Intern spotlight // Donor Communications
Meet Monica. She’s a self-proclaimed lover of the sun, which makes living in San Diego the perfect fit. More importantly she’s also a self-proclaimed planner, which makes her the perfect fit as our Donor Communications intern. Monica and the rest of the Development team get the opportunity to individually thank and work with our donors and […]
Reinventing payphones
New York City has 11,412 payphones. Depending on how you look at it, that’s 11,412 eyesores or 11,412 opportunities. If you’re like design firm Control Group and transit advertising group Titan, then you view these obsolete sidewalk stands as the latter. The firms have partnered to develop NYC I/O, a project submitted to the city of New […]
A night on the town
Would you pay 10 dollars to sleep on the street? Faktum Hotel in Gothenberg, Sweden is hoping your answer is yes. The hotel is a project of Swedish interactive agency Forsman and Bodenfors. Faktum is comprised of 10 different “rooms” located throughout the city – under bridges, next to a football stadium, in a park – essentially wherever a […]
Intern spotlight // Engagement
Meet Jesse. He’s a member of our Engagement Team and he rarely forgoes the opportunity to suit up – more often than not, he’s best-dressed in the office. Credit that to his mom and the online tie borrowing club he’s a member of. But enough about the suit and tie. Let’s get down to the business […]
Kai Krause // the true size of Africa
Graphic Designer Kai Krause is changing the world in his own way through his reconstructed map of Africa, with several non-African countries overlaid within the continent’s borders. His goal is to make a contribution in the fight against immappancy. Krause explains the concept of “immappancy”: “In addition to the well known social issues of illiteracy and innumeracy, there […]
Looking through the [Google] Glass
I’ll admit it. I’ve never really been a big fan of the concept of Google Glass – the futuristic goggles that act as a smartphone for your face. The idea feels uncomfortably dystopian; something that belongs in a sci-fi movie. In fact, I’m still completely against the idea of eBooks. I want to feel the words and pages of […]
Reinventing the VW van
I spent most of Saturday afternoon at the beach – the perks of living in San Diego – and couldn’t help but notice an abundance of classic VW vans and microbuses lining the streets in front of the modest beachfront bungalows. They are, of course, a surfer’s best friend and a California classic. Admittedly, I had the […]
The effects of urban sprawl
By 2050 the United Nations expects that not only will the world population increase to 9.1 billion people, but that 70% of us will live in urban areas. To put things in perspective: 50 years ago the earth held 3.2 billion people. Urban sprawl – the expansion of urban developments on undeveloped land near a city, is […]
Ben Thomas // miniature cities
The world can be a big, scary place. To change that – or maybe just to make it look really cool – Australian photographer Ben Thomas turned some of the world’s most iconic cities and landmarks into miniature versions of themselves. In order to create the effect, Thomas used a tilt-shift technique to alter the appearance of […]
Leaving it all on the court
Photojournalist Dan Eldon spent the last months of his life in Somalia, photographing the war-torn country with a gentle touch and a powerful perspective. In 1993, as Eldon and several of his colleagues were covering a botched military raid in Mogadishu that left 74 civilians dead and 100 more injured, he and two others were stoned to death […]