Design duo Patrick Li and Ian Gallais make up Sounds Butter which has created Visible Sound.
They describe it best:
The intention for this project was to make sound visible. As there is
already a variety of ways in which sounds can be seen (equalizers, sub-titles,
etc.), my aim was to produce a device where that representation of sound would
be a physical one. I therefore used the sewing machine as the basis for the
project as I feel it is synonymous with industry, and making physical
products. Due to limitations in my computer programming skills this model of a
stereo/sewing machine is a prototype of how I imagined the actual product
would look.
More related posts from machine thinking:
very nice text visualisation. ok not necessarily functionable that you can read it, but its form is very good. also check out Mississippi Type Visual.
excellant.
see more images here:
via http://www.villiard.com/livres-art.html ;
from here: carto-infos.googlegroups.com
merci beaucoup Christophe Tricot
The map‘s global projection traces the intercontinental links between the countries of Europe, Asia, North and Latin America, and Africa. Regional close-ups provide insight into key routes within each region. Nine accompanying figures and tables present valuable data on Internet bandwidth by country, regional and global Internet capacity growth, backbone providers, traffic by application, wholesale pricing, and broadband user growth.
The Big Picture
The global projection depicts intercontinental Internet links between the countries of Europe, Asia, North and Latin America, and Africa. higher res (larger) here:
1280x800
1440x900
Their links lines are similiar to those in key magazine cover by John Maeda & world flow.
Their previous internet visuals:
Other internet visualisations:
Web Trend Map 2008 Beta - Information Architects
Domain Name Map - Hugh Dubberly
OpenStreetMap's hosting is kindly supported by the UCL VR Centre and bytemark.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
this is a great application for facebookm, called Geo Challenge. helps you learn your countries/geography starting off with just the shape and fading in the ajoining/nearby countries to help you realise the paticularly country. they have a round for flags, and cities (usually guessing myself) placing where they are on the world map.
great game and great tool for learning. it helps me with my pathetic knowledge of world geography/cities, although i'm not that bad at flags.
Taking into account that I will eventually being able to get my teeth into Information Visualisation: Using Vision to think by card, mackinlay & shneirderman, I thought it would be a great time to post these beauties mapping (structuring) the interrelationships of some of the foremost figures in information graphics, complexity, design, visualization from knowledgecartography.org
These images are screenshots taken from ATLAS, the application that's being developed 'to explore the possibilities of the application of a cartographic metaphor to the realms of knowledge', sort of thinking with maps (cartographic cognition), a form of visual thinking.
'The concept of atlas in this context doesn’t depict as much a list of maps, but rather a system of representations of space, a communication device aimed at representing complex contexts through the use of many partial overlapping narrations: a network of maps, diagrams, texts and peritexts, combined together to describe the space of research in its multifaceted aspects'.
I like this idea of overlapping narrations such as maps (a kind of geographic terrain styled space, as with these examples), diagrams, text (words layered on top of a space), signs (ok the words are signs but I mean iconic/symbolic, those associated with isometric's/otto neurath).
These overlapping narratives fits well with Neuraths isometric's which were a 'picture language as a helping language into which statements may be from all the normal languages of the earth' and was made to highlight commonality rather than differences. There are some already nice mixtures of these narration tools created with World Wireless Map, and telegeography's work Internet Undersea Map (crow, 2006, p. isotype/section)
These narrations serve as a maps (a communication device's) language which they describe really well as these communication devices being 'a mature representation artefact, aware of its own language and its own rhetoric, equipped with it its own tools, languages, techniques and supports. A model that recovers the narrative abilities of pre-scientific maps and presents itself not as a mere mimetic artefact, but as a poetic and political tool'.
