Visualise yourself, what would you display to an audience? how intimate would you make it? Well even though he has been doing them from 2005 I have just discovered them by Nicholas Feltron. With very minimal styles but nice clean, clear, infographics and bold numbers encased in this swiss style grid system to keep some structure and rigidity to his diverse information of his life.
I am curious how he records all this data to be absolutely accurate, it must be some focsed, disciplined time keeping and number crunching.
Why? When quizzed, Felton’s admits that ‘it satisfies a real curiosity that I have about my habits. Why is it a popular document? If there are numer ous people out there who think it is fascinating and don’t even know me… imagine how fascinating I find it’. At first your reaction is ‘Oh please….’ but soon you are scouring the pages to see which was the most visited restaurant, his most-drunk beer: a sort of typographic Truman Show, authored by Truman himself.
It is intersting how the CR blog author describes it as a sort of typographic Truman Show.
http://feltron.com/
there are previous versions there.
found here: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/me-myself-and-i/
Published on 2009/01/16 3:22 pm.
Filed under: brockmann, clean, complex, data, design, geographic, how to, map, mobile, seeing, self, strange, swiss, visual maps, visualisation
Reminds me of the artists christo & jean claude wrapping the arch way in italy and other places. The commercial is called 'Blank Canvas' and questions what would be possible if all design ideas could start from a blank piece of canvas. Great changing of our perspectives and making us re-see the world which a good designer/artist learns to do.
Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts (Phoenix Books)(visual thinking), good book by joshua c taylor.
The all new Ford Kuga, which may just make it State side in a few years, combines Ford's new kinetic design with all-wheel-drive and on-and-off-road capability. How well Europe will receive this new CUV will be known when the Kuga goes on sale in June.
The commercial was directed by Danish director Nicolai Fuglsig, who also directed guinness domino ad which was a great triumph for their brand I think returning them back to their surreal, quirky, mexican-look brilliance started by amv bbdo with Snail Racing (bet on black) by directed by frank budgen, Swimmer by directed by jonathon glazer & of course Surfers by j glazer (who also did dreamer with those great squirrels).
Now Guinness made you visually think.
Anyhow veared off from Nicolai's great wrapped blank canvas ad, the music is by French singer Camille.
Brilliant
from here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2168552:Video:2345
more info: http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080522.004/ford-kuga-commercial-makes-cl-debut
Published on 2008/10/07 9:48 pm.
Filed under: abstract, creative, landscapes, looking, perception, perspectives, seeing, spatial, strange, visualisation, white space
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
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]
Published on 2008/07/17 7:18 pm.
Filed under: abstract, animation, brain, clean, colour, graphic, language, looking, mastificate, mind, pastel, research, seeing, strange, surreal
This is a clever, creative piece of visual thinking. Abbey take the style of a lewis hamilton & his Mclaren (i think) car as a model kit that you can put together.
Particularly how it breaks the number eight apart at the end and then reconstructs it like model pieces. Really makes you re-think about the shape, form of letters/symbols.
great advert, much in the vein of the Honda ads with the Cog ad of everything working together & the problem playground (blogged previously at this site) of visual thinking, problem solving and piecing things together.
Excellant
Published on 2008/07/08 3:44 pm.
Filed under: 3d, abstract, animation, communication, creative, illustration, information, language, perception, puzzle, seeing, shape, solving, spatial, visual thinking
These pages from his book Changes: Notes on Choreography by Merce Cunningham are fantastic visual thinking explorations of dance space. These wonderful pages of red topographic movement and complimentary weaving lines of type notes are great explorations of the notebook spread themselves.
They are very similar in style to the spreads from Kurt Schwitters & Theo Van Doesburg in 1920 - 30's De Stijl or even Dada from Picabia. Very abstract compositions with varying line qualities and shapes.
Merce Cunningham is one of the most influential and innovative choreographers of the twentieth century. His works, such as Summerspace (1958), are in the repertoire of internationally celebrated companies, including the New York City Ballet, the Paris Opéra, Zurich Ballet, and Rambert Dance Company, among others. Along with John Cage, Cunningham collaborated with other contemporaries, including Jaspar Johns, Andy Warhol, David Tudor, Frank Stella and Robert Rauschenberg.
Cunningham is not interested in narrative and character development; his choreography investigates the formal elements of dance. Cunningham and Cage shared the belief that movement and music are equal. Accordingly, they created the choreography and music separately in their collaborations.
Merce Cunningham Info Source: http://www.artsalive.ca/en/dan/meet/bios/artistDetail.asp?artistID=165
Image Source: Cunningham, Merce and Frances Starr, ed. Changes: Notes on Choreography. New York: Something Else Press, 1968 featured in Creative Reviews - March 08 - p42.
