My Fry

a69f3d0c307f48f4086deaa9fafa5fd4 My Fry

I love this app from Stefanie Posavec and Dare Digital. She is to be featured in Visualisation Magazine Vol 4 Handmade with her equally beautiful Literary Organisms work.

These projects are great as they examine the accessibility of information and try to make complex narratives of words easier to read by opening up the multi-linear reading of data, see blu-comic or typographic nuance. Giving it a new pattern which is just as brilliant achieved in this app, what apps i think should be made for: easier to access information, but also she & dare digital bring with it beauty in form too.



From Stefanie's site:

'MyFry is the iPhone app edition of The Fry Chronicles, Stephen Fry's latest autobiography.

This project was initiated by Jeremy Ettinghausen at Penguin. I designed the 'visual index' graphics, and Dare Digital made it interactive and created everything else (ie the most important parts).

This iPhone app functions as a 'visual index' of key theme tags within the book, all of which have been divided into 4 major groups: People, Subjects, Emotions, and 'Fryisms'.

The entirety of the book is represented by a circular wheel of 'spines', each of which represents a section of text. The arcs around the outside of the wheel connect sections that are tagged with the same theme.

Through interacting with the scroll wheel, the user can explore the text and read sections in chronological order, by theme, or in any order he or she chooses. As Stephen Fry's autobiography was written in a style that was suited to splitting the text into separate moments in Fry's life, the visual index offers the reader a different way of engaging with this book.'  itsbeenreal.co.uk/index.php?/new/myfry-iphone-app/

Really would love websites to take on this persona, of multi linear reading, interactive, where information is represented as a node, see concept map.

MyFry in the iTunes store

Video: Stephen Fry explaining how the app works

Stephen Fry's website Dare Digital

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Published on 2010/10/02 3:43 pm.
Filed under: architecture, circular, concept map, connections, Interactive Mapping, multidirectional, non linear, wheel, words, writing Tags: , , , , , , ,

Visualisation Magazine Volume 2 - Circles

Open publication - Free publishing - More information



this magazine collates some of the most creative and innovative visualisation of information that try to simplify the complex. this volume is based around circles.

http://issuu.com/visualthinkmap/docs/visualisation_volume_2_circles
featured at flickr:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/visualthinkmap/3333627301/



or on you tube:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPo8BJcsEXw&eurl=http://business-commando.com/business_commando/&feature=player_embedded





next is based on isometrics. example layout featuring work by julienbayle.net



With excellant help and collaboration from pedro montiero at whattype.wordpress.com it has had an excellant revamp. More work featured by,


Carl Tashian
Peter Crnokrak
T D Architects: Theo Deutinger, Johannes Pointl, Beatriz Ramo
Bradford Paley
Quentin Delobel
Andrew Collins
Grace Lee
Wesley Grubbs, Nick Yahnke
Julien Bayle
Pedro Montiero
Roaxanna Tran (at telegeography.com plus other members)
Ji-Hwan Kim
Sol Jin
stephen p anderson
Christian Nold
jess bachman
tom gauld
2spot et al
Nick Cawthon
Andrew Vande Moere
Jarke J. van Wijk

please send your examples of isometrics for the future issue 3. also please give feedback. and observe the copyrights of non commercial, no derivatives, attributation to myself and pedro.


all featured are very good resources of inspiration for various design jobs as they solve communication problems using easy to understand graphics. Seems a mouthful but basically great graphics that look great (form) and communicate detailed info quickly and easily (function).


All items featured at http://visualthinkmap.ning.com


Version 1 here:



This layout of version 2 lets you zoom in more but loses the nice double page spread, incase you want to see closer detail.


thanks again to all who contributed and there cooperation, very helpful allowing their work to be featured in the magazine and others advice and help. thanks to pedro's collaboartion too, gave it a really good revamp. see more of my work at

http://chriswatsondesign.viviti.com/


or more visualisations featured at


http://visualthinkmap.ning.com

Published on 2009/03/07 12:35 am.
Filed under: aesthetic, brockmann, communication, complex, creative, data, design, image, innovative, knowledge, map, narrative, non linear, paley, text, visual thinking, visualisation, white space, wordless

Amazon Books Map

Amazon Books Map


amaz node - info vis - Takayuki Fukatsu


Amaznode (http://amaznode.fladdict.net/)
is a relation based search engine for amazon which is made with adobe flash9 (as3). This search engine visualizes a relation network of products in amazon, from the statistics data "customers who bought this item also bought", by digging related products again and again. Amaznode is not
only for searching but also good for researching and making an associate link.

Fantastic how it mines the associational network of products 'also purchased by...'

good display for hover over with its interactivity. love it.

integratable to your own amazon associates id. score

and not just books, or info vis... any product. the best amazon widget.


Affiliate with amaznode

Amaznode enables you to make a direct link to paticular saerch query, and you can also add your own amazon associate link.


