Damn good stuff they make, wish they were more prolific in their creation but they are well
worth the wait. How appropriate then their next one is the Creative Process. I'm sure we all
think things can be included but they have pretty much nailed it. I am sure it will be doing the blog rounds as it is well deserved, but as from the blogs I am fed and try to digest from google reader it hasnt yet, so lets start the ball rolling.
Share with your many more readers than mine and explore their versatile and equally clear 'back catalogue'.
I tell you, the amount of posters I want to print so big and put up in a classroom, Periodic table of Typefaces, this, Periodic Table of Design, psd-poster - shortcuts by designbyvent, Type Timeline Map... and I'd be tempted with Periodic Table of Visualisation Methods, Information Aesthetics Diagram.
Here's what they say,
'The creative process is not just iterative; it’s also recursive. It plays out “in the large” and “in the small”— in defining the broadest goals and concepts and refining the smallest details. It branches like a tree, and each choice has ramifications, which may not be known in advance.
Recursion also suggests a procedure that “calls” or includes itself. Many engineers
define the design process as a recursive function:
discover > define > design > develop > deploy
The creative process involves many conversations—about goals and actions to achieve them—conversations with co-creators and colleagues, conversations with oneself.
The participants and their language, experience, and values affect the conversations'.
http://www.dubberly.com/concept-maps
Download PDF - http://www.dubberly.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ddo_creative_process.pdf
check out their model of innovation concept map,
Innovation concept map by hugh dubberly , Sean Durham, Ryan Reposar, Paul Pangaro, and Nathan Felde More here:
A Model of The Creative Process
A Model of Play
How Organizations Track Customers
Domain Name Map
Published on 2009/04/12 12:44 am.
Filed under: aesthetic, cartography, communication, concept map, creative, design, ideas, information, knowledge, map, praxis, problem, typographic, visual
by member mike. check out the other periodic's here Periodic table of Typefaces.
There's been a recent flurry of discoveries, it can be subverted into so many forms. I quite like this Console controllers, makes me nostalgic to SNES. Check this post too, Nintendo Map.
Great to visualise the marks on a pad without the shape and just the buttons. Spotted on vi.sualise.us great sort of clipmark, image bookmarking tool. great way to compile inspiration. Saves searching through links, or places you discovered work.
Published on 2009/03/25 2:48 pm.
Filed under: abstract, action, architecture, carto, communication, dynamic, game, games, GUI, information, nokia, periodic, visual
Saw the first image in a recent post and pleased , like with
389 Type that information arent these word clouds, and it reminded me off ferdinand kriwet's work the second image with concrete poetry. always appreciate it concrete poetry
Mississippi Type Visual . Is it functioning form? (the first from flowing data)
Published on 2009/02/15 10:31 pm.
Filed under: concrete, form, function, kriwet, poetry, text, typographic, visual, white space
"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file-sharing, from arpanet to internet. The clip shows a brief overview of this history and shall animate to go on discovering the history of the internet.
The history is told with help of the PICOL icons, which are also a part of the creators diploma.
The icons are available for free on picol.org in the size 32x32 pixel
See the whole diploma >>
from here: http://www.lonja.de/motion/mo_history_internet.html
found here: http://feeds.infosthetics.com/~r/infosthetics/~3/_UrqWTLSAPo/the_history_of_the_internet.html
Credit
Director & Animator – Melih Bilgil
Voice over – Steve Taylor
Music – Telekaster
Translation – Karla Vesenmayer
Scientific Managment – Prof. Philipp Pape
University – University of Applied Sciences Mainz
Thanks to – Barbara Bittmann, Johannes Schatz
I've also seen a detailed history of visual communication
http://feeds.infosthetics.com/~r/infosthetics/~3/8M4rgnNVxRQ/the_history_of_visual_communication.html which needs it excellant archive appending to
Advertising History Timeline along with this excellant internet histo-graphic.
Published on 2009/02/15 9:43 pm.
