The Impossible, Beautiful World of William Schaff
William Schaff makes beautiful art. The Rhode Island-based artist and musician is best known for his album covers for bands such as Godspeed You!
Katie Hunt-Morr and Etsy: Cultivating Values-Based Culture
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Matt Lerner and Walk Score: Put a Number on It
In 2007, Walk Score appeared out of nowhere and built a way of looking at the world that was so useful and intuitive as to become, at once, completely manifest and familiar. By pulling the shapeless abstraction of “walkability” out of the sky and giving it a life through numbers, a life that could now be communicated and compared and concretely aspired to, Walk Score democratized the esoteric field of urban planning and built a tool everyone could use.
Lance Bangs on Not Making the Same, Boring Thing
Lance Bangs, an accomplished artist, filmmaker, documentarian, producer, and music video director, mines intimate space. He collects ephemeral, essentially impossible to capture moments and turns them into artifacts.
Kevin Allison and the Personal Power of Story
[caption id="attachment_5972" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Kevin Allison in action — photo by Jason Spiro.
Julie Klausner on Hard Work, Making Stuff, and The Urgency to Be Heard
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Andrew Dickson and the Astounding Art of Encouragement
It’s challenging enough to express yourself across one medium, much less two. Andrew Dickson, a Portland, Oregon-based artist, father, and polymath, however, has developed outlets of personal expression across multiple disciplines, including performance art, writing, auctioneering, storytelling, professional advertising services, filmmaking, life coaching, acting, voice-overs, and teaching.