Edinburgh Creative Map

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Edinburgh is the latest creative map to be rendered, vism.ag/edinburgh. Mapped in collaboration with creative-edinburgh.com launching Thursday 3rd November, 6 - 8pm at The Cube, 47 Leith Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3AT.

 



 



Identified as one of the 9 creative 'hotspots' in the UK by Nesta, this location has some great places on offer. From Edinburgh printmakers studio, Analogue Books, The Fruitmarket Gallery @fruitmarket to round the corner Stills photography gallery, there appears to be a lot of bustling creativity that the platform of creative-edinburgh.com @CreativeEdin will be sure to promote and keep you abreast of its output both nationally and internationally.



Creative Maps share knowledge of creative facilities in the world, or more specifically Edinburgh's area to help you in your creative and innovative endeavors.

Be it Galleries, Museums, Theaters, Bookshops, Arts Centers, Magazines, Studios, Design Companies, Craft Shops

 

Nearby on Thursday 3rd November, go check it out 6 - 8pm at The Cube, 47 Leith Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3AT



 

Check out the interactive map to see all the locations on Edinburgh's Creative Map vism.ag/edinburgh



 

Know any places in Edinburgh that aren't mapped? Sign up and add your own through vism.ag/sharegems



 

More info: @CreativeEdin



 



Published on 2011/10/28 11:37 pm.
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Poetry Atlas

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When I started creative maps, I discussed with my colleague it would be good to show learners what poetry there was about their area to try and get them engaged with a range of creative inspiration and outlets. Behold I came across this:



 

 



Poetry has been geographically mapped with Poetry Atlas, not as clean and clear as the well presented HistoryView (Pin) those quill markers are just a bit too overpowering. But the info windows etc are equally great and like history pin it has accumulated quite a few writings about areas. They've even made a layar app or AR reality, as I would love to have ;o). They also to their credit make it really easy to explore their site searching location, browsing poems/ poets. Very Good.



  http://www.poetryatlas.com/



Let the words of inspiration flow through your mind about your places, I experimented with this.



 

 

Published on 2011/10/28 10:21 pm.
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HistoryView

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This looks great. Google maps and history merged into one. I wondered about how we merge the old and the new somehow.

 

I am keen to do old historical street maps overlayed on top of interactive google, try to bring a spice of art with the idea of collaging like Mercato previous post.

 

  But its free, it has pretty good clustering of pins as you zoom in and drill down the data so it doesn't become crowded like it could do. From the group We are what we Do, who bring you the beautiful Change the world for a fiver book talking about going green.

Also with it being supported by google you can sign up with your google details quite easily.

http://www.historypin.com/

http://wearewhatwedo.org/

 

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Published on 2011/10/28 3:28 pm.
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Mercato

Mercato

Love this illustration/collage by Chris Kenny called Mercato. Piecing different parts of maps together to create a new terrain, a new territory.

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How apt to title a map by the name of Mercato too, as he was the one that produced our standard atlas we percieve the world as today, 'Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Belgian geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, in 1569.'

Find out more about Chris Kenny here: http://www.englandgallery.com/artist_bio.php?mainId=51

Published on 2011/09/13 9:34 am.
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Geography of Innovation

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This is a great study of the uk's creative economy that has sought to study 'the concept of creative clusters as a starting point to examine the role that creative industries play in local and regional innovation systems.' NESTA



'No one doubts the economic importance of the creative industries to the UK. At 6.2 per cent of the economy, and growing at twice the rate of other sectors, they are proportionately the largest of any in the world.' NESTA

'Apart from London, the research identifies nine other creative 'hotspots' across the UK:

Bath Brighton Bristol Cambridge Guildford Edinburgh Manchester Oxford Wycombe and Slough

See the 10 maps in detail See the interactive map and look at your area: Is your area a creative hotspot? Use our new set of interactive maps to find out

'In addition to mapping creative clusters across Britain, the analysis presented in our new report shows that:

• The creative industries punch above their weight in terms of innovation at both the national and regional level. They also tend to cluster in the same places as other innovative industries such as High-Tech Manufacturing and Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS).

