This ad for Mercedes Benz is really intriguing how google maps vernacular infiltrates reality. Escape The Map
Its been out a while the ad and had meant to post sooner. It is intriguing because I imagine that a projection on the road with the street view would help with sat nav's as opposed to trying to glance to your right to see a sat nav. You could just stare at the street. Would be cool.
But from a mapping point of view I was interested as it mixes the hyper real through the vernacular of google maps with reality. Now from my experiences I had learnt that hyper real was associated with the postmodern and specifically baudrillard 'the map preceedes the territory'. Jean Baudrillard argues that a simulacrum is not a copy of the real, but becomes truth in its own right: the hyperreal.
Having looked at a recent paper by Sébastien Caquard, Cartography I: Mapping narrative cartography. See here: http://phg.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/11/06/0309132511423796
Sebastien points out an interesting view of the story map, this is the fictional representation, the story map as Sébastien Caquard puts it;
‘map is more interesting than the territory because it is an idealized simplification of a complex – and often depressing – reality. This resonates with the idea that in the postmodern world most of the time the hyper-real appears joyful beside the deterioration of the environment to which it refers (Westphal, 2007).’
See now this idea of the postmodern hyerreality being joyful is what I remember with Baudrillard and simulacra's, but I wasn't aware of the map is more intersting than the territory a point illustrated by the latest novel by Michel Houllebecq entitled La Carte et le Territoire (The Map and the Territory) (2010).
I'm not sure how we're supposed to weigh between Baudrillard or Houllebecq, but like how Sebastien says they follow with this idea of the joyful presentations of reality. Many of the these joyful selections that have been crowd sourced by google maps.
'Paraphrasing Houellebecq, in other words, ‘Google Maps are more interesting than the territory’.'
This leaves me very intrigued that the story maps that Google are providing are more interesting than reality, much in the repsect that this Escape the Map ad by Mercedes Benz particularly realises well.
It makes me want to visit, or at least try to read the videos / papers that transpire from this: Cartography & Narratives
Meanwhile, read more about the different perspectives on the map and the territory here
I have been trying to get Vism.ag/Vol 4 available in print away from P.O.Demand services and got decent prices too, but still trying to find investment to do a long enough run to realistically make it viable. But... I will try to get an ebook available of it soon and the reason I bring it up is that there are a few selections of work by Denis Wood in the online sample and there's a review of his book Everthing Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas that I'm sure will be of essential reading to cross reference with the thoughts of the Story Map and fictional cartography. (the word fictional still distracts me as google maps work on a degree of truth, they arent made up).
Anyhow, happy hols everyone and will try to get more posts up. In the mean time, follow @visualthinkmap on twitter for more of what I see, just less analysis.
Escape the Map
Projected Reality Google Maps
I always thought that there is so much interactivity with google's street
view, earth, maps, places... why cant you just hold your phone lens up to
a scene and it show you a google map overlay?
Sheffield Creative Map
It seems it could be so easy. the data is there of the lat lng's locations
of place markers, they have the street view. It could apply to the polygon
overlays too showing you the polygon shape perimeters you are entering.
Imagine having this functionality of asking yourself 'where is this little
back-of-the-road art book shop?... google says its on this road
somewhere...'.
You hold the phone up and rotate 360 degrees and if you're far away its
small, move closer and it becomes less faded and bigger.
You could tie-in the sat nav, 'Rotate right 3 degrees', 'stop', 'ahead 200
yards passing starbucks on your right'.
Bring it reality as it would work beautifully for the http://CreativeMaps.vism.ag
100 of the best data visualisations / infographics
I wanted to compile a nice square thumbnailing of the different creative and innovative techniques to the visualisation of info/data. Each square is hyperlinked.
