Showing posts with label information modeling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label information modeling. Show all posts
Monday, November 21, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Information is Beautiful!
Why is it that most information designers happen to live in the UK? I can't exactly answer that question. It's sort of how you got all the innovative minds clustered around California (the firm Ideo is a good example).
While Hubberly Dubbs has always been an information design hero, here's another rising star: David McCandless. He likes to fiddle with graphic design and information, much like Hubberly. His style, however, is far less serious, more cheeky at times and decorative (perhaps less functional in some cases).
He has also written 2 books: Information is Beautiful and The Visual Micellaneum.
While Hubberly Dubbs has always been an information design hero, here's another rising star: David McCandless. He likes to fiddle with graphic design and information, much like Hubberly. His style, however, is far less serious, more cheeky at times and decorative (perhaps less functional in some cases).
He has also written 2 books: Information is Beautiful and The Visual Micellaneum.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Presentations 2.0
TED Conferences are quite fascinating! I like how Innovative information is presented in plain English, to a lay audience like me. A few presentations I've watched managed to blow my mind. The presenter, the visuals, the stories-- all work together to create a feeling of wonder. Well-designed TED presentations have a few common characteristics:
Here are some TED Conference Presentations you wouldn't want to miss:
- charismatic presenters
- great storytelling/content
- visual information/acting
Here are some TED Conference Presentations you wouldn't want to miss:
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Word Clouds
You may be seeing Twitter "word-clouds" in Vancouver's 24 Hours daily newspaper. It's a fairly "new" phenomenon but I had been using the Wordle application for quite awhile now.
Wordle lets you paste large chunks of text, and outputs a customizable word-cloud based on the settings you chose. It normally makes reoccurring words bigger than others. The most creative part is being able to control the word cloud's color scheme, the type of fonts it uses, and its layout (or its randomness).
Words are no longer boring, linear words, they can show patterns, look visually appealing, and can nearly compete with visuals!
Here are a few examples I have found posted by users on Flickr:
As you can see, each word cloud has its own unique flavour! Time to grab a chunk of text and make your own. How about a report you wrote?
Wordle lets you paste large chunks of text, and outputs a customizable word-cloud based on the settings you chose. It normally makes reoccurring words bigger than others. The most creative part is being able to control the word cloud's color scheme, the type of fonts it uses, and its layout (or its randomness).
Words are no longer boring, linear words, they can show patterns, look visually appealing, and can nearly compete with visuals!
Here are a few examples I have found posted by users on Flickr:
As you can see, each word cloud has its own unique flavour! Time to grab a chunk of text and make your own. How about a report you wrote?
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