It is excellant that use the terms 'mimetic' & 'artefact' as these associate (connote) nicely by grounding it back into art/design with mimetic a term that arnheim would use describing a social biology of images with the level of detail an image would depict the object in reality, giving us levels of signs with iconic, semi-symbollic & symbollic that brings in the linguistic field associated with saussaures & pierce in Visible Signs by David Crow. Artefact really works well as these communication devices serve as 'research through art and design’, ‘where the end product is an artefact – where the thinking is, so to speak, embodied in the artefact’ (Frayling, 1993/4, p.5). Poetic brings in the wonderful calligrams and concrete poetry depicted and experimented really well here Mississippi Type Visual by andy proehl.
'The map as narration is thus the expression of a communicative purpose. Just like a text, the map makes selections on reality, distorts events, classifies and clarifies the world in order to selections better tell a particular aspect of a territory, an event, a space.' they help to simplify (clarifiy) the complexity of a particular territory, space (which could be data/stats, text
in book, geographic landscape i.e. uk, china, france, the world).
'In this context, the term ‘map’ is a synonym of visual narration of space: a cultural artefact created by an author to describe a space according to an objective.' a tool for the production of meaning that satisfies the map designer, the communication device's designer objective.
‘[O]ne important goal for map designers should be to understand the cognitive processes being used to process spatial information’ this is extremely useful and necessary for map designers in creating maps and the spatial arrangement of the knowledge (Wood & Keller, 1996, p 213).
This is known as Spatial Cognition,
‘Spatial Cognition is concerned with the acquisition, organization, utilization, and revision of knowledge about spatial environments’ (Universität Bremen, 2007, p 1).
As for the design for these visual maps, communication device examples they have a fabulous soft light blue background with a darker graduation borrowed from relief shading in geographic mapping to depict the the level of focus for the paticular area of field such as Design or Information visualisation. The person's (the iconic isotype/shape of a person) spatial position between the position of these poles/fields gives the viewer/map reader a insight/understanding as the area that that person is likely to be associated with and in turn the particular expertise/slant/view/interests that person might have in their writings when reading.
The use of a clean, un-clustered (white) space lets the user easily focus in on a name they might have a familiarity with for me card, shnierderman, mackinlay, tufte (postiontied between info vis and design, quite rightly), remo burkhard (from vizthink conference recently) who I didn't realize was also inclined towards knowledge, and martin j eppler with his joint creation of Periodic Table of Visualisation Methods.
Atlas is a great tool from knowledge cartography.
Well with this fabulous overview I look forward to some great insights/answers to my research from,
Great visual by pedro, extremely current and very useful to see just at a glance the sheer increase over time just by their size. the red stands out very well with a minimal black and white structure similar to Once More Around the Sun, with little bits of information giving reasons as to the increase. ceheck out his others here: eco footprints (isometric similar technique to 3D
CV Map), elections (robert kosara/eager eyes contest, very nice technique/idea), 700billion
& more.
What is the relationship between wine varieties and flavor components? This visualization attempts to show the strength of these relationships. I culled descriptive flavor words from over 5,000 published wine tasting notes written between 1995-2000 in a major Australian wine magazine. Written by Carl Tashian for Visualizing the Five Senses, a class at http://itp.nyu.edu.
Really great interactive visual, minimal. more here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/wine-flavour-wheel-by-carl
great post from info aesthetics by andrew v moere
girl talk is the DJ name for gregg gillis and is great visual using colour to distinguish the different songs and layers of tracks that he mixes up along a neat circular timeline covering his slot. think there are sites that let you cut up tracks, will me check... www.splicemusic.com and there is the BBC music cubes, lets you build up your favourite tracks but not splice i think.
anyhow great visual with the artists faces jumping off for a bit of ease of
recognition.
think i saw it posted by randy k/coolinfographics.blogspot (sorry would post
hyperlink but need to dash to shop)
Also check out these (some previously posted)
love will tear us apart type by peter crnokrak / A_B_peace & terror by peter crnokrak posted here: Joy, Love, War, Peace
the great sky scraper visual: Bank Space Sky Onion Visualisations
Map of Carnaby Street, Adobe CS3 Icons Visual Map, Watch the Evolution Design, Dynamicenjoy
I love this. real triumph to concrete poetry. mallarme or apollinaire would really applaud this visualisation, clean, informative design/map. I agree it works well as a free form poem, (as a western reading, its in english) top left to bottom right with how its composed. I love using type to represent space. type/typography as image. still a sketch... looks good.
