TileMill is a tool for cartographers to quickly and easily design maps for the web using custom data. It is built on the powerful open-source map rendering library Mapnik - the same software OpenStreetMap andMapQuest use to make some of their maps. TileMill is not intended to be a general-purpose cartography tool, but rather focuses on streamlining and simplifying a narrow set of use cases.
Because the trees are genetically identical, in the subsequent years they will render the social and environmental differences to which they are exposed. The tree(s) slow and consistent growth will record the experiences and contingencies that each public site provides. They will become a networked instrument that maps the micro climates of the Bay Area, connected not through the Internet, but through their biological material.
Something immense is happening as the world transitions to a hyperconnected state where, for many, the distinction between the real and virtual worlds has ceased to exist. All the trailing paraphernalia of states and borders and government-to-government palavers, not to mention privacy laws, look so 20th century.
The person who asked the question was impressed with this chart the first time he saw it. For this reason, he thought that I might find it an effective exception to McCandless’ other work. I do not.And he's right again with his critique. Read the full story here.
This is a geo-time visualization that displays temporal flow maps by organizing the display around a source map, a destination map, and a heatmap in the middle. With refugee data from the UN, Slovenian commuters, and aid data, among others, we visualize stuff like how migratory flows change in time.
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| Peter Baviera Dieter Meier DREI DATEN |
Visit Amazon's Product Page This book is available exclusively through Amazon.com and available for pre-order starting March 30, 2009. The shipping materials delivered with this book are considered parts of the book.The book was designed using LaTeX and printed by LuLu with their on-demand printing service. After purchasing copies from Lulu, they were shipped to Amazon's warehouse. The ISBN is generously given by the Winterhouse in order to have the book officially sold in Amazon. Due to the complex logistics and miscalculation, the production cost exceeded the MSRP. Therfore only handful of copies were produced, sold and purchased. Amazon's product detail page is still up and indicates that there is one more copy of the book in its warehouse.
The specifications of this book were derived from the average values of the one thousand most recent paperback publications available through Amazon.com as of February 15, 2009. For purposes of production and distribution, the dimensions are rounded off to the closest standard (A5) and the page count to the closest multiple of four.
— Preface, Manual: The Manual
L’application prototyp-0 est spécialement conçue pour le dessin de caractère. Grâce au procédé automatisé, prototyp-0 accélère considérablement le processus de création, permettant ainsi de générer dans un délai très court une multiplicité de polices typographiques complètes. Pour correspondre à ses critères, l’utilisateur pourra régler une vingtaine de paramètres (graisse, chasse, hauteur d’X, empattements, etc.)made with processing
In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance.
In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology.
Solar-sintering aims to raise questions about the future of manufacturing and triggers dreams of the full utilisation of the production potential of the world’s most efficient energy resource - the sun. Whilst not providing definitive answers, this experiment aims to provide a point of departure for fresh thinking.
At about 7:03 last night, Chris Krohn, a tourist from Santa Cruz, Calif., did a double take as he entered a men’s room at the Museum of Fine Arts. There were crowds of people gathered outside, in the doorway and inside: men, women, some with cameras. ‘What bathroom is this?’ Krohn asked. A woman chuckled. She knew what was happening. A group of about 20 artists had sneaked into the MFA with their works, plastered them on the walls, and were holding an impromptu reception. The 19-minute exhibit — it was broken up by museum security after being discovered — drew close to 75 people to the temporary bathroom galleries.The Institute for Infinitely Small Things conducts creative, participatory research that aims to temporarily transform public spaces dominated by corporate and political agendas. Using performance and conversation, we investigate social and political “tiny things”. These have included corporate ads, street names, and post-9/11 security terminology. The Institute markets dissent through its research reports in the form of maps, books and videos. This interdisciplinary group has a varied and open membership.
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| Jost Hochuli: Drucksachen, vor allem Bücher |
Jost Hochuli is a man of words. Not perhaps literally, for he is a typographer, a book designer, and a graphic designer, as he is happy to describe himself.
Although book design is only a part of his activities, it is this in particular that has made him well-known. This book contains some of his graphic design work, as well as his lettering cut in wood and lino, demonstrating that two apparently irreconcilable design approaches can have synthesis in many of Hochuli's books.
Both Hochuli's work and his writing are the result of rigorous analysis of the matter concerned. The breadth and depth of the work here presented are evidence that for him, 'Book design as a school of thought' has become a way of life. And furthermore, the discipline of implementation, and the always appropriate reduction to the essential reveal clearly that, all his life, Jost Hochuli's work has been based not on sensation, but on reflection.
"I poked at on and off for a few months, and rather than letting it linger in obscurity, where something like that should, I’ve packaged it up as a Mac desktop app for you to try out. "
If you add the cloud (Big Data in the sky?) and a generation of folks who crave niche news, sprinkle on some Edward Tufte dust, Hans Rosling’s Gapminder, a pinch of David McCandless’s Ted talk… and voilà: maps and bubble charts, decision trees and streamgraphs, sankey diagrams and sparklines flogged across so many blogs.
