Aug 10th 09
Hellman’s Eat Local, Eat Real Campaign: Food-Driven Infographic Movie
This is a must-see. The beautifully made infographic animated movie “It’s Time for Real / Eat Local, Eat Real” highlights the increasing tendency of food importation, and how this phenomenon influences the economy, the environment and our neighborhoods. The message is mainly meant for Canadians, but certainly applies universally.
The movie, with a graphical style similar to the...
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Aug 10th 09
WAINOVA: The World Atlas of Innovation
WAINOVA – Atlas of Innovation is the newest project from data visualization designers Bestario, who are also known from projects like Atlas of Elecromagnetic Space, TEDSphere Talks, Google Proximity between Cities and Data Signals on a Spiral. The online visualization map is based on data originating from WAINOVA, the World Alliance for Innovation, which brings together major science parks and...
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Aug 10th 09
Toyota iQ Font: When Driving a Car Becomes Writing
As part of an original advertising campaign promoting the agileness of a Toyota car, two typographers Pierre&Damien and a pro-race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt) collaborated to design a specific font… with a car.
The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary Lieberman (also known from impressive projects like openFrameworks).
The font can...
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Aug 10th 09
Political Chart Wars: Health-Care Reform Obfuscated by Infographics
Recently, Rep. John Boehner, an American politician of the Republican Party who is currently serving as the House Minority Leader in Congress, released an information chart illustrating the organization of the House Democrats’ health plan. As some insist, the problem with this chart is that it seems to have been optimized by Republicans to support their contention that this bill is overly complicated...
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Aug 10th 09
SIGGRAPH’09: Steve Duenes (NYTimes Graphics Director) Keynote Talk
People address me with “Sir” (instead of “mate”), cars are bigger than my living room, and there is a high density of males with pony tails and beards. I must be in the US, and at the SIGGRAPH conference.
While the last 2 days were quite interesting and inspirational (hopefully more about that soon), the main question of today was whether the keynote talk from Steve Duenes,...
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Patrick is an accomplished Sr. User Interface Developer and Architect specializing in Web Applications, Web 2.0 and eLearning with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including project planning, design, testing, client communications, training, de-bugging, implementation and maintenance. His book, Modern Ui, Social Usability for Web 2.0 and Beyond is in production and will be available at Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon as well as many other fine retailers in Winter 2009-2010.
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