Following the lead of talented wfu designer Caryn Kesler’s missed connections infographic of San Francisco, I made one for New Orleans. Full pdf here.
super fast info graphic i made this afternoon. breakdown by neighborhood of the san francisco missed connections for this past weekend.
full PDF here.
i love DIN.
Visualizing Howl: Natural Language Visualization — Simple Complexity
comparing the use of each letter in allen ginsberg’s poem “howl” (visualization by neema tasbihgoua)
Nathalie Miebach is a sculptor who makes “sculptural musical scores” based on weather data. If that sounds confusing, imagine how you might play the sculpture pictured above. Apparently the process goes: gather weather data, make into score that looks like this, and then make either a sculpture or music from it. She’s got a lot of pictures of her sculptures on her website.
(I like how “data” is in her list of media for the sculptures.)
cut map on paper, 20” x 20”
Soft Maps
Soft-Maps (c) are quilted maps of neighborhoods and parks that represent someone’s unique place in the city. Each map is meant to be used: wrap your children in them, have a picnic, pull them close during the next Nor’easter. Not only beautiful, these blankets can be used as a mnemonic tool. As your child grows up with a Soft Map, they learn to read their neighborhood and its landmarks in a tactile, easily remembered way.
(The New York Times - Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective)
Christoph Niemann
Binary Waves [designboom]
binary waves is an urban and cybernetic installation based on the measuring of infrastructural ( passengers, cars…) and communicational ( electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones, radio…) flows and their transposition into luminous, sonic and kinetic rules. This relation between the installation and the urban activity happens in real time and sets each person as an element of the installation, as a centre of the public realm.
Data in Contemporary Art: Brian Jungen | blprnt.blg
stack of trays where the number and color represents the numbers of aboriginal canadians in prison.
