Love this map made by Christian Nold.
http://stockport.emotionmap.net/background.htm
'Whilst conventional maps show static architecture and exclude humans, this art project presents a vision of Stockport that represents the emotions, opinions and desires of local people. Over a period of two months in summer 2007, about 200 people took part in six public mapping events. This map collects together and shows the results of the two activities: Drawing Provocations & Emotion Mapping.'
The sort of tubes/pillars represent the emotions of people at particular locations using the GPS/GRS device invented by christian nold. Its no surprise that Christian has worked with looking into perceptions of an area as he had done similar when featured in http://vism.ag/vol2 and he has done other areas.
If you like this then you'll certainly want to have a read of his free pdf book of Emotional Cartography, http://emotionalcartography.net/EmotionalCartographyLow.pdf
Check out his projects here: http://www.softhook.com/
Stockport Narratives
Route 66 Story Map
This is a great project on mapping the history and narratives of a journey/terrain. A sort of map that is more interesting than the territory that Houellebecq proposed.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=k&om=1&msid=103763259662194171141.000001119b4b42bf062c2&msa=0
Looking to use video and record data on a journey, much like Stephen Shore has done on his journey's across america but only through photography. Just multimedia and more forms of it. I'd like to merge the projects Poetry Atlas & History Pin and maybe this atlascine.org that I recently saw but not just Canada.
See http://artcarto.wordpress.com/cartography-narratives/ for more about Story Maps.
More about the project 'Jay Crim and Shekar Davarya spent the summer of 2002 driving across the country on Route 66, collecting interviews with the people who live, work and travel on the old road. The audio, video and images on this map are the result of that summer, and offer a glimpse into what life was like on the now-decommissioned highway and what remains for those who still travel the road. The America's Highway project was intended to create both a history lesson on America of the past as well as a travel guide for visitors on 66 today. The work was supervised by Professor Bill Leslie, History of Science Department and Mike Reese, Center for Educational Resources, The Johns Hopkins University.'
Language and Visual Communication
I think this was a good discussion talking about language and communicating without phonetics touching on quite a few forms of language and creativity. This
was my thoughts below to this question.
Is it possible real ideographic way of communicate ideas? that is think, communicate and learn without phonetic chains? New era challenge require a more rapid and easy way of thinking.
My thoughts, love the discussion: http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=1782421&type=member&item=10926482
Susan Kare designed the trash can, apologies not checking who, someone mentioned basing language on gesture and I like the term grant put iconic physiology I think it was, still needs to be learned like phonetics. but she made the smiling face on load up of the Mac in 84'
When I was reading, I came across that language needed to search for the strongest metaphor (object) to relate meaning like an ideogram (pg 28-29 in my writings link below). But someone said they try to unlearn what they know and think of objects without words, I try it too. led me into representing objects through shapes, silhouettes. I also liked the story that a guy shuts his eyes, similar to Claude Heath and tries to draw the world, like Betty Edwards I think it was, drawing on the left side. altering our perception, being creative, looking at line drawings upside down for the first time you see it challenges you to work out what it is, you just copy it. not sure how the advance to not using phonetics. unlearning advances the creativity and ultimately the imagining of new ways I guess.
Logos do it, icons for blogger, wordpress (ok still letters), delicious, squidoo, digg (the people) these are universal, they're most widely seen (internet).
Brands do it, coca cola (letters I know).
I'm sure its got to involve more senses other than sight to be more widely applicable without phonetics. brail and tactility, still represent a letter in the alphabet though I think. But I like that the grid comes into it, all characters equal in size, maybe not area but equal height and relative width.
Similar to time dimension brought into sound with Morse code again representing letters. they look good graphically, cant remember the artist-designer
Still, a group of people would need to agree to discerned representations, otherwise how can they communicate complex thought like we're doing here? http://www.visualisationmagazine.com/dissertation.htm pg 28-29 about. Please share you thoughts, links.
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Interactive Digital Magazine
London-based BERG demonstrate the potential of tablet devices to deliver a rich experience for magazine lovers, much like a book on Amazon Kindle.
Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo. I'm sure it will get blogged and retweeted-retumbled, dugg but I liked it and would love for the tablets to become affordable. Like CR say 'Magazine publishers are getting very excited about the potential of iPhone Apps' the tablet will be slightly bigger device. 'In this hugely impressive video, BERG walk us through their ideas for how magazines may work on such a device.' Via Guardian, Via PaperPapers via infographicsnews & seen via CR-Blog, 'this isn't just pie in the sky conceptualising but part of serious research commissioned by Swedish publisher Bonnier R&D Beta Lab, which believes that such devices will be in use in two years' time'. The BERG concept certainly seems more considered than this idea for Sports Illustrated that has recently done the rounds online. from my Tumblr - 18 hours agoRelated articles by Zemanta
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Graph Depth of Field
3d charts, very nice & clean. 'the brief for The Design Council Annual Review stipulated a more engaging way to look at the facts and figures representing three key areas of policy: Competitiveness, Sustainability and Innovation.'
Once More Around the Sun
Brad Paley, sometimes teaching at Columbia University, who also designed Text Arc has depicted the calendar graphically in an excellent circular form with equal distances between numbers. It is informatively named Once more around the Sun 2008 a package of 7 calendars, brilliant symmetry and fidelity from its accuracy. The book Mapping: An Illustrated Guide to Graphic Navigational Systems has a high focus on the graphic element and has a chapter looking at examples of representations of time & space featuring work by NB: Studio - London Kerning Paley, Bradford. (2008). Information Esthetics - calendar http://informationesthetics.org/