This is a long overdue post, so late in fact that the artwork in question has now ended, but it’s still absolutely worth commenting on. Over the last few months mysterious rings appeared encircling London’s columns. They were placed some way up the columns and at night they lit up, glowing neon blue. These blue [...]
Category Archives: Data visualisation
The power of visualization
Excellent words from Seth Godin this week on why “data is hard for human beings to digest.” He talks about, “the power of visualizing data and turning it into information.” We like his thinking, but we also know it needs to go further, so that people really can identify with and make use of that [...]
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Stefanie Posavec talks about her beautiful handcrafted infographics
This is a lovely video from Protein OS interviewing Stefanie Posavec about her work creating infographics. We love her “hand made” approach to dealing with patterns in numbers. Read the feature on Stefanie here and watch the interview below. “Everything I have done so far has revolved around things that I love – books [...]
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Comparing Apples To Oranges
After two years of ‘life documenting’ it’s clear Lauren Manning is meticulous about collecting data on her food consumption. As part of a larger daily data project Lauren noted down every meal she ate for a year. She then used that data set to make over forty different visualisations using a “variety of methods, techniques, styles, [...]
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Data Design at Goldsmiths BA Design Show 2011
Among my graduating year group was a great breath and variety of work across disciplines. Of the fellow projects from the show here are some innovative examples of representing information in interesting ways. Rosann Ling – “Ink Stained Verses”: Rosann Ling‘s project “Ink-stained Verses” used chromotography to express time in an alternative measurement (see film). Inspired by [...]
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Tube Data
Hi, my name is Hannah Thompson. I interned at Elio Studio last summer and have come back to work on the Creative Data London Air Quality project having just graduated from the BA Design course at Goldsmiths College. My final year project is a data collecting project on the London underground and in train stations. I did [...]
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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