February 2009
6 posts
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Related Pages: Visualizing the Proximity of Wiki... →
The project Related Pages consists of small, minimal force-directed network visualization located in the sidebar of a wiki webpage. The graph shows the “proximity” of the content on visited webpage in the context of a whole website. The visualization aims at offering the user an alternative possibility to navigate across the wiki from the School of the Arts in Schwäbisch Gmünd,...
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New York Times Headlines as Wallpaper Pattern →
A commercially available wallpaper pattern based on the news headlines from the New York Times. The headlines are organized chronologically and color-coded as subject matter is mapped unto a rainbow legend. Subsequently, global, national, and local events generate a continuous stream of news from which color patterns emerge.
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text2image: Transforming Text into Visual Glitches →
ext2image is one of those “data art” works that balances on the line of total uselessness and visual fascination. While there is no immediate purpose, one still spends minutes playing around with it. It is an online tool which allows the user to transform text of any sort into a “visualization” of that very content. The results are deterministic, in that they are...
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Glocal: Immense, Collaborative Image Explorer →
Glocal (short for global + local) is an “immense, collaborative and multifaceted” digital art project that examines the making, sharing and exhibiting of digital images. Thousands of individuals, including artists, non-artists and youth, are invited to participate to collaborate in the making of what promises to be Canada’s largest “contributive” digital artwork.
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Synoptic: Meteorological Data Visualization →
Synoptic is a 3D “interactive infographic” based on the chronological sequence of back-dated meteorological data from Augsburg (Germany). Users can select a data attribute to explore (e.g. temperature, luminosity, humidity, air pressure, precipitation), alter timespans, and detect outliers, trends or patterns over time on a three-dimensional line graph landscape.
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Josef Müller-Brockmann →
Josef Müller-Brockmann was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher, mostly recognised for his simple designs and his clean use of typography, notably Helvetica. His shapes and colours have inspired many graphic designers in the 21st century, and made him one of the main precursors of the International Typographic Style, also known as Swiss Style.This visualization is the result of a personal web...