“The water footprint of a person, company or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the commodities, goods and services consumed by the person, company or nation.”
Designer Timm Kekeritz creates something tangible (and beautiful) through his poster design for The Virtual Water Project.

Back in March, an article in Advertising Age criticized the hypocrisy of (Product) Red for raising a “meager $18 million” while spending $100 million on marketing. Since then, the project’s CEO Bobby Shriver has responded to this clarifying that the Red Campaign does not actually have a marketing budget (its manifesto states that it “is not a charity.it is simply a business model”) and that the companies that are affiliated with it (Motorola, Apple, The Gap, and since then, Armani, Converse and American Express) are not spending any more …

Canstruction is a fundraising event for the Food Bank where teams compete by building 10′X 10′X 8′ sculptures out of cans and non-perishable goods. The two day competition ended this afternoon with our team (Industrial Brand Creative and Legends Memorabilia) taking the top prize of Juror’s Choice for the third year in a row with our entry PiniCantics. More photos and our usual timelapse QT of the build are soon to follow in the days ahead. But in the meantime, if you are in the Vancouver area, I encourage you …

Expressing similar sentiments and political slant to Eugene Jarecki’s Why We Fight, check out the beautifully realized, infographic-inspired piece on America’s involvement in Iraq, What Barry Says by Knife Party.

As a followup to yesterday’s entry:
“Functional visualizations are more than innovative statistical analyses and computational algorithms. They must make sense to the user and require a visual language system that uses colour, shape, line, hierarchy and composition to communicate clearly and appropriately, much like the alphabetic and character-based languages used worldwide between humans.”
Matt WoolmanDigital Information Graphics

From this morning’s New York Times, graphic designer Alicia Cheng’s gut-churning visual depiction of the reported 1900+ deaths in Iraq during the first month of 2007, a toll that has markedly increased from 800 in January 2006.

“It was one month after the Trips Festival at Longshoreman’s Hall when the “whole earth” in The Whole Earth Catalog came to me with the help of one hundred micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide. I was sitting on a gravelly roof in San Francisco’s North Beach. It was February 1966. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters were waning toward Mexico. I was twenty-eight…
“…The buildings were not parallel—because the earth curved under them, and me, and all of us; it closed on itself. I remembered …

My wife Jane and I launched The Ox Project today, a holiday fund raiser with the goal of purchasing 2 oxen and a plow for the Kenyan village of Kanyawegi.

Jacque Fresco designs the civilizations of the future; and in the process, he defines how the human race will need to change in order to get there.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, Greenland is melting!”
This was how Lorraine Gauthier and Alex Quinto introduced themselves at this year’s ICOGRADA in Seattle. It was early in the conference and the first statement that truly made us sit up and take notice. We would learn that the pair had worked on Bruce Mau’s exhibit Massive Change, a massive undertaking unto itself tackling the world’s most critical problems from a designer’s perspective. They then went on to create Work Worth Doing, a design studio “working at the …