Online engagement tool shapes the City’s future The latest phase of our work with the City of Minneapolis launched this week: A new online, interactive engagement tool designed to involve residents in shaping the next 20 years of City development. This visual story utilizes a scrolling technique called “parallax,” which creates a deeper, more immersive […]
[av_two_third first] [av_masonry_gallery ids=’4509,4510,4518,4508′ items=’-1′ columns=’flexible’ paginate=’pagination’ size=’flex’ gap=’large’ overlay_fx=” container_links=’active’ id=” caption_elements=’excerpt’ caption_styling=” caption_display=’on-hover’] [/av_two_third] [av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=”] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Common Threads: A String Survey Our second iteration of this interactive string survey (see earlier String Survey for Northern […]
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[av_two_third first][av_video src=’https://vimeo.com/221915300′ format=’16-9′ width=’16’ height=’9′][av_masonry_gallery ids=’4484,4488,4491,4486,4483,4489,4485,4490,4457,4451′ items=’-1′ columns=’flexible’ paginate=’pagination’ size=’flex’ gap=’large’ overlay_fx=” container_links=’active’ id=” caption_elements=’excerpt’ caption_styling=” caption_display=’on-hover’][/av_two_third][av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=”][av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”]String SurveyThis 50-foot, interactive data visualization of participants’ thoughts and opinions on climate change was created for the all-night Northern […]
[av_two_third first] [av_masonry_gallery ids=’4429,4428′ items=’-1′ columns=’flexible’ paginate=’pagination’ size=’flex’ gap=’large’ overlay_fx=” container_links=’active’ id=” caption_elements=’excerpt’ caption_styling=” caption_display=’on-hover’] [/av_two_third] [av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=”] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Junket: Tossed & Found Infographics for this secondhand shop in South Minneapolis support the social enterprises’s mission to “to make […]
Effectively communicating sustainability across sectors What do European climate scientists, Midwest U.S. organic farmers, and small arts organizations have in common? They all have a huge amount of data (or potential for it) and battle with balancing science and more personal, emotional messages in their communications. In the past few months, I’ve presented to scientists […]
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Visual storytelling reveals context and appeals to our individual beliefs Riding the tails of Brexit and the U.S. presidential election, Oxford Dictionaries has selected “post-truth” as 2016’s international word of the year. It’s not hard to believe, given the events of the past year, to see how people do not make decisions based purely on […]