Map the Psychogeography

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Walk: Poem Pictures 2010 is a beautifully bound and lovely exploration/combination of words and drawings from Ian Mcmillan & Iain Nicholls.



I love these, a visual map, dialogue of their local area. very abstract, quirky collection of drawings and words combined. There are a few and suggest you try contact the creators to see if they have made any more books. Really plays with the space like Mallarme and abstract.



Concrete Poetry. They also eloquently describe their process.

Ian used to say as young lad ' "I'm going in the garden to think"

The garden didnt really help the thinking, though it was more the walking helped and still helps my creative process. Thinking somehow doesnt feel like the right word, its a kind of drifting or dreaming. Somehow the mind is going for a walk as well as the legs'

Ian Mcmillan, http://www.ian-mcmillan.co.uk



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Published on 2010/10/10 5:46 pm.
Filed under: abstract, calligram, carto, cartography, mind, typographic, visual thinking, ways of working, words

10 Recent Visual Inspirations

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Some of these are really good, clever and interesting. The what makes good info design by David Mccandless at informationisbeautiful.net controversial venn diagram usage which as I mentioned is good for a beginner. 

What Makes Good Information Design v 1.0

  I posted some curiousities here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/forum/topics/what-makes-an-information  or you can read more at my paper http://visualisationmagazine.com/blogvisualthinkmap/2009/11/how-do-visualisations-enhnce-the-communication-of-data.html    some great humorous visual of people entering an Sphincter which makes me think of Patch Adams with Robin Williams howdi gynos and people depicting fleas on a picture of a dog.  

guerrilla_marketing

  reminds me off,    

frontline

  These are two good datavis examples I have seen.   

The Rise Of China

 

uk met global warming map

  Found thesis.armina.info/ , usually finds great examples of data vis. this was a contents page to student magaine of their work.   

komma5_06

  banksy, think it was http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/ great collection. I liked this subtle humour.   

banksy_genius

  Again humour, think it was Claude Aschenbrenner at serialmapper.com, flow chart to define your career title.  

can you draw

  this did the blog rounds, info aesthetics, cool infographics, flowing data I think. it reminded me of Minards carte figuartive, Tuftes best statistical graphic ever.   

In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.

  follow my image bookmarks, http://vi.sualize.us/visualthinkmap/   Recieve these automatically through my twitter; http://twitter.com/visualthinkmap

Published on 2009/11/10 12:13 am.
Filed under: adverts, communication, creative, graphic, humour, ideas, illustration, info graphic, information, visual thinking Tags:

Infographic Typography

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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

Published on 2009/11/08 2:25 pm.
Filed under: aesthetic, beautiful, brockmann, clean, clear, creative, graphic, information, time, type, typographic, visual thinking, white space

How do visualisations enhance the communication of data?

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Finished my essay into how graphic design can enhance communication in data visualisation & information graphics:   visualisationmagazine.com/dissertation.htm     "graphic design ‘sorts and differentiates, it informs, it helps to shape how we feel, see the world’" (Newark, 2002, p. 6)   I look into areas such as (please note these intermix with each other):   a. Mind and Vision b. Communication c. Perception and Reality d. Semiotics e. Graphics   Within this paper I explore the creative and innovative design techniques for mapping information to aid thinking, understanding, comprehension and reasoning. I summarized the key points into guidelines for the at-a-glance findings.     "it may be possible to utilise symmetry and geometry to aid vision when perceiving a visualisation to understand data" (Wood and Keller, 1996, p 256)  

 

 

 

 

This consideration of the way the map designer represents the world is not just associated with that of geographic cartograms but also with the way the designer visualises complex data.   "if the designer retained 100% truth, they would no longer be mapping, representing aspects of geographic space, it would be entirely realisitic, the territory"  

 

 

Read more: visualisationmagazine.com/dissertation.htm.  

 

 

 

  Please discuss, comment, criticize, debate, enjoy!    Guidelines for when designing visualisations | Opinion? Discuss, share here in Forum | See Dissertation Proposal

 

I am pleased as this means I have passed my MA Contemporary Arts Practice at York St John University investigating data visualisation, graphic design, information mapping. Read more background about me. Dont worry, I will still be blogging, collating and compiling the magazines.   See more projects developed from my studies:   visualisation magazine.com

 

 

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Published on 2009/11/02 11:29 pm.
Filed under: abstract, cartography, clean, communication, complex, creative, data, design, designs, diagram, graphic, information, Uncategorized, visual thinking, visualisation, white space

22 Visualisation Styles

Data visualisation is a no doubt popular and growing field with many innovative solutions arising every day, there are a few places that try to help structure and define this field for some clarity and hopefully more creative decisions.

Decisions such as the usually struggling question of what style/type of visualisation form should I use?

I saw Info Many Eyes had useful thumbnails and defintions of the types of visualisations it offers, and Joel Laumans made a fantastic booklet on the subeject that had many types that weren't included. Therefore I wanted to unify their defintions and style types in a table. Bit of a challenge deciding how they should line up together as some are the same and others not or are categorised differently. I think it was Correlations with Joel's grouping that I had to split to fit with Many Eyes.



