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At Column Five, we feel strongly about helping the global community. Whether we’re designing the bag for a new sustainably farmed Haitian coffee or helping nonprofits visually communicate their stories, we are happy to give back in the ways we can. That’s why we are excited to announce our new project: We are raising $10,000 in 33 days to build a school for children in Kenya, and we need your help!

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In January of this year, Microsoft Internet Explorer released a video we created with them titled “Child of the ’90s.”

We were happy to see it go live—and to see what happened next. Within five days of release, the spot racked up more than 7 million views. It was awarded the top prize in the film category for the Ads of the World January 2013. Since then, it has earned more than 27 million views—and now it’s nominated for a Webby. (We’d very much appreciate a vote for the video before voting ends this Thursday, April 25.)

In honor of the nomination, we wanted to offer a behind-the-scenes peek at our strategy, approach, and collaboration with Microsoft on this successful project.  (more…)

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Column Five is looking for a production designer to join us at our Newport Beach HQ. If you love data and creating cool shit, send your résumé to designjobs@columnfivemedia.com. Put “Production Designer: Your Name: Your Favorite Gadget” in the subject line (e.g., Production Designer: Joey Donut: Tamagotchi).

What you’ll be doing: editing graphics, creating layouts, touching up art, and collaborating with our creative team of award-winning directors, designers, project managers, animators, and developers to produce beautiful work. (Note: Sometimes that beautiful work will be on a tight deadline.)

Skills you need to have:

-Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
-Degree in graphic design/design experience.
-Ability to get shit done while acting like a kind and decent human being.
-Knowledge of how to use a bottle opener.

Pay: Hourly, based on experience.

For more information, read the full job posting here.

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Data visualization has long been an important part of content distribution and interaction. As the Web evolves, its visual storytelling abilities continue to trend toward social, and so do the technologies that run alongside it.

In our latest technological data visualization project, we integrated the two in what we’re calling a Socially Generative Visualization, or SGV. An SGV is essentially a living, evolving graphic. Imagine a malleable infographic that you log into with your social credentials, contribute your own data to help populate alongside the data being gathered from other live respondents, and receive a visual experience that is essentially never the same twice. (more…)

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We’re excited to announce that our interactive, Ad Infinitum: Global Advertising Spend,  has been been chosen as a finalist for The Economist-Nielsen Data Visualization Challenge, offered through a partnership with InnoCentive, an organization that crowdsources innovation for challenges faced by organizations around the world. The competition was steep, with seven finalists leading the pack of hundreds of entrants. (more…)

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Visual thinking can be applied to anything. The way we think about things visually is a matter of perspective. And perspective is the source of all great storytelling. With our new Visual Storytelling series, we use information design and data visualization to bring a new perspective to the stories of everyday life. Some pieces will be serious, some humorous, but the aim is to provide a new way of telling stories that we can all relate to.

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We’re pleased to announce that our forthcoming book, Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling (Wiley, Sept 2012) is now available via Amazon for pre-order. (more…)

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We are happy to announce that the July contributions selected for the Data + Design Project are now live. A special thanks to this month’s contributors: (more…)

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We would like to announce that Column Five t-shirts are now available in our online store for a limited time. We take pride in innovative design and our eye for originality. Wearing our tees, we keep visualization even closer to our hearts. Now they are available to our friends and fans. (more…)

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