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Data Origami

Poetry on the road is an ongoing project by Boris Müller and one of his projects has previously been posted at this blog Visual Poetry. This is a quirky visualisation of poetry, data made into 'digital' origami that i'm sure Won Park would appreciate the visual quality of.

Made from computer algorithms like a long strip of paper folded into these sculptures. I love how data may not communicate the meanings and complexities of the words they were constructed from they are no less functional in giving form to prose. Help you imagine the words, just maybe a little less of forms that we know to associate meanings or context. Reminds me of Richard Sweeney's actual paper folding.

'The metaphoric theme of this years Poetry on the Road visual is a mad origami master. Every poem is represented as a data sculpture made from virtual paper. So this year, we don't have a single key visual but a sequence of individual graphics that represent a single poem. This is also reflected on the design level - a number of poster variations were produced for the festival.

The concept in a nutshell: a long paper strip that is folded in an extremely complex manner. Every ridge represents a word. Depending on the length and frequency of the word, the form of the ridge changes. The virtual paper is then folded between the ridges. So the defining visual element are actually not the words - but the space between words.

Complex forms - and a long and complex process! Poetry 2010 is probably the most innovative, radical and beautiful VisualPoetry result for quite a while.' from: http://www.esono.com/boris/projects/poetry10/

Project is by: Friederike Lambers, Boris Müller, Florian Pfeffer

'Poetry on the road has been an integral part of Bremen's cultural landscape for more than 10 years. The festival is held in high regard by authors from Germany and around the world. The sheer diversity of poetry on the road makes it especially noteworthy – from traditional readings to poetry slams and performances, poetry on the road 2010 is an invitation to experience poetry in all its forms and with all our senses.' from: http://www.poetry-on-the-road.com/seiten/en_home.php

Published on 2010/10/27 6:17 pm.
Filed under: abstract Tags: Boris Muller, Complexities, Computer Algorithms, Lambers, Nbsp, Nutshell, Ongoing Project, Paper Strip, Poem, Poetry Slams, Prose, Richard Sweeney, Sculpture, Sculptures, Sheer Diversity, Virtual Paper, Visual Element, Visual Poetry, Visual Quality, visualisation

Visualisation Magazine Volume 3 - Isometrics - Files Submitted for review

This magazine collates some of the most creative and innovative visualisations of information that try to simplify the complex, such as:

Data Visualisations

Information Graphics

www.createspace.com/3454584

visualisationmagazine.com/volume3_isometrics.htm

This issue explores Isometric perspective through 74 pages featuring work from:

Co-Curator Arnaud Velten from as-map.com

Paul Kahn & Associates

Eboy

Funnel Inc

Good Magazine Inc & Timko & Klick

Information Architects

Pedro Monteiro

Krzysztof Lenk | co-creator of Dynamic Diagrams

Trainiac

plus many more...

Currently the PDF Files have been Submitted for review. 15 / 05 / 2010

Will update when I submit for Proof Copy. Sign up For notification of when proof is received and is available to buy... (I promise I wont spam you!)

Many thanks to everyone who contributed

Published on 2010/05/15 5:15 pm.
Filed under: collaborative, data, innovative, interview, Interviews, isomap, isometric Tags: art, Creative Process, data, data art, Data Formats, Data Visualization, Document, Good, Innovation, isometric, Magazine, Magazines and E-zines, PDF, Publishing, visualisation

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

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,