— Soup.me, which helps creative people aggregate and display their digital lives, has raised $530,000 in funding from Vienna, Austria-based SpeedInvest.
Bas van de Poel, a writer and creative brand consultant, has aggregated the world's most vile computer viruses and asked 20 artist to create an illustrated interpretation of the bugs in a series titled Computer Virus Catalog.
Many communications professionals rue the day media buying and planning functions were taken out of creative advertising agencies and aggregated into powerful media holding companies that control where and when ad dollars are invested.
Coursebook — Coursebook wants to be the definitive platform for online learning, letting users aggregate lessons from Creative Commons content like Ted.com, Udemy and Stanford courses.
"It was pretty much the only site out there aggregating what young, creative kids in China were doing online".
The campaign was powered and measured by a new platform called Thunderclap created by creative shop DE-DE which aggregated the social reach of campaign supporters.
That is the idea behind "crowdfunding", in which lots of small contributions are aggregated online to support artistic or creative ventures.As crowdfunding has matured from a series of one-off efforts into something reproducible, the money has followed.
There is a paradigm shift from the old-fashioned customers to the new creative class which is growing by 7percentt yearly for an aggregate of 30percentt of today's workforce in the Western world that need to be catered to.
I think of it as a video essay about time and loss, and how to wrestle with the material of our lives – which of course includes the things we have looked at and read as well as the aggregate of our own experiences – as the basis for creative work.
Winners are selected based on the aggregate of three scores: scientific merit, artistic merit, and creative combination of the science and art.
