Cartographer of Complexity. This map is brilliant on so many levels. It has a timeline at the heart mapping its creator's, Arnaud Velten, career from 1992 - 2008.
In a similar vein to the previously posted Life Map by Ritwik Dey it colour codes his subject/interests & locations in to 5 colours Green, Light Green, Yellow, Orange & Red (top left). These are then used as a key to his timeline in the middle near the red circle for 'You are here' I think vous etes ici translates to, my french is limited (but you could presume to start there as it is the first, bold red graphic epicentre almost).
Under the subjects headings for Graphics/Illustration Green are Typography, Creation, & Mise en Page (I think 'read the page' similar to mise en scene). This then progresses to Communication light green, Multimedia yellow, Marketing orange & (I guess, weak french) Intelligence strategies red which is how Arnaud has arrived at Cartographer of Complexity demystifying problems (again, weak french).
In the top right it is very compact and gives extreme depth to this spatial information visualisation (infographic) not through the perception of 3d depth in the 2d form (which is executed brilliantly btw), but actual quantity of data are his competencies of software understanding, frontpage, dreamweaver, corel (similair to freehand), photoshop, flash, indesign, after effects, premiere...
The centre steming from his timeline link off to his jobs, blog interests... so much detail, wish I could read french better as i would probably understand a lot more.
I wonder if his sponsor at the bottom/center, International Bank of Art Money exists.
Absolutely Fantastic Map.
Real Pleasure, thankyou Arnaud.
Featured Here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APhoto%3A543
Found (sent) here: www.as-map.com/ISOMAP.html
High Res PDF here: http://www.as-map.com/ISOMAP-ARNAUD_VELTEN_2007.pdf
3D CV Map
Wireless Brain Mapping thoughts
notebook4 - wireless thoughts
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Technology will be there one day... to boldy go where no one has gone before! Well... its there. What I imagined would be a great way to externalise thoughts, is almost a reality.
'Mapping brain could translate thoughts into speech
Forty-one neurons is a drop in the ocean compared with the hundred billion or so cells that are present in our brains. But those few neurons could help Eric Ramsey talk again. It is eight years since a car accident left Ramsey "locked-in" - aware but paralysed and unable to communicate other than through eye movements. By listening in on a tiny population of cells in his brain, neuroscientists hope to give him back his "voice" - a first for someone with his problems.
Ramsey had a wireless electrode implanted 6 millimetres or so below the surface of his brain in 2004 (see Diagram). The electrode records the electronic pulses sent by 41 neurons that surround it in an area of the brain involved in generating speech. By analysing the signals created when Ramsey imagines speaking, the team has developed software that may one day turn his thoughts into ...' from the New Scientist - access to full article needs subsciption.
PS if somone is subscribed could they send me the diagram featured in the article.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19626304.000-mapping-brain-cells-could-translate-thoughts-into-speech.html?feedId=health_rss20
note map whole - communication (3x3 A3)
note map whole - communication (3x3 A3)
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i needed to see my whole ideas in one view, to help me connect my ideas literally accross the visual scene.
as much as this helped it was not surprisingly becoming too large, i'd have to go on a walk to see the other end (only joking). i started with the grey a4 photocopy of a previous brainstorm of communication then reflecting on it after some time i expanded it with thoughts at that time, arrangement of poetry, time, painting or speech (syntax).
Finally settled on using a notebook, as i could 'flick' back pages to reasses my research.
still it was a nice visual.
The Whirl - Ways of Meaning
Watch 'The Whirl' clicking here
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Why visual language can help us deal with the information age.
He talks about some of the cognitive challenges of the information age, and why visual language is an important tool for dealing with them. Also talking about how information is non linear today, hence visual maps of non-linear information connected in multidirectional, interdisciplinary, 'open' meanings of communication.
Take the cadburys gorilla, is there a meaning?
Illustrative 07 Berlin - Blu Multidirectional comic
Held in Berlin from 31 August to 16 September 2007, Illustrative showcases more than 200 works of established European illustrators. The exhibition focuses on so called free, uncommissioned, daring and ambitious works of the new generation in the illustrative field. This is an excellant multi-directional comic by Blu, more multidirectional comics featured in Pictures and Words: New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration. It has the same multidrectional, non-linear reading that maps entail. It creates multi-narratives that could be continued with other collaborators/designers with other point of views similiar to PAR, Participatory Action Research[i]. This involves ‘participants in collaborative research activity with researchers in constructing their own perspectives of their world with a view to social improvement’ (Dowmunt, Dunford & Hemert, 2007, p 181). [i] [i] This is very similar to PD (Participatory Design) which is ‘an approach to systems design that emerged from Scandinavia in the early 1070’s […] active participation of workers in the design process’ to enhance skills/knowledge (Crabtree, 2005, p132). Illustrative Berlin - blu - multi directional comic - Centaur Publication. (2008). Creative Review nov 07 p52 http://www.designtaxi.com/news.jsp?id=10301&monthview=1&month=7&year=2007 Dowmunt, Tony, Dunford, Mark & Hemert, Nicole van. Ed. (2007). Inclusion Through Media. London: Goldsmiths Crabtree, Andy. (2005). Designing Collaborative Systems: A Practical Guide to Ethnography (Computer Supported Cooperative Work). Springer-Verlag, London Limited