visualisationmagazine.com/100datavis.htm
Featuring:
Brian Solis (many great pieces not featured)
TeleGeography
Barrett Lyon (opte project)
Eboy
Density Design (the milan universities students work, lots of beautiful & innovative designs)
Good.is (good transparencies)
Arnaud Velten
Paula Scher
David McCandless
John Maeda (RISD professor former MIT Aesthetics & Computation)
Brian Holmes
Saatchi & Saatchi
Mozy.com
Charles Joesph Minard
Walid Raad & Triple D
Denis Wood
Information Architects (Oliver R+)
Adam Sicinksi (brilliant mindmaps, very detailed and intiricate)
Design by Vent.com
Cameron Wilde
Jess Bachman (Wall Stats.com)
Andy Proehl
Marco Quaggiotto
Boris Muller
Peter Crnokrak
Scott Mccloud
Dizzia (Visual CV)
Lauren Bugeja
Chris Watson
Quentin Delobel
Martin Wattenburg
Gerson Mora (plenty on flickr)
NB Studio
Peter Ito
Skip Vision (federer/sampras)
Ouinon.net
Zach Bean
Luca Masud
Carl Tashian
Theo Deutinger (...and associates)
Ritwik Dey
Franchesco Franchi
Dr Bollen
See Ming Lee
Dr John Snow
Moritz Stefaner
Hugh Dubberly (...and associates)
Theodore Rosendorf
Lana (crochet diagram)
Julian Beever
Nicholas Feltron
Just search a handful of those names and you will have plenty of research to feed your imagination and design techniques styles. Will probably keep adding when i get time. oh and i know some arent strictly data vis/infographics, but we have to try and let the border between art and infographics to blend to promote innovation and creative growth for the fields (not that they havent already).
More great compilation sites to wet your appetite with:
http://ce.sysu.edu.cn/hope/Education/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=4883
http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/extras/posters.php#infographics_posters_iso_codes - geo data infographics (saw one of them on chart porn blog)
http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2009/04/50-great-examples-of-infographics/comment-page-3/ - brilliant
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/25-useful-infographics-for-web-designers/ - brilliant
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/30-superb-examples-of-infographic-maps/
http://www.datavisualization.ch/inspiration/20-inspirational-infographics-12-%e2%80%93-19-10-09 - good collection, selections from their tumblar listed below
http://www.instantshift.com/2009/06/07/infographic-designs-overview-examples-and-best-practices/
More Galleries
WeLoveDatavis. excellant tumblr gallery from ben w at datavis.ch
Bigger Plate - is focused on providing a map sharing space for MindManager files. It offers a map library that is searchable by keyword, tags and categories. When you upload a map to share, the site automatically generates a preview image. Also, you can rate others’ maps, a feature which may help you to zero in on the most valuable maps, as judged by your peers. When you upload maps, you can designate them as password protected.
Cool Data Visualization Flickr
Density Design. MUST SEE infographics
GOOD magazine. infographic transparencies
Free mind share - This website bills itself as “a fast, simple way to share your FreeMind mind map(s).” After I logged in, the only option I saw was to upload and view my own maps. There doesn’t seem to be any kind of a public map gallery here. In fact, several of the capabilities of Freemindshare, including “groups” and “messages” don’t seem to be finished yet. Clicking on the links for them leads you to pages that say “This feature is not yet available"
Infografia Infographics Flickr
Infografistas.com / Infographics News Flickr
Innovation in Data Visualization Flickr
Nathan Yau's new flickr group and sets ] Flickr
Mappio - is a repository for MindManager and FreeMind maps. Maps are searchable by title and keyword tags, and you can also view a set of featured mind maps. You can preview any map as an image file, including small, medium, large and full screen (1024×768 pixel) images that show a lot of detail. You can then decide if you want to download it as an image or as a map. Mappio also displays related maps beneath the currently selected one. The whole site is well designed and is a pleasure to browse
Nova Mind Connect - This gallery is a companion to the website of NovaMind Pty. Ltd., a leading developer of mind mapping software. NovaMind enables you to create very colorful and engaging maps, and offers its users a unique capability: They can publish their maps directly from the program to the NovaMind Connect workspace. This gallery contains the most colorful and engaging maps of any I’ve seen. If you want to see what’s possible with mind mapping software, this is the gallery that will inspire you to a higher level of visual mapping.
Time Visualisations. Visual History Archive - Excellant
Topic Scape. excellant mind map / diagram archive
XMIND - Like NovaMind Connect, this gallery is part of the XMIND website. You can upload your map files directly from XMIND to this shared map space.
ReMap from Bestario. excellant reorganisation of Visual Complexity
Apologises i know there are some very imporatant people probably not mentioned,
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22 Visualisation Styles
Data visualisation is a no doubt popular and growing field with many innovative solutions arising every day, there are a few places that try to help structure and define this field for some clarity and hopefully more creative decisions.