'This is the latest map in my "Typography of Place" series... a map of the cities and towns that lie along the Mississippi River. The last two maps I did in this series (Silk Road and the Aleutian Islands) were very horizontal. So I wanted to try one with a vertical format.One of the things I am trying to achieve in these maps is to have the words that make up the map read as a sort of free-form poem.
In this one, I think that comes across particularly strong since you can "read" it from the river's source in the top left to the mouth in the bottom right.I have not color coded the place names on this map as I did in the Aleutian Islands Map but the same theme is present with many towns having Native American names (in addition to the river itself).
French names are also quite present as you travel down the river. Then there is the intriguing sequence of Egyptian-inspired names that includes Memphis, Thebes, Angola, and Cairo.This is still a sketch but I assembled the base map by drawing the river and placing the cities on the appropriate side of the river to try and stay geographically accurate. But I knew as I was building it that I was going to center the towns on the middle of the river to emphasize the meandering path the river takes as it starts in northern Minnesota and works its way all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. '
found here: http://flickr.com/photos/amapple/2546733739/in/set-72157602275753358/
check his blog: http://randomaxis.blogspot.com/2008/06/mississippi-river-typemap-this-is.html
I literally love this visualisation by peter crnokrak, not only is it a great
record to do a visualisation about it gives you so much data too about the
record.
It lists its influences on other tracks, releases correlating in the centre
of the popular circular timeline visualisation method.
He has done another that he describes as the 'computational aesthetic of love & hate'
Using the 192 members of the united nations, he creates a geopolitical display of the quantative degree to which eacj contributes to war (on one side) & peace (the other).
Due the their size they could benefit from this little tool. zoomorama. make your pictures zoomable
see more close-ups here: http://theluxuryofprotest.com/LWTUA1.html
and: http://theluxuryofprotest.com/A_B_.html
from here: http://www.aisleone.net/2008/intervista/intervista-peter-crnokrak/
found here: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/qGNuYIP8J1s/
visual poetry 08 by Friederike Lambers,Boris Müller, Florian Pfeffer
previous post: Visual Poetry 05found here: visual e (very well analysed)
other works elements / cinegraph (infovis 07 contestant)
found here: google groups - carto-infos
(note, just a part of the visualisation)
Visualizing the Royal Society Archive by chris harrison
found here: design label
Like a Prayer/Madonna - The Shape of Song by Martin Wattenberg
ok, not literature but still a text visualiser
other literature text visualisers: Alice in Wonderland by Text Arc (previous post)
textual visualiser news search by Brendan Dawes
A news search engine visualiser at http://www.doodlebuzz.com/
found here: google group - carto-infos
Great literature visualisation tool http://www.literature-map.com/
found here: actpubliclibrary.blogspot.com
universal declaration of human rights visualised
featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2168552%3AVideo%3A2502
found here: infosthetics
Pulp fiction dialogue visualised
featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2168552%3AVideo%3A559
found here: motionographermedia
previous post type visualisation: Typographic City - The Child
Where did your spoken langauge descend from? Well english came from the germanic group dark blue. A great visualisation of the origins of european languages.
The proto Indo European language is placed at the centre (4000 BCE) and present day Indo European languages on the outside edge of the circle(2000 CE).
The inner space is also divided into rings representing different millennia, where the most significant ancestral languages from which contemporary Indo European languages are descended are placed. Proto Indo European divided into various groups, which then subdividedand evolved independently, giving rise to today's different Indo European languages. That is why the circle is divided into different sections, each of a different colour. Each section corresponds to one of the subdivisions of the family of Indo European languages. Thus, the:
dark blue section represents the Germanic group;
green, the Celtic one;
yellow, the Romance languages;
pink, the Greek group;
brown, the Balkan group;
orange, the Anatoliangroup;
red, the IndoIraniangroup;
purple, the Tocharian group;
sky blue,the Slavic group; and
turquoise, the Baltic group.
found here:
http://eltiodelsaco.blogspot.com/2007/07/alfred-kubin.html
Reminds me of the artists christo & jean claude wrapping the arch way in italy and other places. The commercial is called 'Blank Canvas' and questions what would be possible if all design ideas could start from a blank piece of canvas. Great changing of our perspectives and making us re-see the world which a good designer/artist learns to do.
Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts (Phoenix Books)
The all new Ford Kuga, which may just make it State side in a few years, combines Ford's new kinetic design with all-wheel-drive and on-and-off-road capability. How well Europe will receive this new CUV will be known when the Kuga goes on sale in June.
The commercial was directed by Danish director Nicolai Fuglsig, who also directed guinness domino ad which was a great triumph for their brand I think returning them back to their surreal, quirky, mexican-look brilliance started by amv bbdo with Snail Racing (bet on black) by directed by frank budgen, Swimmer by directed by jonathon glazer & of course Surfers by j glazer (who also did dreamer with those great squirrels).
Now Guinness made you visually think.
Anyhow veared off from Nicolai's great wrapped blank canvas ad, the music is by French singer Camille.
Brilliant
from here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2168552:Video:2345
more info: http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080522.004/ford-kuga-commercial-makes-cl-debut
Think it is the black box that kept details of the flight maps. Well here are a few excellant visual exanples of flight mapping.from here: http://www.flightmapping.com/maps/files/europe/FRANCE.asp
found here: webuser magazine - issue 197 p69 25th september in their forum form BedstrofromAP
airport itself would be relocated off-shore, and subsequently required an investigation into the implications that this could have on the Netherlands.
Not as clean and clear as the first but equally creative and informative.
Names Authors
An excellant visualisation taking another fantastic subway (hary beck) subversion visualisation similiar to the web-trend-map-2008-beta by the information architects, except instead of mapping mapping the internet terrain, mapping claude ashcenbrenner's (at serial mapper) blogs/RSS links archive.
He cleverly structures the content of his blogs using the paris subway map layout of lines by renaming them as:
Visualisation
Teaching
Thinkers
Business Intelligence
Missing In Action
Mind Mapping
Network
Creativity
& Humour
To arrange all these blogs into an easy to follow, complex/diverse/similarities content ordered, clean spatial structure is a real achievement. It has this easy to the eye pink background and beige centre that allows the Blue and Green names easy to focus on and follow along the lines. But if it isnt enough of an achivement to arrnage these complex/diverse blogs in a great connectivist structure, he still added further depth by simply subtly differentiating between French & English blogs without having to compomise his overall layout much at all merely a small key to say:
green - english
blue - french
Making it bilingual to help when navigating.
He was exporting this to pdf so that it is a fully interactive hyperlinks attached to the blog name nodes concept map. make in more engaging yet further.
He breaks it into 2 output version of the authors and one for the names, both using the same spatial location along his different lines so as to easily correlate the authors with their blogs.
I love it as you can probably guess.
Here are cluade's comments (forgive translation, may not be absolutely correct)
'You've probably noticed this blog is somewhat artistic. Indeed unlike the practice you can not find the list of my favorite blogs.In fact I think for a long time, but procrastination also achieved all that we must say that I was not sure how to keep all my RSS feeds in a reasonable space ..
I finally found the solution obviously in the form of a map. You will therefore find below a selection of 70 blogs devoted to mapping information encapsulated in a subway map.
Parisians (and others - °) recognize a part of the metropolitan network to which were added some tram lines. This plan is bilingual French / English including heads of line that I let you discover ... The francophone (in Blue) is represented by nearly 40 blogs, many of which have emerged in the last year ..
This device is designed to encourage you to leave your usual lines by taking paths through it.
Ca n'al'air nothing but a path we must remember that the term method has been built from a Greek word meaning old way .... So Good cognitive walk!
Each blog is associated a subway station. Place your mouse URL appears, click will open a new window to view the blog.'
