Data Art

Finding the beauty in numbers.

Google Streetview stop motion

Address is Approximate by Tom Jenkins tells the story of a lonely desk…

History of the sky

Ken Murphy installed a camera on top of the Exploratorium in San Francisco…

24 hours of Flickr photos printed to fill a room

People upload thousands of pictures to Flickr every day, but the numbers and…

Manual data design from Stefanie Posavec

Designer Stefanie Posavec talks about her process of data collection, analysis, and design.…

Microsoft envisions the near future in technology and interaction

In a follow-up to last year’s visions of the future, Microsoft imagines interacting…

Facebook connections displayed in physical space

For Facebook’s F8 developer conference, creative agency Obscura Digital delivered the Connections installation.…

#thankyousteve

Twitter engineer Miguel Rios pays tribute to the man, the legend. Zoomed out…

Twitter users as organisms, Tweetures

Twitter is a bustling place of tweets, retweets, and replies, and the growth…

Live data wall and immersive film at THINK exhibit

The THINK exhibit from IBM just opened up at Lincoln Center in New…

Musical spectrum analysis

Jon-Kyle Mohr visualizes the musical spectrum of a song in this mesmerizing video.…

You Are What You Eat

The phrase “you are what you eat” usually refers to health and weight,…

Elements of Happiness: A happy life depicted in diagrams

For several decades, Harvard Laboratory of Adult Development has chronicled the lives of…

Yacht design inspired by Voronoi diagram

Industrial architect Hyun-Seok Kim, known for eccentric yacht designs, uses Voronoi diagrams as…

Keyboard with keys raised by frequency of use

Mike Knuepfel, a student in NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, uses key frequency, according…

Aaron Koblin on visualizing humanity

Aaron Koblin, Creative Director of Google’s Data Arts team, shares some of the…

Art reproduction incongruencies

When you think art reproduction, you probably think of something that looks almost…

A century of deaths and a lot of fake blood

Rather than bars, bubbles, and dots, Clara Kayser-Bril, Nicolas Kayser-Bril, and Marion Kotlarski…

Where the water resources are and where they go

Designer David Wicks compares rainfall against water consumption in his thesis project Drawing…