Category: Artistic Visualization
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Designers Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth looked at ink usage of some commonly-used typefaces, by hand-drawing them with ballpoint pens. Scribble, scribble, scribble, and they got this simple bar…
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It's funny how data is finding it's way into everyday objects. There was jewelry a few months ago and coins last month. Now we've got this experiment with Christmas…
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This experiment (below) by graduate student Pedro Miguel Cruz shows the decline of Maritime empires during the 19th and 20th centuries . Pedro explains: I don’t wanna call this…
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Jer Thorp, an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, visualizes when people "wake up" on Twitter, or when they say good morning, rather. Here it is in its 3-d…
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The Stock Ticker Orbital Comparison, or STOC for short, from media student James Grant, uses a planetary system metaphor to display activity with the S&P 500. Each circle represents…
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This is a guest post by Craig Mod, who collaborated with Information Architects, to develop Web Trend Map. The site, which is largely inspired by iA's previous work, lets…
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The 2009 MTV Video Music Awards are on right now (and I'm sure all of you are watching). Check out the live VMA Twitter tracker by Stamen and Radian6.…
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Ben Fry, well-known for Processing and plenty of other data goodness, announced his most recent piece, On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces, made possible by…
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I Google myself every now and then. Everyone does. I don't know why people act like it's all weird to do it. We're all interested in what's out there…
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Map/Territory, by designer Timo Arnall, is a concept video of what it might be like to interact with a map embedded in real life - not just on a…
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These ads for Hospital Alemán from Saatchi & Saatchi color code physical items for what parents say and what children do. It's not quantitative at all, and a lot…
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We've all seen the new Star Trek by now. If you haven't, you should. There are amazing visuals throughout, especially on the bridge, where those aboard can just about…
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Pixel City is a procedurally-generated city by Shamus Young. For the non-coders out there, this essentially means that based on a certain set of rules, this 3-D city is…
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This holographic video by Bruce Branit is completely fictional but oh so sexy. Can you imagine a digital world at that level of interaction - where just about anything…
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Information Architects, a design firm with offices in Japan and Zurich, release their annual web trends map. This is the fourth one in the series. Popular domains on the…
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Data Visualization Christmas Ornaments
The Decline of Maritime Empires
When Twitter Says Good Morning Around the World
The S&P 500 as a Planetary System
Data Interface Iterations: Designing webtrendmap.com’s Stacks
2009 MTV VMA Twitter Tracker Live
Ben Fry Visualizes the Evolution of Darwin’s Ideas
How Does the Internet See You? – Personas From MIT Media
Map/Territory Shows Augmented Reality of the Future
Colored Tree, Cookies, and Stairs in Visualization Ad
Designing Interfaces for the Star Ship Enterprise
Pixel City: Computer-generated City
Creating a World in Holograms
Web Trends Map from Information Architects, 4th edition