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.

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100 of the best data visualisations / infographics

I wanted to compile a nice square thumbnailing of the different creative and innovative techniques to the visualisation of info/data. Each square is hyperlinked.

visualisationmagazine.com/100datavis.htm

 

100 of the best data visualisations

 

Featuring:

 

Brian Solis (many great pieces not featured)

TeleGeography

Barrett Lyon (opte project)

Eboy

Density Design (the milan universities students work, lots of beautiful & innovative designs)

Good.is (good transparencies)

Arnaud Velten

Paula Scher

David McCandless

John Maeda (RISD professor former MIT Aesthetics & Computation)

Brian Holmes

Saatchi & Saatchi

Mozy.com

Charles Joesph Minard

Walid Raad & Triple D

Denis Wood

Information Architects (Oliver R+)

Adam Sicinksi (brilliant mindmaps, very detailed and intiricate)

Design by Vent.com

Cameron Wilde

Jess Bachman (Wall Stats.com)

Andy Proehl

Marco Quaggiotto

Boris Muller

Peter Crnokrak

Scott Mccloud

Dizzia (Visual CV)

Lauren Bugeja

Chris Watson

Quentin Delobel

Martin Wattenburg

Gerson Mora (plenty on flickr)

NB Studio

Peter Ito

Skip Vision (federer/sampras)

Ouinon.net

Zach Bean

Luca Masud

Carl Tashian

Theo Deutinger (...and associates)

Ritwik Dey

Franchesco Franchi

Dr Bollen

See Ming Lee

Dr John Snow

Moritz Stefaner

Hugh Dubberly (...and associates)

Theodore Rosendorf

Lana (crochet diagram)

Julian Beever

Nicholas Feltron

 

Just search a handful of those names and you will have plenty of research to feed your imagination and design techniques styles. Will probably keep adding when i get time. oh and i know some arent strictly data vis/infographics, but we have to try and let the border between art and infographics to blend to promote innovation and creative growth for the fields (not that they havent already).

 

More great compilation sites to wet your appetite with:

 

http://ce.sysu.edu.cn/hope/Education/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=4883

 

http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/extras/posters.php#infographics_posters_iso_codes - geo data infographics (saw one of them on chart porn blog)

 

  

http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2009/04/50-great-examples-of-infographics/comment-page-3/ - brilliant

 

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/25-useful-infographics-for-web-designers/ - brilliant

 

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/30-superb-examples-of-infographic-maps/

 

http://www.datavisualization.ch/inspiration/20-inspirational-infographics-12-%e2%80%93-19-10-09 - good collection, selections from their tumblar listed below

 

http://www.instantshift.com/2009/06/07/infographic-designs-overview-examples-and-best-practices/

 

  

More Galleries

 

WeLoveDatavis. excellant tumblr gallery from ben w at datavis.ch

 

  

Bigger Plate - is focused on providing a map sharing space for MindManager files. It offers a map library that is searchable by keyword, tags and categories. When you upload a map to share, the site automatically generates a preview image. Also, you can rate others’ maps, a feature which may help you to zero in on the most valuable maps, as judged by your peers. When you upload maps, you can designate them as password protected.

  

Cool Data Visualization Flickr

  

Density Design. MUST SEE infographics

 

Diagram Diaries / Flickr

 

 

GOOD magazine. infographic transparencies

  

Free mind share - This website bills itself as “a fast, simple way to share your FreeMind mind map(s).” After I logged in, the only option I saw was to upload and view my own maps. There doesn’t seem to be any kind of a public map gallery here. In fact, several of the capabilities of Freemindshare, including “groups” and “messages” don’t seem to be finished yet. Clicking on the links for them leads you to pages that say “This feature is not yet available"

 

History Shots

 

  

The Info Graphics Pool Flickr

  

Infografia Infographics Flickr

  

Infografistas.com / Infographics News Flickr

  

Innovation in Data Visualization Flickr

 

Nathan Yau's new flickr group and sets ] Flickr

 

 

Mappio - is a repository for MindManager and FreeMind maps. Maps are searchable by title and keyword tags, and you can also view a set of featured mind maps. You can preview any map as an image file, including small, medium, large and full screen (1024×768 pixel) images that show a lot of detail. You can then decide if you want to download it as an image or as a map. Mappio also displays related maps beneath the currently selected one. The whole site is well designed and is a pleasure to browse

 

Nova Mind Connect - This gallery is a companion to the website of NovaMind Pty. Ltd., a leading developer of mind mapping software. NovaMind enables you to create very colorful and engaging maps, and offers its users a unique capability: They can publish their maps directly from the program to the NovaMind Connect workspace. This gallery contains the most colorful and engaging maps of any I’ve seen. If you want to see what’s possible with mind mapping software, this is the gallery that will inspire you to a higher level of visual mapping.