If you cant see this table, it may be because it is viewed in an rss, click here to see the table

Also useful on the topic of data visualisation and infovis Manuel Lima has produced a provocative manifesto to aid in this effort to help bring some structure to our complicated and diverse visual forms.

analysed here: http://bbh-labs.com/do-not-glorify-aesthetics-a-manifesto-for-data-visualisation

“Information Visualisation Manifesto”, 'a provocative (but characteristically generous and nuanced) take on the future of data visualisation which tackles head on the thorny questions at the heart of this ever-expanding field:

Art versus Science
Intrigue versus Immediacy
Aesthetics versus apprehension. '

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/blog/?p=644

Watch and listen to him here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/manuel-lima-visual-complexity

He also was complimented on his writing by Stephen few (author. Information Dashboard Design plus other books) in an intersting article that got me stirred into a comment as well as Ben at http://www.datavisualization.ch/.

http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=613

If you know of more styles not featured or would like to elaborate the defintions, styles, or you know of someone elses lists and categories that I could append please feel free to comment. I hope this helps a beginner or even more experienced data visualiser, infographic maker decide the best format to enhance and communicate their data sets.

Again many thanks for the thumbnails Joel.

Published on 2009/10/03 12:12 am.
Filed under: cartography, data, defintion, design, knowledge, Knowledge Visualisation, maps, visual thinking, visualisation

Photo Manipulations By Erik Johansson

Photo Manipulations By Erik Johansson



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Photo Manipulations By Erik Johansson

Wonderful manipulations in photoshop, go through the slides. It does challenge me to think, 'ok so he cut that out, masked over this, layered....' but very tidly done and wonderful to see. Below is one i had seen =, maybe by erik, who knows, but looked good. Face punched, face sucked.


vacuum

Published on 2009/07/18 11:25 am.
Filed under: abstract, complex, creative, designs, dynamic, graphic, layer, manipulation, photoshop, visual thinking, visualisation

Stats Humour

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variationsonnormal.com is such good humour and quirky visual thinking. I particular like the satirical look at website stats with the hugely necessary and important: Average visitor weight. Will regularly visit/be fed via google reader his other quirky inventions like a handle for biscuits to dunk.

'Website stats are an obsession for some people. How many visitors? What age
are they? How long do they spend on the site? The list goes on. Here is my
idea to take this statistical obsession one step further. A doorbell with
built in home visitor statistics display'. (C) Dominic Wilcox

http://variationsonnormal.com/2009/06/14/doorbell-with-inbuilt-visitor-statistics-display/

Published on 2009/07/15 10:30 pm.
Filed under: diaries, doodle, drawing, humour, ideas, illustration, playful, stats, visual thinking, visualisation, websites, white space

The Visual Dictionary

The Visual Dictionary

the visual dictionary
this looks like an excellent project that I am probably blogging that was
blogged a while ago but, well worth another blog post dedicating to it.

the only rule to the tvd, only a single word must be visible, cannot have
more than one distinguishable word.

free to sign up and a great inspiration on typography and it has an A to Z to
navigate the words.

http://thevisualdictionary.net/recent/

unrelated but useful: http://www.slatebox.com/Home/HowItWorks

Published on 2009/07/13 6:10 pm.
Filed under: aesthetic, composition, form, function, spatial, typographic, visual thinking, visualisation, words, world

What goes around comes around

What goes around comes around


what goes around comes around found kendalricher com

great, awesome, anti war ads. sorry for short post, just had to expand the viewing of these, even if they might have already been around for a while. great design, visual thinking blog below where found.

from: http://kendalricher.com/blog/?p=241

via: http://theinspirationroom.com/

Published on 2009/05/12 10:30 pm.
Filed under: advert, concrete, linear, looking, reality, representation, visual thinking, war, world

Aesthetics & Computation Group

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instantiating
computation : tom white

exploring visual representations of different models of computation that
lend themselves to direct manipulation in order to better understand and
construct information spaces


codefocus
: jared schiffman

reeavaluating the process of writing programs and the visual environment
in which this activity takes place. to make writing and reading code
more inuitive through an enhanced visual infrastructure



anemone
(live version) : ben fry

using the process of organic information design to visualize the
changing structure of a web site, juxtaposed with usage information



genomic
cartography : ben fry

a series of experiments combining visualization and genomics.
expressing qualitative features of the human genome through advanced
visual representations.

These are some of the projects that I will certainly try to have a deeper
reader about from the aesthetics and computation group featuring john maeda and
ben fry. I was aware of the project below as most people are,




processing :
ben fry and casey reas

processing is an environment for learning the fundamentals of computer
programming within the context of the electronic arts. it is an electronic
sketchbook for developing ideas. processing is an open project initiated
by ben fry and casey reas, of the interaction design institute ivrea.

A very good group that i will certainly follow to keep
up-to-date as they try to explore language, mapping (space), communication.
Truly creative projects that I must have a good read, may just have to blog
individually upon further inspection. I found this group through http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/serialconsign/~3/PKLFOJPUrDM/information-visualization-and-interface-culture with a review of a chapter written by greg smith for Handbook of Research on Computational Arts and Creative Informatics which will be released
sometime in the next several weeks.

Published on 2009/04/25 9:17 pm.
Filed under: cartography, coding, communication, creative, data, design, education, interpret, language, pattern, visual thinking, visualisation, writing