“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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You can study history and cultural anthropology in any number of different ways. One incredible area of historical documentation: pinball machines! From movies and tv shows to music to popular games of each era like bingo, pinoccle or space invaders, pinball themes capture it all.
We ran into this little artistic gem over the weekend and [...]

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Ran across this site the other day and thought it a very interesting open-source project. According to the Another Poster for Peace website, it is “a group of citizens committed to elevating the level of public engagement in [...]

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I went out to dinner with my friend Katrina last night and I was mentioning my surprise that Star Wars is able to live on from generation to generation, and how my 6 year old nephew freaks over it, knows all the characters through the whole series, plays role-playing games at recess, etc. I thought [...]

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