Data Art
Finding the beauty in numbers.
Clothing color palette
Jacobo Zanella makes a color palette every day, based on the clothes he’s…
Crowdsourcing Johnny Cash
Aaron Koblin (along with Chris Milk) is up to his crowdsourcing mischief again.…
Wear the weather as a bracelet
We all know that data is the new sexy, so it’s only natural…
Review: We Feel Fine (the book) by Kamvar and Harris
We Feel Fine, by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris, is a selection of some of the best entries from the database of 12 million emotions, along with some insights into the growing dataset.
Math Functions in the Real World
RIT student Nikki Graziano photographs math functions in the real world. Some are…
Save pens. Use Garamond font
Designers Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth looked at ink usage of some commonly-used…
Data Visualization Christmas Ornaments
It’s funny how data is finding it’s way into everyday objects. There was…
The Decline of Maritime Empires
This experiment (below) by graduate student Pedro Miguel Cruz shows the decline of…
When Twitter Says Good Morning Around the World
Jer Thorp, an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, visualizes when people “wake…
The S&P 500 as a Planetary System
The Stock Ticker Orbital Comparison, or STOC for short, from media student James…
Ben Fry Visualizes the Evolution of Darwin’s Ideas
Ben Fry, well-known for Processing and plenty of other data goodness, announced his…
How Does the Internet See You? – Personas From MIT Media
I Google myself every now and then. Everyone does. I don’t know why…
Map/Territory Shows Augmented Reality of the Future
Map/Territory, by designer Timo Arnall, is a concept video of what it might…
Colored Tree, Cookies, and Stairs in Visualization Ad
These ads for Hospital Alemán from Saatchi & Saatchi color code physical items…
Designing Interfaces for the Star Ship Enterprise
We’ve all seen the new Star Trek by now. If you haven’t, you…
Pixel City: Computer-generated City
Pixel City is a procedurally-generated city by Shamus Young. For the non-coders out…
Creating a World in Holograms
This holographic video by Bruce Branit is completely fictional but oh so sexy.…