Love his concept of 'leaving usual lines by taking paths through it', much like my work with the recent http://visualthinkmap.blogspot.com/2008/09/notebook-route-map.html. Could be called Blog Route Visualisation, but Blog Subway Map infer's that quite effectively.
Aa soon as I spot I know a link to Claude's interactive version, trust i will repost this. Great aid to exploring blogs of similiar content/interests/terrain that can be used in an instant, just how you more often then not want a visualisation's performance (function) to do.
Fantastic claude
Enjoy the journey
from here: http://www.serialmapper.com/archive/2008/09/25/mise-en-seine-de-blogs.html
search the web for the titles/authors of blogs, will no doubt bring up the right one as we await pdf concept map
Awesome visualisations by Theo Deutinger Architects.
Vrij Nederland issue Nr. 17/18; 2008 features a world map, which compares the
top ten money streams of the Worldbank versus the top ten foreign direct
investments of China. Underlying one can see the expected GDP growth per country
for the year 2007. While the Worldbank’s core task is to help world's poorest
nations, most of its money is lent to countries with double digit growth rates.
I particularly like the subtle shades of grey for the countries and then the
bold blue & red sprouting from world bank and china much in the style of
their invasion, presence affecting these countries. (much like dads army, uk).
Then some handy pye charts for stats keyed to their colour.
producer: Theo Deutinger in collaboration with Pieter van Os
http://www.td-architects.eu/?id=4
50 years ago the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 was launched by the
Soviet Union, inaugurating the rage to occupy outer space. Currently, the U.S.
Strategic Command monitors 12.771 satellites and other large objects with about
10cm in diameter orbiting the earth. Out of these 12.771 objects only 872 are
active satellites, while most of the remaining 11.899 monitored pieces are
dysfunctional and considered ‘space debris’. Together with millions of other
smaller pieces of debris generated by spacecraft explosions or by collisions
between satellites, they form a rapidly growing dangerous nebula, causing a
major threat for damage on satellites and spacecrafts. The power released by a
1cm piece of space debris is equivalent to a hand grenade. While our lives on
earth depend more and more on GPS satellite support, the space they are imbedded
in becomes more and more threatened. As an American General puts it “…our
space architecture is very fragile.”
Very interesting subject matter to think that their is that much floating
above our atmosphere. Never imagined that scale.
Producer: Theo Deutinger
http://www.td-architects.eu/?id=96
Out of the 191 countries that are counted by the United Nations only 81 (42%)
to have a building that is higher than 100 meter. Still, lining up the highest
buildings of these 81 nations according to their geographical proximity creates
an impressive skyline.
I really love this visualisation. Firstly it is great how they collate all
the high rise buildings and they layer it with a little design/illustration with
a silhouette of a sky line. Then there's also the gradient from blue to white
for the sky. It tells you the height of each building and its name, location and
they're sectioned Asia, Europe, Africa & America. It then has outer rings
showing scale at 200 metres & 300 metres to offer comparison between.
I kept questioning why circular, would it work better along a straight scale
to serve as like a bar chart? But I think it is served best as a circle because
it gives me the sense of the earth, rhetorically emphasized with the orange/red center
core (contrasting brilliantly with the blue sky), and the buildings grow out of
it trying to reach the planes in the sky and even satellites in space to give
you a sense of scale. Admitted a bar chart would probably be easier to adjudicate
their size in comparison, but it would change it all.
It would probably have to be smallest to largest changing the continent
grouping. It wouldn't have this great notion of height with the earth as the center
that these buildings grow from to reach satellites. It wouldn't be half as intriguing
as it is now.
Producer: Theo Deutinger, Johannes Pointl, Beatriz Ramo
http://www.td-architects.eu/?id=49
Again great sense of scale with how much the onion is exported form the
netherlands and how little they need to import. Also very informative as to the
amount countries import with a convenient key of size, colour and scale of cost
with the arcs/lines connecting the nodes/countries.
