Create your own Infographic powered by Google.
The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don’t have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.
The tool helps visualize data [...]
A peek into the future as materials and manufacturing advance.
A design that shows a peek into the future as materials and manufacturing advance. Our ability to manufacture lighter frames with increasing strength of materials will allow us to make shapes that today would structurally fail.
With new advancements in materials and manufacturing techniques, modern or futuristic products are becoming minimal, presenting simple though attractive products. [...]
Is Bottled Water Really That Bad? Yes.
In February, I wrote an article in relation to bottled water. You can read it here to get up to speed. The article recieved all sorts of feedback from constructive and educational (Thanks Ando_F), to boring with no purose through to inspiring and supportive.
Following, I decided to cease using plastic bottles and paper cups for [...]
What are people really buying online?
What people buy online differs substantially from what they buy in-store. According to a study by the US Census Bureau, the bulk of sales are still in-store. There are, however, several categories in which online sales dominate each product marketplace. These include: books and magazines, clothing, and electronics. Below, Permuto have broken down the sales [...]
Ponoko Design Challenge. Get your entry in now.
This is simple, to win a $100 voucher from Ponoko, leave a comment below telling us:
How you would like to use Ponoko?
The best idea as voted by the Ponoko and uncluttered white spaces marekting teams will win a $100 voucher for the site. Simple.
So start leaving your comments and share this event with your friends.
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A pop up bar made from 420 IKEA boxes
Reverting back to the word of innovation. The Bull often refers to innovation as a new way of viewing something that either exists or does not. Surely this errs-towards an innovative way to use Ikea tubs. Instead of dumping old storage boxes, why not give them a second life as alcohol-slinging pop-up shops? Designers Diogo [...]
Information is Beautiful:: Does the BBC give good value for money?
Last week, the BBC cuts made all the headlines: it is closing two radio stations, capping spending on sports events, and slashing other costs. All to generate extra revenue for programming.
David McCandles has covered this in an Infogrpah reviewing the BBC budgets.
As ever, it’s a little hard to understand all the abstract figures from the BBC [...]
What Personality Traits Do Designers Share?
Ignoring the details and the, illegible pie chart at the bottom. Lets zoom in on the two clearest trends: 85% of respondents were “intuiting” types, while 69% were “judging.” By itself that’s not particularly useful. But those two personality traits offer a good insight into what “design thinking” might actually consist of.
According to the test, [...]
Another day, another set of bewildering climate figures.
Another day, another set of bewildering climate figures. Today, key climate scientists withdrew their predictions. of a metre sea-level rise by 2100. Other scientists meanwhile claimed the 1m figure was way too conservative anyway. They predict anything up to 2m sea level rises over the next century.
It’s difficult to keep track of all this shifting [...]
A floating office for two from WaterSpace.
Today we have drawn our attention to inspring spaces. Inspiring to visit, live or work.
The H2Office is a purpose-built floating office that can comfortably accommodate one or two workers. In addition to a sun deck above, the H2Office comes equipped with a work area featuring wood-like flooring and an L-shaped desk and shelving unit across the [...]
Local artists making the ACE hotel a showroom of art installations.
PSFK have run a collection of images capturing the art and culture of the ACE Hotel chain in the states. ACE collaborates local artists making each hotel a showroom of art installations. Whilst PSFK took the time to collate these images, we encourage you to head to the site to see the full story. Below is [...]
Squares, Triangles and the Art of Perspective with Aaskash Nihalani
The US-American street artist Aakash Nihalani is one of the best-known representatives of the new street-art trend, who works with the medium of tape in public places around New York.
Aakash explains:
My work is created in a reaction to what we readily encounter in our lives, sidewalks and doorways, building and bricks. I’m just connecting the dots differently [...]
Good Magazine:: Design an Infographic for Haiti Submissions
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Good Magazine presents the competition for budding visualizers to help us better grok the situation in earthquake struck Haiti. Some really great contributions for talented web folk. This ranks as our #1. The runners up for white spaces are listed below:
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We think you should visit:: TheLoop.com.au
Matt Fayle and Pip Jamieson have launched Australia’s very first online multi-media platform aimed to match creative professionals with potential employers. The idea was born in early 2009 after Matt and Pip identified a much-needed resource for the media professional environment.
The Loop, in its very short existence has over 80,000 Australians signed up along with recruitment [...]
A Letter for One with Meaning for All
This Valentine’s Day, celebrate love in all forms with Steve Powers’ latest book “A Love Letter for You”. The book explores Powers’ fascination with using graffiti to tell a story.
A team of 40 painter collaborated to create Love Letter, a series of more than 50 huge, text-based rooftop murals.
Love Letter is a public art project [...]
What are the most important risks for 2010?
The World Economic Forum held its annual meeting at Davos, and the theme this time was “Improve the State of the World.” Which naturally meant coming to terms with the risks out there. Their economists came up with a comprehensive list and assigned probabilities to each–and also mapped the linkages between each one. Then they summarized [...]
Fashion that touches the World
Holstee is an Eco-friendly clothing company. Their style is simple, functional, unique and made out of 100% recycled material.
Although there are quite a few Eco-friendly fashions on the market, Holstee captivates through its inimitable concept. The brand founded by brothers Dave and Mike Radparvar was not only created to be fashionable and functional but also [...]
Frozen Yoghurt meets Designer in Berlin
Yoli is Berlins first Frozen Yoghurt Shop, with an amazing variety of topping ideas and an extra dose of calcium, vitamin B2 and a high proportion of live and active pro-biotic yoghurt cultures.
Although the concept is not new, Yoli succeeds with its remarkable combination of design and food, an intelligent metaphorical concept.
The designer of Amseldrossel [...]
COOL LIST 9 :: Ponoko. The worlds first online marketplace for making things.
Ponoko is an online marketplace for everyone to click to make real things.
It’s where creators, digital fabricators, materials suppliers and buyers meet to make (almost) anything.
Ponoko kicked off at TechCrunch40 at the end of 2007 with a vision to reinvent how goods are designed, made and distributed worldwide. The core of this vision is the trade [...]
Information is beautiful: Haiti, who gets what?
The global response to the Haiti earthquake has been extraordinary and generous. But in the midst of all the reporting, it’s difficult to keep track of the numbers.
In particular, who has given what, who has dug deepest, and how the Haiti relief fund currently compares to those of other tragedies.
This is an image created for The [...]