This is a great study of the uk's creative economy that has sought to study 'the concept of creative clusters as a starting point to examine the role that creative industries play in local and regional innovation systems.' NESTA
'No one doubts the economic importance of the creative industries to the UK. At 6.2 per cent of the economy, and growing at twice the rate of other sectors, they are proportionately the largest of any in the world.' NESTA
'Apart from London, the research identifies nine other creative 'hotspots' across the UK:
Bath
Brighton
Bristol
Cambridge
Guildford
Edinburgh
Manchester
Oxford
Wycombe and Slough
See
the 10 maps in detail
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'In addition to mapping creative clusters across Britain, the analysis presented in our new report shows that:
• The creative industries punch above their weight in terms of innovation at both the national and regional level. They also tend to cluster in the same places as other innovative industries such as High-Tech Manufacturing and Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS).
• Different parts of Britain present different profiles of creative specialisation: cities across the wider South are more diversified in their creative specialisation, whereas Northern and Midlands cities (Manchester excepting) have similar creative profiles.' NESTA
The designs of the maps are by designbysoap.co.uk and the individual cities maps are good with the varying intensity of a hue to represent the density of the creative sector within the particular area of one of the cities. All nine have their own unique hue as is on the key on this infographic above and in the interactive ones they have overlayed them over google so you can see street data and they let you drill down the data by clicking the different particular areas of a city. Just wish they show what creative business are in these areas.
Anyhow, great that this kind of report takes place for the creative sector, help us creatives have a better awareness like I do with http://vism.ag/maps.
See the whole report in pdf here: http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/creative_economy/geography_of_innovation/assets/documents/creative_clusters_and_innovation or go the website and read more: http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/creative_economy/geography_of_innovation/assets/features/creative_clusters_and_innovation_report
Geography of Innovation
Interactive Digital Magazine
London-based BERG demonstrate the potential of tablet devices to deliver a rich experience for magazine lovers, much like a book on Amazon Kindle.
Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo. I'm sure it will get blogged and retweeted-retumbled, dugg but I liked it and would love for the tablets to become affordable. Like CR say 'Magazine publishers are getting very excited about the potential of iPhone Apps' the tablet will be slightly bigger device. 'In this hugely impressive video, BERG walk us through their ideas for how magazines may work on such a device.' Via Guardian, Via PaperPapers via infographicsnews & seen via CR-Blog, 'this isn't just pie in the sky conceptualising but part of serious research commissioned by Swedish publisher Bonnier R&D Beta Lab, which believes that such devices will be in use in two years' time'. The BERG concept certainly seems more considered than this idea for Sports Illustrated that has recently done the rounds online. from my Tumblr - 18 hours agoRelated articles by Zemanta
- The Socialization of Service and Relationships (briansolis.com)
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- Mag+ Concept From Popular Science Publishers Shows Thinking Outside The (Tablet) Box [Tablets] (gizmodo.com)
- An inspiring look at how the tablet could revolutionise publishing. [must watch video] (thenextweb.com)
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remap - visual complexity data mine by bestario
Excellent interactive way to browse through the projects with bestario's semantic search engine. . tags can be clicked at the bottom to present a new visual array very quickly . http://bestiario.org/research/remap/ . . remap - visual complexity data mine by bestario Originally uploaded by visual think map . mining: http://visualcomplexity.com .
Journal of IA
A remix of Georgian Dance by flyergeorge, released under the provisions of the CC BY SA 2.0 license.
The Journal of Information Architecture is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Its aim is to facilitate the systematic development of the scientific body of knowledge in the field of information architecture. http://journalofia.org/
The Journal of Information Architecture is published biannually in English and Volume 1, Issue 1 is the current issue. Read more about the Journal » The Call for Papers for Volume 1, Issue 2, to be published Autumn 2009, is now open. Read the Call for Papers »
Here are the papers in Vol1.
Dorte Madsen's Editorial
Shall We Dance?
“ But where is the research in information architecture? (...) You may come across
research involving information architecture or relevant for information
architecture, but not necessarily written with a specific purpose of developing
the field of information architecture, of adding to the body of knowledge about
information architecture, developing concepts for information architecture, nor
in general addressing the theoretical foundations of information architecture.
