Vism.ag & Creative Maps Blog

This might be old, but how great is it. Paint your screen. I am intrigued at some point to find out what solenoids are that 'control paint-emission', Audi Design Foundation, Design in Action publication.

'PixelRoller is a paint roller that paints pixels, designed by Stuart Wood, Florian Ortkrass & Hannes Koch as a rapid response printing tool specifically to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces. The content is applied in continuous strokes by the user. PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld “printer”, based around the ergonomics of a paintroller, that lets you create the images by your own hand.' random-international.com/pixelroller-overview/# .

. Originally by Wood & Ortkrass whilst postgraduating (lets make words) at the RCA, Audi DF I want to know if it can control more colours, or do you have to change paint supply? the computer keeps it in registration (alignment) so you can re-paint over the same part of an image and controls the supply of paint, bit like using the same clone point in Adobe Photoshop (love doing that into a blank document from an image with a wacky brush).

. This is part of the V&A Museums permanent collection of (I assume...) con-temporary printing machines, or in the Audi - Design in Action publication the 'temporary printing machines and with clients like Nokia, Coke Zero & Oracle. The publication did have some lovely tracked type and spreads combining red, black and beautiful white space. .

'The software for the first PixelRoller prototype was created using processing which proved invaluable to the development process.' random-international.com/pixelroller-overview/#

That processing by Casey Reas and Ben Fry I think it was... whilst at the Aesthetics & Computation Group headed by John Maeda is finding some truly versatile uses.

. http://www.random-international.com/pixelroller-overview/#

For more information, please contact us more@random-international.com. For more images, please visit the PixelRoller at the RCA 2005 Gallery.

Pixel Bender Technology Center (blogs.adobe.com)
iconic wall accessories (designboom.com)
From digital to print and back (macworld.com)

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

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,