What does music look like? The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question.
IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.
The terrain of Mount Fear is generated by data sets relating to the frequency and position of urban crimes. Precise statistics are provided by the police. Each individual incident adds to the height of the model, forming a mountainous terrain.
Some great stuff over at febmag.com, an online photo magazine which is released only once a year, in february.
»Se interesting thing is what there is in, not what there is around. That is why se right product for this is to 'ave se minimum around se interesting thing.«
Design is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet.
A 4 minute short about Paul Rand created for his posthumous induction to the One Club Hall of Fame in 2007.
Lovely website and stunning work from Stockholm based studio RBG6.
Amazing piece of work: a configurable JavaScript bookmarklet which overlays a layout grid on any given website.
In a nutshell, this JavaScript adjusts the line-height of a container (such as a div) in proportion to it’s width, relative to the font size.
Design a remote control with as many buttons as there are channels on TV.
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ok to be fair: i could have spent more attention arranging the wires nice and clean but this is how it looks right now. craptastic.
Visual Function: An Introduction to Information Design By Paul Mijksenaar (The title is out of print but can still be viewed here in its entirety, thanks to 010 publishers.)
This atlas offers a unique survey of global trade networks and their impact on metropolitan space. It documents a total of 101 metropolises, analysing them in easy-to-read ground plans.
Humane Messages is a system for displaying and temporarily logging non-modal messages, for use in web applications
An always updated collection of beautifully done record envelopes.
»Why is interactive design different from print design?«
A 1923 book on the art of letter arrangement, P's and Q's is a visual approach to typography putting great emphasis on rhythm, balance and tone between individual letters, their shapes and their relationship to the larger text.
It's about time.
By using the building as a visual source, Stefan Sagmeister created a dynamic, faceted and endlessly varied identity — all literally speaking.
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Using information design principles and graphical techniques, the 85+ recorded covers of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" are mapped in relation to the original recordings by the band.
File under: Ideas I wish I had.
Ok, this is just awesome: »Massage Me is a wearable interface that channels a game player’s excess kinetic energy into a back massage for an innocent bystander.«
News Knitter is a data visualization project which focuses on knitted garments as an alternative medium to visualize large scale data.
Nice read.
Martin Klimas destroys a lot of clay to make his art. Combining the silence of Eadweard Muybridge’s horse pictures with the association-rich composition of a still life, Klimas breaks recognizable objects so they become something else, and stops us just
Interesting visualization of data from Twitter.
Stretched type, day-glo colours and a flagrant disregard for the rules: are we witnessing a knee-jerk reaction to the slick sameness of so much design or a genuine cultural shift?
A condensed bible containing four chapters: Do, Do Not, Shall, Shall not.
An exhaustive explanation of the upcoming Flash Player update which includes support for H.264.
Yet another great work by Stamen: »Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for understanding crime in cities.«