Parsons Journal for Information Mapping (PJIM) : http://piim.newschool.edu/journal/issues/2010/01/ is an academic journal and online forum to promote research, writing, and development of information mapping, visualization, and related disciplines.
Great Examples of Infographics
http://www.google.com/patents (Advanced Patent Search)
(Research) http://improbable.com/
2009 Computer Graphics RETROSPECTIVE.
(Exercise for mastering your drawing techniques) Create doodleboards or multiple sketches to fill a whole page.
Art Commentary written by Julie Oakes : http://www.julieoakes.com/index.htm
(Definition) "paucity" ; the 'absence of', a smallness of number or quantity (of strokes), and the wisdom of knowing when to stop.
Why is poop brown?
"Whatever good things we build end up building us." - Jim Rohn, Author, Philosopher (1930-2009)
"Often it is tiny fragments which either make a picture convincing or totally incidental." - Simone Bingemer
"This is my second book. It is my best second book I've ever written." - Mark Changizi
"... all I need from you is a vision, followed by an unending march of little, tiny baby steps in its direction." - TU
"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."- David M. Ogilvy
29 January 2010
28 January 2010
(Slideshows) Visual Thinking + Synthesis
Bicycle + GPS + 5 years = map of Toronto
(North Pacific) Garbage Island
Towards a Visual Critical Theory
Periodic Table of Typefaces
If you connect 17 suitably spaced dots with a segment of red, blue, or green, you will automatically create a “monochromatic” triangle whose three vertices are among the original 17 dots.
(Map Artist) http://www.eriklaffer.com/Available%20Work.html
(Reality Series) "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist"
Legal recourse is an option only to those who can afford it.
Best Fails
"Never cut what you can untie." - Joseph Joubert
"All the details are in the map (so, if you don't want to lose anything, you can have the map with annotations)." - Via
"Yet still, you'll be loved most for being a great friend." - The Universe
"Let there be spaces in your togetherness." - Kahlil Gibran
"If you get far enough away, you'll be on your way back home." - Tom Waits
Bicycle + GPS + 5 years = map of Toronto
(North Pacific) Garbage Island
Towards a Visual Critical Theory
Periodic Table of Typefaces
If you connect 17 suitably spaced dots with a segment of red, blue, or green, you will automatically create a “monochromatic” triangle whose three vertices are among the original 17 dots.
(Map Artist) http://www.eriklaffer.com/Available%20Work.html
(Reality Series) "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist"
Legal recourse is an option only to those who can afford it.
Best Fails
"Never cut what you can untie." - Joseph Joubert
"All the details are in the map (so, if you don't want to lose anything, you can have the map with annotations)." - Via
"Yet still, you'll be loved most for being a great friend." - The Universe
"Let there be spaces in your togetherness." - Kahlil Gibran
"If you get far enough away, you'll be on your way back home." - Tom Waits
27 January 2010
Conference) Artech 2010 “Envisioning Digital Spaces”
Information Architecture and Data Visualization Resources
Books on visual thinking
Bizzare Mapping Contest
Cognitive load theory
Santa Fe Institute : is a transdisciplinary research community that is expanding the boundaries of scientific understanding
http://www.alexandremaps.com/recent.php
On the increasing role of agents
Canadian Art New Contemporaries promotes and creates access to vibrant visual art.
Curious (Ebay) art pricing strategy
"Character is a bundle of habits, tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent on circumstance and context." - Malcolm Gladwell
"You should know the theory, so that when you do break the rules, it is for a reason, not because you didn’t know better." - Warrior
"It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy." - James Thurber
"If given just one wish for the New Year (knowing you could wish for anything at all, and that whatever you wished for was GUARANTEED to come true), would you wish for all things to be EXACTLY as they are? Me too." - The Universe
"A good map is equivalent to a good book." - R.B. Wild (after Van Gogh)
Information Architecture and Data Visualization Resources
Books on visual thinking
Bizzare Mapping Contest
Cognitive load theory
Santa Fe Institute : is a transdisciplinary research community that is expanding the boundaries of scientific understanding
http://www.alexandremaps.com/recent.php
On the increasing role of agents
Canadian Art New Contemporaries promotes and creates access to vibrant visual art.