In the search result view, click the "COPY RESULT LINK" button at the top left menu. It copies a handy html to your clipboard.


a href="http://amaznode.fladdict.net/#keywords=information%20design&locale=uk&searchIndex=" target="_blank" affiliate="AFFILIATEID-22">Search with amaznode: information design /a>


You can easly make a link to amaznode search result by adding this code to your blog or email.


Also if you have amazon associate id, and you replace the part "affiliate=" to your own id, all products in this query works as your associate product link.



Market analysis with amaznode


An another aspect of amaznode is that for researching tool. Searching with amaznode, you can find hidden characteristics of products. For example, some kind of products may be bought by a limited user group even it is very very popular.


Made by Takayuki Fukatsu (fladdict.net / blog)


see previous post: Green Search Engine

Published on 2009/01/23 4:07 pm.
Filed under: algorithm, clean, complex, concept map, data, dynamic, image, information, knowledge, map, multidirectional, nodes, non linear, spatial, spider, technology, visualisation, white space

3d Calligram

3d Calligram



art-livres - villiard com

brilliant. livre is book in french i think. very delicate/intricate stories being visualisaed in 3d calligram thorugh their own narrative in textual form.

very nice text visualisation. ok not necessarily functionable that you can read it, but its form is very good. also check out Mississippi Type Visual.

excellant.

see more images here:

via http://www.villiard.com/livres-art.html ;

from here: carto-infos.googlegroups.com

merci beaucoup Christophe Tricot

Published on 2008/12/10 9:28 pm.
Filed under: 3d, abstract, aesthetic, art, artefacts, calligram, literature, narrative, non linear, text, visual, visualisation, white space

Circular Visuals

Circular Visuals


Oil prices

by Pedro Monteiro

Great visual by pedro, extremely current and very useful to see just at a glance the sheer increase over time just by their size. the red stands out very well with a minimal black and white structure similar to Once More Around the Sun, with little bits of information giving reasons as to the increase. ceheck out his others here: eco footprints (isometric similar technique to 3D
CV Map), elections (robert kosara/eager eyes contest, very nice technique/idea), 700billion
& more.



wine
flavour wheel by carl tashian


What is the relationship between wine varieties and flavor components? This visualization attempts to show the strength of these relationships. I culled descriptive flavor words from over 5,000 published wine tasting notes written between 1995-2000 in a major Australian wine magazine. Written by Carl Tashian for Visualizing the Five Senses, a class at http://itp.nyu.edu.

Really great interactive visual, minimal. more here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/wine-flavour-wheel-by-carl


great post from info aesthetics by andrew v moere



girltalk
by gregg gillis

girl talk is the DJ name for gregg gillis and is great visual using colour to distinguish the different songs and layers of tracks that he mixes up along a neat circular timeline covering his slot. think there are sites that let you cut up tracks, will me check... www.splicemusic.com and there is the BBC music cubes, lets you build up your favourite tracks but not splice i think.

anyhow great visual with the artists faces jumping off for a bit of ease of
recognition.

think i saw it posted by randy k/coolinfographics.blogspot (sorry would post
hyperlink but need to dash to shop)

Also check out these (some previously posted)

love will tear us apart type by peter crnokrak / A_B_peace & terror by peter crnokrak posted here: Joy, Love, War, Peace

Languages Visual

the great sky scraper visual: Bank Space Sky Onion Visualisations

Map of Carnaby Street, Adobe CS3 Icons Visual Map, Watch the Evolution Design, Dynamic
Time Visualisation & Once More Around the Sun by bradford paley.

enjoy

Published on 2008/11/06 8:22 pm.
Filed under: circular, clean, colour, communication, connections, creative, designs, familiar, geographic, non linear, perspectives, visual maps, visual thinking, visualisation, white space

Literature Visualisations

c76005bd525455cb480535dafcb4beaa Literature Visualisations

These are some great literature / text visualisations that I have found. From madonna, tom sharpe, da vinci (dan brown), royal society archive, universal declaration of human rights & a german poem.

Literature map lets you input your fave author and watch it display (limited aesthetically) other authors you are probably aware of but probably some your not. Great tool.

The poetry by boris is still equally intersesting and aesthetically plaeasing as his 05 version, visual e quite rightly point out it is a little more accessible (function) than before.

Chris weaver's projects are triumph's for accessibility with his elements visualisation I am certain would benefit anyone to learn, use, develop from, great tool.

