Dealing With Poverty Closer to Home - Wendy’s List
Wednesday, den 15. October 2008It’s been good to participate in Blog Action Day this year and the focus on Poverty has produced some amazing posts and some very moving testimonials around the blogosphere.
Understandably, a lot of what has been written is about poverty in underdeveloped and developing countries.
Sparkplugging CEO Wendy Piersall reminds us that even in our richer, developed [...]
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Third Eye Monocle Knows All
Wednesday, den 15. October 2008Another interesting concept design from Yanko - The Third Eye. Many ancient cultures believed that the third eye chakra was a portal to higher knowledge, kind of a psychic version of the physical eyes. Designers Kijin Shin & Youngbin Lim have translated this idea into a modern day iteration. Their augmented reality device takes in [...]
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Berlin Rolling Out Electric Car Charging Network
Wednesday, den 15. October 2008It was announced last week that Berlin will start up the world’s largest effort to get electric cars on the road. Chancellor Angela Merkel gave the go ahead for the creation of 500 power-points around the city where electric cars can charge up. Electric company RWE will be responsible for installing the charging stations, and [...]
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Likemind Coffee Mornings - This Friday, Around The World
Wednesday, den 15. October 2008Where will you be Friday morning? At Likemind, that’s where! If you live in (or will be stopping through) any of these cities, please join us and other Likemind-ed folks for some refreshing conversation and coffee, from 8:00am-10am Fri, Oct 17. Check out the Facebook event page for more info, and why not join your [...]
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Sleeveface, The Book
Wednesday, den 15. October 2008We’ve been following the sleeveface phenomenon for some time now. For those of you not familiar - sleeveface is a popular online meme that encourages participants to obscure a portion of their body with a record sleeve so as to merge the image with reality. Thousands of people have tried their hand at the optical [...]
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Interactive Infrared - Tracking Dance Platform
Wednesday, den 15. October 2008A Danish dance group have been exploring the boundaries of contemporary dance, using digital technology as an “equal and interacting partner to the performing artist.” The Recoil Performance Group’s ‘Labyrint’ installation takes place on an interactive floor projection using infrared technology to digitally ‘blobtrack’ the dancer’s movements.
The dance group group explain:
Two dancers and [...]
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Wednesday, den 15. October 2008Time flies. My son is turning four and it amazes me how much he’s grown in the last year. Though he isn’t a big boy, he’s speaking very well and sometimes, it’s hard to believe that it’s a four year old talking!
Operating a home office isn’t an easy task when you are also a full [...]
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Win a Whole New Brand & an Epson WordForce 600 to Print New Marketing Materials!
Wednesday, den 15. October 2008I am extremely excited to put up this contest today - this isn’t just a run-of-the-mill printer giveaway. This is a giveaway so de-lish and so perfect for our readers that I couldn’t wait to post it for you!
Do you want to be able to print your own business cards, letterhead, brochures and postcards from [...]
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Hotels as Cultural Crystal Ball: Lessons from Ace Portland
Wednesday, den 15. October 2008Ed Cotton at Influx Insights has gathered six lessons he’s learned from Ace Hotel’s Portland, Oregon location. The stylish but spartan hotel has an operating aesthetic that he feels can be translated and used in other areas. Cotton believes that the world of hotels is a metaphor and a sort of divining rod for the [...]
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Practical, Pretty Signage Design at Schools
Wednesday, den 15. October 2008We like what’s coming out of Graphic Thought Facility, a London-based design consultancy whose work ranges from print and digital graphics to environment and product creation for events, businesses, and other institutions. GTF believes in delivering design solutions that are “workable, rational, and most importantly, appropriate” - and their work at West London Academy serves [...]
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