Jan 23, 2012 - By Diana Cook
Are you taking full advantage of your LinkedIn account? It’s an important social networking tool that shouldn’t be overlooked. LinkedIn has over 135 Million members worldwide and the average household income of a user is 109,000. While Twitter and Facebook are a great way to keep in touch with friends and make fun social connections online, LinkedIn is a more business minded network. Therefore, it’s important to adjust your strategy when using your LinkedIn account. This LinkedIn basic boot camp will give you all the tools necessary to use the site at its maximum potential. Created by Column Five for Mindflash, this handy infographic will help you get in optimum marketing shape.
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Jan 20, 2012 - By Diana Cook
As the third week of January 2012 comes to a close, we are getting the sense that this year will be big for design. From cool car to solar powered ship, this week we bring you all the best design related posts and articles from around the web.
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Jan 19, 2012 - By Diana Cook
How well do you know the names of homes from movies and television? Test your knowledge of famous fictional residences with our quiz.
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Jan 17, 2012 - By Diana Cook
When faced with the difficult decision of where to eat or where to shop one of the first places to turn is Yelp.com. Have you ever wondered what characteristics make for a great Yelp reviewer? Who are these people that need to review everything from a thrift store to funeral home? Column Five Media and Flowtown have put together an infographic that explores just that.
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Jan 10, 2012 - By Diana Cook
How’s that New Year’s resolution going? Even with best intentions, commitment to change for the the New Year often fizzles out before February. Column Five Media and Confused.com have put together a graphic of the most common and commonly-broken new year’s resolutions. Take a look to see how likely resolutions are to be abandoned and what you can do to stick to your goals.
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Jan 09, 2012 - By Diana Cook
Playing cards embellished with turning gears and pumping steam appendages? Deal us in. Embodying the steampunk aesthetic of Victorian Era steam and futuristic science fiction, this very cool deck of cards is an industrial collaboration between Bicycle and Theory11. The card box appears to be forged from a single brick of bronze, and the cards themselves are remarkably detailed, inside and out.
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Jan 06, 2012 - By Diana Cook
Rumor has it that Van Halen will be reuniting and touring this year. It got us to thinking about their 1982 tour and the demands the band to the venues it would be rocking. Column Five created this infographic with Sonos to visualize what is considered to be one of the most ridiculous riders of all time (a rider is the list of amenities required by a band that the host venue must provide), Van Halen requested some items that define the phrase “over the top.”
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Jan 04, 2012 - By Diana Cook
We are pretty much in love with the concept of repurposing items in creative new ways. But we were especially over the moon when we learned about Rekordit. Created by graphic designer Shane Keaney, Rekordit is a frame for displaying record sleeves that is designed to work with IKEA’s Expedit shelving system. Rekordit is still in the beta stage but we have video, images and ways you can get involved in this very cool project after the jump.
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Jan 03, 2012 - By Diana Cook
Tangerine Tango (Pantone 17-1463) unseats last year’s winner, Honeysuckle (Pantone 18-2120) to become Pantone’s color of the year for 2012. While Honeysuckle was said to exude “inspiration to face life’s everyday troubles with verve and vigor,” Tangerine Tango gives an “energy charge” to move forward.
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