We’ve talked a lot in this blog about our office being in “The Combat Zone” of Raleigh. We even made our own map highlighting the area. Well, our friend Susan just tipped us to some interesting and visually humorous (despite the content) information design called SPOT CRIME which maps different types of scary things like [...]

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I’m increasing the boundaries of our self-defined “Combat Zone” due to two things that happened this week. First, just a couple miles away from our office but still well inside the city limits, Raleigh had 3 days of explosions of military munitions. Anyone living or working close to the Raleigh scrap metal recycling plant dealt [...]

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Matt, a friend and colleague in the Designbox space, ran into some bad Luck in the Raleigh Combat Zone (click here for earlier post defining the Combat Zone) yesterday. He left his beloved Nokia out on the patio for a second (maybe two), and it was promptly stolen! These days, a stolen mobile can be [...]

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