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.
In the future there will be more of us and we will be driving more. The transportation industry is the biggest energy consumer. Esben Holm and his team work towards reducing this energy consumption by creating a very energy-efficient car.
Matt Schley, a baseball fan, talks about the differences between Japanese baseball and American baseball. The rules are mostly the same, but the culture is different. This includes things like sacrificial bunting and cute beer-selling girls. He also talks about some of the unique characteristics of several stadiums in Japan.
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.
"Presentation of the Day" on December 5, 2013.
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)
"Presentation of the Day" on December 4, 2013.
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.