Curious (Ebay) art pricing strategy
"Character is a bundle of habits, tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent on circumstance and context." - Malcolm Gladwell
"You should know the theory, so that when you do break the rules, it is for a reason, not because you didn’t know better." - Warrior
"It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy." - James Thurber
"If given just one wish for the New Year (knowing you could wish for anything at all, and that whatever you wished for was GUARANTEED to come true), would you wish for all things to be EXACTLY as they are? Me too." - The Universe
"A good map is equivalent to a good book." - R.B. Wild (after Van Gogh)
26 January 2010
(Video) Designing for Visual Efficiency
http://visualisationmagazine.com/applications-tools.htm
How the Scientist Got His Ideas
Gallery of Maps
(Video) Death by PowerPoint
If the object is moving you’ll need less pixels or resolution.
"Maps in Movies" : http://www.subzin.com/s/map/15
(Cartographic research essay) http://www.senselab.ca/inflexions/volume_3/node_i3/Affective_Territories.html
(Panel video) “Art Publishing in the Digital Age”
Inspiring Daily Rituals
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." - Adams
"The production of superior art requires a personal sense of uniqueness and an inclination toward rugged individualism." - Robert Genn
"It is easier to draw a good map than it is to draw a bad one. The difficulty is to have the will for it. A good map is the fruit of all your good living." - R.B.Wild (after Robert Henri, 1865-1929)
"Remember that leadership isn't about your position. It's about your influence." - Robin Sharma
"What people rarely give themselves credit for, is that their giving continues giving, even after they've forgotten giving, and even when they didn't know they were giving, forever and ever and ever." - TU
http://visualisationmagazine.com/applications-tools.htm
How the Scientist Got His Ideas
Gallery of Maps
(Video) Death by PowerPoint
If the object is moving you’ll need less pixels or resolution.
"Maps in Movies" : http://www.subzin.com/s/map/15
(Cartographic research essay) http://www.senselab.ca/inflexions/volume_3/node_i3/Affective_Territories.html
(Panel video) “Art Publishing in the Digital Age”
Inspiring Daily Rituals
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." - Adams
"The production of superior art requires a personal sense of uniqueness and an inclination toward rugged individualism." - Robert Genn
"It is easier to draw a good map than it is to draw a bad one. The difficulty is to have the will for it. A good map is the fruit of all your good living." - R.B.Wild (after Robert Henri, 1865-1929)
"Remember that leadership isn't about your position. It's about your influence." - Robin Sharma
"What people rarely give themselves credit for, is that their giving continues giving, even after they've forgotten giving, and even when they didn't know they were giving, forever and ever and ever." - TU
25 January 2010
Data visualization has finally gone viral
Taxonomy Blooms Digitally
#elearningisadirtyword
UK snow Satellite Image
(Research) Spatial Navigation and Right Hemisphere Brain Function
Evolution of Photoshop: 1988 – 2009
(Essay) "Affective Territories" : http://www.senselab.ca/inflexions/volume_3/node_i3/Affective_Territories.html
(Huh?) Color Chart By Name
Artist Blogging 101
(Art Exhibition) The Art of Knowledge — When seeing is believing
"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want." - Gustav Klimt
"What is life, but a series of inspired follies? - George Bernard Shaw Via
"...where you are today is more awesome and amazing than you probably realize." - TU
"Mapping is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I map, really." - R.B.Wild (after Balthus)
"If the image is in a certain manner the limit of meaning, it permits the consideration of a veritable ontology of the process of signification. How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?” - Barthes, “Rhetoric of the Image”
Taxonomy Blooms Digitally
#elearningisadirtyword
UK snow Satellite Image
(Research) Spatial Navigation and Right Hemisphere Brain Function
Evolution of Photoshop: 1988 – 2009
(Essay) "Affective Territories" : http://www.senselab.ca/inflexions/volume_3/node_i3/Affective_Territories.html
(Huh?) Color Chart By Name
Artist Blogging 101
(Art Exhibition) The Art of Knowledge — When seeing is believing
"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want." - Gustav Klimt
"What is life, but a series of inspired follies? - George Bernard Shaw Via
"...where you are today is more awesome and amazing than you probably realize." - TU
"Mapping is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I map, really." - R.B.Wild (after Balthus)
"If the image is in a certain manner the limit of meaning, it permits the consideration of a veritable ontology of the process of signification. How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?” - Barthes, “Rhetoric of the Image”
22 January 2010
Taxonomy of Learning Theories
(Flickr Set) Information Design
Design patterns (Grouped into 6 ‘lenses’ giving different perspectives)
How to turn a sphere inside-out
Single-celled creature without any nervous system (and thus intelligence in the classical sense), can provide an efficient solution to a routing problem.