Chris harrison's visualising the royal society might not be too accessible but i think function's to some extent. again like many troublesome issues with visualising, the works tend to need a degree of zoomability, 'scaling well as the data size gets very large' (visualizaton goals & features).

visual poetry 08 by Friederike Lambers,Boris Müller, Florian Pfeffer

previous post: Visual Poetry 05

found here: visual e (very well analysed)



da vinci by chris weaver

other works elements / cinegraph (infovis 07 contestant)

found here: google groups - carto-infos


(note, just a part of the visualisation)

Visualizing the Royal Society Archive by chris harrison

found here: design label



Like a Prayer/Madonna - The Shape of Song by Martin Wattenberg

ok, not literature but still a text visualiser


other literature text visualisers: Alice in Wonderland by Text Arc (previous post)


textual visualiser news search by Brendan Dawes
A news search engine visualiser at http://www.doodlebuzz.com/
found here: google group - carto-infos




tom sharpe by literature map

Great literature visualisation tool http://www.literature-map.com/
found here: actpubliclibrary.blogspot.com



universal declaration of human rights visualised


featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2168552%3AVideo%3A2502


found here: infosthetics



Pulp fiction dialogue visualised


featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2168552%3AVideo%3A559


found here: motionographermedia


previous post type visualisation: Typographic City - The Child

Published on 2008/10/20 9:14 pm.
Filed under: aesthetic, clean, communication, design, function, information, language, literature, mapping, motion, non linear, text, typographic, visual maps, visual thinking, visualisation, words

Green Motion Map





Interesting animation, in the form of conceptual map in motion. The look is very "plant". This idea seems really interesting, ie, staging and movement of a map heuristic through video. I do not know of any software Mind Mapping, which proposes to export the map in animated form or video.

found here: http://www.heuristiquement.com/2008/08/plante-gode-la-carte-en-mouvement.html

Great to see it animated as i noticed it and catalogued a post card advertising it in a notebook that i created when visiting paris back in jan/feb. Featured on page 30 here:

http://issuu.com/visualthinkmap/docs/paris_notebook_visual_diary/30?zoomed=true&zoomPercent=125&zoomXPox=0.9993006993006993&zoomYPos=0.19980314960629922

Or view my notebook here:



Get your own - Open publication


My drawing is quick just to capture great works to remember and be inspired by. loved the drawings of Alfred Kubin, especially Auto Contemplation.


found here:
http://eltiodelsaco.blogspot.com/2007/07/alfred-kubin.html



Published on 2008/10/11 1:02 pm.
Filed under: animation, clean, drawing, geographic, global, graphic, kubin, nodes, non linear, notebook, representation, tree, visualisation, wordless, world

Black Box

Black Box

Think it is the black box that kept details of the flight maps. Well here are a few excellant visual exanples of flight mapping.

The first is great, although when you click on the tab flight maps, and then select a country for flights too, it does just assume that the flight originates from the uk. hence uk - paris. dont know if you're able to change the origin of the flight. but look nice and clean visualisations and so highly informative.

from here: http://www.flightmapping.com/maps/files/europe/FRANCE.asp

found here: webuser magazine - issue 197 p69 25th september in their forum form BedstrofromAP

The study for Amsterdam Schiphol Airport was driven by the presumption that the
airport itself would be relocated off-shore, and subsequently required an investigation into the implications that this could have on the Netherlands.

Not as clean and clear as the first but equally creative and informative.

more...www.oma.eu

Published on 2008/10/04 10:31 pm.
Filed under: clean, dynamic, function, geographic, information, landscapes, multidirectional, non linear, spatial, visual maps, visualisation, white space

Notebook Route Map

f7d59b3ee2dd8aca577fd936dd8a2fd0 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



Published on 2008/09/14 10:31 pm.
Filed under: complex, composition, diaries, information, interpret, knowledge, landscapes, mapping, maps, multidirectional, non linear, notebook, seeing, self, spatial, territory, visualisation

Literature Map

tomsharpeliteraturemap Literature Map

Wonderful little map of relating authors to their similarities, genre. It is similar to music plasma map by Frederic Vavrille previously posted with how it connects musical artists together and actors likewise in a real time animated arrangment steming from the centre of who you searched.

I like tom sharpe and it is no surprise that terry pratchett, p g woodhouse & fear and loathing by hunter s thompson feature in my map.

The graphics/visual leave little to be desired, a bleak blue could have been contrasted with sharp black for the white lettering and maybe a more elegant but still easy to read french script font with a touch of embellishing with it or somewhere in the map display, edges/border. Could heed some advice from observing the subtle style of music plasma.

Anyhow it is a great website tool by marek gibney, literature-map.com produces these great text visual maps of different authors that you might be intersted in to enjoy as I can possibly more comedic pleasure through similarities to one you input.

The literature-map is a part of gnooks, gnooks is apart of gnod, gnod is a project of marek gibney

Similar to music map http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APhoto%3A67&context=album&albumId=2168552%3AAlbum%3A165

Brilliant, give it a go

Found here: http://actpubliclibrary.blogspot.com/2008/07/literature-map-exploration.html

Published on 2008/07/31 7:40 pm.
Filed under: architecture, composition, data, dynamic, innovative, language, links, literature, multiple, narrative, non linear, spatial, text, typographic, visual maps, visualisation, writing