Visual Thinking

The project actually ends today, but for what it’s worth - it’s so sweet it’ll make you all gooey inside and feel like you’ve eaten too many marshmellows.

“We move in such a fast-paced world that, sometimes, that world can feel kind of cold and impersonal,” project founder Ivan Cash told CNN. A designer based in San Francisco, Cash noticed that letter-writing became less a part of his life with the ascent of Facebook messaging and texting. He started the project as a fun way to reconnect with an old hobby, but soon found himself drowning in submissions: 1,000 emails on the website’s fourth day. To keep up, Cash took the crowdsourcing route and recruited 134 volunteers from around the world to help him transcribe and mail. A volunteer from China is now the project manager.

If you want to snail mail an email to a friend or lover, keep it short and sweet—they only take submissions under 100 words—and act fast because the project ends on August 15. According to Cash, love letters have made up  90 percent of the total volume shipped out.

If you’ve been looking for a way to change the world, have fun, make money and look ridicously good at the same time, you’ve just found it. Both the KaosPilots and Roskilde Festival have a longstanding tradition in social innovation and I’ll gladly vouch for them being awesome, I’ve attended both university and the festival for years ;)

This year Roskilde Festival(June 30 till July 3 with the warm-up starting three days prior to that) has chosen to focus on cpoverty and inequality, and the fact that even in Denmark one of the world’s richest countries, poverty and inequality are issues that needs to be addressed. Your challenge is to communicate this in a way that make spectators think about poverty and inequality in their surroundings.

Create a piece of work that clearly communicates the need for creating new ideas that reduce poverty - win your ticket and join our team of Rapid Visualizers!

The Rapid Visualizers team makes quick visualizations of the ideas that are created by Festival guests in the Lab during the warm-up days before the Festival. The visualizations could be drawings, renderings, animations, videos, photos etc. You will be part of a team of creative people and you are encouraged to have as much fun as possible.

Send your entry to creative@roskildesociallab.dk before June 13th

The best submissions will be part of our exhibition and we will invite the best visualizers to join our team and get a free ticket for 2011

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