1. How infographics can bend the truth... →

  2. I came across this diagram today in Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline. It’s by Raymond Loewy ca. 1933. It shows an evolution towards aesthetic simplicity… prescient, somewhat frightening (in that the woman begins to disappear) but also a great example of rhetorical information design.

    I came across this diagram today in Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline. It’s by Raymond Loewy ca. 1933. It shows an evolution towards aesthetic simplicity… prescient, somewhat frightening (in that the woman begins to disappear) but also a great example of rhetorical information design.

  3. feltron:

    Stephen James Kennedy

  4. Algorithmic art at Frieze: Channa Horwitz. Horwitz is in her 70’s and is LA-based. She was being represented at Frieze by a Berlin gallery. She has a background in performance and had a series of images in the show that were about notation…choreography for participants in a piece of theatre. It seems that much of this work that really happened in the 60’s and 70’s that had to do with marking time and annotation is potentially seeing a revival in terms of interest….(Image: Sonakinatography 1 | Movement 3, 1969 courtesy of Aanant and Zoo, Berlin)

    Algorithmic art at Frieze: Channa Horwitz. Horwitz is in her 70’s and is LA-based. She was being represented at Frieze by a Berlin gallery. She has a background in performance and had a series of images in the show that were about notation…choreography for participants in a piece of theatre. It seems that much of this work that really happened in the 60’s and 70’s that had to do with marking time and annotation is potentially seeing a revival in terms of interest….(Image: Sonakinatography 1 | Movement 3, 1969 courtesy of Aanant and Zoo, Berlin)

  5. Some online libraries for generating visualisations. D3 (Data-driven documents) is a javascript based library: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

    There is also protovis (their homepage offers a great catalog of visualisation typologies…)

    http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/

  6. beautiful iconographic work by johnson banks

    http://www.johnsonbanks.co.uk/exhibitions-and-3d/mandagrams-phonetikana/

    What if we used iconography to help decipher marks that at first glance seem indecipherable..

  7. Conductive paint!

    Lots of applications here for interactive installation…the paint is an inexpensive material, so that helps…

    http://www.bareconductive.com/

  8. Junkyard Jumbotron

    http://jumbotron.media.mit.edu/

    Wow. Opens up all kinds of possibilities

  9. Visualize your cv….

    http://vizualize.me/

  10. Architecture and information design collide, continued. UN Studio, like AMO use information heavily in their work to communicate concepts. Diagrams come into play when we communicate the transient or the invisible: processes such as movement , temperature variations, sound, tensile stress…the list goes on… This photo shows UN Studio’s programmatic diagram for the ZVE ( the Centre for Virtual Engineering) of the Fraunhofer Institute …an engineering research centre

    Architecture and information design collide, continued. UN Studio, like AMO use information heavily in their work to communicate concepts. Diagrams come into play when we communicate the transient or the invisible: processes such as movement , temperature variations, sound, tensile stress…the list goes on… This photo shows UN Studio’s programmatic diagram for the ZVE ( the Centre for Virtual Engineering) of the Fraunhofer Institute …an engineering research centre