10 Inspiring TED Talks for Creative Professionals

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Michael Pawlyn: Using nature’s genius in architecture

How do you design a building that is sustainable, efficient, and beautiful? Michael Pawlyn talks about projects that uses ideas from nature to solve these architectural problems.

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Thomas Heatherwick: Building the Seed Cathedral

See the beautiful architecture designs of Thomas Heatherwick – in particular, the Seed Cathedral for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. Heatherwick explains why they felt it was important to build a seed cathedral and how they were able to make each seed look important by placing them in an optical hair.

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David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence

We’ve all met people who avoid creative tasks by saying things like, “I’m not creative”. How do you take someone fearful of being non-creative and make them confident? How do you break the barrier between being creative and non-creative? This TED Talk will teach you how we can change people in a series of small successes called “guided mastery” and give them a new type of confidence called “self-efficacy”.

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Macro Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)

I know we said 10 TED talks, but here’s one more – a fun one to end it all. Marco Tempest created an app that can synchronize video on multiple mobile devices. Using this app, he shares a message about art, its deception, and the emotions it creates in the form of magic tricks.

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