Bush


You dont need to be able to read spanish* to undertand this infographic by Samuel Granados, well maybe a little for deeper ajudication.


desaprobacion = diapproval - red


Found on density design and samuel has no doubt lost none of their brilliant design skills being a former student in information graphics + function + beauty as this parchment effect paper gives it a historical document of 'manuscript' importance. With a lovely surreality of an abstract cutting of the top head technique it has some harmony of green and red graduation with a timeline of bush's office. I should find out how long it took samuel to make the 4 pages but really good. Good tabing to create the familiar syntax of folders/files.

Really good.

from: http://www.elmundo.es/especiales/2008/09/internacional/elecciones_eeuu/presidentes/bush.html

found: http://www.densitydesign.org/2009/01/16/radiografia-de-la-presidencia-bush-a-radiography-of-the-bush-precidency/

*I had put italian but have changed it when reminded which I knew as I had to translate but hadnt changed. thanks ;o)

Published on 2009/04/02 11:50 pm.
Filed under: abstract, colour, communication, creative, framing, geopolitical, hierachy, iconic, information, narrative, pattern, size, solving, subvert, time

Internet Histo-graphic


"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file-sharing, from arpanet to internet. The clip shows a brief overview of this history and shall animate to go on discovering the history of the internet.

The history is told with help of the PICOL icons, which are also a part of the creators diploma.

The icons are available for free on picol.org in the size 32x32 pixel

See the whole diploma >>

from here: http://www.lonja.de/motion/mo_history_internet.html

found here: http://feeds.infosthetics.com/~r/infosthetics/~3/_UrqWTLSAPo/the_history_of_the_internet.html


Credit

Director & Animator – Melih Bilgil

Voice over – Steve Taylor

Music – Telekaster

Translation – Karla Vesenmayer

Scientific Managment – Prof. Philipp Pape

University – University of Applied Sciences Mainz

Thanks to – Barbara Bittmann, Johannes Schatz

I've also seen a detailed history of visual communication http://feeds.infosthetics.com/~r/infosthetics/~3/8M4rgnNVxRQ/the_history_of_visual_communication.html which needs it excellant archive appending to Advertising History Timeline along with this excellant internet histo-graphic.

Published on 2009/02/15 9:43 pm.
Filed under: animation, clean, clear, communication, composition, design, graphic, iconic, information, visual, visualisation

Rubikcubism

Rubikcubism

mona lisa - robert_mckinnon_rubikscube2
love these, has done ray charles plus others. cant remember the exact prices but he uses about 8oo cubes.
more described at the blog i found it. i know i am re-blogging old news which i try not to intentionally but it ws new to me and i like it. sure it will be new to some people.
more description at the blog at the bottom.

first saw in the metro, uk yorkshire free paper on the public transport.

found at : http://torontoist.com/2008/03/rubiks_cube.php

Published on 2009/01/30 3:12 pm.
Filed under: abstract, cube, honda, iconic, problem, puzzle, representation, rubik, solving, visual thinking

Green Search Engine

d9651a39608584b1f3f40e4ef0203cda Green Search Engine

JumpGauge™ is a visual labeling technology that has been applied to thousands of green and eco-friendly products.

Each product’s JumpGauge™ tells you why it is green and eco-friendly visually, in a picture, so you can skip lengthy product descriptions, decipher technical jargon or verify government and industry certifications.



To use JumpGauge™ simply put your mouse over an icon and a pop-up will appear and will give you more information about this particular eco- friendly qualification of a product.


bit like a taggging system to tell you how ecofriendly a product is.

found through visual analytics group on linkedin.com

Published on 2009/01/17 12:07 am.
Filed under: geography, graphic, green, iconic, products, search engine, visual, visual thinking

Abstract Cartoon

Abstract Cartoon

The picture vocabulary by scott mccloud in his excellant book understanding comics, explaining semiotics it gives a great overview of the different scales of abstraction for cartoon characters.

