John Maeda, Cube Portrait
Designer, artist, and computer scientist John Maeda is a leader in creating design solutions for the digital age. The newly appointed president of the Rhode Island School of Design, Maeda focuses his work on answering the question, “How do we simplify increasingly complex technologies?” Frustrated that computers tend to become more complicated and difficult to [...]
Parag Khanna, Cube Portrait
An expert on geopolitics, Parag Khanna, 31, is the Director of the Global Governance Initiative and a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation. For his 2008 book, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, Khanna interviewed people—experts and taxi drivers alike—in 50 countries. The result was a book that [...]
Esquire’s Portrait of the 21st Century featured in “Americans Now” at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery
“Americans Now,” drawn from the National Portrait Gallery’s collection, features portraits of outstanding individuals in the realms of science, business, government and the arts. The exhibition opens Aug. 20 and will be on view through July 10, 2011. The show includes such familiar names as Erykah Badu, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Tom Hanks, Tony Hawk, Jay-Z, [...]
National Portrait Gallery Acquires Esquire’s Portrait of the 21st Century
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has selected Lincoln Schatz’s 2008 commission for Esquire magazine, Portrait of the 21st Century for inclusion in its collection. The series of nineteen portraits, which includes George Clooney, Jeff Bezos and LeBron James, will be on view beginning Aug. 20 in the exhibition “Americans Now” through 2011. Curators and historians [...]