Dazzle Ships: Optical Illusions at Sea
May 7, 2013 | By: ImageThink
We’re usually on the lookout for ways that visual elements can make communication clearer. During WWI, the American and British naval forces found a way to use line, shape and color to obscure information — specifically, the location of their war ships. The Dazzle Ships, as they were called, emerged in the 1910s as a solution [...]
ImageThink Speaks to Young Danish Entrepreneurial Students
April 25, 2013 | By: ImageThink
This week, Heather Willems, co-founder and principal of ImageThink, had the exciting opportunity to speak to the Danish students of the Handelsskolen Silkeborg Business College of Silkeborg, Denmark on the fundamentals of being a creative, young, entrepreneur in Brooklyn, New York. The visiting Danish students are engaged in a program which focuses on developing innovative [...]
Why Hand-Painted Signs Are Making a Comeback
March 27, 2013 | By: ImageThink
Recently on the podcast 99% Invisible, Roman Mars examined the resurgence in demand for custom, hand-painted signage. Hand-painted signage was once commonplace prior to the 1980s. The eighties brought the increased availability of digital printing on vinyl, significantly reducing the market for hand-crafted signs. But why the sudden demand now for a product that shows evidence [...]
A Visual Recap of SXSW Interactive 2013
March 15, 2013 | By: ImageThink
This year at SXSW Interactive, ImageThink headed up the SXnotes initiative. As part of that, we covered a dozen featured sessions over the 5-day conference. We’ve distilled all of those talks into a collection of common themes and big ideas we heard again and again from speakers like Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, Tina [...]
Re-imagining Foreign Policy with the New Yorker
March 12, 2013 | By: ImageThink
This week, ImageThink was a featured partner at the New Yorker Magazine’s Big Story event which explored modern American foreign policy, capturing the discussion between Susan E. Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan E. Rice and David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, and staff writer, Philip Gourevitch. The panelists focused on the present [...]
