This is the second in a series in which we interview people whose work we admire. This time, we speak with Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, of Good Night Lamp and Designswarm.

After almost two weeks of constant travel, I’m reporting back from two fantastic conferences, Foo Camp and the Open Internet of Things Assembly, as well as a few days in the Bay Area.

Our articles of the week: why you might want to get some of your daily news from Fox, the twisted logic behind e-book publishing, an Ikea-made HD TV, democracies and internet freedom, and meme management as an emerging profession.

We’ve been fascinated by this thing called New Aesthetic. If you want to know what it’s about, check out this annotated collection of links.