Design, Innovation And Familiar Faces

A while back, Microsoft released a little music app called Songsmith. I was checking this story about Microsoft’s TechFest today and found a friend, Sumit Basu, demoing the technology.

And to complete the “friends in the media” round-up, Guy Hoffman, who was at the Media Lab and is now here in Atlanta working with Gil Weinberg at the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech, designed an illustration that adorned last week’s New York Times Week In Review.

It was very interesting to chat with Guy and find out how he was contacted and how much time he had from request to delivery (not much time at all).