Her message is simple: Get off the competitive treadmill that’s taking you nowhere. Aspire to offer the world something that is meaningfully different. Different in a manner that is both fundamental and comprehensive. Interesting.
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Photo: ingro.comagenciadenoticias2.0My design client, Mor Aframian, executive director of non-profit Morlove, which provides aid to indigent and abandoned children in Uganda, identified Haiti as her newest campaign months ago. In light of the recent events, Morlove is accelerating its plans and has begun fund raising and is accepting donations of basic and medical items. Specific needs can be found here.
Although Morlove operates locally in Raleigh, North Carolina, there are others with international reach responding to this crisis. Please donate money, blood, supplies or your time to the following organizations:
American Red Cross
American Jewish World Service
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Artists for Peace and Justice
CARE
Salvation Army
UNICEF
To help requires more than good will. Leverage your local church, synagogue or mosque. We are uniquely positioned to make a difference.
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Bonnier R&D, focuses on the delivery of information via the handheld digital reader.
The second video focuses on the presentation and delivery of an existing magazine, Sports Illustrated, on a tablet. Could this be the Apple tablet rumored to be unveiled on January 26th?
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Awe. Inspiring. From the American Museum of Natural History.
The scale of creation boggles the mind to the point that I doubt that we’ll ever be able to grasp it by conventional means.
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MorLove.org.
Online photography is a very competitive space. There must be thoughtful focus on a design that is unique with intuitive, easy-to-use navigation and administration. To streamline site administration, the project is being built on Pixelpost, an open-source, standards-compliant, multilingual, fully extensible photoblog application for the Web.
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concerned with using design to make the complex easier to understand, I put the two together. Is there a way information design can help me better understand the scope of the AIDS epidemic?I often visit popular sites on the subject such as Flowing Data, Gapminder and that of recognized expert, Edward Tufte. Somewhere among these, I came across a site with a beautiful portfolio of maps and graphs and spent a few minutes reading. Visualmotive is the ‘personal playground’ of Chris Mueller, programmer and artist. It is a collection of his (her?) projects and articles about cutting-edge technology, information visualization, and maps.
Images in the Visualmotive portfolio are quite beautiful. One of them, a thematic map of the Eastern United States, was constructed with something called the UUorld Visualization Engine. UUorld (pronounced ‘world’ – ha, ‘a double U’) promised to ‘explain the world with maps’. There is a free version for the Mac, PC or Linux. It has access to organized data sets, exports to standard formats including Google Earth and can produce maps in 2D and 3D, even video. So I downloaded and installed it. It was a welcome surprise to find organized AIDS data from the 2007 CIA World factbook. Since the UUorld application is relatively intuitive, I was able to produce maps of the AIDS adult prevalence rate anywhere in the world in just a few minutes. Here is the map for Africa.
Very easy to produce, but now comes the hard part. Correlating this data with other data to make this useful. What I know from this map is enough to ask questions. 37% of adults in Botswana have HIV. But how is this possible since Botswana is touted as having one of the highest average economic growth rates in the world, about 9% per year from 1966 to 1999? Or, that the HIV adult prevalence rate of Egypt is lower than that of the U.S. Who knew? Or, that there is no data for Western Sahara. Doesn’t the CIA operate there? Or, that the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, mistakenly labeled here as Zaire, has a lower adult HIV rate than neighboring and peaceful Tanzania.
Now I have a new tool to envision AIDS as an epidemic. The next step is to find out what’s being done to combat it.
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December 1st is the 21st World AIDS Day. On this day, individuals and organizations around the world come together to bring attention to the global AIDS epidemic. Dramatic progress has been made against this disease. But, more needs to be done to prevent new HIV infections through education, vaccines and other measures, and to care for those living with HIV and AIDS. ">