AOC studio

architectural practice by AOC (job opportunities)

HERE&THERE

horizonless NY map by Schulze & Webb creative design consultancy (London)

MAPS

Transit coalition: California metro maps, conceptual & historical
Cartogrammar: Andy Woodruff the cartographer's blog & portfolio
IndieMapper: Indie projector

175+data visualisation resources

just loads of stuff to look through

atlas of true names

etymological maps of World/Europe, available for £4.99 from here

strange maps

great mapping resource

well-formed

Interactive visualizations based on the Eigenfactor™ Metrics and hierarchical clustering to explore emerging patterns in citation networks. A cooperation between the Eigenfactor Project (data analysis)
and Moritz Stefaner (visualization).

visualising the Bible

stunning laborous project by Chris Harrison (some more of his visualisation projects, including Digg rings, related to news-digging, created using DIGG API)
+ biblediagrams
also: another interesting typographic approach by Kushal Dave:

"Every day the Bible is quoted in a range of contexts. To inspire. To persuade. To threaten. To deepen. To beautify. To make eloquent. Out of 66 books containing over 30,000 verses, ministers, politicians, parents, protestors, scientists, scholars, and cynics choose the handful of lines that best make their point.

This selection process provides a guide to the most important or interesting parts of the Bible. With the help of my favorite search engine, I collected rough counts of how often each verse appears on the web. Making these verses bigger and darker helped them stand out.

But how are these verses being used? Looking at the context of the pages doing the citing, a picture emerges of insprational sermons about faith, careful debates over meaning and timelines, and rules for everyday life. There is also occasional condemnation of nonbelievers and mockery in response. Through all of these runs the issue of how literally the Bible should be taken. As a recent episode of South Park put it, "You see, these are just stories. Stories that are meant to help people in the right direction. Love your neighbor. Be a good person. That's it! And when you start turning the stories into literal translations of hierarchies and power, well..."

typo-pastiche

Pastiche—A Collective Composition of New York City, by Ivan Safrin & Christian Marc Schmidt from Christian Marc Schmidt on Vimeo.
typographic New York:
"The city is a composite of impressions. Beyond the built environment, it is a constantly changing pastiche of associations and experiences—not just of the people who inhabit it, but of the larger community. New York City, in particular, has two realities: the reality of the physical environment, and the reality of the idea—of what the city and its diverse neighborhoods signify. Inseparably intertwined, these two realities constantly continue to inform each other. Pastiche is a dynamic data visualization that maps keywords from blog articles to the New York neighborhoods they are written in reference to, geographically positioned in a navigable, spatial view. Keywords are assigned based on relevance and recency, surrounding their corresponding neighborhoods. The result is a dynamically changing description of the city, formed around individual experiences and perspectives".

living patterns

urban morphology post, also: toronto spacing
and bricoleurbanism