TRUTH IN MEDIA

There’s an advertising campaign that many hope will win the top prize at Cannes this year. It’s Russia’s successful campaign to undermine our elections.

Storytelling takes a body blow: The sale of Newsweek

UPDATE: Dec 5 2012: I just received my current issue of Newsweek, which will be its last print issue. While there are starting to be more longer-form feature story sites online, none are likely to replace the in-depth news provided each week by Newsweek. While Time magazine continues, it won’t face the weekly competition to […]

Visualizing Everything.

Telling stories and communicating the heart of that story to a listener, reader or viewer has always been a fun creative challenge.

Making The News Meaningful

One of the challenges to turning an incident into a movement is finding the single thing that will cause multitudes to connect with the issue at hand. When you live where the issue is happening that single thing is often an incident that symbolizes all that is wrong. In Tunisia it was an act of […]

From Abstract to Meaningful

I remember reading that the average per-capita GNP of the industrialized world is around $27,000 while Africa’s is $528. I felt shocked at the extreme disparity. Because this information was simple and concise it was immediately clear that this disparity in wealth was severe. Every day we read or hear about all manner of complex global […]

Our Breathing (or choking) Earth

Created by Australian multimedia designer David Bleja the BreathingEarth website helps provide a real-time sense of how rapidly the world’s population is growing and how much CO2 is emitted around the globe and around the clock. Its sort of stunning and mesmerizing to watch, mouse over countries to see more detailed information for each, and read the accumulated […]

(Social Media + Story) x Trust = Engaged Activism

Social media is changing our relationship, understanding and connection to the world beyond our own doorsteps. Whether we are talking about funding an independent artist, working in developing nations, helping people in crisis, or bettering global health or the environment, there are now many organizations who use social media as a powerful tool to reach broader […]

Water by Numbers – Creating change thru Design

Non-profit clean water change-agent WellDone has done great work to raise awareness about the world’s clean water crisis and to create on-the-ground solutions in some the the most water challenged spots. To accomplish their mission requires getting their message across and communicating to businesses and organization, potential donors, partners and the public the magnitude of […]

The Seed

In promoting its CS4 suite of design tools, Adobe has funded some wonderful artworks. This example, The Seed by Johnny Kelly and UK’s Nexus Productions, beautifully illustrates what happens when you combine software, technology, old-fashioned and traditional tools with some creative storytelling.

American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins

These great infographics from Wired’s September 09 issue were created by a team at Kansas State. The set of maps represent US per-capita statistics that you could associate with the Seven Deadly Sins. I don’t want to venture into what story is being told in different regions of the country but it is quite interesting. […]