  

Scimaps

  

Time Visualisations. Visual History Archive - Excellant

  

Topic Scape. excellant mind map / diagram archive

  

XMIND - Like NovaMind Connect, this gallery is part of the XMIND website. You can upload your map files directly from XMIND to this shared map space.

 

  

Visual Complexity

  

ReMap from Bestario. excellant reorganisation of Visual Complexity

  

Visual Information Flickr

 

Apologises i know there are some very imporatant people probably not mentioned,

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New York Times Key Magazine Cover

ny+times+key+magazine2+ +john+maeda+ +CR+nov+07+p42 New York Times Key Magazine Cover


Note that I dont have an obsession with New York at the moment, but with such great art foundations of Rauschenberg, DeKooning & Pollock its no surprise of its creative vein. Today technology is the key that has fused creativity & opened boundaries to allow interdisciplinary practice.

The New York Times real estate magazine Key started with the cover design concept of hiring people that are brilliant to do personal interpretations of what a key means to them & their lives. The 1st cover in the Fall 2006 by Carin Goldberg featured all the places she lived at using the font Dynamoe (green & black thumbnail) & spring 2007 (yellow & purple thumbnail) was designed by new york design studio 2x4.

In dialogue with John Maeda (author of Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation) art director Dick Barnett looked at some of Maeda's sketches and replied to him saying how he's 'loving #3 Google Mappish Mondrian' (3rd thumbnail along) idea and how he might 'think of a way to make it more personal to [maeda's] life'. Maeda responded utilising Boston, he states how he 'thinks of the world as a sort of map of cities', a topographic territory, he 'mined the internet for all the cities with an airport' & made a simple diagram and then drew some 'fluid like curves [framing] to connect into the centre of the keyhole' (4th thumbnail), (Centaur Publication, 2007, p. nov – 42).

Maeda wanted to concentrate on the background rather than the foreground & after some design processing (problem solving) such as replacing fonts used to that of Key magazines T-Star, it was finished. The design is brilliant, although probably not that easy a task to create without access/stroke knowledge of computer science functionality but excellant aesthetics. The overall white stands out from the blue (a colour normally percieved as depiciting sea in maps) causing a slight incongruity on part of the viewer, map reader/user. Boston being the epicentre of travel in this map providing the key access to other cities and the viral red linking lines spidering the topgraphic locations.

Excellant Map utilising technology to visualise data functionality mentioned upon with Bradford Paley, in the heart of its design.

'John Maeda is an artist and a computer scientist, and he views the computer not as a substitute for brush and paint but as an artistic medium in its own right. His mission is to foster the growth of what he calls 'humanist technologists'- people that are capable of articulating future culture through informed understanding of the technologies they use' (http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/maeda.html, 2008, p. john maeda interview).

More examples of the stages of Maeda's Key Cover design here, http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/09/06/realestate/keymagazine/20070909_KEY_COV_SS_index.html

Creative Review. New York. Centaur Publication, 2007, p. nov – 42).

Text Arc - Alice in wonderland

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In reference to aesthetics and the data functionality Bradford Paley created Text Arc (fig 95) a system for visualising literary texts states ‘beauty [form, aesthetics] is neither an alternative to function, nor a bolt-on extra. The two bear a more subtle relation to one another: “beauty is a personal goal, but I believe that it came from the accurate and comfortable representation of data”’ (Centaur Publication, 2008, p. mar – 50).

The aesthetic is needed to make it worth looking at see the whole functionality. DIDI.com. (2001). Digital image design incorporated - A TextArc is a visual represention of a text—the entire text (twice!) on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary; it uses the viewer's eye to help uncover meaning.

http://www.textarc.org/
Centaur Publication. (2008). Creative Review – mar 2008, p.50.