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  • Creative Truths: Execution is Essential

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    Execution is essential was the mantra of one of my first professors at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Mary Fredlund. She ingrained in us that the execution of our ideas was critical to the success of the work. And she was completely right. Creative Truths is a series of posters visualizing creative truths I…

  • From Ho-Hum to Hot

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    In 2012 I was part of a presentation at Go East,  “From Ho-hum to Hot: Leveraging the Power of Trends to Transform Your Products.” In it my co-presenters, Heidi Broberg, Emily Jacobsen and I discussed why consumers want what’s new, how Go East understands and tracks trends. took a peek at a few trends we highlighted for 2013…

  • What are you feeling? Subway

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    How can we gauge interest or other emotions when we encounter public art, events, or other chance happenings? I like the idea of pairing an emotional gauge with our environment and measuring the emotional impact of the people who encounter art or beauty or drama or something interesting. The intangible yet real benefits could more…

  • Visualizing my week

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    I posted on Visualizing.org a past visualization I created to understand the impact of just how many meetings I am in during the week. This visualization helps me see the cyclical nature of client communications per week, as well as the amount of time I spend with others. Luckily, I’m an extrovert. Meeting and talking…

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    is a collection of observations, insights, recommendations and enjoyments relating to creativity, clarity and communication. All my interests in visualization, data design, information communication and creativity will be explored.