PechaKucha Night, now in over 700 cities, was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
This week, the "City Focus" falls on Champaign-Urbana. The city's PechaKucha Night Vol. 14 is happening on December 6, and you'll find all the details, poster, and full list of presenters on the official event page.
Check out our amazing PechaKucha Night posters! We're constantly amazed at the creativity coming out of each city when it comes to poster creation, and so we collect them here, on our poster Tumblr -- these also get added to event pages proper, but we love seeing them all together.
The "Powered by PechaKucha" series in Tokyo, Hills Breakfast, celebrated its 3rd anniversary recently with a fantastic outdoor event held in the Roppongi Hills Arena, attracting well over 700 attendees! See this Daily Blog post for a few photos from the event.
Radim Schreiber, an award-winning nature photographer, shares some of his best firefly photographs with us. Fireflies resting on grass with the full moon in the background, fields covered in fireflies under a star-filled sky, and more. His photographs are stunning.
Yusuke Komata and his team designed a mobile concert hall. It is a giant balloon that can fit inside of and run from a single truck. Here he outlines how it was designed, how it works, what things it can do, and how it has been used so far. (in Japanese with Engish subtitles)
Hitomi Wakamatsu, from Airbnb Japan, goes into depth on the global housing/rental/hotel phenomenon that took the world by storm starting in 2008. She gives examples of how people have used Airbnb to finance their mortgages, travel the world for cheap, and spend the night in villas, castles, and even treehouses.
"Presentation of the Day" on December 3, 2013.
Kathy Gruver tells us what stress is, what it is caused by, what it causes, and how we can overcome it. We cannot control stress, but we can control our response to it. Here Kathy teaches us how.
"Presentation of the Day" on November 30, 2013.
Conor O'Driscoll discusses the origins of bourbon and what it really is. He then moves on to talk about the common components of bourbon. Finally, he goes into excruciating detail on how to make really good bourbon.
"Presentation of the Day" on December 2, 2013.