arxiv.org/abs/0911.2390: How creative should creators be to optimize the evolution of ideas? Via
Radical Cartographers : http://www.an-atlas.com/bios.htm
http://www.grungetextures.com/ (Brown Paper Paper & Cardboard)
(Chapter Summaries) "The Art of Buying Art"
Top Nuit Blanche picks
"When subject matter is a little more remote and hard won, we contemplate and absorb more..." - Robert Genn
"Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds." - Richard Feynman (@askpang)
"Observe customers in action. Trust what you see, not what they articulate or verbalize." - Scott Cook (Intuit) Via dharmesh
"..rarely do you know how good you have it, until you see it in the rear-view mirror." - TU
"What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this.. to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom." - Richter
(Flickr Set) Information Design
Design patterns (Grouped into 6 ‘lenses’ giving different perspectives)
How to turn a sphere inside-out
Single-celled creature without any nervous system (and thus intelligence in the classical sense), can provide an efficient solution to a routing problem.
arxiv.org/abs/0911.2390: How creative should creators be to optimize the evolution of ideas? Via
Radical Cartographers : http://www.an-atlas.com/bios.htm
http://www.grungetextures.com/ (Brown Paper Paper & Cardboard)
(Chapter Summaries) "The Art of Buying Art"
Top Nuit Blanche picks
"When subject matter is a little more remote and hard won, we contemplate and absorb more..." - Robert Genn
"Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds." - Richard Feynman (@askpang)
"Observe customers in action. Trust what you see, not what they articulate or verbalize." - Scott Cook (Intuit) Via dharmesh
"..rarely do you know how good you have it, until you see it in the rear-view mirror." - TU
"What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this.. to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom." - Richter
21 January 2010
Subsumption Theory (David Ausubel) proposes that learning involves the linking of new information to relevant points in the learner’s existing cognitive structure. Via
( Timeline) Pink Floyd (Band Members)
Visual Editors
The Human Feed: How People Filter Signal From Noise
The 'seven deadly sins' of e-learning
http://www.fractalsciencekit.com/tutorial/examples/examples.htm
The longest straight line that traverses America
Science Art Nomadic Academy
Best New Art Galleries in Toronto
[Pic] City made of staples
"...while credit often goes to the loudest self-promoters, invention is most often the result of a collection of related work in a community of practitioners." - Priya Ganapati (Wired, December 18, 2009 Via)
"I'd rather it took over me than I took over it." - Myfanwy Pavelic, Canadian portraitist
"There is only one valuable thing in art: it's the thing you cannot explain." -Braque
"Sometimes success is better measured in smiles received, giggles heard, and hands held, than in dollars earned, deadlines met, and kilos shed." - TU
"After more and more blind activity, one gets a highly engineered complex structure that *does* amazing stuff." - Via
( Timeline) Pink Floyd (Band Members)
Visual Editors
The Human Feed: How People Filter Signal From Noise
The 'seven deadly sins' of e-learning
http://www.fractalsciencekit.com/tutorial/examples/examples.htm
The longest straight line that traverses America
Science Art Nomadic Academy
Best New Art Galleries in Toronto
[Pic] City made of staples
"...while credit often goes to the loudest self-promoters, invention is most often the result of a collection of related work in a community of practitioners." - Priya Ganapati (Wired, December 18, 2009 Via)
"I'd rather it took over me than I took over it." - Myfanwy Pavelic, Canadian portraitist
"There is only one valuable thing in art: it's the thing you cannot explain." -Braque
"Sometimes success is better measured in smiles received, giggles heard, and hands held, than in dollars earned, deadlines met, and kilos shed." - TU
"After more and more blind activity, one gets a highly engineered complex structure that *does* amazing stuff." - Via
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