All the latest ideas, thoughts, hires, events and awards from Use All Five.

Our Thoughts

Use All Five, a design and technology studio in Los Angeles, changed their policy over the past 2 years to allow every other Friday off for employees. Not just a perk or benefit, but related to our company values.

Use All 5 (Days): Why We Decided to Take Every Other Friday Off.

Our thoughts on the Built In exhibition at the Neutra VDL House

Creative People in Modernist Homes: Our thoughts on the Built In exhibition at the Neutra VDL House

The Binge Breaker

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

Meet Dr. BJ Fogg: Master of Persuasive Technology

This Is What A Designer-Led Social Network Looks Like

Technology Is Not Hijacking Your Brain (video)

The End of the Social Era Can't Come Soon Enough

Links to Read

Dialogues Three: Hierarchies of Distraction

Anohni on art, corporations, and the music industry

Douglas Rushkoff: Corporations and Art (Video Interview)

Art Makes a Statement for Business, Too

Programmed Art: A Nexus Between Art, Design, and Technology

Art World Subtly Shifts to Corporate Patronage

New York Times + Tiffany & Co. New Ways of Seeing with Tavi Gevinson

Shifter 22: Dictionary of the Possible

Here are a few of the essays and articles that inspired our discussion:

Dialogues Two: Corporate Patronage in the Arts

Silicon Values

Mixing Metaphors

Genetic Drift: Artsy and the Future of Art

Trouble ahead for New York's museums

Dialogues: Pros and Cons of Museums Being Inspired  by Silicon Valley