Now, with a Journal of Information Architecture, we have a forum where we can
publish what is central to the development of the field of information
architecture. ”
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Gianluca Brugnoli
Connecting the Dots of User
Experience
The article presents a point of view about analyzing and designing the user experience within
pervasive networks made of distributed services and applications, where the user is the primary actor who freely and opportunistically connects and activates the system components following an activity-driven process. A digital content case study is used to outline the main characteristics of this scenario and to introduce a tool for user experience modelling and designing. From the
application of this model are proposed some considerations about how the design process could change to support this vision.
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Helena Francke
Towards an Architectural Document
Analysis
Information architecture (IA) and document architecture (DA) provide two, partly overlapping, perspectives on the creation of document structures. This article suggests how the architecture of a document can be analysed from these two perspectives. Literature on IA and DA has been examined in order to identify central ideas that are of relevance for analysing the architectures of digital documents. The article contains an overview of how IA and DA have been used and
defined. The article shows how a model for analysing documents as sociotechnical artefacts can fruitfully draw on parts of the theoretical and practical complexes of IA and DA. The aspects that are identified as particularly important from IA are organisation systems, navigation, and labelling. From DA, logical structures, layout structures, content structures, and file structures
are all applicable aspects. It is discussed how these various aspects may be interpreted in order to support an analysis of the organising principles of documents.
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Andrew Hinton
The Machineries of Context
The essay re-frames Information Architecture as designing context in the digital layer, contending that IA has always been less about organizing information than about designing architecture for a new kind of contextual space. It explores how a global network of user-created hyperlinks has changed how we experience context, and how IA practice emerged to contend with this change. In addition, the essay proposes that IA study and practice develop tools and methods that improve our understanding and methods for solving the increasingly complex design challenges brought about by this new contextual reality.
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James Kalbach
On Uncertainty in Information
Architecture
Uncertainty, in general, is a fundamental aspect of human activity and underlies much of our
decision making. The notion of uncertainty in information seeking, in particular, dates back to Shannon and Weaver (1949) and since then has been investigated in many forms. Kulthau's (1993) work on information uncertainty is perhaps the most extensive. Through two specific examples, this article proposes uncertainty as a unifying heuristic in information architecture. Measurements of uncertainty can serve a diagnostic function in both the design and evaluation of information technologies and user interfaces.
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Mapping Knowledge
A new map of knowledge based on electronic data searches in which users moved
from one journal to another, thus establishing associations between them.
A new map of knowledge has been assembled by scientists at the research
library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is based on electronic data searches in which
users moved from one journal to another, thus establishing associations between them.
The map includes both the sciences and the humanities in a hub and wheel
arrangement, with the humanities at the center and the sciences arrayed around
them. The arrangement fell out naturally from the data and is not contrived,
said Johan Bollen, the leader of the research team.
In the map, published in the current issue of PLoS One, it has some great clustering and is excellant to realise through distance and colour their revelance to each other. The journals are color-coded as follows: physics, light purple; chemistry, blue; biology, green; medicine, red; social sciences, yellow; humanities, white; mathematics, purple; and engineering, pink. The interconnecting lines reflect the probability that a reader will click from one journal to another on the computer screen.
Similar maps have long been constructed on the basis of footnotes in one journal’s articles that refer to articles in other journals. Dr. Bollen believes that his electronic click map better represents scholars’ behavior than does citation analysis, as the footnote method is called.
from: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16visuals.html?_r=2
found here: http://www.twine.com/item/123nz0p3g-ry/visual-science-map-of-knowledge-nytimes-com
Subway Blogs Map
Names Authors
An excellant visualisation taking another fantastic subway (hary beck) subversion visualisation similiar to the web-trend-map-2008-beta by the information architects, except instead of mapping mapping the internet terrain, mapping claude ashcenbrenner's (at serial mapper) blogs/RSS links archive.
He cleverly structures the content of his blogs using the paris subway map layout of lines by renaming them as:
Visualisation
Teaching
Thinkers
Business Intelligence
Missing In Action
Mind Mapping
Network
Creativity
& Humour
To arrange all these blogs into an easy to follow, complex/diverse/similarities content ordered, clean spatial structure is a real achievement. It has this easy to the eye pink background and beige centre that allows the Blue and Green names easy to focus on and follow along the lines. But if it isnt enough of an achivement to arrnage these complex/diverse blogs in a great connectivist structure, he still added further depth by simply subtly differentiating between French & English blogs without having to compomise his overall layout much at all merely a small key to say:
green - english
blue - french
Making it bilingual to help when navigating.
