Welcome to Gelatobaby
Hi, my name is Alissa. I'm a writer, a gelato-eater, and a walker in LA. You can learn more about me here.All About Gelatobaby
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You can find my writing most days at Fast Company, where I write about design and sustainability each week as a Designers Accord case study. I also write a column for GOOD called Design is a Verb.
- Where My Ladies At?
GOOD, August 2010
Why aren't there more women in industrial design? - At Home with Ed Begley, Jr.
Dwell, June 2010
I visited LA's greenest celebrity to talk about gardening, solar panels and riding the bus. - Hello, Angels
The Architect's Newspaper, May 2010
The ups and downs of LA's 109-year-old funicular train. - Why I Write About Design Now
GOOD, May 2010
How we need to cover the design industry: Without a chair in the world. - Here's Why the Banksy Movie is a Banksy Prank
Fast Company, April 2010
The world's most famous street artist makes a documentary? I'm not buying it. - If You Lived Here, You'd Be Urban By Now
GOOD, Spring 2010
The case against fake "walkable urbanism" developments which are neither walkable or urban. - Why Can't the World's Best Architects Build Better Websites?
Fast Company, March 2010
Loading... - Reading a City
GOOD, Winter 2010
How streets in NY and LA instruct us to move through them. - iPad Name Not the First Choice for Women. Period.
Fast Company, January 2010
Sure, Apple's newest product is cool and all, but about that name... - Will You Makeover My Valentine?
Studio 360, January 2009
I talk to Kurt Andersen about greeting cards, dangerous love, and why Cupid's stupid. - The Fake Freeway Sign that Became a Real Public Service
GOOD, January 2009
Artist Richard Ankrom's act of guerrilla public service improved the commuter experience. - The Decade in Design
GOOD, December 2009
Ten years of Apple, starchitects and design for change.
- Where My Ladies At?
Gelatoing
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- Catch up on my latest gelato adventures, or find gelato using my Gelatobaby GeLAtomap.
Speaking
- Three Voices in Design
Margaret Griffin, Jennifer Siegal and Julie Smith-Clementi, moderated by Alissa Walker
September 16, 7-8:30pm
Ilan Dei Studio, Venice Beach
- GOOD Design: Bay Area
Another event in our popular series, where designers solve city problems proposed by urban leaders.
September 30, 6pm
SPUR, San Francisco
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Sweetening the deal
I love how Pam Williams describes the perception of her job in the opening of an article for STEP: I get a couple of calls each week from design firms looking for “PR.” When I ask what they hope will … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, designing, writing
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Eat My Words: Print’s Regional Design Annual
Long, long ago, when I was hunting down dairy products in the concrete maze of Manhattan, I made a detour to the offices of Print for a day to help curate the magazine’s Regional Design Annual. I was responsible for … Continue reading
Posted in Print, advertising, crafting, creating, designing
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Smoke gets in your eyes
With Los Angeles ringed by fire, people want to know, besides the permeating mist of Real Campfire Scent®, besides your clothes smelling like the cheap incense your hippie neighbor insisted on burning illegally in the dorms, besides the ash on … Continue reading
Posted in greening, growing, watching
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Saturday night lights
Somehow, in my urban ambling, the work of Chris Burden keeps bursting through the landscape, whether in the limestone canyon of Rockefeller Center in New York or as I’m strolling Wilshire near the new BCAM here in LA. I’ve professed … Continue reading
Posted in building, creating, walking
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I was told there would be no math
It should come as no surprise to you that throughout my academic career, English was the hour I looked forward to the most. That was followed by History, which captivated me for its sheer breadth of costume changes alone. Science … Continue reading
Posted in teaching
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