With 3 sides there are the:

  • Retinal Edge
  • Representational Edge
  • Conceptual Edge

With the retinal edge it polarises the more reality, bottom left. Then going up it abstracts to mary fleener and accross the right to the conceptual edge, meaning becoming more arbitary with words and onomatapaeic words such as 'splash'.

Very good table, although mccloud states that they images included are not necessarily chosen for artistic merit. Makes me think of Rudolf Arnheims abstraction & the grasping of significant form. A scale between function and form as it is between words and images that abstraction will take place until a concept is conceived.

Mcclouds book may be comics content, but very very good, informal, non academic style of understanding semiotics.

Also check out Visible Signs by David Crow, explaining semiotics in great detail.

Published on 2008/09/04 8:21 pm.
Filed under: abstract, form, function, iconic, iconography, illustration, meaning, mimetic, semiotic, shape, sign, symbollic, visual thinking, visualisation, words

Visual Communication: Wordless Recipics

laurenbugeja+ +visual+recipe1 Visual Communication: Wordless Recipics

http://www.coo.kz/

This is the website Lauren Bugeja has created to house these beautiful visual maps. The visual equivalent of a thesis - work from her final semester in Visual Communications.

She calls these visual maps Recipics, good use of ambiguity in the word pun on recipes. These are great explorations of visually mapping information making it universally accessible. She still uses the paradigm of numbers & arrows, but what I like best is how she uses these & space to depict time & measurements fig. Depicting time in a similar tecnhique to Bradford Paley in Once more around the sun. She uses faded flames contrasted to full colour to depict gas mark, which is admirable technique removing the use of numbers.

She has great experiments between mimetic depictions of food, but creates great iconic characters to represent meats i.e. lamb=sheep, beef=cow & pork=pig, fig.

Bugeja acknowledges the occasional stumbling block: “The ingredients are still a work in progress,” she said. “For example, it’s hard to explain the difference between flour, baking powder, anthrax and cocaine without words.”

A clean sans serif font, & beautiful pastel colours really caps off a great, excellantly executed idea.

Her research map as she calls it, looks at the contrast of word & images, human factors with Human Information Processing with communication. In relation to interaction of the GUI (graphic user interface) she states the same as I have researched with engagement allowing greater playfulness through more challenge, presenter control, and variety in a game for browsing.

What’s most relevant here is the Information Architecture to ‘organise information to create meaning’ through ‘scheme & structure’ i.e. mental schemas and these visual map techniques of brainstorms, spider diagrams etc (Bugeja, 2008, p VC Major project). There are many more beautiful visual maps of all topics linked under diagram diaries on flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenbugeja/sets/72157594238802216/


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/style/tmagazine/06tdiagram.html?pagewanted=print

Published on 2008/04/08 10:09 am.
Filed under: communication, diagram, engagement, GUI, HCI, iconic, information, mapping, meaning, mimetic, paradigms, playful, puns, spider, universal, visual maps, wordless, words

London Kerning

london+kerning+poster+ +NB+Studio London Kerning

This is a fantastic typographic exploration of type's place within the visual world of the capital.     This map won a design award from Aiga and London Design. The information is taken from AZ street maps where the icons, symbols and hard lines representing churches, streets, rivers and parks have been removed from the map, leaving only letters. It is interesting to see Geography and Creative Graphic Design combine as opposed to the separation they seem to have followed. It is a fantastic and visually inspiring/innovative typographic map of London’s street names.  

Although this is not so much about knowledge it is visually inspiring to inform ways of seeing, connecting thoughts spatially, creating a spatial immediacy that demands attention.
 
 
NB:Studio
http://www.nbstudio.com/
 
 
Img src: Creative review - the annual 2007
Good review
 
 
http://apropospig.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/londons-kerning/
 
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Published on 2008/03/24 11:08 pm.
Filed under: iconic, locations, london, map, seeing, spatial, visual maps, words Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,