Tomorrow is October 13th. To most people, it’s just another day, but to those who believe in and work to reduce disaster risks, the 13th of October is the day to celebrate the International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR). This year the focus of IDDR is on some one billion people around the world who … Continue reading Behind the scenes on the 2013 IDDR infographics
Category: Projects
Experiments, ideas, strategies, concepts, and plans
The Book: IIIDaward 2011
In 2011, the International Institute for Information Design (IIID) was celebrating its 25th anniversary. As part of its celebration and in cooperation with Axis Magazine and the Taiwan Design Center, it launched its inaugural Award for recognizing the best in what information design has to offer. The organization’s aim is to promote and expand design … Continue reading The Book: IIIDaward 2011
People don’t want “content” – they want compelling stories
This photo is one in a series taken for the 2013 Fnac and Nikon photo marathon competition. We thought it would be a clever way to highlight one of the three themes that we had to enter into that day. “Geneve en mouvement / Geneve in movement” and “En levant la tete / Raise the … Continue reading People don’t want “content” – they want compelling stories
This is NOT a normal French book
I feel so proud to be a part of this book project from French My Way which started about a year ago. Little did I realize that it wasn’t just ideas that were needed to help with getting this book ready, but also practical stuff like building a website, editing the content, developing a marketing … Continue reading This is NOT a normal French book
What a blue month
Blue was for the month of July. I thought that it would be an easy month (like Green and Red), but little did I know that blue is actually a tough color to follow. It’s pretty easy to just take the picture of the sky and I did a bit of that for July. What … Continue reading What a blue month
Moving from low to mid spectrum
Did you know that humans are only able to see a very short part of the electromagnetic spectrum? Specifically we are able to see between 380 to 740 nanometres (nm)! What that means is that visible light waves – all the colors of the rainbow – are the only electromagnetic waves we can see. Each … Continue reading Moving from low to mid spectrum
2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) comes out every 2-years and is an assessment of global situation on reducing disaster risks and provides a comprehensive overview and analysis on key issues and what governments are doing to prevent disasters. GAR13 is the third edition of the report, entitled From Share Risk to … Continue reading 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
Women and Girls: a visible force for resilience
The International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) takes place every year on October 13. Since 2011, the Day has been part of a 4-year concept to build up momentum to 2015, an important date for the United Nations – it’s not only the deadline of the Millennium Development Goals ends, but also when the 10-year … Continue reading Women and Girls: a visible force for resilience
Recap of a red month
The month of March was a pretty interesting one. Moving ahead with EyeSee2013 – my photo of the day project – 2013’s third month was a start of capturing color in my photos (I talked about the process in a previous post). Red was an easy color to start with as it’s pretty much everywhere … Continue reading Recap of a red month
Thanks for visiting in 2012
Google analytics are great when you’re managing websites or anything to do with tracking online use, visits, or engagement with web content. There’s so much that gets captured and that can be customized the way you want that if you like how statistics can help you do your job better, analytics are a great service/tool. … Continue reading Thanks for visiting in 2012