Image by Elevine Lillebuen Berge Our meticulously planned and scrumptiously executed event LocalGlobal Thanksgiving took place on Saturday. We can’t take all the credit though; the wonderful Alex Haw brought a tasty touch of Latitudinal Cuisine and Yinka Shonibare was kind enough to have Guest Projects host the event. The whole occasion arose from a [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Jill Sylvia: Paper Cutouts
We have been extremely busy this last week working on our collaborative LocalGlobal Thanksgiving event, so our sincerest apologies for the lack of blogging activity. Having said that, we have found a beautiful piece of artwork that more than makes up for this neglect. Jill Sylvia has created these wonderful lace-like books and installations by taking [...]
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Roman Ondak at the Temporary Stedelijk
A beautifully simple project to share today. Slovakian artist Roman Ondák has created a ‘living infographic’ at the Temporary Stedelijk within the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The project, named Measuring the Universe, invites visitors to plot their height on the walls which, in turn and over a period of time, will start to reveal the mean average; a small [...]
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Do Lectures – Alex Haw
Creative Data friend and LocalGlobal Thanksgiving collaborator Alex Haw recently spoke at the inspirational Do lectures in Wales. Do is all about listening to other people’s stories and coming away inspired to go on and ‘Do amazing things’ yourself. Alex, a visionary artist and architect, certainly achieved this. Alex talks extensively about his varied (yet [...]
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Visual Editions – Tree of Codes
Just a quick update on Visual Editions, the wonderful book publishers we mentioned a couple of blogs ago (view). They have just released a micro site for a new book by Jonathan Safran Foer, Tree of Codes. The whole book has been completely and literally reconstructed from the author’s favourite story The Street of Crocodiles [...]
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Telling Stories With Data – VisWeek2010
Here at CreativeData we like to think of ourselves as data storytellers. So imagine our delight when we found this inspiring article on a recent workshop at VisWeek2010 named Telling Stories with Data, which specifically examined the construction of narratives with data visualisation. The workshop, organised by Matt McKeon, Karrie Karahalios, and Joan DiMicco, drew participants with [...]
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Visual Editions – Great Looking Stories
The brilliant book publishers Visual Editions, founded by Anna Gerber and Britt Iversen, transform books into visual explorations of the stories within. In Anna and Britt’s words ‘books should be as interesting as the stories they tell.’ This all results in a completely new experience for us, the reader; not only are we presented with [...]
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Lab Craft – Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft
Something we saw and loved at Tent and which is now travelling the country, is Lab Craft. Curated by Max Fraser, the exhibition explores the combination of traditional craft skills with cutting edge digital technologies such as laser cutting and rapid prototyping. We were impressed by the quality of the work and the fascinating notion [...]
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BERG – Making Future Magic
Today we are getting completely over excited about this amazing project by BERG. In collaboration with Dentsu London, the design consultancy have used iPads to create stunning 3D holograms, defying all notions of belief. BERG explain that to achieve this spectacular illusion ‘[They] create software models of three-dimensional typography, objects and animations. [They then] render [...]