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To be relevant and successful as an organization, social venture or nonprofit in the ongoing landscape of massive amounts of data, there is a huge need on how to manage that data and measure it. That’s where Sparkwise comes in. Designed and developed by Tomorrow Partners, “Sparkwise is a cloud-based dashboard tool for measuring and evaluating the impact of civic engagement, public media, business and social change initiatives.” |
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Francesco Franchi lives and works in Milan, Italy, where I also happen to live and work. I’ve followed his work for a while and would argue he’s an individual/designer with a truly original and significant voice in the world of editorial graphic design. |
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I have to face my demons: I am an obsessive person. I clean absolutely everything on my desk before starting a new project. I shelve my books rigidly according to my own idiosyncratic system. I organize my fonts into endlessly parsed categories of style. Perhaps it’s not such unusual behavior for a designer. But it’s why I’m writing about Merel Brouns’s Personal Timeline. It’s a project that appeals to my own weird compulsions. |
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When
strangers ask me what we do at Column Five, and I hear myself say “data
visualization,” I sometimes sense their disinterest. Perhaps this is
because when most people put the two terms together, they think of
Excel-generated charts. While the cardinal rules of data visualization
are clarity and accuracy, data visualization can also be beautiful.
Enter Nick Felton, the man behind the famous Feltron Annual
reports. Recently, Felton teamed up with a small Australian winery,
Between Five Bells, to design labels for their 2010 varietals. |
