Vism.ag & Creative Maps Blog

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

World of Art Game

This was a great diagram I discovered that helps understand/simplify some of the complexities of the art world in an excellantly designed visualisation.

Adelheid Mers subverts this diagrma of rather than being just a diagram he would transform it into a game, with players following the artists.

Start life at college, finish with a clear mind. It has excellant pictographic symbols of people/places with clean, soft contrasts/graduation of monochromatic colours.

'ABOUT WORLD OF ART: Curator Mary Jane Jacob had seen the diagrams after Lakoffat the Chicago Open Studio, and commissioned me to create a poster for a workshop symposium she was organizing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago:

"Setting Up Your Art and Your Life - Strategies for a Sustained Practice".

The idea was to create a diagram of an artist, not based on a book, but on my own expertise. Conjuring up elements I wished to include, it first became apparent how crowded the world of art is (artists, audiences, curators, juries, dealers, students, critics, historians etc.), then how many locations are involved, and then, in discussion with Mary Jane, it became very clear that how we value the players and the locales varies greatly as well.

As the task was not to diagram my personal belief system, two design possibilities presented themselves: to indicate all possible varieties, or to make a game in which all possibilities are evoked. The game seemed to be appropriate, and it was printed on the rear of the poster that announced the symposium, as a treat of sorts. Later I also printed a larger version and made game pieces to go along with it'.

found: http://thediagram.com/5_1/mers.html

link featured: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davegray/355002597/

high res: http://thediagram.com/5_1/mers_woa.pdf

Published on 2008/08/11 8:16 pm.
Filed under: clean, communication, composition, connections, creative, diagram, game, how to, looking, monochrome, multidirectional, simple, subvert, visualisation, world

Mobile Phone Drawing Maps

Landlines is a multi-user collaborative drawing tool for GPS enabled mobile phones, in which users draw by moving in real space.

There are two different visual interfaces for drawing these route maps using this innovative drawing tool, the ever popular googlemaps application, and a Flash application ‘Mapper’.

Mapper allows you to see routes as live drawings, in collaboration with other users. This is the application that they use for exhibitions and workshops.They have concentrated on the drawn quality of the line, keeping the whereabouts of users anonymous, and on the resulting map like drawings gradually revealing a place.

These are great, abstract ways of drawing with different media and create route maps of their journeys.

featured: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APhoto%3A281&context=user

source: http://www.landlines.org/mapping.html

Published on 2008/06/30 4:06 pm.
Filed under: collaborative, drawing, locations, map, mapping, multidirectional, technology, topographic, visualisation, world

Evolution of Life Visual

Origin & Development of Life Visual
Originally uploaded by visual think map

Following on from Watch the Evolution Design post this info - graphic map elicits great visual thinking.

It has so much detail charting life evolving on land, in water against a geological timeline with such subtle pastel colours, little line illustrations & sharp pink sectioning, similiar form to the Liverpool Map. It is brilliant.

It appears on p.32 of the Unknown. (1993). Times Atlas of the world (concise edition) 6th Ed. Hammond World Atlas Corporation. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic of reference publishing around the globe. The acknowledgements section gives picture credit to "Encyclopaedia Universalis".

Encyclopædia Universalis is published in French (by Encyclopædia Britannica) and the current edition has been hailed as an irreplaceable reference. One of the distinguishing features of this set is its intelligent structure. With more than 18,000 bibliographical notes, 50,000 entries, and 280,000 references, the 4-volume Index is the master key to this work. The 23-volume Corpus, with more than 6,000 in-depth articles on various subjects covering nearly every field, can be considered a summary of all knowledge.

It has more than 4,000 world-renowned authors, and with these vivid info graphics, they literally bring to life every topic engaging readers and explaining more complicated topics.

Source: http://eb.com/Product_EU.htm
Image: Steve M, cheers.

Published on 2008/06/08 11:15 am.
Filed under: communication, composition, creative, diagram, function, geographic, global, harmony, illustration, information, innovative, knowledge, sublime, time, visual thinking, white space, world

Internet Undersea Map

TeleGeography create these brilliant visual map's with subtle colours and stimulate our thinking with clean, clear info graphic pye charts.

TeleGeography's innovative approach to cartography distills complex data sets into attractive posters for hanging on your wall. All maps measure approximately 37" x 51" (0.9m x 1.2m) and are printed on highly durable synthetic stock called Yupo, that is much more durable than traditional paper.

They have a more detailed map of the underground cables in this Submarine Cable Map 2008. The latest edition includes information for over 120 submarine cable systems, including major systems that are in service as well as announced cable systems expected to join a reinvigorated cable market. All data contained in the map is drawn from our Global Bandwidth Research Service, their definitive guide to the supply, demand and pricing of international bandwidth.

