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/
