first saw in the metro, uk yorkshire free paper on the public transport.
found at : http://torontoist.com/2008/03/rubiks_cube.php
I created the initial concept of this poster on the night of November 4th.
Inspired by Barack Obama's victory and struck with a sense of awe when realizing
the amount of hard fought progress that has been achieved in this country,
Iwanted to pay homage to this centuries long journey. The original graphic which
can be seen here, became very popular and spread all over the internet. Many people loved it and ask me to make a print.
While I initially created it rather spur of the moment and with no desire to
sell it as a poster, the graphic needed to be completelyoverhauled in order to
make it practical for printing. The original would have been 12 feet long. So I
took the opportunity to really refine the design and create a lasting piece.
There were also many additions to the time line that people suggested. This
poster is not a tally of African American achievements, rather it is a record of
progress and setbacks. While Obama's election is not the endgame of equality, it
is a magnificent example of what is truly possible.
I hope you enjoy it and that it reminds you of the shoulders we all stand upon
and the stained greatness of this nation and its people who have indeed,
overcome.
People have fallen in love with word clouds that make pictures. Zoom in and you see a bunch of individual words. Zoom out and you see a famousperson's face, seen so many Obama '08 - vote for hope faces.
It is a dictionary or a portrait? Mystical. TBWA/Chiat/Day,an advertising agency in Nashville, Tennessee of all places, brings the concept to promotion for the 2009 Grammy Awards - in animated form. Float through thecloud of songs and lo and behold, it's Stevie Wonder.
great stuff
from: http://flowingdata.com/2009/01/19/fun-with-words-that-collectively-make-pictures/
Saw this quirky little durex animation, thought it would lighten everyones mood. quite creative.
CR state 'Not much to say about this Durex ad made by NY animation studio Superfad for Atlanta agency Fitzgerald + Co, except that it made us laugh.
Apparently, everything is done in CGI. Shame, we had visions of a particularly filthy-minded party balloon folder twisting away in a studio somewhere…'
Out-takes here
from: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/durex-balloon-animals/
Amaznode (http://amaznode.fladdict.net/)
is a relation based search engine for amazon which is made with adobe flash9 (as3). This search engine visualizes a relation network of products in amazon, from the statistics data "customers who bought this item also bought", by digging related products again and again. Amaznode is not
only for searching but also good for researching and making an associate link.
Fantastic how it mines the associational network of products 'also purchased by...'
good display for hover over with its interactivity. love it.
integratable to your own amazon associates id. score
and not just books, or info vis... any product. the best amazon widget.
Amaznode enables you to make a direct link to paticular saerch query, and you can also add your own amazon associate link.
In the search result view, click the "COPY RESULT LINK" button at the top left menu. It copies a handy html to your clipboard.
a href="http://amaznode.fladdict.net/#keywords=information%20design&locale=uk&searchIndex=" target="_blank" affiliate="AFFILIATEID-22">Search with amaznode: information design /a>
You can easly make a link to amaznode search result by adding this code to your blog or email.
Also if you have amazon associate id, and you replace the part "affiliate=" to your own id, all products in this query works as your associate product link.
An another aspect of amaznode is that for researching tool. Searching with amaznode, you can find hidden characteristics of products. For example, some kind of products may be bought by a limited user group even it is very very popular.
Made by Takayuki Fukatsu (fladdict.net / blog)
see previous post: Green Search Engine
This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
These are very nice books visalised into a typographic territory through cutouts by Peter Cookridge & James Birdle (directed by asylum's ben falk & jos newbolt.
It is a stop motion film and features an entire city made out of books and covers from publishing house, 4th estate's titles.
they visualise scenes that cookreidge describes as 'in jokes' such as a man falling off a boat which is the scene from title book 'The Corrections'.
The production design is by Pippa Culpepper who crafts these beautiful artefacts.
from January 09 Creative review p10.
Also very similiar but all from one book,
Just saw this quirkly little, quick info-graphic style with a pinch of monty pythons and Now for something Completely Different collaged hand.
Trying to play on the the economic narrative of there been an utter abundance of money for everyone recently they thought they'd be inspired by showing people, how they info graphically calculate the savings from a pound, just one pound (uk), of a whole penny in an amusement arcade game, bless.
What do they compare their 99p savings to, 5 bears, a tree and a crayon.
Was quirky and it is no surprise it has a soupcon (checked spelling in word ;o) of the amusing terry gilliam is it... two terry's... animation.
unbelievably found it quickly here: http://www.visit4info.com/advert/Change-from-a-Pound-with-McDonalds-Saver-Menu-McDonalds-Restaurant/67995
Like this one more when i was searching for it, dont think it was aired in uk,
JumpGauge™ is a visual labeling technology that has been applied to thousands of green and eco-friendly products.
Also equally interesting, not by leah, is with aesthetics relating to DNA and the Gnome is here
a series of quilt designs, based on genetic code. a square, bisected into a
light & dark triangle, is rotated in 4 orientations to resemble the letters
C, G, A & T, the 4 DNA bases.
also check this out: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APhoto%3A1862
from here: http://feeds.infosthetics.com/~r/infosthetics/~3/386549417/genome_quilts.html
Visualise yourself, what would you display to an audience? how intimate would you make it? Well even though he has been doing them from 2005 I have just discovered them by Nicholas Feltron. With very minimal styles but nice clean, clear, infographics and bold numbers encased in this swiss style grid system to keep some structure and rigidity to his diverse information of his life.
I am curious how he records all this data to be absolutely accurate, it must be some focsed, disciplined time keeping and number crunching.
Why? When quizzed, Felton’s admits that ‘it satisfies a real curiosity that I have about my habits. Why is it a popular document? If there are numer ous people out there who think it is fascinating and don’t even know me… imagine how fascinating I find it’. At first your reaction is ‘Oh please….’ but soon you are scouring the pages to see which was the most visited restaurant, his most-drunk beer: a sort of typographic Truman Show, authored by Truman himself.
It is intersting how the CR blog author describes it as a sort of typographic Truman Show.
http://feltron.com/
there are previous versions there.
found here: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/me-myself-and-i/
Twee, acoustic, folksy music accompanies practically every second ad on TV at the moment. We first noticed the trend back in mid 2007 – a list of sappy offenders compiled here – but when, we ask, will it end? Joining CR's discussion: Dan Stevens, a director at music PR and management company, Darling Department; Parv Thind, sound designer at Wave; and Peter Raeburn, founder and creative director of music production company, Soundtree.
It is great the hand drawn animated style, check out Blank Canvas & Communication Animation
Great making the card posses the ability to reflect.
Looked good. there is a new one by nokia i just saw today. will search for that, think it was E17 model... or something.
spotted here: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/change-the-record/
Change from a Pound ..