Decisions such as the usually struggling question of what style/type of visualisation form should I use?
I saw Info Many Eyes had useful thumbnails and defintions of the types of visualisations it offers, and Joel Laumans made a fantastic booklet on the subeject that had many types that weren't included. Therefore I wanted to unify their defintions and style types in a table. Bit of a challenge deciding how they should line up together as some are the same and others not or are categorised differently. I think it was Correlations with Joel's grouping that I had to split to fit with Many Eyes.
If you cant see this table, it may be because it is viewed in an rss, click here to see the table
Also useful on the topic of data visualisation and infovis Manuel Lima has produced a provocative manifesto to aid in this effort to help bring some structure to our complicated and diverse visual forms.
analysed here: http://bbh-labs.com/do-not-glorify-aesthetics-a-manifesto-for-data-visualisation
“Information Visualisation Manifesto”, 'a provocative (but characteristically generous and nuanced) take on the future of data visualisation which tackles head on the thorny questions at the heart of this ever-expanding field:
Art versus Science
Intrigue versus Immediacy
Aesthetics versus apprehension. '
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/blog/?p=644
Watch and listen to him here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/manuel-lima-visual-complexity
He also was complimented on his writing by Stephen few (author. Information Dashboard Design plus other books) in an intersting article that got me stirred into a comment as well as Ben at http://www.datavisualization.ch/.
http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=613
If you know of more styles not featured or would like to elaborate the defintions, styles, or you know of someone elses lists and categories that I could append please feel free to comment. I hope this helps a beginner or even more experienced data visualiser, infographic maker decide the best format to enhance and communicate their data sets.
Again many thanks for the thumbnails Joel.
Desk Map
Eye Magazine advertising by cartlidge levene
this represents what was on the desks and where they were arranged for every employee, found in Mapping by tang fawcett p36. I posted this to the site a while ago and thought i'd share its quirkyness.
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Notebook Route Map
This is showing the visual communication of my thoughts on page(s), (9 pages). A visualisation through the journey of my investigation on the terrain of thoughts.
They meander accross the double page spread and mostly are connected via their physical position, i.e. a train of thought finishes, it restarts at the same point at the edge of the page on the next.
They were experiments to see how I visualised my ideas. Whether their physical arrangement through the notebook of my research, ideas, investigations helped me understand better. Re-Re-Reinvestigation.
The second image (route map) is for others to use, simply overlay it on any terrain thou wishes squire, your own notebook pages, maps etc. Then visually think and elicit thoust own topographic connections and routes.
It is quite a conceptual abstract notion to take the visual direction of my thoughts on page(s), the journey of my investigation on the terrain of thoughts and utilise this route with alternative content/terrain. Really like the abstract/organic lines mixed with geometric shapes bringing a bit of order to my thoughts (chaos).
Some experiments I have created, playing with that great notion of 'the map is not the territory' - baudrillard. Hence investigations into what is the territory, and can you utilise maps in different territories. Spatial arrangments intensifying/enhancing cognition. Got me buzzing.
Hope they're interesting.
The creative commons - attribution - non commercial - share alike
Nokia Map
The new Nokia 6220 advertisement promoting its mapping technology available on it with, a giant collaborative map. Contrasting close ups of people of varying ages with close ups of pencils/pens even a wonderfully kept one of the pencil nib breaking it creates an excellant mix of creativity, enjoyment and concentration.
No surprise of its brilliance from Wieden & Kennedy, they just do it, sorry about the pun.
Credits:
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, London
Agency Producer: Lucy Russell
Creative Director: Matt Gooden, Ben Walker
Art Director: Dan Norris
Copywriter: Ray Shaughnessy
Production Company: Partizan, London
Director: Antoine Bardou Jacquet
Producer: David Stewart
DOP: Damien Morisot
Art Director: Chris Oddy
Editor: Bill Smedley, Work, London
Post Production: The Mill, London
Telecine Operator: Paul Harrison
On-line Operator: Barnsley
Music Composer: Wave, London
More at: http://advertisingpawn.com
featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2168552%3AVideo%3A788