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Self Mapping

mileage - annual report - Nicholas Feltron’s

music - annual report - Nicholas Feltron

reading habits - annual report 07 - nicholas feltron

Visualise yourself, what would you display to an audience? how intimate would you make it? Well even though he has been doing them from 2005 I have just discovered them by Nicholas Feltron. With very minimal styles but nice clean, clear, infographics and bold numbers encased in this swiss style grid system to keep some structure and rigidity to his diverse information of his life.

I am curious how he records all this data to be absolutely accurate, it must be some focsed, disciplined time keeping and number crunching.

Why? When quizzed, Felton’s admits that ‘it satisfies a real curiosity that I have about my habits. Why is it a popular document? If there are numer ous people out there who think it is fascinating and don’t even know me… imagine how fascinating I find it’. At first your reaction is ‘Oh please….’ but soon you are scouring the pages to see which was the most visited restaurant, his most-drunk beer: a sort of typographic Truman Show, authored by Truman himself.

It is intersting how the CR blog author describes it as a sort of typographic Truman Show.

http://feltron.com/

there are previous versions there.

found here: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/me-myself-and-i/

Published on 2009/01/16 3:22 pm.
Filed under: brockmann, clean, complex, data, design, geographic, how to, map, mobile, seeing, self, strange, swiss, visual maps, visualisation

Animated Audi

I saw this on the tv recently, usually forget to search for the ad to blog it or i forget who the ad was for to actually search it.

But i found it at creative reviews blog. CR's first twee spot of ‘09: the new Audi Q5 ad featuring Woody Guthrie’s Car Song

Twee, acoustic, folksy music accompanies practically every second ad on TV at the moment. We first noticed the trend back in mid 2007 – a list of sappy offenders compiled here – but when, we ask, will it end? Joining CR's discussion: Dan Stevens, a director at music PR and management company, Darling Department; Parv Thind, sound designer at Wave; and Peter Raeburn, founder and creative director of music production company, Soundtree.

It is great the hand drawn animated style, check out Blank Canvas & Communication Animation

Great making the card posses the ability to reflect.

Looked good. there is a new one by nokia i just saw today. will search for that, think it was E17 model... or something.

spotted here: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/change-the-record/

Published on 2009/01/08 8:24 pm.
Filed under: 3d, abstract, aesthetic, animation, clean, creative, graphic, incongruous, sketch, spatial, strange, visual thinking

Advertising History Timeline

this is an excellant interactive timeline, as you hover over one of the red brackets between years, it displays a drop down/up of information with specific year and a form of communication/advertisign developed such as the cuniform pictographs.

a beautiful, clean, tidy layout with white space to hold the interactive mouseover links that softly animate into the space to display more information and thew use of red and black combines well. the style is similar to Type Timeline Half 1, Kurt Schwitters on a Timeline by stefan thermerson and with a few images of important inventions/communications already displayed that have a small films/animations appeneded to their nodes gives a great liuttle bit of interactivity and focus for the users attention until the discovery of the mouseover bracket links.

also like any timeline that progresses over the western logic of left to right reading of a notoriously landscape layout there are too many dates to keep proportionatley spaced and still fit to a3 size or 1024 x 768 screen. So the creatore at nonline give these bold brackets with small arrows for left and right as the most dominating feature to hint at the scrolling navigation of the years. What was an intersting interactive navigation of space was done for British History Timeline by BBC, which doesnt keep the same proportionate space but divides history into colour categories and expands/stretches the display for each category.

My only let down is the limited amount, although a great tool and overview already provided, a limited amount of information as i was left wanting more history appended to the smaller grey brackets. but their are plenty of brackets for this to be rectified in the future.

great tool for students/people to interactive with themselves or even be instructed through, just keep the use of pictures to break up the text.

from here: http://www.nonlineagency.com/multimedia/the_history_of_advertising/

found here: Cartographie d'informations

cheers arnaud

Published on 2009/01/06 10:22 am.
Filed under: animation, clean, colour, composition, design, innovative, linear, links, mapping, motion, nodes, time, visualisation, white space