Showing posts with label digital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital. Show all posts

11/03/2012

The future of the book

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.



Nicely designed video explaining the reading experience we might soon all adapt to.
Made by IDEO,design thinking firm.

28/05/2009

30/03/2009

FEED - digital design blog


various articles on digital design, information & data visualisations
e.g. 'How to use data to drive web profits in a downturn'

flare library

'Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. Even better, flare features a modular design that lets developers create customized visualization techniques without having to reinvent the wheel.

View the demos and sample applications to see a few of the visualizations that flare makes it easy to build.

To begin making your own visualizations, download flare and work through the tutorial. You should also get familiar with the API documentation. Need more help? Visit the help forum (you'll need a SourceForge login to post).

Flare is open-source software released under a BSD license, meaning it can be freely deployed and modified (and even sold for $$). Flare's design was adapted from its predecessor prefuse, a visualization toolkit for Java.'

21/03/2009

systemantics

'Bo­th in­for­ma­tion and soft­wa­re are in­vi­si­ble goods. The web­si­te of Sys­teman­ti­cs has to ma­ke bo­th vi­si­ble in so­me way. Mo­reo­ver, it has to show the com­ple­xi­ty be­hind the sce­nes. The best way to ex­plain the do­main of in­for­ma­tion and soft­wa­re is text. The web­si­te thus pre­fers text over ima­ges. To crea­te a vi­sual link to the pro­jects in which Sys­teman­ti­cs par­ti­ci­pa­ted, the vi­sual im­pres­sion from each pro­ject is en­co­ded in a pie chart. The chart shows the most re­cent 25 co­lors of a screens­hot in their re­la­ti­on­ship to each other'. (August 2007)

Concept & design: Catalogtree / Web development: Systemantics

05/03/2009

ten thousand cents


Ten Thousand Cents from Ten Thousand Cents on Vimeo.

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase (to charity) are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction".

serial cut


"Serial Cut™ is a creative studio established in 1999 by Sergio del Puerto, focused on art direction + graphic design + illustration".