“What if We Could All Be Friends?” by Jordan Perry (k thru 3rd grade group)
If you use Google as your homepage like I do, then you get to enjoy the different “special occasion” Google logos. Each year for the past 4 years, Google has had a competition for school age kids to design a Google [...]

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We’ve talked a lot in this blog about our office being in “The Combat Zone” of Raleigh. We even made our own map highlighting the area. Well, our friend Susan just tipped us to some interesting and visually humorous (despite the content) information design called SPOT CRIME which maps different types of scary things like [...]

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News and Observer’s Peder Zane searches for cultural progress in Raleigh, and quotes Aly on his impressions in a recent article. Amusingly, this interview with Ty, Isaac and Aly was conducted during ensuing April Fool’s pranks.
Peder points to three obvious signs of the community embracing its creative talent in Raleigh:
1. First Friday Art Walk (with [...]

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After being jilted by his wife, a sad sack in Perth, Australia, named Ian Usher has decided to get rid of everything tied to those memories (which is pretty much everything he owns) by selling it in one fell swoop on eBay. You have to buy it all though - the house in Perth, [...]

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Google Maps Street View has added Raleigh to the elite list of cities you can see from an eyeline perspective instead of the rooftop satellite view. Our entire office came to a grinding halt in productivity yesterday when we realized we could navigate the streets without getting out of our chairs. “Hey, go to my [...]

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