Vism.ag & Creative Maps Blog

A fantastic image, much like one i posted last year.

http://visualthinkmap.blogspot.com/2008/06/evolution-of-life-visual.html

just ideas, working out in notebook. concrete poetry, orphism, apollinaire.

'this was only one digitalized version in the project, which I don't particularly fond of, and not really should be appeared in the project either.
just to make a sense that any kind of database can possibly be carried in certain beautiful form. Only it is the matter of the form whether fully express the idea or not.' Haohao2009

He makes hand crafed ones too http://www.flickr.com/photos/haohao2009/3180209251/in/set-72157612279549794/ and is a wonderful, master thesis project.

I am in agreement with ben and christian at http://www.datavisualization.ch/showcases/handcrafted-time-mapping where i found it that it is an 'impressive piece of a hybrid of graphic–, information design and data art'.

Good handmade things in data vis, see also

Book
Cutouts

Visually
Identifying Zombies

Time,
Space & Activity

this looks really good. its wierd i have just finished an infographic similar, will share soon.

products top

lines connecting to graph in middle

colour curved to countries on a world map

Really nice. thanks

this group has some really great infographics. this one is a collaboration between good.is magazine and timko and klick.

The Twitterverse was created in the spirit of http://www.theconversationprism.com/. This is a preview of the soon-to-be announced Twitterverse. (cc) www.briansolis.com + www.jess3.com.

this is interesting of the applications to share your thoughts accross the 'twitterverse'. I use twitter feed to share my actions on the net through blogging etc for people to follow. but there are many more.

looks good.

Some very interesting processing work by Robert Hodgin. Here he describes his sphere attempts.

'I have always been and will continue to be impressed with the simple sphere. Such a basic shape, so easy to visualize but so complex to code. Early in my Processing experience, I decided I wanted to learn what translate, push and pop were capable of. I had no previous experience with these methods borrowed from OpenGL but I soon realized it was a necessary stepping stone to better understanding how to experiment with objects in 3D space. I stumbled upon a pseudo-code explanation which used the idea of a solar system to help explain these methods. Start from the sun, push a new matrix onto the stack and translate out to place Mercury. Pop back to the sun and push and translate out to Venus, etc.

A few years later, I have come to understand some of the intricacies of working with spheres and my love for additive blending is in full bloom. '

from: http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=155

found: http://hawk.jensfranke.com/ss09/processing/linksammlung/

I dont blog every density design visual even though it is tempting, as they are so clear and beautiful. But this one i had to, another excellant visual. always like julien bayle says, clear, clean, simplfied complexity and the bold colours just draw you into closer inspection, had to look it in the largest size for 'all sizes'.

would say the lines arent so easy to follow for the population at bottom, but dont strictly need to follow the individual lines and adds beautiful texture to contrast the bold colours.

i'm sure the lines have levels of solidarity too them also for further info of importance/density.

just great stuff from milan as always.

visit: http://www.densitydesign.org/

rss: http://www.densitydesign.org/feed/

This i thought was really interesting work, put into a gallery to be hung and viewed.

Donato and his friends at density design through flickr do amazing work and must have been blogged by everyone who has even the slightest quivering appreciation/interest in data visualisation. On their flickr I found this piece originally thoguht to be by themselves but it is by http://similardiversity.net/project/, a project by Philipp Steinweber and Andreas Koller.

This is great that they are squeezing data visualisation off of the web and into the mainstream, i mean dont get me wrong, i might be naive and it is in gallerys, exhibitions, museums far and wide that i am unaware of, but its good to see they are.

this is partly why i wanted to make visualisation magazine to get it off the web and feeds and fed into the colleges, uni's for students, artists, other fields to engage in their subtle brilliance. i know i am probably hyping them too much... but i cant restrain my love of data vis etc.

well enough of my rants, see more shots of this here http://www.flickr.com/photos/densitydesign/1323400157/ and check out the haul of data vis by density design and donato on flickr with their work also at http://www.densitydesign.org/

be fed by them now: http://www.densitydesign.org/feed/

nice message paper folding: http://www.densitydesign.org/2009/02/19/sustainability-message/

really love these from volview software that are uploaded by kit ware on flickr.