With its intimate setting and living room-like space Vitsœ’s shop is an ideal setting for talks. Starting April 6th, their New York showroom will host a series of talks, with Nicholas Felton being their first guest speaker. Felton is a designer obsessed with data and translating them into charts and graphs for clients from the Wall Street Journal to Creative Review. He even collects data on his personal life and compiles it into an annual report. He’ll be discussing his thought process behind his 2010 Annual Report. The talk is free, however, due to space limitation there is a waiting list for the event.

You don’t always have to spend hundreds of dollars or even thousands to attend some great talks. Apartment Therapy’s meet ups have included some outstanding guests in the past and the one coming up on April 6th is no different. Mira Nakashima-Yarnall, George Nakashima’s daughter, has been invited to speak on the legacy of her father’s work, her continued efforts in preserving his designs and her contributions and creative offerings to the company. Since 1990, Mira has been running the George Nakashima Studio in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where visitors are welcome on the weekends for tours. The talk will be held at ABC Carpet & Home, RSVP for the event here.

Sunny Bates is an advocate and connector helping people and businesses find solutions to issues in just about every aspect imaginable. That’s why she’s a part of TED’s Brain Trust, an adviser to the development and future of the conference. The Standard and Cool Hunting have joined forces to bring Standard Talks, a monthly forum curated by Bates that will touch upon issues that span a range of topics including art, fashion, design, culture, sex, entertainment, science, architecture and more. The first in the series will be a conversation on “game theory and werewolf,” what exactly does that mean is anyone’s guess. The panel will include a psychologist, private detective, and very special guests. Intrigued? You bet!

A camera, marker, paper & a pair of scissors is all you need to make a movie, a Neistat Brothers movie at least. Brothers Casey and Van Neistat have been making their short films since 1999 after purchasing an iMac and camera. Though the production to their films are simple, it’s their story telling and subject matter that makes them so unique. Their humble beginnings would garner much attention after a video they made on the iPod’s battery life, went viral in 2003. And in 2010, HBO premiered a television series based on the brothers’ lives told in various short stories. Find out how it all began this evening when one half of the team, Casey Neistat, will be speaking at The Celeste Bartos Theater
 at MoMA.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” made 125 million over the weekend, Sofia Coppola’s “Somewhere,” opening next month, will not. It will be lucky if it makes 125 million globally during the span of its life time in the theaters. But hey, her movies have never been about blockbusters, yet time and again, the studios have confidence in her work to release her films during the fall/holiday season. Times Talks invites Sofia Coppola and Stephen Dorff to discuss the making of “Somewhere” and her recent win of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in September. The evening will be moderated by Frank Bruni, scheduled for Wednesday, December 15. Tickets are now available.

The unbranded brand that is MUJI has come a long way. It was only three years ago that the company decided to open its first store in America – its now celebrating its thirtieth anniversary. To commemorate the occasion, a new book published by Rizzoli will be released on October 26th, written by the designers that have been pivotal to MUJI’s identity, Jasper Morrison, Naoto Fukasawa and Kenya Hara. The Japan Society will host a conversation with Naoto Fukasawa, Kenya Hara, and John Maeda to discuss the “concepts behind the creation, design and essence of MUJI.”

November 3, 6:30pm
Japan Society
333 East 47th St
New York, NY 10017