Published on 2008/06/20 3:32 pm.
Filed under: architecture, collaborative, composition, dance, drawing, dynamic, function, ideas, mapping, notebook, planning, seeing, solving, spatial, text, time, visual thinking, visualisation, white space, words
Alex Gopher visualises typographically new york city in this highly creative video The Child. It is crafted superbly and is wonderful modern concrete poetry animated. It was directed by H5 who I first noticed in Quentin Newark's What is Graphic Design?.
I came accross The Child when viewing another typographic experiment when I discovered the blog
TextVis Recherche 3 featuring
Graphic City. It is a pure typography animation which involved the exploration of typography and also the personal feeling of the modern cities. This blog captured a huge range of typographic animations, experiments that are in circa. Great Blog and wonderful text visuals.
Published on 2008/06/01 11:27 pm.
Filed under: abstract, animation, clean, creative, designs, harmony, light, new york, perspectives, representation, seeing, spatial, text, typographic, visualisation
Having seen quite a few internet visualisations such as that of the Information Architects - web trend map in a Harry Beck style seen a few times & Opte Project in these spider web constellation style, it was great to see a more graphic impression of it.
I know it was made in 2006 by the artist group Eboy, mentioned in Viz Think 08 post, but Foo Bar is great visual thinking. I first saw their excellant intricatly detailed environments in Illustration Now! although probably aware of that style in circa.
With Myspace street or Blogger as a subway system it uses these popular visuals of internet brands and interprets these into imaginative chaos happening in downtown, urban, industrial setting with physical locations. There are even physical items included such as Ipod's as well as yahoo looking like it is being packed away.
I'm quite curious as to what lost fm is playing from its van but I'd love to assume that the literal interpretation of RSS feeds is represented as a Snack Bar, or maybe deli.icio.us could be or as a advertisement for food. Would be a great visual for feeding.
Either way this illustration is great for eliciting creative visual thinking as a student soon discovered after they had picked eboy as a fave for analysis, scary word.
Published on 2008/05/15 8:59 pm.
Filed under: 3d, abstract, creative, graphic, HCI, internet, landmarks, perception, perspectives, playful, representation, seeing, spatial, subway, visual thinking, web map
The Common Craft Show is a series of short explanatory videos by Lee and Sachi LeFever. Our goal is to fight complexity with simple tools and plain language. We call our format "paperworks" and publish a new video about once a month.
Wonderful visual thinking accompanied by narrative. Zombies in plain english show the subtle humour of the plain english videos. there are ones for Blogs in plain english, RSS, Wikis, Social Networking, Online Photo Sharing. Brilliant.
Published on 2008/05/11 11:19 am.
Filed under: abstract, animation, communication, graphic, how to, illustration, knowledge, language, meaning, narrative, seeing, simple, sketch, strange, visual thinking, visualisation, white space, words
These are brilliant ways of visualizing, mapping allowing us to see & percieve these regular topographic landmarks abstract luminous colours & organic shapes in a different light.
Liz Hickok's project for her Masters in Fine Art, they are part sculpture, part photography and video, it resonates beyond the immediate appeal of the rainbow colors to become a sublime form of landscape. Her version of the city, which stems from a long-standing interest in three-dimensional city maps, emits a different kind of luminosity than the late 19th century Hudson River Valley variety. This in particular Palace of Fine - C-PrintArts, 2006 12"x16" 36"x48"editions of 12 has a great opposite harmony of orange & blue when light is refracted through gelatin.
'I make the landscapes by constructing scale models of the architectural elements which I use to make molds. I then cast the buildings in Jell-O. Similar to making a movie set, I add backdrops, which I often paint, and elements such as mountains or trees, and then I dramatically light the scenes from the back or underneath. The Jell-O sculptures quickly decay, leaving the photographs and video as the remains' liz hickok.
The molds she construct herself are based on idealized postcard images and her own photographs – have a way of making her vision go down smoothly. When she makes her city shake, as in her short video work, the landscape comes alive with the power of nature and culture on the brink of transformation, through changing our perspectives of the world in quite an innovative way.
http://www.lizhickok.com/10palace.html#photo
http://www.mills.edu/academics/grants_and_special_programs/mfa_exhibitions/mfa_2005/hickock/
Originally Dugg by user Gregd here
http://digg.com/search?section=all&s=san+francisco+jello
Published on 2008/05/09 6:49 pm.
Filed under: 3d, architecture, colour, contrast, creative, image, innovative, landmarks, landscapes, light, mapping, perception, perspectives, seeing, sublime, technology, visual maps, visualisation, world
