This is a great project on mapping the history and narratives of a journey/terrain. A sort of map that is more interesting than the territory that Houellebecq proposed.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=k&om=1&msid=103763259662194171141.000001119b4b42bf062c2&msa=0
Looking to use video and record data on a journey, much like Stephen Shore has done on his journey's across america but only through photography. Just multimedia and more forms of it. I'd like to merge the projects Poetry Atlas & History Pin and maybe this atlascine.org that I recently saw but not just Canada.
See http://artcarto.wordpress.com/cartography-narratives/ for more about Story Maps.
More about the project 'Jay Crim and Shekar Davarya spent the summer of 2002 driving across the country on Route 66, collecting interviews with the people who live, work and travel on the old road. The audio, video and images on this map are the result of that summer, and offer a glimpse into what life was like on the now-decommissioned highway and what remains for those who still travel the road. The America's Highway project was intended to create both a history lesson on America of the past as well as a travel guide for visitors on 66 today. The work was supervised by Professor Bill Leslie, History of Science Department and Mike Reese, Center for Educational Resources, The Johns Hopkins University.'
Route 66 Story Map
Mercato
Love this illustration/collage by Chris Kenny called Mercato. Piecing different parts of maps together to create a new terrain, a new territory.
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How apt to title a map by the name of Mercato too, as he was the one that produced our standard atlas we percieve the world as today, 'Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Belgian geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, in 1569.'
Find out more about Chris Kenny here: http://www.englandgallery.com/artist_bio.php?mainId=51
Prote.in Journal
Cool url and even cooler news print journal. 'The quarterly Journal contains all the best from the Protein OS. It pulls together the very best of the network from the past three months. Previous issues are catalogued below.'
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Finally got round to posting this was their third issue and it was packed full of some beautiful data visualisations and interviews and lots to read. It even contained a free poster of the latest work (was a while ago I got this, just got round to posting) by Peter Crnokrak who was featured in http://vism.ag/vol2 see page 12 - 15 called 'Everyone Ever in the World', great work btw Peter.
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Beautifully composed/designed with a great healthy use of space that sits perfectly with the newsprint feel. Clean type it, its in colour too with some great projects from their dose of quarterly creative intake from the eyes that i'm about to check out, such as:
Sam Winston's Birth-day - does some brilliant typographic explorations such as Sam's 'The Monster Story' or 'The Dictionary Story' (i think the second was called this...)
Henry Luong's Seinfeld Data Vis, looking similar in circular compostion to those made by Peter Crnokrak [LoP]
Mapping America, also looking cool.
You can see all their issues for free, online in the same approach, possibly through Issuu.com too, approach to the flash viewing of http://vism.ag
Check it out!
http://prote.in/journal
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Data Appealing
The application helps tackle some data visualization issues..It allows users to craft and design their data...blending artistic principles with information.
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The tool stems from concepts on data design, visualization, form and space from the book "The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles" (the foreword by richard saul wurman and the afterword by co-founder of google earth) the application is an excellent application to showcase geo-based data into visually stimulating infographics.....great for profiling the "invisibles of the city", much in the same respect as http://diycity.org/ & http://vism.ag/maps.
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Check it out!
http://dataappeal.com/
Muyment App
'The Muybridgizer allows iPhone photographers to take pictures inspired by the iconic works of early photographer EadweardMuybridge. The release of the app celebrates the opening of a major exhibition of Muybridge’s work at Tate Britain (8 September 2010 – 16 January 2011)'.
Although he was engaged in disapproving activities he did enagage in these brilliant photographing movement activities and no doubt a precursor to the development of the hyperreal simulcra of hollywood today. Make your own Muybridge today.
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/muybridgizer/id390894338?mt=8
Art App
'Collectrium for iPhone, Track the art you see at fairs and galleries. We build tools for the art world.'
'Photograph a piece of art
Add your own notes
Bookmark for later
Share with a friend
Contact the artist or gallery
Browse the online catalogs
Download it now, it's free!
We also offer a branded app for galleries and art fairs.' collectrium.com
This is a great idea, and through them you can create an inventory of all the pieces in an exhibition and if 'buy a painting in Berlin, appraise it in Paris, and sell it in New York? Collectrium will show the when, where, and how of each art object. ' and you let you see everyting that happens to it through a map, timeline & detailed list.
http://collectrium.com
Data Visualisation Competition
Dont normally get into the habit of posting about competitions, there are so many. But considering you can enter FREELY and play with Visualisations through data on black students at Oxford & other UK universities http://bit.ly/exBEOi, the chance to have noteworthy poeple see your work who potentially might publish your work & win an iPad2.
It's easy to enter, submit to the competition before 20th June 2011 and you could win:
- Recognition from our panel of industry experts in journalism, data visualisation and design
- Your name and work promoted across the web
- A proud and noteworthy addition to your portfolio, website or CV
- A full post profiling you and your work, and the design process you followed
- A signed copy of Information is Beautiful by David McCandless
- A brand new iPad2
To have the BBC, .net Magazine, Tableau Software, Andy Kirk at Visualising Data, and marketing agency 97th Floor, Info is Beautiful (as seen on TED, BBC) &postgrad.com is immense.
Your visualisation can be static, moving or interactive
You can include as little or as much text as you like
It can be as simple as a single chart or a full-blown infographic
To enter the competition, simply email your visualisation as a jpeg attachment to mark.johnstone@postgradsolutions.com and include your Full Name and the best email address to reach you on. As an alternative to sending your entry as an attachment, you are welcome to post your entry on your own site, and simply send us the link. In fact, we'd love it if you did that.
If your entry is interactive or moving, you will have to publish it on a separate site (your own site is preferable but social sites like YouTube are perfectly acceptable). Just remember to send us the link.
The competition closes at 11pm GMT on Monday 20th June 2011.
Winners will be announced by Monday 4th July 2011.
See more info and the competition here: http://www.postgrad.com/editorial/data-visualisation-competition/
UPDATE: Although the initial findings related to the number of black students, there's a lot of information within the datasets about the ethnic heritage, and socioeconomic background of students attending different institutions. You are free to pick out whatever story you wish and present it in a visual format.
Map Links
Ok, some useful links and interesting articles that are worth a look but not full posts, so, map links.
Well, this is link is worth a full post as its quite a publication from The Church of England design agency in london. If you havent seen where have you been, it must have been blogged many times already. Its got data guru Hans Rosling, still to read btw for myself and many other beautifully designed pages. ALL FREE to see online using flash much like http://vism.ag style of page turning. VISIT it here, very good.
http://thinkquarterly.co.uk/
Image via Wikipedia
Exhibition: Hand-drawn London, 21 April – 11 September 2011http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/London-Wall/Whats-on/Exhibitions-Displays/HandDrawnLondon.htm
Wallpaper Magazine has created an app to navigate the Milan design festival, http://www.wallpaper.com/iphone Not sure if it work across platforms
You may have seen 'Mapping it Up' at eye magazine http://blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=3532