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Nathan Felde in the Press
You can now see the posters from Boston’s Women’s March online
Ever wonder what happened to the signs from the Women’s March in Boston last year? With the help of Northeastern University, a team of scholars, students and volunteers created an online archive of more than 6,000 posters and pieces of artwork from the Jan. 21, 2017 protest.
Volunteers begin to sort through signs from Women’s March
More than two months after the Women’s March in Boston, volunteers who salvaged more than a thousand signs from the protest laid them out on the floor of a South Boston warehouse, covering about 15,000 square feet of space. “You could study these forever,” said Northeastern University professor Nathan Felde Saturday afternoon, watching colleagues step […]
Archivists will sort through signs from the Boston Women’s March this weekend
After the rally was done and after the speeches and chants, many of the tens of thousands of people who had gathered in January for the Boston Women’s March protesting Donald Trump’s presidency dropped the signs they carried along Boston Common. The signs were destined for the trash, but a group from Northeastern University is […]
The cuckoo clock gets an update
“24 Hours in the Life of a Swiss Cuckoo Clock” contains 24 cuckoo clock designs created by students and faculty the Geneva University of Art and Design. The pieces, on display at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360, update the look of an old and whimsical way of telling time. Cuckoo clocks developed in the Black Forest […]
Teaching scientists how to visualize their data
Moret is a first-year graduate student in Northeastern’s Information Design and Visualization program. The program was started in 2013 as a unique merger of analysis and design meant to help researchers tell their data stories to a broader audience. “[Visual communication] allows people to catch the gist of something at a glance. . . that’s […]
Boston.com
Design for understanding? Watch the Swiss.
Revolutions in computing and communications have produced a relentless flood of information about our world and ourselves—right down to our DNA. Today, Boston’s research and technology sectors generate, process and interpret huge amounts of data across industries, from global business to personal genomics. This information gives us fresh insight and new answers, but presents its […]
