Posts under 'Design':
This is cool:
At Yahoo! Research, JASMINE NOVAK has been running data analysis to identify when a search term becomes very popular, or “bursts.” Sharing this data with us, we did reverse IP lookup on the addresses in the data and plotted the patterns of activities as a particle system. Here, in a time-lapse animation, particles show queries from each location worldwide. Visualized are searches for “miss teen usa” (related to this video), “cricket” (world playoffs) “mattel” (recalls of toys with lead paint), and a close up on the Gulf of Mexico for “hurricane felix”.
This is a nice example of a clean, informative data visualization. The obvious next step is making it interactive… pair this up with Google Earth (Yahoo! may not be too interested in that, but you get my drift) and let the user spin the globe around and try out their own search terms, and suddenly you have an interesting and potentially useful cultural tool for studying patterns in viral marketing, politics, any meme at all. Presumably there is a fully interactive version hiding deep within the labs, so let us at it!
Have a look at their other projects – there’s some very interesting stuff trumping FlickrVision, SigAlert (which particularly looks like something right out of 24), and more. It’s clear they have some good designers on this team.
Doing some client work over the weekend, I accidentally created this rather lovely monstrosity… thought I’d share.
Available in full 1920×1080 resolution if you click through.
What do you get when you team up a former Poet Laureate of the United States with a variety of talented and creative animators and motion designers? You get Billy Collins Action Poetry, which you should enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. Here’s my favorite, which I feel a special connection to, although I can’t quite remember why…
Enjoy, everyone, and have a great weekend!
My Dad made this awesome piece of art for the office:
It is etched in Ferric Chloride (FeCl3) onto a four inch diameter copper water pipe. My Dad used to be the executive director of a migrant clinic in Pasco, Washington called La Clinica, and a lover of copper, he took some of the pipes home with him when the clinic was being remodeled. He then cut them apart using an arc-welder, etched the bunny logo onto them, and then mounted them on this red stained wood. It is attached using homemade copper rivets, which he cut and fashioned from copper wire. He then painted inside the etching so as to give it more dynamic contrast.
According to my Mom, he was tap-tap-tapping on those rivets for quite some time. Probably almost driving her crazy.
Thanks, Dad! It’s gorgeous!
We Bunnies just got back from the Online Video Conference that was put on by The Daily Reel, and while all these viral thoughts have been spinning around my head, I had an idea about how to make the YouTube viewing experience better.
Whenever I watch a video on YouTube, the “related videos” section rarely includes any videos that are actually related. I think this is due to the fact that what YT deems “related” are just videos that have the same tags. But videos with similar tags are rarely similar. For instance, watching our quirky animation “Junk Science,” the top related video is about global warming (junk science vs. real science). That has nothing to do with the things I like to watch.
Drawn by the incredible Christie Hauck.
Here, lean back and relax to the utter pleasantry of HunterGatherer’s intro for the Swerve Festival…