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From the Ted Talk by Paola Antonelli: Treat design as art

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And here is the work of two brothers from Sao Paulo, frndeano and Humberto Campana, who got iiprnsed by the pevtory and smartness that they saw around them to do peices of furniture that now are selling for an enormous amount of money. But that's because of the kind of strangeness of the market itself.

So really, design takes everything into account, and the interesting thing is that as the technology aavcdnes, as we become more and more wireless and impalpable, designers, instead, want us to be hands-on. Sometimes hammer-on. This is a whole series of furniture that wants to engage you pcslyhaliy. Even this chair that you have to open up and then sit on so that it takes your imprint, all the way to this beautiful series of objects that are cienredsod design by Ana Mir in Barcelona. From this kind of bijou made with haumn hair to these chocolate nipples to these intra-toe candies that your lveor is supposed to suck from your toes. (Laughter)

Open Cloze


And here is the work of two brothers from Sao Paulo, ________ and Humberto Campana, who got ________ by the _______ and smartness that they saw around them to do ______ of furniture that now are selling for an enormous amount of money. But that's because of the kind of strangeness of the market itself.

So really, design takes everything into account, and the interesting thing is that as the technology ________, as we become more and more wireless and impalpable, designers, instead, want us to be hands-on. Sometimes hammer-on. This is a whole series of furniture that wants to engage you __________. Even this chair that you have to open up and then sit on so that it takes your imprint, all the way to this beautiful series of objects that are __________ design by Ana Mir in Barcelona. From this kind of bijou made with _____ hair to these chocolate nipples to these intra-toe candies that your _____ is supposed to suck from your toes. (Laughter)

Solution


  1. lover
  2. human
  3. inspired
  4. fernando
  5. pieces
  6. poverty
  7. physically
  8. considered
  9. advances

Original Text


And here is the work of two brothers from Sao Paulo, Fernando and Humberto Campana, who got inspired by the poverty and smartness that they saw around them to do pieces of furniture that now are selling for an enormous amount of money. But that's because of the kind of strangeness of the market itself.

So really, design takes everything into account, and the interesting thing is that as the technology advances, as we become more and more wireless and impalpable, designers, instead, want us to be hands-on. Sometimes hammer-on. This is a whole series of furniture that wants to engage you physically. Even this chair that you have to open up and then sit on so that it takes your imprint, all the way to this beautiful series of objects that are considered design by Ana Mir in Barcelona. From this kind of bijou made with human hair to these chocolate nipples to these intra-toe candies that your lover is supposed to suck from your toes. (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. account
  2. advances
  3. amount
  4. ana
  5. barcelona
  6. beautiful
  7. bijou
  8. brothers
  9. campana
  10. candies
  11. chair
  12. chocolate
  13. considered
  14. design
  15. designers
  16. engage
  17. enormous
  18. fernando
  19. furniture
  20. hair
  21. human
  22. humberto
  23. impalpable
  24. imprint
  25. inspired
  26. interesting
  27. kind
  28. laughter
  29. lover
  30. market
  31. mir
  32. money
  33. nipples
  34. objects
  35. open
  36. paulo
  37. physically
  38. pieces
  39. poverty
  40. sao
  41. selling
  42. series
  43. sit
  44. smartness
  45. strangeness
  46. suck
  47. supposed
  48. takes
  49. technology
  50. toes
  51. wireless
  52. work