Producer: Theo Deutinger
http://www.td-architects.eu/?id=58
Four excellant visualisation, and there are many more at their site that I haven't
shown here.
Here are some creative visualisation like the video above of excellant
mapping into
displaying the inner workings of the human body. Really creative, full coloured
animated depiction of the human arteries really imaginative insight.
Really neat promotional video from the hybridmedicalanimation.com.
found here: http://coolinfographics.blogspot.com/2008/08/awesome-medical-visualizations.html
The visible body is no less imaginative, informative and detailed with its
full coloured deptictions. They quite rightly state that they can be used
for:
Instructors:
Use it in the classroom to show structures and their relationships.
Students:
Use it as you study to help you visualize and memorize.
Health Professionals:
Use it in your office or exam room to teach patients about their conditions.
Everyone:
Use it to explore and learn about your amazing human body
from here: http://www.visiblebody.com/tour_what_is_it;jsessionid=pPpAedIMBWbVtqkfn115Nw**.node2
found here: as-map.com - post: How it's done it?
Although these visualisations may not be as highly creative depicting the
human body with its silky intricacies, smooth colours without the more intimate
depth perception created by with the 3d perspective they are still as
informative.
from here: http://www.infovisual.info/03/043_en.html
This is showing the visual communication of my thoughts on page(s), (9 pages). A visualisation through the journey of my investigation on the terrain of thoughts.
They meander accross the double page spread and mostly are connected via their physical position, i.e. a train of thought finishes, it restarts at the same point at the edge of the page on the next.
They were experiments to see how I visualised my ideas. Whether their physical arrangement through the notebook of my research, ideas, investigations helped me understand better. Re-Re-Reinvestigation.
The second image (route map) is for others to use, simply overlay it on any terrain thou wishes squire, your own notebook pages, maps etc. Then visually think and elicit thoust own topographic connections and routes.
It is quite a conceptual abstract notion to take the visual direction of my thoughts on page(s), the journey of my investigation on the terrain of thoughts and utilise this route with alternative content/terrain. Really like the abstract/organic lines mixed with geometric shapes bringing a bit of order to my thoughts (chaos).
Some experiments I have created, playing with that great notion of 'the map is not the territory' - baudrillard. Hence investigations into what is the territory, and can you utilise maps in different territories. Spatial arrangments intensifying/enhancing cognition. Got me buzzing.
Hope they're interesting.
The creative commons - attribution - non commercial - share alike
From they're paper Towards a Model of Aesthetics in information Visualization, Andrea Lau & Andrew Vande Moere (who was previously quoted, see here) create this fantastic equilaterral triangular digram that helps understanding of the types of images, charts, art, design & much more.Measured Perspiration by Kanarinka.
These colourful, fluid lines & abstract series of drawings map an extroadinary terrain, visualising the 12 inches of weather on the human body by tracing perspiration, movement and time.
define:weather says: Weather is the specific condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.
Kanarinka states, 'It is measured in terms of such things as wind, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, cloudiness, and precipitation.
Weather is everyday and everywhere. For this project, I launched an artistic investigation by asking the question “Can a body (human, not planetary) have weather, too?”.
To create the drawings for 12 Inches of Weather, I used paper to collect the sweat on twelve inches of my body during running outdoors in hot weather. Then, using an algorithm (a simple system), I hand-traced the contours of that sweat onto 1970’s computer paper using various colors of felt tip pen.
The algorithm would tell me how many minutes to spend tracing each color' Kanarinka
Very interesting project, curious as to what the algorithm was defining the time length but still very creative.
featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APhoto%3A1662
The picture vocabulary by scott mccloud in his excellant book understanding comics, explaining semiotics it gives a great overview of the different scales of abstraction for cartoon characters.
With 3 sides there are the:
With the retinal edge it polarises the more reality, bottom left. Then going up it abstracts to mary fleener and accross the right to the conceptual edge, meaning becoming more arbitary with words and onomatapaeic words such as 'splash'.
