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For a show at the contemporary art gallery Deitch Projects in 2008, designer Stefan Sagmeister stacked 10,000 bananas against a wall.… Read the full article
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For a show at the contemporary art gallery Deitch Projects in 2008, designer Stefan Sagmeister stacked 10,000 bananas against a wall.… Read the full article
In 1931, a man named Herbert William Heinrich noticed something odd about accidents.
An inspector for Travelers Insurance Company, Heinrich spent his days looking at clients’ accident rates and found a ratio.… Read the full article
Some 84% of executives say their communication is intentionally “optimistic.” That’s a mistake.
Withholding bad news makes employees feel uncertain.… Read the full article
When BNSF Railroad put a photo of a train on its homepage, visitors ignored it.
Moreover, they had trouble finding the top stories they were looking for.… Read the full article
Web visitors don’t see things that are right on the screen. Selective attention makes them overlook elements that are outside their focus of interest.… Read the full article
You might talk on the phone while reading online, but when you read a magazine, you read a magazine.… Read the full article
Headlines in communication journals moan and whimper:
Might I rant for a moment?
Right this minute, all over the world, communicators are knocking themselves out to deliver organizational news that nobody wants or needs.… Read the full article
A friend was tapped to help craft his company’s mission statement. After months at the table — arguing over arcane jargon; taking out commas, then putting them back in; and debating whether “that” or “which” was the right word to use in the sixth sentence — the job was finally done.… Read the full article
Publications that delight their readers — those that offer fresh information in unique editorial and design packages — are the ones that stand out in this crowded marketplace.… Read the full article