Each day, we look at everything that is going on in the Sandbox, searching for impactful projects, stories and ideas by Sandboxers. We then repost the most interesting, inspiring or brilliant stuff here on our blog.

Today Harry Mylonadis presents the fresh manifesto of his branding agency minimoko. Check out the original blog post announcing the manifesto and connect with Harry on Twitter and Facebook.

If you want your own high resolution copy of the manifesto, head over to the minimoko blog or grab it in A3 HD format here.

That’s why we don’t just ask candidates for their CV: we want to see who the person is behind the achievements. For that, we have come up with the idea to ask candidates to send us a “WOW contribution”: something in the format of their choice (text, audio, video, .ppt, or even traditional mail) in which they tell their story, providing insight into their talent, creativity, and genuine desire to be a part of the Sandbox community.

We have received such unique, jaw-dropping, amazing applications that we have had no choice but to stare at one another wide eyed and go…WOW! (Check out Antoine‘s face in the picture below and you will see what I mean). We thought it could be cool to show you some exciting examples from former applicants who decided to approach storytelling as art and make it their own. Hopefully they will inspire future candidates to create something magnificent! And if you are thinking about applying, don’t be afraid about your privacy, all authors presented below have agreed to make their contribution public.

Shane Snow, webmaster and founder of Brave Media LLC, sent us this really clean, simple, colorful infographic that encompassed everything from his personal inspirations, successes, and failures, to the languages that he is fluent in.

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Will McQuillan, adventure traveler, sent us this awesome pop-up book about his work experience, worldly travels and time in the jungle. Clearly, we would love to have more people who are brave enough to take on a Gorilla in a fist fight.

Jyoti Ramnath, the CEO of CraftMyGift,  sent us this wonderful, hand drawn, story book (a page of which has been shown below) about her journey through life as an ambitious, focused individual who is eager to climb to new heights of success.

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When I was 17, I was elected president of the Student Council at my high school in Switzerland. This was hardly an achievement – I was the only candidate. And I soon found out why: There weren’t a lot of things I could change and have an impact on as president of the student council.

So I started working for an organization that linked members of student councils from all over the country. There, I met two other guys from different high schools, and we started organizing workshops for student council members in various cities. The contents of the workshops were, to be completely honest, crap – but still, the participants loved them. Why? Because they brought together like-minded people – people that had ideas and the energy to turn them into reality.

Since we left high school, we dreamed of recreating this atmosphere, this energy. We talked about it a lot, but it took us 8 years until we finally knew how to do it. That’s when we created Sandbox.

- I told this story to the participants of a Sandbox event on storytelling two weeks ago in a cozy little Turkish restaurant in downtown New York. And I told it to make a point: Stories create trust. Many of the attendees didn’t know me and hadn’t heard a lot about Sandbox before joining. By telling them where the motivation behind the project comes from, I allowed them to decide for themselves whether they share our vision.

We spent most of the remaining evening discussing the power of storytelling. Shashank Nigam, an entrepreneur and blogger, brought up the example of Dole: The company created a website where you can read stories about the farms your bananas come from by entering a 3-digit code printed on the banana label. By doing so, Dole turned an anonymous commodity into a product with a story – hoping to gain the trust of its customers.

Stories are powerful, and potentially dangerous, told us Sabrina Buckwalter, a journalist and consultant. She lost her working permit in India when she ran a story in an Indian newspaper about a crime that was linked to some local politicians.

We believe that storytelling is an important communication tool, and becomes even more important as the amount of information that people are confronted with every day rises.

What is your story?