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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- Thanks to my oh-so-lovely editor @noahr, I am now the face of Facebook's "Subscribe to" feature on @FastCompany. http://bit.ly/9mbRrR
- @feltandwire Thank YOU!
- @jenniferdaniel We'll convert you!
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- @thisiscchs Yes! That's Keith's old Beemer which I have driven exactly once.
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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
Category Archives: playing
Fountain for one
It’s going to be 96 degrees in downtown today. Probably the hottest day of the year so far. As I was stumbling around downtown the other day on my way to a meeting for the Moving Beyond Cars event, I … Continue reading →
Summer places
For the last two weeks I traded sidewalks for rivers, a two-bedroom house for a two-person tent, and public transit for a rental car (yes, which I drove hundreds of miles without incident, thank you very much). Along the way … Continue reading →
I’ll be at the pool
Summer finally showed up here in LA—complete with thunderstorms and humidity—just in time for me to get out of town. I’ll be on the road for a bit, hopefully filling my Flickr and Twitter streams with lots of adventures. Until … Continue reading →
The de LaB Manifesto (in rhyme)
I’m still buzzing from the amazing response to last weekend’s City Listening II (and the success of the Dwell on Design conference, and the fun of emceeing the LABC’s Los Angeles Architectural Awards…I’m telling you, it was quite a week!). … Continue reading →
Come to Dwell on Design & City Listening this weekend!
Update: In all the fabulosity of Saturday night, I screwed up and neglected to post the winning raffle tickets for our eight door prizes. If you were at City Listening and had a raffle ticket, check here to see if … Continue reading →
