University news first: in my first workshop for digital media we looked at digital magazines on an iPad and have been tasked with designing and interactive magazine for a subject of our choosing. (In typical fashion we chose technology and gadgetry, of course)
So in this interactive magazine we can utilise such things as scrolling text, embedded videos, hyperlinks, photo galleries, etc. So it should be pretty fun to design and compile into what will hopefully be a product that looks and works great. But we shall see.
On the subject of design, Moshe Safdie, an architect (among other things) gave a 5 minute TED talk about reinventing the apartment building to be a nicer place to live. It’s a good video and worth watching from a design standpoint; he explains why his designs work better than what is common at the moment and is generally an interesting watch anyway (as are most TED talks), so check it out.