Happy New Year in 2010

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best wishes in 2010 all!

Interactive Digital Magazine

London-based BERG demonstrate the potential of tablet devices to deliver a rich experience for magazine lovers, much like a book on Amazon Kindle.  

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.  

I'm sure it will get blogged and retweeted-retumbled, dugg but I liked it and would love for the tablets to become affordable. Like CR say 'Magazine publishers are getting very excited about the potential of iPhone Apps' the tablet will be slightly bigger device. 

  'In this hugely impressive video, BERG walk us through their ideas for how magazines may work on such a device.'   

Via Guardian, Via PaperPapers via infographicsnews & seen via CR-Blog,  

'this isn't just pie in the sky conceptualising but part of serious research commissioned by Swedish publisher Bonnier R&D Beta Lab, which believes that such devices will be in use in two years' time'.  

The BERG concept certainly seems more considered than this idea for Sports Illustrated that has recently done the rounds online.  

from my Tumblr - 18 hours ago

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Graph Depth of Field

 Graph Depth of Field

3d charts, very nice & clean.  'the brief for The Design Council Annual Review stipulated a more engaging way to look at the facts and figures representing three key areas of policy: Competitiveness, Sustainability and Innovation.'  

  'Rather than use two dimensional data, we worked with photographer Dan Tobin Smith to build an environment in which to house three-dimensional expressions of these key figures. The graphs levitate in the space, freed from being default statistical representations, becoming something more visually emotive.' I have joined the microblogging world. well tumblr is so easy: http://visualthinkmap.tumblr.com/

12 Great Music Visualisations

 12 Great Music Visualisations

Musician visualisations are great for finding links to artists you had never heard of and more often than not they are just as brilliant as the band, singer you originally searched if not better.  

music landscape   I like that it shows the musicians a whole in one look, terrain. It also has this great zoom in the top left to go into further depth like the first image. It still has a search engine to search musicians individually. Not sure who decided what musicians go on to the map.   http://www2.research.att.com/~yifanhu/MusicMap/index.html   Another good music search visualisation that has been around for a while previously blogged   http://visualisationmagazine.com/blogvisualthinkmap/2008/03/music-plasma.html   Illinois: Visualizing Music [jaxdeleon.com] consists of a collection of visual interpretations based on Sufjan Stevens album titled Illinois .   from: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/06/illinois_visualizing_music_the_infographic_interpretation_of_sufjan_stevens_music.html   an online music recommendation visualization, based on Amazon.com's Similarity API. the application allows a user to search for music via graph diagram representing the album's relationship to similar albums, based on Amazon.com buying history.   technically, the application is based on JSViz, a Javascript based library to generate 2D, dynamic force directed networks & tree graphs.   see also: musicovery & music plasma & color music & mystrands. From http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/03/visual_music_recommendation.html   [link: kylescholz.com & kylescholz.com]   a visually impressive & fluid interface for discovering new music melodies. users can search, refine & explore new tunes according to style, mood or instruments. [link: burstlabs.com & burstlabs.com (blog)|via notcot.com]   From: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/06/burstlabs_visual_music_search_interface.html  
Very basic map, they do one for movies and literature. http://www.music-map.com/   Nice visualisation of music by Alex Chou Visualization of Piano Music   see more projects from havard: http://visualisationmagazine.com/blogvisualthinkmap/2009/09/cs-171-visualization-2008.html   Find inspiration from what is been listened to globally. Interactive Map http://www.gracenote.com/map/