Design

LIVE Singapore! is a really exciting project from the SENSEable City Lab and part of the Future Urban Mobility research initiative at the Singapore and MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. Researchers have collaborated on the development of an open platform for collating and publishing a range of innovative, real-time data visualisations about the city. […]

If you’ve not heard there has been a massive earthquake off the North East coast of Japan this morning. This has caused devastation within the region, there are some staggering videos and images emerging. It has also triggered a pacific-wide Tsunami threat which may impact on many regions across that side of the globe. For

Ben Saunders: North 3 is a great looking project designed by Applied Works in collaboration with Studio8 Design which will present live updates of intrepid explorer Ben’s record-attempting solo walk to the North Pole in just 36 days. Launching on Tuesday 18th March, the day Ben sets of on his trek, the site will present

Lonely Planet are working on an exciting new visual guide to the world, titled “How to Land a Jumbo Jet” based on a unique collection of cultural and travel-inspired visualisations. To help create this book they want to crowd-source innovative ideas and creations from across the visualisation and design community. As noted on Infosthetics, visualisation

In advance of President Obama’s State of the Union address this evening, the BBC web graphics team has published some analysis of the usage of the 10 most prevalent words and phrases in every address going back to 1790. The selection is specifically based on nouns, adjectives and a pro-noun, with the most popular words

Through an article on Fastcodesign, I have come across BibliOdyssey, a wonderful blog dedicated to unearthing and sharing some of the finest and most unique illustrations to emerge from the 19th Century/Victorian period. Given this was the age of industrial revolution and scientific curiosity, a significant number of these illustrations are vintage examples of visualisations

Edinburgh based developer Steven Kay has created a fascinating calendar wheel visualisation of the seasonal colours in Norway. The colours are derived from individual frames taken from a time lapse movie by Eirik Solheim of a view of his garden over a single year. One year in 2 minutes from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo. Each

In a week that has seen a great deal of debate and coverage of the GOOD chloropleth map, another attempt to innovate a map-based visualisation has landed on my desk in the shape of the FedEx ‘Our Changing World’ visualisation. The concept of this dynamic visualisation is similar to the idea of last year’s Visualisation

Not strictly a piece of data visualisation but I can’t avoid sharing this wonderful demonstration of how visuals combined with slick interactivity can provide an extremely compelling and impactive story. They come from a pair of presentation packages on the ABC News website (part one and part two) about the recent floods in Brisbane. High-resolution