The map contains nine informative graphics that describe the state of the submarine cable market including a depiction of how capacity is used on the trans-Atlantic route. The connecting lines are lovely and organic almost hand rendered as was with Key Magazine Cover by John Maeda

They also have made maps for,

European Terrestrial Networks Map
Global Internet Map
& Global Traffic Map

Internet Undersea World Map seen here thorugh guardian:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/02/01/SeaCableHi.jpg

Bigger version here:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2008/02/01/SEA_CABLES_010208.pdf

Source: Teleography.com - Submarine Cable Map 2008. Internet Stats from: InternetWorldStats.com

Submarine Cable Map seen here:
http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_cable/index.php

Brilliant.

Published on 2008/05/29 11:58 pm.
Filed under: clean, colour, communication, creative, designs, diagram, geographic, global, graphic, information, internet, map, topographic, visual, world

Visualising San Francisc-jello

These are brilliant ways of visualizing, mapping allowing us to see & percieve these regular topographic landmarks abstract luminous colours & organic shapes in a different light.

Liz Hickok's project for her Masters in Fine Art, they are part sculpture, part photography and video, it resonates beyond the immediate appeal of the rainbow colors to become a sublime form of landscape. Her version of the city, which stems from a long-standing interest in three-dimensional city maps, emits a different kind of luminosity than the late 19th century Hudson River Valley variety. This in particular Palace of Fine - C-PrintArts, 2006 12"x16" 36"x48"editions of 12 has a great opposite harmony of orange & blue when light is refracted through gelatin.

'I make the landscapes by constructing scale models of the architectural elements which I use to make molds. I then cast the buildings in Jell-O. Similar to making a movie set, I add backdrops, which I often paint, and elements such as mountains or trees, and then I dramatically light the scenes from the back or underneath. The Jell-O sculptures quickly decay, leaving the photographs and video as the remains' liz hickok.

The molds she construct herself are based on idealized postcard images and her own photographs – have a way of making her vision go down smoothly. When she makes her city shake, as in her short video work, the landscape comes alive with the power of nature and culture on the brink of transformation, through changing our perspectives of the world in quite an innovative way.

http://www.lizhickok.com/10palace.html#photo

http://www.mills.edu/academics/grants_and_special_programs/mfa_exhibitions/mfa_2005/hickock/

Originally Dugg by user Gregd here
http://digg.com/search?section=all&s=san+francisco+jello

Published on 2008/05/09 6:49 pm.
Filed under: 3d, architecture, colour, contrast, creative, image, innovative, landmarks, landscapes, light, mapping, perception, perspectives, seeing, sublime, technology, visual maps, visualisation, world

A Texas Designer's Map of the World

The fabulous design agency Pentagram based in New York with partners like Angus Hyland (co-author of many excellant design/illustration books, The Picture Book: Contemporary Illustration & Paula Scher (AIGA medalists, notorius mapper, will feature soon), ....at the worlds leading multi-disciplinary design consultancy, feature an excellant map that Scher would be proud of. The partner DJ Stout has created a “Texas Designer’s Map of the World” as a part of a promotion for Sappi Fine Paper. Based on the concept of a Texas Brag Map, the poster elucidates the worldview that everything is bigger and better in the Lone Star State. “It’s part of our Texas heritage and our collective sense of humor,” explains Stout. “My apologies to the other smaller, less interesting states on the map.”' (pentagram, 2008, p.new). He divides a map of the U.S. into six parts and assigns each section to a graphic designer who resides within the region. When all six posters are put together, they form a giant map of the United States, “of course I was given the Southwest,” says Stout (pentagram, 2008, p.new). Its composition is bolshy, beautifully layered (as you notice opening the pdf on a sluggish computer), with Piet Zwart/H. N. Werkman letters treatment surrounded by soft pastel triadic harmony of red, blue, yellow. Yet still its not too disparaging with the these surreal, fluctuating sized elements like The World's biggest Jack Rabbit, it has Swiss grounding in neat, clean, precise, even grids of text J.M.Brockmann would be proud of, creating a salient [1] contrast. It also treats word (type) as image that crow [2], and concrete poets of appollinaire to mallarme would adore. The other participants include Art Chantry, Rick Valicenti, Paul Sahre, Clive Piercy and Tim Hussey. Brilliant. Download the large version image here. http://blog.pentagram.com/2008/02/new-work-sappi.php [1] Kress & Van leeuwen [2] Left to Right: The Cultural Shift from Word to Image

Published on 2008/03/27 7:40 pm.
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