Visualisation Magazine Volume 2 - Circles

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this magazine collates some of the most creative and innovative visualisation of information that try to simplify the complex. this volume is based around circles.

http://issuu.com/visualthinkmap/docs/visualisation_volume_2_circles
featured at flickr:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/visualthinkmap/3333627301/



or on you tube:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPo8BJcsEXw&eurl=http://business-commando.com/business_commando/&feature=player_embedded





next is based on isometrics. example layout featuring work by julienbayle.net



With excellant help and collaboration from pedro montiero at whattype.wordpress.com it has had an excellant revamp. More work featured by,


Carl Tashian
Peter Crnokrak
T D Architects: Theo Deutinger, Johannes Pointl, Beatriz Ramo
Bradford Paley
Quentin Delobel
Andrew Collins
Grace Lee
Wesley Grubbs, Nick Yahnke
Julien Bayle
Pedro Montiero
Roaxanna Tran (at telegeography.com plus other members)
Ji-Hwan Kim
Sol Jin
stephen p anderson
Christian Nold
jess bachman
tom gauld
2spot et al
Nick Cawthon
Andrew Vande Moere
Jarke J. van Wijk

please send your examples of isometrics for the future issue 3. also please give feedback. and observe the copyrights of non commercial, no derivatives, attributation to myself and pedro.


all featured 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).


All items featured at http://visualthinkmap.ning.com


Version 1 here:



This layout of version 2 lets you zoom in more but loses the nice double page spread, incase you want to see closer detail.


thanks again to all who contributed and there cooperation, very helpful allowing their work to be featured in the magazine and others advice and help. thanks to pedro's collaboartion too, gave it a really good revamp. see more of my work at

http://chriswatsondesign.viviti.com/


or more visualisations featured at


http://visualthinkmap.ning.com

Published on 2009/03/07 12:35 am.
Filed under: aesthetic, brockmann, communication, complex, creative, data, design, image, innovative, knowledge, map, narrative, non linear, paley, text, visual thinking, visualisation, white space, wordless

Green Motion Map





Interesting animation, in the form of conceptual map in motion. The look is very "plant". This idea seems really interesting, ie, staging and movement of a map heuristic through video. I do not know of any software Mind Mapping, which proposes to export the map in animated form or video.

found here: http://www.heuristiquement.com/2008/08/plante-gode-la-carte-en-mouvement.html

Great to see it animated as i noticed it and catalogued a post card advertising it in a notebook that i created when visiting paris back in jan/feb. Featured on page 30 here:

http://issuu.com/visualthinkmap/docs/paris_notebook_visual_diary/30?zoomed=true&zoomPercent=125&zoomXPox=0.9993006993006993&zoomYPos=0.19980314960629922

Or view my notebook here:



Get your own - Open publication


My drawing is quick just to capture great works to remember and be inspired by. loved the drawings of Alfred Kubin, especially Auto Contemplation.


found here:
http://eltiodelsaco.blogspot.com/2007/07/alfred-kubin.html



Published on 2008/10/11 1:02 pm.
Filed under: animation, clean, drawing, geographic, global, graphic, kubin, nodes, non linear, notebook, representation, tree, visualisation, wordless, world

Watch the Evolution Design

tom+gauld+ +evolution+watch Watch the Evolution Design

Tom Gauld visualised time a little differently challenging our perceptions in his drawings, doodle style thinking, watch design visual for United Arrows called EVOLUTION.

Rather than using numbers normally depiciting time he takes his solid black characters to depict time as a sequence in evolution as opposed to a sequence in numbers paradigm.

Another great alternative perspective to time (see Dynamic Time Visualisation) that still functions through the placing of the images, it merely making the familiar strange creating a conflict in form (doodles rather than numbers) that needs to be interpreted.

There are many great quirky illustrations by Tom Gauld charting his fantastic imagination who is featured in The Picture Book: Contemporary Illustration & Pictures and Words: New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration.



Source: http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cabanonpress.com/images/tomsbits/watch.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cabanonpress.com/tomsshed/8.2.watch.htm&h=434&w=402&sz=37&hl=en&start=1&sig2=jgEeYSpw3VoosVMsW7QO9A&um=1&tbnid=rHPWzGlc3AvO6M:&tbnh=126&tbnw=117&ei=HDVISInoNYuw6wPt7ujwBA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgauld%2Bevolution%2Bwatch%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den

Published on 2008/06/05 6:47 pm.
Filed under: abstract, clean, composition, creative, designs, doodle, drawing, familiar, form, function, illustration, information, innovative, interpret, strange, time, visual thinking, visualisation, white space, wordless

Visual Communication: Wordless Recipics

laurenbugeja+ +visual+recipe1 Visual Communication: Wordless Recipics

http://www.coo.kz/

This is the website Lauren Bugeja has created to house these beautiful visual maps. The visual equivalent of a thesis - work from her final semester in Visual Communications.

She calls these visual maps Recipics, good use of ambiguity in the word pun on recipes. These are great explorations of visually mapping information making it universally accessible. She still uses the paradigm of numbers & arrows, but what I like best is how she uses these & space to depict time & measurements fig. Depicting time in a similar tecnhique to Bradford Paley in Once more around the sun. She uses faded flames contrasted to full colour to depict gas mark, which is admirable technique removing the use of numbers.

She has great experiments between mimetic depictions of food, but creates great iconic characters to represent meats i.e. lamb=sheep, beef=cow & pork=pig, fig.

Bugeja acknowledges the occasional stumbling block: “The ingredients are still a work in progress,” she said. “For example, it’s hard to explain the difference between flour, baking powder, anthrax and cocaine without words.”

A clean sans serif font, & beautiful pastel colours really caps off a great, excellantly executed idea.

Her research map as she calls it, looks at the contrast of word & images, human factors with Human Information Processing with communication. In relation to interaction of the GUI (graphic user interface) she states the same as I have researched with engagement allowing greater playfulness through more challenge, presenter control, and variety in a game for browsing.

What’s most relevant here is the Information Architecture to ‘organise information to create meaning’ through ‘scheme & structure’ i.e. mental schemas and these visual map techniques of brainstorms, spider diagrams etc (Bugeja, 2008, p VC Major project). There are many more beautiful visual maps of all topics linked under diagram diaries on flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenbugeja/sets/72157594238802216/


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/style/tmagazine/06tdiagram.html?pagewanted=print

Published on 2008/04/08 10:09 am.
Filed under: communication, diagram, engagement, GUI, HCI, iconic, information, mapping, meaning, mimetic, paradigms, playful, puns, spider, universal, visual maps, wordless, words