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Adidas' World Cup Backlash, Bullsh*t Jobs, Haptic Gloves and the Future Of Learning issue artwork#119

Adidas' World Cup Backlash, Bullsh*t Jobs, Haptic Gloves and the Future Of Learning

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How Brands Become Fixers and Why Some Consumers Don't Deserve Nice Things issue artwork#118

How Brands Become Fixers and Why Some Consumers Don't Deserve Nice Things

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Reinventing Kodak, Blackberry & Crayola, the Twitter Problem and Why Selling Subscriptions issue artwork#117

Reinventing Kodak, Blackberry & Crayola, the Twitter Problem and Why Selling Subscriptions

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De Beers' Genius Strategy, How To Spot A Fake Image and The Reason We Like Clickbait Media issue artwork#116

De Beers' Genius Strategy, How To Spot A Fake Image and The Reason We Like Clickbait Media

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Holographic Politics, Smart Contracts and Why You Shouldn't Block People On Twitter issue artwork#115

Holographic Politics, Smart Contracts and Why You Shouldn't Block People On Twitter

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Why Influencers are Overrated, How Collabs Are Changing Retail and Making Useless Things issue artwork#114

Why Influencers are Overrated, How Collabs Are Changing Retail and Making Useless Things

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#113 Corona Reinvents OOO Emails, Brookstone Teams Up With Makers and One Girl's Epic Job Interview issue artwork#113

#113 Corona Reinvents OOO Emails, Brookstone Teams Up With Makers and One Girl's Epic Job Interview

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Muslim Fashion, Feminine Rage and Why Gibson Guitars Really Went Bankrupt issue artwork#112

Muslim Fashion, Feminine Rage and Why Gibson Guitars Really Went Bankrupt

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The Humanity In Business Issue: Pollution, Gaming, Museums and Fast Food issue artwork#111

The Humanity In Business Issue: Pollution, Gaming, Museums and Fast Food

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How To Sue A Robot and What the TED Conference Is Really Like issue artwork#110

How To Sue A Robot and What the TED Conference Is Really Like

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Rise of Microinfluence, Berlin's Startup Supermarket and Magical Color-Changing Gin issue artwork#109

Rise of Microinfluence, Berlin's Startup Supermarket and Magical Color-Changing Gin

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Extinct Animal Zoos, Ungendered Baby Names and How To Save Social Media issue artwork#108

Extinct Animal Zoos, Ungendered Baby Names and How To Save Social Media

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Selfie Medicine, Luxury Marketing And How To Get Paid To Watch Netflix issue artwork#107

Selfie Medicine, Luxury Marketing And How To Get Paid To Watch Netflix

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Black Mirror Predicting Reality, Coke Uses Blockchain and Spotify the Netflix Of Music issue artwork#106

Black Mirror Predicting Reality, Coke Uses Blockchain and Spotify the Netflix Of Music

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Why We Love Fake Stories, Perfume That Smells Like Nothing and My Slides From SXSW issue artwork#105

Why We Love Fake Stories, Perfume That Smells Like Nothing and My Slides From SXSW

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VISIT NC INITIAL EMAIL issue artwork#104

VISIT NC INITIAL EMAIL

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AI Outperforms Lawyers, Seeking Love With DNA Matches and Google "Right To Be Forgotten" issue artwork#103

AI Outperforms Lawyers, Seeking Love With DNA Matches and Google "Right To Be Forgotten"

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StockX Takes On Ebay (And Wins), Predictive Banking and a Surprising Gamble From Moviepass issue artwork#102

StockX Takes On Ebay (And Wins), Predictive Banking and a Surprising Gamble From Moviepass

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Gender At The Olympics, Diesel Sells Fake Products and Why Apple's Homepod Is A Bad Buy issue artwork#101

Gender At The Olympics, Diesel Sells Fake Products and Why Apple's Homepod Is A Bad Buy

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The Disruption Issue: Norway's Olympic Curling Pants, Saudi Solar and Soap Fetishes issue artwork#100

The Disruption Issue: Norway's Olympic Curling Pants, Saudi Solar and Soap Fetishes

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Why Are Icelanders So Creative? Hint - It's Not Their Environment issue artwork#99

Why Are Icelanders So Creative? Hint - It's Not Their Environment

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Spy Testing, Open Source Furniture and How To Find A Pet That Likes Your Music issue artwork#98

Spy Testing, Open Source Furniture and How To Find A Pet That Likes Your Music

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Smog Tower, Sh*thole Namibia, Chilean Fog Beer and How Kids See Gender Identity issue artwork#97

Smog Tower, Sh*thole Namibia, Chilean Fog Beer and How Kids See Gender Identity

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L'Oreal Launches Wearables, Coke's Brand Crisis, Bizarre KitKat Flavors and Kodak Bets On Bloc issue artwork#96

L'Oreal Launches Wearables, Coke's Brand Crisis, Bizarre KitKat Flavors and Kodak Bets On Bloc

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