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Look, Love, Laugh, and Our Top 5 of the Week

“How does visual thinking become visual design become visual communication? How does data become information become meaning? What is lost along the way? ” Many years ago, someone sent me a mango for Valentine’s Day. Upon questioning my unexpected fruit delivery, I was told that a mango is a better representation of a human heart than […]

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Up, Up, and Away to the Week’s Top 5

“Wallace was a fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants sort. A 54-year-old Massachusetts lawyer and real estate developer, he couldn’t afford to fly conservatively. Gas ballooning, similar to jockeyship, favored lightweight pilots, who could stock their baskets with more sand. Compared with his slighter opponents, Wallace’s six-foot-five, 240-pound frame meant that the equivalent of three additional 30-pound bags of sand […]

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