Fantastic visual navigation system for the area surrounding Carnaby Street in Soho, London.
It has wonderful curved, clean edges with subtle pastel colours for the different categories of shops to aid efficient thinking and finding info. the grey's provide a soft contrast emphasising the bright pastel colours with still room for info of the nearest tubes all harmonised in this unifying circle. it still has room inside it to depict an upper and lower floor plan.
Great visual map for london soho.
Published on 2008/06/17 11:32 pm.
Filed under: clean, colour, communication, contrast, creative, diagram, form, geographic, harmony, illustration, information, locations, london, map, spatial, visual maps, visual thinking, visualisation
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
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Its interactive, you hover over the elements charted and it gives you an example of the creative data/information visualisation method.
For instance my last post Type Timeline Map would be the element T and is usually just an overview, although I tried to put as much detail in as I could, and is classed as an Information Visualisation. They're all there and more Mind Maps, Flow Charts all divided into categories.
It is another great subversion of design styles with soft pastel colours. The original Periodic Table transformed into Visual Thinking Elements is fantastic. Gives creativity and design this much needed scientific perspective as many data/info visualisations are bordering on the discipline of Science.
This isn't the first periodic table subversion, Simon Patterson not surprisingly in 'Rhodes to Reason' (1995) featured in Mapping: An Illustrated Guide to Graphic Navigational Systems has done this too. Simliar to his other Beck Tube map 'The Great Bear' (1992) subversion he takes actors names initials Sc for sean connery as an element and many other diverse individuals.
I first saw this Periodic Table of Visualisation methods featured among Jeff Bennett's Visualisation Taxonomy at his site visualthinkmedia.com. I then found it featured at Dave Davison's blog IQP which is when I discovered the full magnitude of its brilliance.
Excellant work by Ralph Lengler and Martin J. Eppler @
visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
Published on 2008/05/25 1:47 pm.
Filed under: art, composition, concept map, creative, data, diagram, form, function, graphic, knowledge, language, map, mapping, science, spatial, symbollic, technology, visual maps, visual thinking, 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
Visualising Oxfams work poster by louise lynn imitating the ever brilliant Beck Tube map. great idea, clean, colourful, like that there are no destinations, no limits to them. nice parchment, good design.
'This was the design chosen by Oxfam to use in their Liverpool Bold Street store. Will get a photo of that up soon when I get it off my Nan X).Displayed in exhibition 'A Window Into Oxfam' in Liverpool Central Library's Picton Room'.
More info here
www.flickr.com/photos/louiselynn/2476491473
Published on 2008/05/13 10:29 pm.
Filed under: clean, colour, creative, designs, graphic, harry beck, locations, map, mapping, parchment, spatial, tube, underground, visual maps
Talking about Viz Think 08 (David Gray Blog - Communication Nation) Stephen Few expresses concerns over drawings. The other speakers hired 'they don’t accurately represent the spectrum of visual thinking, and that the list of topics is heavily skewed, primarily toward the use of drawings to record ideas (such as during a brainstorming meeting) or in printed form to explain something, such as a concept or process' (Visual Business Intelligence A blog by Stephen Few).
He express his concerns over visual thinking at Viz Think 08 not just being about drawing in his blog post Not every picture is worth a thousand words (dec 07). He rightly points out that visual thinking should include the exciting ways in which it 'is supported by technology today: information visualization—”the use of computer-supported interactive visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition” (Card, Mackinlay, and Shneiderman,
Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think - Interactive Technologies, 1999).
Technologies that created the previous post featuring
Julien Bayles Dynamic Clock. I stumbled accross the image featured that I thought was a great spatial visualisation of the aspects involved in visual thinking that I assume is by Stephen Few. Its similiar style to the artist Eboy featured in
Illustration Now! - 150 Illustrators featuring some of these technologies that integrate into this visual thinking spectrum such as navigating Virtual Worlds or Video Communication distributed by Utube via what should be featured in the illustration the internet. I particularly like the guy featured in the bottom right, 'communication skills, problem solving & drawing' definetly needed to visually think & design - solve.
But technology does have a huge influence on visual thinking, it allows us to communicate/collaborate ideas accross the world/virtual world instantly it also allows us to catalogue/collate these wonderful & varied abstract data visualisations from notebooks to concept maps.
Published on 2008/04/30 3:35 pm.
Filed under: abstract, communication, data, diagram, image, information, internet, multidirectional, pictures, spatial, technology, thoughts, visual thinking
Julien Bayle.net talks about visual design and more. He works on social network visualizations, generative art and data visualizations.
He has had some of his social network visualisations published on visual complexity.com.
His dynamic clock to visualise time is simple and innovative. Rather than just static numbers around a circle and handles, he uses space (area) in circles to represent the amount of time elapsed in seconds (dark blue), minutes (white) & hours (light blue).
A great alternative perspective to time rather than the usual. Certainly making the familiar strange through a conflict that needs to be interpreted.
http://www.julienbayle.net/complexity/visualization/clock/
Published on 2008/04/29 9:04 pm.
Filed under: clean, conflict, contrast, creative, dynamic, function, image, incongruous, innovative, interpret, seeing, simple, spatial, strange, subvert, time, visualisation
This is a fantastic typographic exploration of type's place within the visual world of the capital.
This map won a design award from Aiga and London Design. The information is taken from AZ street maps where the icons, symbols and hard lines representing churches, streets, rivers and parks have been removed from the map, leaving only letters. It is interesting to see Geography and Creative Graphic Design combine as opposed to the separation they seem to have followed. It is a fantastic and visually inspiring/innovative typographic map of London’s street names.
Although this is not so much about knowledge it is visually inspiring to inform ways of seeing, connecting thoughts spatially, creating a spatial immediacy that demands attention.
NB:Studio
Img src: Creative review - the annual 2007
Good review
Published on 2008/03/24 11:08 pm.
Filed under: iconic, locations, london, map, seeing, spatial, visual maps, words Tags: aiga, Awesome Posters, Churches, Creative Graphic Design, geography, Immediacy, Kerning, Kinetic Typography, London Design, London Information, Macworld, Map London, Map Of London, Map Street, Related Articles, Rivers, Street Maps, Street Names, wordpress
