My WordPress Web 2.0

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When I was browsing through the search pages trying to find plugins that did the functionality i was after and checking the review/rating to see if it works or is the best or at least good..... what a farce!

You find good plugins from searching the million different posts that collate the 'top 30 wordpress plugins', 'top 100 wordpress...". Hours! The way I found the best plugins was to see them in use at other peoples wordpress blogs, where I found linkwithin, very good, lijit search, or when I received an email from a friend using mailchimp. I remember I tried to find a google suggest (predict your search) like plugin, I tried loads of plugins, myabe it was my limited knowledge of being able to tweak php, but non worked, eventually I did find one, ajax... even css customizable, works on a smart phone too! MAKE YOUR OWN!
Design I wanted to group them into categories, find a pattern that I could use. But some plugins crossed between categories, overlaps. The all work in conjunction with each other. I uploaded them to windows live shared space and made some bit.ly/WP15 associated to each plugin so you can download them and it saves on space for the design. They all stem from the center, around my blog. Dislikes I am not entirely satisfied with the bottom list with the referring creator of the plugin and the download address. Usability Just download the full image, there is enough quality to see the download link from bit.ly and plugin description. PLUGINS HYPERLINKS
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Published on 2010/07/04 8:58 pm.
Filed under: communication, diagram, Interactive Mapping, search engine, self publishing, shape, simplification Tags: , , , , , , ,

What Is Isometric?



this is s sketched recording of defining isometric with word and image in a graph.
you can record voice with these, not sure if music. its free, its easy great
tool.&nbsphttp://sketchcast.com/view/1c74470/

found tool here:
http://johncaswell.com/blog/


excellant blog

sketchcast. sketch - record - embed

find my video here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/what-is-isometric

see Lee and Sachi LeFever's videos http://visualthinkmap.blogspot.com/search?q=common+craft

some more good tools in this post by robert http://eagereyes.org/blog/2009/where-are-the-visualization-tools.html

more tools here too: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/ (scroll down to links-tools)

Published on 2009/04/10 6:17 pm.
Filed under: data, diagram, doodle, drawing, embed, free, isometric, record, shape, sketch

Typographics

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This is a collection of early, small typographic experiments. I liked the idea of »smashing« type on paper and see what happens. All the typograms were created with python and postscript.

I know they aren't very functional i know, but they are good. check out poetry on the road, previously posted. by boris muller

http://www.esono.com/boris/projects/typographics/

Published on 2009/03/16 5:17 pm.
Filed under: aesthetic, concrete, mallarme, poetry, shape, typographic, white space

389 Type

389 Type


389 final - jess bachman - wall stats

I created the initial concept of this poster on the night of November 4th.
Inspired by Barack Obama's victory and struck with a sense of awe when realizing
the amount of hard fought progress that has been achieved in this country,
Iwanted to pay homage to this centuries long journey. The original graphic which
can be seen here, became very popular and spread all over the internet. Many people loved it and ask me to make a print.


While I initially created it rather spur of the moment and with no desire to
sell it as a poster, the graphic needed to be completelyoverhauled in order to
make it practical for printing. The original would have been 12 feet long. So I
took the opportunity to really refine the design and create a lasting piece.
There were also many additions to the time line that people suggested. This
poster is not a tally of African American achievements, rather it is a record of
progress and setbacks. While Obama's election is not the endgame of equality, it
is a magnificent example of what is truly possible.

I hope you enjoy it and that it reminds you of the shoulders we all stand upon
and the stained greatness of this nation and its people who have indeed,
overcome.

jess states further 'It's not a typical visualization, as its all type and NOT a
word cloud but it is conveying information and special attention was paid to the
type weight, size, and placement to convey subtext.'

can appreciate that would have been delicate and kind to the look of the type as
i'm sure there was some altering of tracking, leading etc.

but it is good to see an informative design that isnt just a word cloud that is
more often that not aloud to arrange itself. words in this have been placed,
arrranged, hierachy, no doubt edited with 'selective omission' as quentin newark
states in what is graphic design' (been reading recently for quotes to define
design)

from: http://www.wallstats.com/389yearsago/#about

cheers

jess

Published on 2009/01/28 4:26 pm.
Filed under: apollinaire, art, black, concrete, conflict, evolution, information, innovative, literature, narrative, shape, text, thoughts, time, typographic

Sound Sewing

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Lovely Work. checkout shirt sound too.



Design duo Patrick Li and Ian Gallais make up Sounds Butter which has created Visible Sound.They describe it best:

The intention for this project was to make sound visible. As there is already a variety of ways in which sounds can be seen (equalizers, sub-titles, etc.), my aim was to produce a device where that representation of sound would be a physical one. I therefore used the sewing machine as the basis for the project as I feel it is synonymous with industry, and making physical products. Due to limitations in my computer programming skills this model of a stereo/sewing machine is a prototype of how I imagined the actual product would look.


