarian Cookbooks
  • Nat Geo: Top 10 Discoveries of 2012
  • The Atlantic: 2012's Most Looked-Up Words In The Dictionary
  • MIT: The Numbers Behind Some of 2012’s Biggest Technology Stories
  • GitHub: The Octoverse in 2012
  • Creativity Online: The Best In Brand Creativity 2012
  • Brand New: The Best And Worst Identities of 2012, The Best The Worst
  • Wired: Top Scientific Discoveries Of 2012
  • The Atlantic In Focus: The Year In Photos Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
  • Buzzfeed: The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2012
  • Forbes: Ten Great Ad Agencies Of 2012
  • Entertainment Weekly: Best & Worst Of 2012
  • Google: Zeitgeist 2012
  • Twitter: This Year
  • Mashable: The 12 Most Memorable Marketing Campaigns of 2012
  • NPR Music: 100 Favorite Songs Of 2012
  • NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums Of 2012
  • Nielsen: Social Media Report 2012
  • Paste: The 15 Best New Filmmakers Of 2012
  • Time: Top 10 Everything Of 2012
  • Hollywood Reporter: AFI Names Best Movies And TV Series Of 2012
  • The New Yorker: The Best Movies Of 2012
  • The Atlantic: The Year In Review
  • WSJ: Year In Photos
  • The New Yorker: The Best Tech Quotes Of 2012
  • Foreign Policy: Top 100 Global Thinkers
  • Poynter: The Best (And Worst) Media Errors And Corrections Of 2012
  • Facebook: Year In Review
  • Time: The 10 Most Popular Google Doodles of 2012
  • Adweek: YouTube's 20 Most Watched Ads of 2012
  • Ad Age: Top Viral Ad Campaigns Of 2012
  • The Scientist: Top 10 Innovations 2012
  • Apple: App Store Best Of 2012
  • The Atlantic: The Best (Worst?) Typos, Mistakes, And Corrections Of 2012
  • Mental Floss: Top 20 Weird News Stories Of 2012
  • NPR Monkey See: 10 Films Worth Going Out Of Your Way For
  • NPR Monkey See: 10 Favorite TV Shows
  • Wired Underwire: The Best Movies You Didn't See In 2012
  • Wired Gadget Lab: From Apple Maps To Epic Hacks: The Year's Top Tech Fails
  • The New Yorker: The Top Ten Stories Of 2012
  • Scientific American: The Most Popular Stories Of 2012
  • Forbes: The Most Unforgettable Ad Campaigns Of 2012
  • Pitchfork: The Top 100 Tracks 2012
  • Paste: Best Of 2012
  • Co.Create: The 15 Best Ads Of 2012
  • The Big Picture: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Best Nature Pictures
  • Co.Design: 16 Of The Best Photo Essays From 2012
  • Pocket: The Year's Most Saved Articles And Videos
  • James Beard Foundation: 12 Dishes We Loved In 2012
  • Random House: The Best Of The Book Lists 2012
  • New York Times: 12 Restaurant Triumphs Of 2012
  • Greg Rutter: Definitive List Of The Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet In 2012
  • Towleroad: The 50 Most Powerful Coming Outs Of 2012
  • The New Yorker: Best Moments In Dance 2012
  • Videogum: The Best Viral Videos Of 2012
  • Net Magazine: The Top 20 HTML5 Sites Of 2012
  • Art Of The Menu: The Best Of 2012
  • Design Observer: Ten Most Popular Essays Of 2012
  • Co.Create: Creators We Love: The 13 People Who Made The World More Creative In 2012
  • Wired: New Year's Resolutions From 10 Top Minds and Makers
  • PopSci: 15 Science and Technology News Bytes From 2013
  • Big Think: 5 Trends For 2013
  • Design Mind: 20 Tech Trends For 2013
  • Creative Review: Emerald To Be The Color Of 2013
  • Forbes: Manufacturing The Future: 10 Trends To Come In 3D Printing
  • CoDesign: 5 Trends That Will Shape Digital Services In 2013
  • Think With Google: Joi Ito's Trends To Watch In 2013
  • JWT: 100 Things TO Watch In 2013

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.