Being able to play nice with others is an essential leadership skill that can never be talked about enough. An individuals ability alone isn’t enough to be an effective leader. At SIF, students are challenged to accomplish daunting tasks as… Continue Reading
On a recent trip to New Orleans I ran across one of the best Atlanta history coffee table books I’d ever seen. I ended up purchasing the book, and, in doing so, a something dawned on me: SIF is a way… Continue Reading
To search for historic Atlanta is like searching for fragments of city scape blown apart by an enormous shotgun blast. There seems to be no correlation with what is there now and what has been. But it is exactly this process that defines… Continue Reading
There remains a missing link between linking data to publish-ready graphics. Because many data visualization programs are designed for business use, they do not have the best customization and design options. A few updates could really boost productivity for us designers.… Continue Reading
Tableau seems to be gaining traction as the go-to platform for data visualization. It’s common enough around CURVE and online to warrant learning or at least becoming familiar with. It’s an easy to use data visualization software with features far… Continue Reading
A reoccurring key concept reappeared again during last week’s lectures: that creative work is a conversation between yourself and whatever it is you’re creating. Very few of us can hear something or visualize something in our heads and have it… Continue Reading
When we think about communities and ethnicities, most of us would agree that we’re striving for diverse communities which value community. But new studies on communities and diversity are showing something different; that people tend to clump together based on… Continue Reading
Thinking outside the box, as cliché of a statement this is, it still maintains some merit. So how do we do it? How do we see the obvious outside of our ‘box’? One thing to remember is that creative thinking… Continue Reading
A buzz word to be sure, what is innovation really? An improvement? Not always. To innovate means to evolve. Let’s take a recent innovation, the iPhone. The iPhone took existing technologies and merged them into one device. It wasn’t anything… Continue Reading