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Hardwood Civil War in Kansas: Rock Chalking to the Bitter End

Posted under: Advertising Week, Advertising Week Blog, Advertising Week Social Club, Kate Favrow on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

By KATE FAVROW

I’m a college basketball nut.

I live 40 miles from a historic and nationally recognized college basketball program that plays their games in Allen Fieldhouse, an arena revered as one of the best places in which to play college basketball. Yet as I was watching the action in this sweltering basketball mecca during a recent game, I realized that the best part of this program is not the continual conference titles, NCAA tournament appearances or All-America players that it produces.

The best part of having a tradition as rich as this one is the solidarity of sentiment about everything that is Kansas Basketball.

Andre Woolery: Bruised Thumbs Solo Exhibition

Posted under: Advertising Week, Advertising Week Blog, Advertising Week Social Club, Newbear on Friday, February 17th, 2012

By NEWBEAR

Speed. “It’s all happening so fast.”

Excited. Nervous.

Not knowing what to expect. Figuring it out as he goes.

Energy. “I love color.”

Color creates that vibe. That feeling. Emotions that he loves to share.

So many shades and hues. Searching for mediums to express it while encouraging society to use.

Different. Uplifting. Everywhere.

Creativity. “I want to show people something they’ve never seen before.” Continue reading »

Visible Data and The New Journalism

Posted under: Adam Rotmil, Advertising Week, Advertising Week Blog, Advertising Week Social Club on Thursday, February 16th, 2012

By ADAM ROTMIL

Richard Saul Wurman, creator of the TED conferences, coined the phrase “information architect” in 1976, saying:

“I thought the explosion of data needed an architecture, needed a series of systems, needed systematic design, a series of performance criteria to measure it.”

So, this is not entirely new.

In fact, cartographers have been mapping data for a long time, possibly 8,000 years. We could even say that any image, any written word, any sound, and so on, is a representation of data.

But let’s focus.

When I say “The New Journalism”, I’m talking, in part, about what you and I are now doing. For example, 11% of Americans report owning some form of tablet device. 77% of tablet owners use them daily, and 53% get news on a tablet every day, according to the non-partisan Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

But hey, why read that paragraph when you can understand faster with an infographic?