I literally love this visualisation by peter crnokrak, not only is it a great
record to do a visualisation about it gives you so much data too about the
record.
It lists its influences on other tracks, releases correlating in the centre
of the popular circular timeline visualisation method.
He has done another that he describes as the 'computational aesthetic of love & hate'
Using the 192 members of the united nations, he creates a geopolitical display of the quantative degree to which eacj contributes to war (on one side) & peace (the other).
Due the their size they could benefit from this little tool. zoomorama. make your pictures zoomable
see more close-ups here: http://theluxuryofprotest.com/LWTUA1.html
and: http://theluxuryofprotest.com/A_B_.html
from here: http://www.aisleone.net/2008/intervista/intervista-peter-crnokrak/
found here: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/qGNuYIP8J1s/
Published on 2008/10/25 8:09 pm.
Filed under: aesthetic, clean, computer, geographic, geopolitical, information, landmarks, mapping, peace, war, world
This is a great complex domains visualisation of how we are provided with our unique url website addresses.
The creators of this domain name system diagram hope to provide a comprehensive picture of how its governed, how it works and what it is.
They keep clean and minimal to help you feel at ease navigating this complex map and a hint of yellow for a starting point guide along the many multidirectional connections.
Along with the yellow they also suggest you can start anywhere or go from 'people' no 1 grey arrow (very small). They have these arrows numbered around which you can use to navigate it as well.
TLD's are Top Level Domain names that are run by Registars such as VeriSign who buy the rights to run .com's ($115,000) & .nets ($115,000) & Afilas who run .info ($115,000). They have to provide public access to their databases searchable at whois.net and purchase these TLD's from ICANN (Internet Corporation of Assigned Names & Numbers) a non-profit organisation chartered by US government.
I read just a little from the 'people' and followed it easily, recognising whois and hwo they fit into it all.
Excellant Diagram
featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APhoto%3A1124
Published on 2008/08/21 11:51 pm.
Filed under: clean, communication, complex, computer, internet, mapping, multidirectional, technology, typographic, url, visual maps, visualisation, web map, websites, white space
This was a great little map I saw posted on flickr from the user the high contrast (featured in blogroll). great how adobe chose their colours from the colour wheel and where they positioned the program icons.
Published on 2008/06/15 3:23 pm.
Filed under: clean, colour, communication, composition, computer, constellations, creative, diagram, harmony, iconography, visual maps
Note that I dont have an obsession with New York at the moment, but with such great art foundations of Rauschenberg, DeKooning & Pollock its no surprise of its creative vein. Today technology is the key that has fused creativity & opened boundaries to allow interdisciplinary practice.
The New York Times real estate magazine Key started with the cover design concept of hiring people that are brilliant to do personal interpretations of what a key means to them & their lives. The 1st cover in the Fall 2006 by Carin Goldberg featured all the places she lived at using the font Dynamoe (green & black thumbnail) & spring 2007 (yellow & purple thumbnail) was designed by new york design studio 2x4.
In dialogue with John Maeda (author of Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation) art director Dick Barnett looked at some of Maeda's sketches and replied to him saying how he's 'loving #3 Google Mappish Mondrian' (3rd thumbnail along) idea and how he might 'think of a way to make it more personal to [maeda's] life'. Maeda responded utilising Boston, he states how he 'thinks of the world as a sort of map of cities', a topographic territory, he 'mined the internet for all the cities with an airport' & made a simple diagram and then drew some 'fluid like curves [framing] to connect into the centre of the keyhole' (4th thumbnail), (Centaur Publication, 2007, p. nov – 42).
Maeda wanted to concentrate on the background rather than the foreground & after some design processing (problem solving) such as replacing fonts used to that of Key magazines T-Star, it was finished. The design is brilliant, although probably not that easy a task to create without access/stroke knowledge of computer science functionality but excellant aesthetics. The overall white stands out from the blue (a colour normally percieved as depiciting sea in maps) causing a slight incongruity on part of the viewer, map reader/user. Boston being the epicentre of travel in this map providing the key access to other cities and the viral red linking lines spidering the topgraphic locations.
Excellant Map utilising technology to visualise data functionality mentioned upon with Bradford Paley, in the heart of its design.
'John Maeda is an artist and a computer scientist, and he views the computer not as a substitute for brush and paint but as an artistic medium in its own right. His mission is to foster the growth of what he calls 'humanist technologists'- people that are capable of articulating future culture through informed understanding of the technologies they use' (http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/maeda.html, 2008, p. john maeda interview).
More examples of the stages of Maeda's Key Cover design here, http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/09/06/realestate/keymagazine/20070909_KEY_COV_SS_index.html
Creative Review. New York. Centaur Publication, 2007, p. nov – 42).
Published on 2008/04/04 7:13 pm.
Filed under: aesthetic, computer, creative, data, diagram, function, HCI, incongruous, interdisciplinary, internet, interpret, locations, map, new york, science, spider, technology, territory, topographic, visualisation Tags: Aesthetics