He was exporting this to pdf so that it is a fully interactive hyperlinks attached to the blog name nodes concept map. make in more engaging yet further.
He breaks it into 2 output version of the authors and one for the names, both using the same spatial location along his different lines so as to easily correlate the authors with their blogs.
I love it as you can probably guess.
Here are cluade's comments (forgive translation, may not be absolutely correct)
'You've probably noticed this blog is somewhat artistic. Indeed unlike the practice you can not find the list of my favorite blogs.In fact I think for a long time, but procrastination also achieved all that we must say that I was not sure how to keep all my RSS feeds in a reasonable space ..
I finally found the solution obviously in the form of a map. You will therefore find below a selection of 70 blogs devoted to mapping information encapsulated in a subway map.
Parisians (and others - °) recognize a part of the metropolitan network to which were added some tram lines. This plan is bilingual French / English including heads of line that I let you discover ... The francophone (in Blue) is represented by nearly 40 blogs, many of which have emerged in the last year ..
This device is designed to encourage you to leave your usual lines by taking paths through it.
Ca n'al'air nothing but a path we must remember that the term method has been built from a Greek word meaning old way .... So Good cognitive walk!
Each blog is associated a subway station. Place your mouse URL appears, click will open a new window to view the blog.'
Love his concept of 'leaving usual lines by taking paths through it', much like my work with the recent http://visualthinkmap.blogspot.com/2008/09/notebook-route-map.html. Could be called Blog Route Visualisation, but Blog Subway Map infer's that quite effectively.
Aa soon as I spot I know a link to Claude's interactive version, trust i will repost this. Great aid to exploring blogs of similiar content/interests/terrain that can be used in an instant, just how you more often then not want a visualisation's performance (function) to do.
Fantastic claude
Enjoy the journey
from here: http://www.serialmapper.com/archive/2008/09/25/mise-en-seine-de-blogs.html
search the web for the titles/authors of blogs, will no doubt bring up the right one as we await pdf concept map
Bank Space Sky Onion Visualisations
1.2.
3.4.
Awesome visualisations by Theo Deutinger Architects.
1. China
vs. Worldbank in Vrij Nederland
Vrij Nederland issue Nr. 17/18; 2008 features a world map, which compares the
top ten money streams of the Worldbank versus the top ten foreign direct
investments of China. Underlying one can see the expected GDP growth per country
for the year 2007. While the Worldbank’s core task is to help world's poorest
nations, most of its money is lent to countries with double digit growth rates.
I particularly like the subtle shades of grey for the countries and then the
bold blue & red sprouting from world bank and china much in the style of
their invasion, presence affecting these countries. (much like dads army, uk).
Then some handy pye charts for stats keyed to their colour.
producer: Theo Deutinger in collaboration with Pieter van Os
http://www.td-architects.eu/?id=4
2. Building
up Space
50 years ago the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 was launched by the
Soviet Union, inaugurating the rage to occupy outer space. Currently, the U.S.
Strategic Command monitors 12.771 satellites and other large objects with about
10cm in diameter orbiting the earth. Out of these 12.771 objects only 872 are
active satellites, while most of the remaining 11.899 monitored pieces are
dysfunctional and considered ‘space debris’. Together with millions of other
smaller pieces of debris generated by spacecraft explosions or by collisions
between satellites, they form a rapidly growing dangerous nebula, causing a
major threat for damage on satellites and spacecrafts. The power released by a
1cm piece of space debris is equivalent to a hand grenade. While our lives on
earth depend more and more on GPS satellite support, the space they are imbedded
in becomes more and more threatened. As an American General puts it “…our
space architecture is very fragile.”
Very interesting subject matter to think that their is that much floating
above our atmosphere. Never imagined that scale.
Producer: Theo Deutinger
http://www.td-architects.eu/?id=96
3. High-Rise
Buildings
Out of the 191 countries that are counted by the United Nations only 81 (42%)
to have a building that is higher than 100 meter. Still, lining up the highest
buildings of these 81 nations according to their geographical proximity creates
an impressive skyline.
