October 2011
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The Propaedeuticist →
Some nice hand-drawn geometric patterns, amongst many other interesting objects on this site.
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Lord Rogers on #NPPF
This speech has particular resonance for me as I spend a lot of my time working in the fields of urban wayfinding, movement strategies and information planning.
Lord Rogers of Riverside: My Lords, I declare an interest in Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners and as a director of the River Café, Hammersmith. I join in congratulating my noble friend Lord Rooker on introducing this timely debate…. I...
August 2011
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July 2011
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Rebooting Massachusetts →
I think there definitely is a resurgence in the art of the atlas. They are popping up everywhere. Some interesting stuff elsewhere on this site, as well.
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They Draw & Travel →
A growing collection of interesting map interpretations of favourite places by artists and illustrators around the word.
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Colour Blindness →
We often forget what a brilliant piece of (information) design this is.
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WatchUrbanflow Helsinki… concept for an operatng system for everyday life in cities. I work in wayfinding and these concepts and technologies are becoming the aspirations for many clients these days, even if the reality of implementing it is often beyond reach.
June 2011
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City of Collision →
Another book (atlas) on ‘conflict urbanism’ in Jerusalem.
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ScanLAB Projects →
Hybrid landscapes (scanscapes) of real and imagined LIDAR data. Also take a look at the Scanning the Mist project.
May 2011
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d3.js →
D3 is for creating dynamic behaviors for interaction and animation of datasets exposing the full capabilities of underlying technologies such as CSS3, HTML5 and SVG.
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WatchDeutsche Bank Media Wall, Hong Kong. By the very creative and interesting FIELD.
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Jennifer Coates →
The fascinating art of Jennifer Coates. Her ‘metaphysical paintings utilize the conventions of landscape as a vehicle for hallucinatory visions and psychological spaces.’
April 2011
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“Good design is innovative, useful, aesthetic, understandable, unobtrusive,...”
– Dieter Rams
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Fragments of RGB →
Another site I regularly visit, and an interesting bit of work picked up by triangulationblog. Nice!
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Processing →
I had fogotten how interesting generative artwork can be. I must try Processing for myself!
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Water economies →
A nice website as well as an interesting subject, simply but well illustrated. Thanks (again) to roomthily for finding this.
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Typographic matchmaking →
An interesting book on the role of text in architectural spaces. Arabic meets Latin.
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The most liveable cities →
As picked up by Human Scale Cities, Vancouver is yet again voted the world’s most liveable city. This is where my wife is from, so why don’t we live there?
March 2011
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Agricultural Landscapes →
As seen from above. As the article suggests, the parallels between the ‘real’ world and those digitally created by us are greater than we think. We just need to change our viewpoint.
February 2011
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The Bedolina Map →
One of the most reknowned engraved rocks in Valcamonica, Italy. It seems to constitute a real topographical map with fields, paths and houses.
January 2011
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Eye Magazine →
Interested in mapping and information design? Then the current issue of Eye Magazine (Winter 2010, 78) is a must buy. Check out the blog as well.
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Atlas of Remote Islands →
Another nicely conceived and produced atlas by Judith Schalansky for publisher, Particular Books, part of Penguin Press.
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The Atlas →
Celebrating the Dutch designer, Joost Grootens, for keeping the art of the atlas alive.
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Eve Bailey →
The similarities between the infrastructure systems of cities and the human anatomy.
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Rice terraces of Longsheng →
Stunning photography and landscape art. There is lots of other interesting stuff at Field, so have a browse.
December 2010
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Masdar City →
Aiming to be the world’s first zero-carbon and zero-waste city. Masterplanning that echoes a microchip. Wayfinding and signing led by UK-based City ID.
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Graphic Design →
Found by roomthily. Quite true, although I wonder if the two of the overlap texts need to be swapped to be true. Can you see which ones I mean?
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Written Images →
A fascinating project. A programmed book (a ‘generative book’) that presents programmed images by various artists. Every book is unique. See the video on Vimeo
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PulseART →
An interesting app for the iPhone or iPad that is based upon the iconic Joy Division artwork by Peter Saville.
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Marine Traffic →
Supposedly the lines represent the paths of individual vessels. But as many cross land, this cannot be quite true. Anyway, an interesting visualisation.
November 2010
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Wooden Maps →
Naturally ocurring… in our heads. Lots of interesting other stuff by toxi (Karsten Schmidt) as picked up by triangulationblog.
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Metropolitan Cityscapes →
It has been done many times before, but still nicely presented and executed.
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Places →
Places is an interdisciplinary journal of contemporary architecture, landscape, and urbanism, with particular emphasis on the public realm as physical place and social ideal. A great archive of PDFs available.
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Moka coffee →
Just because it reminds me of the start of each day! Brilliant coffee pots! And, there’s a map. Reblogged from muzzling.
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WatchMedia surfaces: Incidental Media by Dentsu. I really like these ideas. A little lateral thinking. A follow-up to the previous video posted. Thanks again to Paz for finding this.
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WatchMedia surfaces: The journey by Dentsu. I really like these ideas. A little lateral thinking. Thanks to Paz for digging this up.
October 2010
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“Data graphics should draw the viewer’s attention to the sense and substance of...”
– Edward R. Tufte (Thanks to wnussbaum for reminding us of these wise words)
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WatchA nice example of architectural projection mapping. Also look at the others done by seeper.
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Trap Rooms →
An interesting article about deliberately introduced cartographic errors, created in order to catch those infringing copyright.
It has long been practised, but I guess has gained currency recently as we seem to live in times where everybody seems to assume they can have everything for free (another disastrous economic model waiting to implode in the future)—or pay a pittance.
The example shown...
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Ring Roads of the World →
An interesting poster by Thumb, perhaps more for its artistic effect as its informational one.