The Tremendous 10 link roundup, #180
- Bill Gates Says This 1 Employee Perk Is Most Important. A New Harvard Study Backs Him Up | “It turns out employees want this, and it just might make them more productive.”
- Introducing “charm” into visual storytelling | “When I was in college, I was tasked with drawing a dog as part of an assignment. Every day, I would bring a slightly different dog drawing to class—and every day, my professor would frown at my work and tell me I needed to redo it.”
- Reasons to be Cheerful | “Reasons to be Cheerful is a non-profit editorial project that is tonic for tumultuous times… David Byrne is the founder and in-house headline writer of Reasons to be Cheerful, and the founder of the Arbutus Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to re-imagining the world through projects that inspire and educate.”
- From Storytelling To Scrollytelling: A Short Introduction and Beyond | “Likely you have already heard about (Visual) Storytelling. It is a design concept applied in Journalism, Business, Sport, Medicine, Education, and Science. Its exploration keeps growing thanks to the availability and application of a wide variety of techniques.”
- Turns Out Storytelling Isn’t Always The Best Way to Get People to Believe Facts | “Storytelling is one of humanity’s most powerful tools. Commonly used by educators, politicians and advertisers, stories have the power to influence and teach, inspire and persuade.”
- Pinterest makes aggressive new move in fight against vaccine misinformation | “Users who search for terms related to vaccines will be presented with information from major public health organizations.”
- New Logo for Basecamp | “Overall, it’s an odd update and even more odd is that there is no acknowledgment of the change given that Basecamp has always been super open about any changes/updates they do to their app and business.”
- Trump tweets 2020 campaign logo linked to alt-right and white supremacy groups | “It isn’t the first time Trump has shared content from white supremacists and neo-Nazis.”
- Why WIRED.com Looks Different Today | “It’s faster, cleaner, and easier to read. We’re ADA compliant to boot!”
- Graphic Thinking: A Panel on Data Visualization | “This panel discussion addressing the themes of the Charting History: Data Visualization Through the Years exhibit, focused on the history and future of data visualization, will include: Heather Corcoran, Halsey C. Ives Professor of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and Interim Dean of University College [at Washington University in St. Louis]; Lisa Marie Harrison, Art Director, Analytic Production and Design Center, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency; Geoff Ward, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, African and African-American Studies. Following the panel discussion join us for a special reception and a showcase of data visualization projects.”
- Bonus link: Good / Fast / Cheap. Via Chris Glass
Image: logo comparison by Under Consideration, link #7.