Very good table, although mccloud states that they images included are not necessarily chosen for artistic merit. Makes me think of Rudolf Arnheims abstraction & the grasping of significant form. A scale between function and form as it is between words and images that abstraction will take place until a concept is conceived.
Mcclouds book may be comics content, but very very good, informal, non academic style of understanding semiotics.
Also check out Visible Signs by David Crow, explaining semiotics in great detail.
Beautiful graphics, dooodles, animation visually interpreting the spoken narrative language of John Lennon.
38 years ago, Jerry Levitan, who was then only 14 years, managed to interview John Lennon, during his stay in Montreal. Starting recordings of the interview, filmmaker Josh Raskin has created an animation that reproduces, word for word, visual language, the arguments of John Lennon.
'A small gem that reminds me of the thematic map in motion' by Philippe David Boukobza.
It has nice literal interpretation of johns dialgoue. Lovely layered effects with varying zoom perspectives.
I am curious about a graphic of we all have hitler inside and we all have christ inside when referring to violence.
Also love the graphic of sounds/music literally within inside countries and beautiful organic changing from each individual world shape.
I agree philippe, fantastic gem from josh raskin and co.
With them re-emerging with the fantastic and amazingly affordable interactive technology (although not to moi), of the wii it is great to observe the development of the brand.
I dont know how but they have also transformed (in the uk) the brand of dr kowa-shee-ma (no disrespect) for their handheld DS. They have taken the addictivness of Tetris from the Gameboy and transferred it to a universal appeal of 'training your brain'.
I was addicted to 'SNES' and would probably be called a 'retro gamer' now as i am addicted to Mario Kart & the greatest game ever Super Bomberman 3 (this was the multiplayer version).
Enough nostalgia this map gives you an excellant overview, it is clean & informative of the different hardware and dates of release. It also gives you a subtle reflective summary of nintendo's brand Mario over the years.
The clean white design of the wii and the DS (although you can get different colours) give it a avant garde look that is reciprocated in the award winning clean white packaging design of Apples Ipod.
Excellant
Cheers phillippe
found here: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heuristiquement.com%2F&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=fr&tl=en
The 1st row was used partly as inspiration for type timeline as well as some dates, details references such as dates aiga formed, atypi etc.
The 2nd would yield fantastic research from any of the designers mentioned, all hihgly important figures in graphic design. some myabe harder to find resaerh on then others.
The 3rd as mentioned i used for some dates, but there is also william henry fox talbot mentioned with his pioneering work using silver nitrate solution and louis daguerre that I wasn't aware of. Then travelling right the way through to 1984 invention of the macintosh computer.
very detailed, very good
found: on a tutors wall a while ago and so made a copy.
sorry dont know the book it was originally photocopied from. know who to show to ask and jog their memory if necessary.
This is a great complex domains visualisation of how we are provided with our unique url website addresses.
The creators of this domain name system diagram hope to provide a comprehensive picture of how its governed, how it works and what it is.
They keep clean and minimal to help you feel at ease navigating this complex map and a hint of yellow for a starting point guide along the many multidirectional connections.
Along with the yellow they also suggest you can start anywhere or go from 'people' no 1 grey arrow (very small). They have these arrows numbered around which you can use to navigate it as well.
TLD's are Top Level Domain names that are run by Registars such as VeriSign who buy the rights to run .com's ($115,000) & .nets ($115,000) & Afilas who run .info ($115,000). They have to provide public access to their databases searchable at whois.net and purchase these TLD's from ICANN (Internet Corporation of Assigned Names & Numbers) a non-profit organisation chartered by US government.
I read just a little from the 'people' and followed it easily, recognising whois and hwo they fit into it all.
Excellant Diagram
featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APhoto%3A1124
Problem solving [Ps], Visual thinking [Vt], Information [In], Communication [C], Language [L], Technology [T], Shapes [S], Form [Fo] & Function [Fu].
Not quite as interactive as the visualisation methods table by eppler and lengler but hopefully equally as useful to overview the topic of design and have a substantially improved awareness of design releated issues/elements.
published here: http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/when-elements-go-extinct