More related posts from machine thinking: Love this project. giving sound a tactile, physical quality. fantastic. found here: http://machinethinking.org/2008/11/23/visible-sound/

Published on 2008/12/10 9:45 pm.
Filed under: abstract, aesthetic, composition, machine, material, media, motion, sewing, shape, sound, spatial, visual, visualisation

Cartographic Shapes

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this is a great application for facebookm, called Geo Challenge. helps you learn your countries/geography starting off with just the shape and fading in the ajoining/nearby countries to help you realise the paticularly country. they have a round for flags, and cities (usually guessing myself) placing where they are on the world map.

great game and great tool for learning. it helps me with my pathetic knowledge of world geography/cities, although i'm not that bad at flags.


also look at this noisy britain - ben terret excellant post by strange maps.

Published on 2008/11/24 12:40 am.
Filed under: carto, cartogram, cartography, country, flag, form, geography, global, graphic, knowledge, language, locations, map, perception, shape, territory, world

Sweat Map

Sweat Map

Measured Perspiration by Kanarinka.


These colourful, fluid lines & abstract series of drawings map an extroadinary terrain, visualising the 12 inches of weather on the human body by tracing perspiration, movement and time.


define:weather says: Weather is the specific condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.


Kanarinka states, 'It is measured in terms of such things as wind, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, cloudiness, and precipitation.


Weather is everyday and everywhere. For this project, I launched an artistic investigation by asking the question “Can a body (human, not planetary) have weather, too?”.


To create the drawings for 12 Inches of Weather, I used paper to collect the sweat on twelve inches of my body during running outdoors in hot weather. Then, using an algorithm (a simple system), I hand-traced the contours of that sweat onto 1970’s computer paper using various colors of felt tip pen.


The algorithm would tell me how many minutes to spend tracing each color' Kanarinka


Very interesting project, curious as to what the algorithm was defining the time length but still very creative.


featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APhoto%3A1662

Published on 2008/09/08 3:50 pm.
Filed under: abstract, algorithm, drawing, geographic, mapping, perspiration, shape, territory, visualisation, weather

Abstract Cartoon

Abstract Cartoon

The picture vocabulary by scott mccloud in his excellant book understanding comics, explaining semiotics it gives a great overview of the different scales of abstraction for cartoon characters.

With 3 sides there are the:

  • Retinal Edge
  • Representational Edge
  • Conceptual Edge

With the retinal edge it polarises the more reality, bottom left. Then going up it abstracts to mary fleener and accross the right to the conceptual edge, meaning becoming more arbitary with words and onomatapaeic words such as 'splash'.

Very good table, although mccloud states that they images included are not necessarily chosen for artistic merit. Makes me think of Rudolf Arnheims abstraction & the grasping of significant form. A scale between function and form as it is between words and images that abstraction will take place until a concept is conceived.

Mcclouds book may be comics content, but very very good, informal, non academic style of understanding semiotics.

Also check out Visible Signs by David Crow, explaining semiotics in great detail.

Published on 2008/09/04 8:21 pm.
Filed under: abstract, form, function, iconic, iconography, illustration, meaning, mimetic, semiotic, shape, sign, symbollic, visual thinking, visualisation, words

Imagine Visual Thinking

Beautiful graphics, dooodles, animation visually interpreting the spoken narrative language of John Lennon.

38 years ago, Jerry Levitan, who was then only 14 years, managed to interview John Lennon, during his stay in Montreal. Starting recordings of the interview, filmmaker Josh Raskin has created an animation that reproduces, word for word, visual language, the arguments of John Lennon.

'A small gem that reminds me of the thematic map in motion' by Philippe David Boukobza.

It has nice literal interpretation of johns dialgoue. Lovely layered effects with varying zoom perspectives.

I am curious about a graphic of we all have hitler inside and we all have christ inside when referring to violence.

Also love the graphic of sounds/music literally within inside countries and beautiful organic changing from each individual world shape.

I agree philippe, fantastic gem from josh raskin and co.

blogged here: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heuristiquement.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fimagine.html&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=fr&tl=en

Published on 2008/08/31 7:55 pm.
Filed under: abstract, aesthetic, animation, art, clean, colour, communication, complex, composition, creative, graphic, language, perspectives, shape, sublime, visual thinking, words

Communication Animation



Saw it and thought I do like the sketched animation look. always draws my attention. A Brief History of Communication, the new ad for The Carphone Warehouse, is a charming stop motion animation by Kristofer Strom, the Swedish artist behind You Tube hit Minilogue (equally as creatively brilliant).

There is a wonderful sequence of the development of the phone from the circular dial, to seperate buttons and then a quaint cultural script of the old 'brick' mobile phones. Then its decrease in size sequenced wonderfully in a clockwise twist from phone, to Ipod/Mp3, to mouse (with quirky/surreal ear phones as its wire) & to RSS symbol (blogging/feeds).

Still with more shifting directions/perspectives it continues fast and sharp until back to mobile with GPS mapping technology into a laptop finishing with the future technology of flying engine subtly anchoring that Chitty Bang Bang idea of flying automobiles.

If it was stop motion, there must have been a thousand photos, but it was worth every last one.

Excellant

cheers

Kristofer

found: on youtube

dugg here: http://digg.com/television/The_Carphone_Warehouse_A_Brief_History_of_Communication

(alas, never the first).

Published on 2008/08/07 7:00 pm.
Filed under: abstract, animation, communication, creative, doodle, drawing, gadget, information, innovative, mapping, motion, perspectives, shape, sketch, visual, white space