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New York Subway (a comparison)
Further to my obsession of the London Underground, I thought it would make sense to have a look at how other underground networks from around the word have been visualized.In 1972, Italian designer...
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Subway Map (Re)design
Above: The Tokyo Subway Map.Not being fluent in Japanese, it must be said, I find this map very confusing however I assume that for a resident of Japan, it must be easy to understand. I make this...
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visualizing friend networks
Sebastian Van Sande has developed Visualizer, a tool that allows you to explore your Facebook social network graphically. This is the "Visualization" of my Facebook account.It's great as I can see...
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This is a stunning stop motion film by Carlos Lascano. Wonderful expression of love and hope through various styles of animation. A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.I...
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visualizing fetishism
I mentioned in a previous post that people who are able to visualize complex information are normally and rightly given credit. Harry Beck, Ivan Kozik, Massimo Vignelli etc...However after writing...
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religion, meet science
Philipp Steinweber and Andreas Koller have created Similar Diversity, a visualization that exposes a fresh perspective on the topic of religionandfaith.The graphic focuses on the Holy Books of five...
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so to sum up...
To recapitulate my research over the past semester of my MDes, I feel almost obliged to visualize it! I planned on writing a quick program in Processing that would randomly pick words from my blog and...
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Notes to self:Can storyboards be produced using images alone; without the use of written language?Roland Barthes in his essay "Rhetoric of the Image" (cir. 1964) argues that the meaning of an image is...
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It's been a (quick) month since my last post. I think I'm getting lazy.Having spoken to my study advisor, Dr Shaleph O'Neil, on Monday, I remembered a short film I made last year. I took a series of...
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I identified the problem of communication of ideas in the design process to users (I don’t like using this word as it suggests a stereotype of certain people). Communicating and prototyping ideas of...
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death, inheritance and heirlooms
I had an interesting conversation with Richard Banks today over lunch.Richard has been looking at what it means to design digital artifacts with longer time spans in mind, and taking heredity of...
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hypercomics
In reference to the concept of hypertext fiction, where narrative is non-linear and non-hierarchical, hypercomics are a variation of comics that has truly embraced its digital medium, allowing multiple...
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I don't know why I hadn't blogged this weeks ago! It came up in conversation yesterday and reminded me.Daily Routines are taken from magazines, websites, books and newspapers and depict how writers,...
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interactive comics and biological consideration
Dead On Arrival is an interactive comic loosely based on the story of the old 1940s film noir. Although I found this story rather dull, indolent and unexciting, the story was delivered clearly and the...
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how romantech
An example of personal technology?User interface designer Bryan Haggerty, programmer at LinkeIn, proposed to his girlfriend Jeannie Choe, former writer at Core77, with an iPhone application which he...
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The down side to drafting into a word processing document and then copying/pasting into my blog is that sometimes I forget to actually copy and past into my blog! This following post has been sitting...
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Amazing IC product, livescribe. Here's a quick demonstration by IIT Institute of Design professor Tom MacTavish, of the Livescribe digital writing system, a pen-and-paper duo that records audio,...
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visualizing networks
Going back to my research into visualizing complex information; Burak Arikan, artist and researcher, studies the way people interact through communication.This following piece of work is wonderful. He...
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iBirth
Having already covered iphone "romance" I had to post this... (from macrumors.com)"...the process that iPhone sales folks are instructed to follow verrrry closely mimics - wait for it - childbirth. The...
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andiamo a Berlino...
Tomorrow I make my first visit to the city of Berlin!Me and the T3 team will present our 'work in progress' to Rosan Chow and her colleagues at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories on Thursday, and we will...
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