“We hear a huge influx of people saying, ‘How can I get someone to help me create an infographic or a dashboard or an interactive visualization?’”
With New Tool, Visual.ly Wants To Replace PowerPoint With Infographics
We love infographics. Data should tell a story.
A compelling story with a call to action.
Data is not dead.
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The Next Time You Cut Your Finger, Save a Life
Ten thousand people need bone marrow transplants each year to fight life-threatening diseases, but only half of them get one. Graham Douglas, who works at ad agency Droga5, came up with a unique solution to get more donors: Stick a sign-up kit inside a Band-Aid box. When people cut their finger and goes hunting for a Band-Aid, they can just dab some of the blood on a Q-tip-like swab, drop it in an envelope already included in the kit, and put it in the mail to the lab.
A Nobul idea is innovative, creates value, and changes the tide.
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
(Source: missflower)
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Hustlin’: How I Became My Own Mentor in a Freelance Economy
The fact is, freelance is becoming the new 9-to-5, whether we want it to or not. Tom Fisher, writing in the Huffington Post, reports that “contingent workforce,” meaning the self-employed, freelancers, or “accidental entrepreneurs” laid off from full-time positions, will make up between 40 and 45 percent of the workforce by 2020 and become a majority by 2030.
As the “contingent” workforce grows, we need to embrace the freelance hustle.
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Can a Font Help a City Make a Comeback?
Designers in Chattanooga, Tennessee have distilled the city’s burgeoning creative spirit into a typeface called Chatype. The goal is to help the city and its businesses forge a distinct and cohesive identity through custom typeface, sending a visual message to the world that Chattanooga—a rapidly growing city in the midst of a creative renaissance—is “more than just your average Southern town.”
“If you think of a brand as a story, [Chattanooga] has an amazing story,” Trischler says. “If you look at the visual brand, it doesn’t back up that story.” Perhaps the sleek new font can help tell that story a little better.
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Can a Font Help a City Make a Comeback?
Designers in Chattanooga, Tennessee have distilled the city’s burgeoning creative spirit into a typeface called Chatype. The goal is to help the city and its businesses forge a distinct and cohesive identity through custom typeface, sending a visual message to the world that Chattanooga—a rapidly growing city in the midst of a creative renaissance—is “more than just your average Southern town.”
“If you think of a brand as a story, [Chattanooga] has an amazing story,” Trischler says. “If you look at the visual brand, it doesn’t back up that story.” Perhaps the sleek new font can help tell that story a little better.
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Is the Social Enterprise Bubble About to Burst?
Social enterprises are transforming development work, and social entrepreneurs are being hailed as rock stars. But are these do-good companies just another business trend? Social entrepreneurs talk about profit vs. impact, being treated as ‘godly human beings,’ and whether or not their bubble is about to burst.
The Flipped Classroom: Answering Obama’s Call For Creativity In Education
We like to see innovation in practice. We love results from innovation even more.
Great job, Clintondale.
World running out of resources: UN
A major United Nations report has called for a sustainable “evergreen revolution”, warning that time is running out to ensure there is enough food, water and fuel to meet the needs of the world’s rapidly growing population.
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You can get the report from the United Nations (pdf)
(via theatlantic)
