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.
Superb handmade watch that ok, relies on the sun to cast a shadow but is completely free. Much better than the imagined iWatch.
Dimensions: 11" x 2 " x .14"
Artist: Amy Franceschini
'Sundial Watch is a reaction to the ubiquity of technological devices in our lives today. Sundial watch reminds us to depend on our own devices. It is an interface with nature...
The sun will always rise in the morning and set in the evening, and the length of the winter days will be shorter than the summer days. This portable sundial physically illustrates the wonders of the sun and its motion through the sky providing a stage fro the suns' shadow to dance upon.
Materials: paper, string, foam
Exhibition History: Orange County Museum, California Biennial
Adobe Bookstore, SF Benefit Auction Pond, SF: Shop Dropping
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 iPhoneApps' 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 ago
A really useful tool to see who tweets about you. Quickly find relevant people to follow! Use Mentionmap to see Twitter conversations as a network and click any user to explore.
mention map tool by asterisq.com
I like it as its functional, they are in a concept map with elaborate media of hyperlink attached to nodes to delve deeper, mine deeper into the relational tweeters. Not entirely about the visual appearance but more the activity of user and influence.
Its ‘planets’ style with the 3D central gradient effect to the circles, and varying sizes create excellent salience as they grab your attention. The circular halo around ‘a band represents its popularity, the wider it is, the more popular or representative of a certain style of music it is’. The colour stands out against the soft grey background, ‘the colour of a very popular band, will influence the colour of the related bands’ (Worldwide, 2005, p. credits).
This varying size affects the information value very effectively, but as it is a Concept map, clicking one of the planets readjusts the circular halo (planets) to a series of bands that are associated to them, such as with The Ravonettes. The subtle, seamless, beautiful real time repositioning of the constellation to the associated bands with them is excellent. The interconnection of these information sources is immense and is not half, not nearly as visually stimulating viewed via plain words/sentences. Music Plasma has an interactive highly creative visual composition, visual map. It has mapped the knowledge of a map designers mind and allowed the seamless fluid motion to map user’s interaction.
This is a fantastic typographic exploration of type's place within the visual world of the capital.
This map won a design award from Aiga and London Design. The information is taken from AZ street maps where the icons, symbols and hard lines representing churches, streets, rivers and parks have been removed from the map, leaving only letters. It is interesting to see Geography and Creative Graphic Design combine as opposed to the separation they seem to have followed. It is a fantastic and visually inspiring/innovative typographic map of London’s street names.
Although this is not so much about knowledge it is visually inspiring to inform ways of seeing, connecting thoughts spatially, creating a spatial immediacy that demands attention.
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