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Kontinentalist
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What Rivers Remind Us Of— issue #66

Indigeneity teaches us memory, and like rivers, carries us back to the contested places we call home, their interconnections, and the responsibilities they demand.

Munirah Mansoor
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Crafting Air Pasang Surut

Making meaning with Orang Laut Singapore for Hari Orang Pulau.

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Zafirah Mohamed Zein
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Where to begin? My guide to pitching a data story

I’ll be honest — three years in the field of storytelling/journalism has not made me much more confident about pitching stories than when…

Munirah Mansoor
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Applying print principles to data visualization design

How can data viz design benefit from design theories like the Gestalt principles?

Mick Yang
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Meet the Community! Jane Zhang, data viz designer and e-commerce strategist

Jane Zhang is an independent data visualization designer based in Toronto. She’s made a name for herself with her recognisable static…

Kontinentalist
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The might of small things — issue #25

When I was reading history many years ago, microhistories were one of my favourite topics. I love understanding how small things, like folklore and fairytales, reveal a lot about our past. Eventually, I wrote my Honours thesis on Singapore's national day stamps. I got a lot of laughs

Amanda
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Kontinentalist: Insights from user research and translating it into our new website

One fine day in mid-2019, a little more than a year after Kontinentalist first launched, some of us sat down to discuss what was in store…

Kenneth
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Kontinentalist: Navigating our new editorial vision

Last week, Pei Ying shared how we’ve rebranded from a map-driven studio to a data-driven storytelling studio… with a fresh new look to…

Kontinentalist
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Introducing the new Kontinentalist!

Hey! You've been part of our story ever since you first laid eyes on our stories—and we wanted to share with you what's been going on with the recent changes on our end. Kontinentalist has now rebranded into a data storytelling studio...with a fresh

Kontinentalist
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We abandoned Wordpress to build our own CMS

Let Dylan and Rifqi, our Lead Developer and Full-stack Web Developer, tell you why. Abandon ship! To answer why, let us travel back in time to when Konti started, as Peiying mentioned in her article on our rebranding. In the early days of 2017–2018, most of what we did

Kontinentalist
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Fashion that goes beyond the surface — issue #24

Fashion isn't exactly my strong suit. Almost everything  in my closet is Uniqlo—yes, it's the same boring t-shirts and shorts hanging in yours, let's be real my friends. It's cheap, simple, and good enough. But this also means I know precious

Pei Ying
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Kontinentalist: A fresh new look, and why we rebranded

We’ve given Kontinentalist a makeover!! Gone are the beige-brown days, and here are the purples, oranges, and pinks.

Griselda Gabriele
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Rebranding notes from the equator (Part 2: Design)

Hello again! In this second post about our rebranding of notes for the equator, our visual designer Munirah spills the tea about…

Griselda Gabriele
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Rebranding notes from the equator (Part 1: Editorial and marketing)

Hello! We (Bella and Griselda) will be talking about the rebranding of our newsletter, notes from the equator, in two parts here in this…