I really love this visualisation. Firstly it is great how they collate all
the high rise buildings and they layer it with a little design/illustration with
a silhouette of a sky line. Then there's also the gradient from blue to white
for the sky. It tells you the height of each building and its name, location and
they're sectioned Asia, Europe, Africa & America. It then has outer rings
showing scale at 200 metres & 300 metres to offer comparison between.
I kept questioning why circular, would it work better along a straight scale
to serve as like a bar chart? But I think it is served best as a circle because
it gives me the sense of the earth, rhetorically emphasized with the orange/red center
core (contrasting brilliantly with the blue sky), and the buildings grow out of
it trying to reach the planes in the sky and even satellites in space to give
you a sense of scale. Admitted a bar chart would probably be easier to adjudicate
their size in comparison, but it would change it all.
It would probably have to be smallest to largest changing the continent
grouping. It wouldn't have this great notion of height with the earth as the center
that these buildings grow from to reach satellites. It wouldn't be half as intriguing
as it is now.
Producer: Theo Deutinger, Johannes Pointl, Beatriz Ramo
http://www.td-architects.eu/?id=49
4. Onion
Again great sense of scale with how much the onion is exported form the
netherlands and how little they need to import. Also very informative as to the
amount countries import with a convenient key of size, colour and scale of cost
with the arcs/lines connecting the nodes/countries.
Producer: Theo Deutinger
http://www.td-architects.eu/?id=58
Four excellant visualisation, and there are many more at their site that I haven't
shown here.
Periodic Table of Design
Problem solving [Ps], Visual thinking [Vt], Information [In], Communication [C], Language [L], Technology [T], Shapes [S], Form [Fo] & Function [Fu].
Just the first 9 elements in my periodic table of design. I had a sketched idea to try it in one of my notebooks. then saw the periodic table of visualisation methods by Ralph Lengler and Martin J. Eppler, had seen simon pattersons rhodes to reason done in 95' and so kept making notes of things that should be included until had a good structure (below). might have missed things but found some of the elements were already covered under another. any other suggestions please let me know.
Not quite as interactive as the visualisation methods table by eppler and lengler but hopefully equally as useful to overview the topic of design and have a substantially improved awareness of design releated issues/elements.
published here: http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/when-elements-go-extinct
Mastification Visualisation
The trident gum ads caused quite a bit of controversy with their creative, pastel coloured surreal ads surrounded around mastification.
mas·ti·cate Audio Help /?mæst??ke?t/
Spelled Pronunciation[mas-ti-keyt]
- to chew
- to reduce to a pulp by crushing or kneading, as rubber
Trident imaginatively concieve this idea of the mastification lobe in the brain. 'The mastication lobe is the largest member of the lobe family and is the part of the brain responsible for receiving and processing chewing pleasure. When a human man or woman chews, the taste and texture receptors on the upper tongue send trillions of tiny pleasure signals direct to the mastication lobe via an intricate network of neural pathways.'
View the video here (scroll to THE MASTICATION LOBE EXPLAINED)http://www.tridentgum.co.uk/EN/Trident2008/about/movieshtml.htm
It is quirky and uses these crisp pastel colours and graph paper visual along with the tagline 'mastication for the nation' which is where it had problems with ASA (advertising standards authority) here in the UK and subsequently had to stop their campaign, only after it had already been seen in abundance by the public.
Great thinking, mastificate yourself.
Dictionary.com [Origin: 1640–50; mastic, -ate1]
Type Timeline Map
type timeline half1
Originally uploaded by visual think map
This visual map explores the relationships/characteristics of the many different typographers/fonts, artistic movements from 1890 - 1950 charting each decade. Wanted it to be minimal style but vast in content, yet still clear and easy to follow.
It was inspired from Stefan Thermerson 'Kurt Schwitters on a time Chart' featured in the brilliant Typographica NS no. 14, December, 1966 edited by Herbert Spencer (Typographica by Rick Poynor 2001).
'...in which the practices and the techniques of typography have changed dramatically, in which technical developments have released typography from the restrictions and disciplines imposed by metal type, and allowed it to become increasingly visual and less linear, less linguistic. the frontiers between graphic design, photography, and typography have dissolved; the marriage of word and image has been consumated'
said by spencer, poynor pg 127.
Great summary of today and visualisations that we see, said in 1967, 41 years ago.