Lear has said it wanted to be part of Detroit’s efforts to attract more businesses and residents
Read More What If Rich People Funded Journalism—But Didn’t Ruin It?
Beacon has been trying to fix the business of journalism for two years. Its most idealistic idea may also be its most promising.
Audrey Cooper, the editor in chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, has been thinking a lot about H-1B visas. The visa type allows companies to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations like engineering, and it is especially relevant to the tech-heavy business population of Silicon Valley. But Cooper’s job is to tell the story of Northern California, and sending reporters abroad to talk with would-be immigrants and their families doesn’t quite fall into the priority list. “I could take it out of my budget,” she says, “but it would mean we are not going to follow our sports teams to the Olympics next year, or not going to cover a wildfire.”
Bonobos Just Hired A New Chief People Officer To Scale Company Culture
The move comes a month after cofounder Andy Dunn stepped back into his day-to-day CEO role.
Bonobos, the men’s fit-focused e-retailer now known for its growing physical presence of Guideshop stores, has been scaling fast.
This Adjustable Standing Desk Is So Simple, It Doesn’t Need Nuts Or Bolts
You know you shouldn’t sit all day. But standing all day can be a bit much. You need both.
As many people are starting to realize, sitting is the new smoking—it’ll kill you faster than a bowlful of trans fats. But standing still in front of your computer all day isn’t so great either. What you need is a combo sit-stand desk, preferably one that’s easy to adjust, and that doesn’t use a motor.
Is Your E-Signature Making You A Liar?
It just might be, according to this clever series of tests, unless designers have a say.
The days of the majestic handwritten signature are pretty much done. The IRS encourages taxpayers to file their returns electronically, identifying themselves not with a pen but a special PIN. Credit card payments now involve a tap or a click as often as a hasty cursive scribble. It’s safe to say John Hancock wouldn’t have achieved epic status if he’d typed his name at the end of the Declaration of Independence—then hit send.
Our Brains Trust Brands The Same Way We Trust Our Friends
We look at familiar logos like we look at faces. That’s depressing.
We perceive brands the same way we perceive other people’s faces. That’s the conclusion of a study by Anne Lange and Rainer Höger, which tested 18 well-known brand logos to see how trustworthy we find the companies behind them. The results were compared with a previous study doing the same thing for human faces, and the conclusion was startling.
5 Bloody Good Lessons On Creating Intensity, From The Twisted Mind Of Eli Roth
The horror maestro behind the very disturbing new film The Green Inferno talks about how intensity is what gets pulses pounding.
Something bad is going to happen. You know it’s coming—this is what you signed up for—you just don’t know how bad it’s going to be, or when it’s going to happen. Then it does happen, and it’s even more horrifying than you’d been bracing for . . . and it’s going to happen again and again.
Learn How Neurons Work Through An Autobiographical, Interactive Story
Nicky Case’s Neurotic Neurons is one of the best infographics we’ve ever seen, but it’s so much more than that.
Falling somewhere between an infographic, a web comic, and an animated TED talk, Neurotic Neurons, an interactive graphic by artist Nicky Case, is charming, educational, funny, sad, and strangely hopeful. It’s ostensibly an interactive explainer of how neurons works, but it’s so much more than that.
Chess Deconstructed: Inside The Saul Bass Tribute-Turned-Video Game
NotDoba is an addictive little game that looks and sounds like a Saul Bass credit sequence come to life.
The legendary Saul Bass was one of the most influential graphic designers of the 20th century, lending his unique unique vision to everything from corporate logos to motion picture title sequences. About the only thing the man didn’t design during his career was video game. Now, thanks to NotDoba, you can now get an idea of what that would be like: it’s a fun, frantic indie game that plays like a Saul Bass title sequence brought to life.
Honda Goes Stop-Motion, Star Wars Goes 360: The Top 5 Ads Of The Week
Beats joins the rugby scrum, AT&T and ESPN’s heartbreaking story, the Wall Street Journal gets into the cocaine business for Netflix.
This week Facebook introduced 360 video to the newsfeed and, obviously, there were a handful of impressive launch partners, including LeBron James, GoPro, Saturday Night Live, and Vice. But the one that likely drew the biggest nerdgasm was Star Wars’ 360-degree view look at the planet Jakku from the back of a speeder bike driven by Daisy Ridley’s Force Awakens character, Rey. It’s no contest.
