This is a very cool video. Two lives, synced, with timing/composition/speed/angles. Wow.
I wanted more. The angling for the plane is measured, the turning of the bus, the lovely jump in time zones/locations as a cyclist seemingly jumps through a crack linking these two locations.
Love it! Originally saw it on amazing films interludes on channel 5 (uk)
Splitscreen: A love Story
HistoryView
This looks great. Google maps and history merged into one. I wondered about
how we merge the old and the new somehow.
I
am keen to do old historical street maps overlayed on top of interactive google,
try to bring a spice of art with the idea of collaging like Mercato previous
post.
But its free, it has pretty good clustering of pins as you zoom in and drill
down the data so it doesn't become crowded like it could do. From the group We
are what we Do, who bring you the beautiful Change the world for a fiver book
talking about going green.
Also with it being supported by google you can sign up with your google
details quite easily.
http://www.historypin.com/
http://wearewhatwedo.org/
Related articles
- Historypin Adds an Android App to View Old Map Imagery as You Walk (freetech4teachers.com)
- Let Historypin be your guide (google-latlong.blogspot.com)
Batteries Not Included Time
Superb handmade watch that ok, relies on the sun to cast a shadow but is completely free. Much better than the imagined iWatch.
Dimensions: 11" x 2 " x .14"
Artist: Amy Franceschini
'Sundial Watch is a reaction to the ubiquity of technological devices in our lives today. Sundial watch reminds us to depend on our own devices. It is an interface with nature...
The sun will always rise in the morning and set in the evening, and the length of the winter days will be shorter than the summer days. This portable sundial physically illustrates the wonders of the sun and its motion through the sky providing a stage fro the suns' shadow to dance upon.
Materials: paper, string, foam
Exhibition History: Orange County Museum, California Biennial
Adobe Bookstore, SF Benefit Auction Pond, SF: Shop Dropping
Technology: Sunshine, Intuition'
http://www.futurefarmers.com/survey/watch.php
Related articles
- Ancient Timepiece Jewelry - The Sundial Ring Tells the Time, Old-School Style (GALLERY) (trendhunter.com)
- Tuesday Poem (3quarksdaily.com)
Infographic Typography
In 1989 Erik and Joan Spiekermann signed contracts with leading type foundries, packed their small office with floppy disks full of fonts, and started taking phone orders.
FontShop became the first independent retailer of digital type. Twenty years later we’re still stocking the best fonts (though the number has grown and the medium has changed) and still answering phones.
Its a great clean, clear and bold infographic sectioning off different infographic styles. Really beautiful, I'm always wanting to connect the beauty and functionality of type with information graphics. Reminds me of Nicholas Feltrons work self-mapping.html (update: from armina.thesis blog, it is by N.Feltron)
See also: NB: Studio - london-kerning.html
from: http://www.fontshop.com/20years/
found: http://www.datavisualization.ch/showcases/typography-meets-infographics
World at Work
work now by Romuald Dehio, Stefan Prins (Theo Deutinger Arch+) and Michael van
Schaik of restruct org
Schaik of restruct org
Z33 - Hasselt - 27 June till 25 September 2009
The project “World At Work” will be presented for the first time as physical machine in real space at the exhibition "Work Now" at the art center Z33 in Hasselt (Belgium).
The 2008/2009 Impakt Online Exhibition shows World at Work
The project the "World at Work" rediscovers the earth as ‘Time Machine’. Its rotation around
its own axis gives us our days and its course around the sun determines our earthly year. To achieve a higher degree of accuracy in organizing their life, humans divided one day in 24 hours and a year in 12 months. The acceleration of transport and information on a global scale, the introduction of time-zones became necessary at the end of the 19th century.
With "World at Work" we project the amount of inhabitants per time-zone onto the earth as ‘Time Machine’. By assuming that the average working day around the world is from 9.00am to 5.00 pm, we come to the conclusion that there is a strong imbalance in the distribution of workforce. One can almost talk about a day and night on earth.
The world as ‘Time Machine’ is visualized by its course around the sun (together with its three neighbour planets) and its spinning around its own axis. On top of its self-rotation a graph with the amount of inhabitants is projected. The third element of the visualisation is the addition of all the working population of one global working day and shows how many people are
working, relaxing or sleeping.
This visualisation is shown either in real time, or can be released and speeded up at the users will. All three parts of the visualisation are interconnected as programmed clockwork that shows time by mimicking reality.
Client: Impakt Online
Design Team: Theo Deutinger, Romuald Dehio, Stefan Prins
Programming: Michael van Schaik/restruct.org
credits to: Romuald Dehio, Stefan Prins and Michael van Schaik - restruct.org
with special thanks to: Michael Impakt Online & Sabine Niederer , Erling Haverkamp -
Imatech and Ronald van der Groef - Overwijn TS
History of Graphic Design
389 Type
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.
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
Advertising History Timeline
this is an excellant interactive timeline, as you hover over one of the red brackets between years, it displays a drop down/up of information with specific year and a form of communication/advertisign developed such as the cuniform pictographs.
a beautiful, clean, tidy layout with white space to hold the interactive mouseover links that softly animate into the space to display more information and thew use of red and black combines well. the style is similar to Type Timeline Half 1, Kurt Schwitters on a Timeline by stefan thermerson and with a few images of important inventions/communications already displayed that have a small films/animations appeneded to their nodes gives a great liuttle bit of interactivity and focus for the users attention until the discovery of the mouseover bracket links.
also like any timeline that progresses over the western logic of left to right reading of a notoriously landscape layout there are too many dates to keep proportionatley spaced and still fit to a3 size or 1024 x 768 screen. So the creatore at nonline give these bold brackets with small arrows for left and right as the most dominating feature to hint at the scrolling navigation of the years. What was an intersting interactive navigation of space was done for British History Timeline by BBC, which doesnt keep the same proportionate space but divides history into colour categories and expands/stretches the display for each category.
My only let down is the limited amount, although a great tool and overview already provided, a limited amount of information as i was left wanting more history appended to the smaller grey brackets. but their are plenty of brackets for this to be rectified in the future.
great tool for students/people to interactive with themselves or even be instructed through, just keep the use of pictures to break up the text.
found here: Cartographie d'informations
cheers arnaud
Graphic Design Map
This is an excellant visual diagram that visualizes the evolution of graphic design. It is a minimal black and white design with dates/columns accross the top and divided into 3 rows:
- Art and design movements
- Influential Designers
- Developments and events
The 1st row was used partly as inspiration for type timeline as well as some dates, details references such as dates aiga formed, atypi etc.
The 2nd would yield fantastic research from any of the designers mentioned, all hihgly important figures in graphic design. some myabe harder to find resaerh on then others.
The 3rd as mentioned i used for some dates, but there is also william henry fox talbot mentioned with his pioneering work using silver nitrate solution and louis daguerre that I wasn't aware of. Then travelling right the way through to 1984 invention of the macintosh computer.
very detailed, very good
found: on a tutors wall a while ago and so made a copy.
sorry dont know the book it was originally photocopied from. know who to show to ask and jog their memory if necessary.