It’s often said that every major city has a heartbeart, with a unique pulse all its own. That metaphor is made by visible by the wonderful maps produced by photographer Eric Fischer as part of his Geotaggers’ World Atlas – a data visualization project in which he plotted Flickr photos on a map, highlighting 50… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Information Design
Pacific Garbage Patch
Shortly after graduating from college, I moved across the country to Catalina Island, twenty-six miles off the coast of Los Angeles, for a job as an instructor at the Catalina Island Marine Institute. During that time (early 90’s), I can remember learning a bit about the large-scale effects of ocean currents on marine debris. Several… Read more »
Flock printing: “This is the air we breathe”
While conducting some research for a project several months ago, I came across the interesting work of Jenny Bergström, a designer and researcher in Stockholm. I was particularly intrigued by her 2007 research project entitled “This is the air we breathe…”, in which she uses a flock printing technique to display air pollution over time… Read more »
The power of one pixel
Going through some older bookmarks, I re-discovered this little gem created by Ben Mautner of Wider Angle: Population One: One Pixel is One Person While I’m ordinarily not a fan of web pages requiring horizontal scrolling, I found this to be a terrific application for an otherwise frustrating task. In fact, in this case, I… Read more »
Information design for advocacy
Fellow Graphic Alliance member John Emerson recently shared a wonderful free resource, a PDF booklet entitled Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design. The manual is intended to introduce advocacy organizations to basic principles and techniques of information design. It provides some excellent examples of designs from groups around the world in a… Read more »
