Water-generating billboard changing lives
Did the University of Engineering and Design (UTEC) in Lima, Peru just change humanitarian efforts and the marketing process forever? It’s surprising that a university dedicated to innovation would use a billboard to attract talented students when the possibilities of social marketing and interactive design would probably do it way more justice. UTEC sure doesn’t agree, and for this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Truth Told Project
It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But sometimes it’s worth far more. Photography gives insight into the lives and surroundings of a subject at hand, but given particular circumstances, those insights can become a force behind social change. To gain a firsthand perspective on the complexities of the region, photojournalist Sarah Fretwell traveled to the Democratic Republic 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 […]
Mapping the world’s emotions
In 2006 Gallup surveyed people in 136 countries and asked the simple question: “Did you experience love for a lot of the day yesterday?” What researchers found is extremely fascinating. Surprisingly, the country whose population feels the most love isn’t the United States, or any country in the western hemisphere for that matter. According to […]
Stamping out Saturdays
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds…unless it’s Saturday. Last week the USPS – which has been struggling financially over the past several years, due in large part to email and privatized shipping – made international headlines after announcing it was cutting […]
State of the [interactive] Union
I love politics almost as much as I love technology but I’d be naive if I said either were perfect. If you watched last year’s presidential debates, or have seen the disturbing amount of cat videos on YouTube, you know exactly what I’m talking about. However, both play a crucial role in our society and in the […]