Filed under: animation, clean, clear, communication, composition, design, graphic, iconic, information, visual, visualisation
JumpGauge™ is a visual labeling technology that has been applied to thousands of green and eco-friendly products.
Each product’s JumpGauge™ tells you why it is green and eco-friendly visually, in a picture, so you can skip lengthy product descriptions, decipher technical jargon or verify government and industry certifications.
To use JumpGauge™ simply put your mouse over an icon and a pop-up will appear and will give you more information about this particular eco- friendly qualification of a product.
bit like a taggging system to tell you how ecofriendly a product is.
found through visual analytics group on linkedin.com
Published on 2009/01/17 12:07 am.
Filed under: geography, graphic, green, iconic, products, search engine, visual, visual thinking
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
brilliant. livre is book in french i think. very delicate/intricate stories being visualisaed in 3d calligram thorugh their own narrative in textual form.
very nice text visualisation. ok not necessarily functionable that you can read it, but its form is very good. also check out Mississippi Type Visual.
excellant.
see more images here:
via http://www.villiard.com/livres-art.html ;
from here: carto-infos.googlegroups.com
merci beaucoup Christophe Tricot
Published on 2008/12/10 9:28 pm.
Filed under: 3d, abstract, aesthetic, art, artefacts, calligram, literature, narrative, non linear, text, visual, visualisation, white space
Visualization magazine volume 1 has a collection of 20 top examples that explore creative innovative modes of visual communication of information that i have featured at this site, plus other bits that will hopefully expand over time and member (you) would gratefully in time like to contribute, if you wanted.
Things like maps, diagrams, info graphics, mindmaps, brainstorms, sketchbooks,
notebooks, flowcharts, scientific visualization, process visualization etc. As I
say they are very good resources of inspiration for various design jobs as they
solve communication problems using easy to understand graphics. Seems a mouthful
but basically great graphics that look great (form) and communicate detailed
info quickly and easily (function).
http://issuu.com/visualthinkmap/docs/visualisationmagazinevol1
Published on 2008/09/28 5:08 pm.
Filed under: 3d, abstract, art, creative, designs, graphic, iconography, ideas, illustration, image, visual, visual thinking, visualisation
From they're paper Towards a Model of Aesthetics in information Visualization, Andrea Lau & Andrew Vande Moere (who was previously quoted, see here) create this fantastic equilaterral triangular digram that helps understanding of the types of images, charts, art, design & much more.
Although I have yet to read this paper, this diagram investigates & structures the different types of mapping between the three poles of:
Aesthetics - Focus on visual style & experience
Data - Focus on representing abstract data sets
Interaction - Focus on user input & feedback
Regular readers will notice that this blog seeks to find some of the most creative & innovative (aesthetics) ways of visualising, mapping (hence I tend to call them visual maps) information (data).
I am also intersted the Interaction between users mentioned in the diagram such as the HCI (human computer interaction), explored really well by lauren bugeja in her research map, and taking into account the level of engagement of the graphics, GUI (graphic user interface) both in website design such as hierachy/composition, but also the graphics themselves beeing stimulating when dealing with interactive visualisations such as kartoo, visual acoustics or music plasma.
The higher engagement allows greater playfulness through more challenge, presenter control, and variety in a game for browsing, read here presentation visualisation by till voswinkel.
This diagram certainly gives a reader/user of this visual map/diagram a better awareness of how these interesting factors of info vis, data vis, art, design & graphics all coherently piece (reflected in its jigsaw syle puzzle) together.
Excellant, read the paper, as will I.
For further research into visualisation read, views on visualisation from eager eyes. Or see more papers co-written by andrew vande moere.
found here: http://visualmethods.blogspot.com/2007/09/information-and-aesthetics.html
Published on 2008/09/11 8:46 pm.
Filed under: aesthetic, algorithm, art, communication, data, design, diagram, engagement, GUI, HCI, information, mapping, puzzle, representation, visual, visualisation
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