• Different parts of Britain present different profiles of creative specialisation: cities across the wider South are more diversified in their creative specialisation, whereas Northern and Midlands cities (Manchester excepting) have similar creative profiles.' NESTA

The designs of the maps are by designbysoap.co.uk and the individual cities maps are good with the varying intensity of a hue to represent the density of the creative sector within the particular area of one of the cities. All nine have their own unique hue as is on the key on this infographic above and in the interactive ones they have overlayed them over google so you can see street data and they let you drill down the data by clicking the different particular areas of a city. Just wish they show what creative business are in these areas.

Anyhow, great that this kind of report takes place for the creative sector, help us creatives have a better awareness like I do with http://vism.ag/maps.

See the whole report in pdf here: http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/creative_economy/geography_of_innovation/assets/documents/creative_clusters_and_innovation or go the website and read more: http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/creative_economy/geography_of_innovation/assets/features/creative_clusters_and_innovation_report

Published on 2011/09/13 9:04 am.
Filed under: cartogram, country, creative, Info Visualisation, innovative, Interactive Mapping, research

Paper Works

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Paper Works, 'a touring exhibition from Flow Gallery in London, features a host of internationally acclaimed artists whose work all harnesses the sensitivity of the hand-made object. Fragility and transience are the immediate connotations which resonate in the use of paper as a medium for creating three-dimensional form. Single sheets are either reworked or pulped by the artists to form visually striking pieces.'

From Photo works


This is a close up of this great paper piece called 'A Story' by Aino Kajaniemi and she describes them as 'memory scrolls, and the viewer has to imagine and create the messages contained in the scrolls for themselves. Love letters, an apology'

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There was a whole host of big paper artist names such as Lizzie Thomas, local Ferry Staverman (i'm sure thats his surname) and Helen Musselwhite.

From Photo works


A very cool gallery and good to see that space at the civic been put to good use. Visit and keep the gallery going which has had a beautiful redevelopment from I the gallery manager said lottery fund. You can purchase pieces aand adorn your home with unique paper art.

See it at the civic

Published on 2011/09/12 8:20 pm.
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Prote.in Journal

Prote.in Journal

Cool url and even cooler news print journal. 'The quarterly Journal contains all the best from the Protein OS. It pulls together the very best of the network from the past three months. Previous issues are catalogued below.'

From Prote.in


Finally got round to posting this was their third issue and it was packed full of some beautiful data visualisations and interviews and lots to read. It even contained a free poster of the latest work (was a while ago I got this, just got round to posting) by Peter Crnokrak who was featured in http://vism.ag/vol2 see page 12 - 15 called 'Everyone Ever in the World', great work btw Peter.

From Prote.in


Beautifully composed/designed with a great healthy use of space that sits perfectly with the newsprint feel. Clean type it, its in colour too with some great projects from their dose of quarterly creative intake from the eyes that i'm about to check out, such as:

Sam Winston's Birth-day - does some brilliant typographic explorations such as Sam's 'The Monster Story' or 'The Dictionary Story' (i think the second was called this...)

Henry Luong's Seinfeld Data Vis, looking similar in circular compostion to those made by Peter Crnokrak [LoP]

Mapping America, also looking cool.

You can see all their issues for free, online in the same approach, possibly through Issuu.com too, approach to the flash viewing of http://vism.ag

Check it out!

http://prote.in/journal

Published on 2011/09/12 7:46 pm.
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Continued Thanks to Thinking Visually

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Many thanks to the support of Vannessa at thinking visually.

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Published on 2011/09/12 7:03 pm.
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Published on 2011/09/12 6:48 pm.
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Data Appealing

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The application helps tackle some data visualization issues..It allows users to craft and design their data...blending artistic principles with information.

From data mapping


The tool stems from concepts on data design, visualization, form and space from the book "The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles" (the foreword by richard saul wurman and the afterword by co-founder of google earth) the application is an excellent application to showcase geo-based data into visually stimulating infographics.....great for profiling the "invisibles of the city", much in the same respect as http://diycity.org/ & http://vism.ag/maps.

From data mapping


Check it out!

http://dataappeal.com/

Published on 2011/09/12 6:34 pm.
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