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Disassembled household appliances

Disassembled household appliances
Brittny Badger completed her Thesis project from the Hartford Art School this May and it’s pretty nice. With a BFA in photography and a minor in visual communication design, this comes together nicely. She has taken some household appliances and disassembled them. Most of us have done that at one point, but Brittny has done us the favor of shematicly laying out out the resulting components and photographing...
Posted by on Sep 22nd, 2008 | 0 comments

The Hand Drawn Map Association

The Hand Drawn Map Association
When people draw maps by hand the results can often be both charming and telling. There is always an element of character to the maps as they have a personal bias beyond just objective visualization. They’re off to a somewhat slow start and seem to have a contemporary focus rather than historical but the Hand Drawn Map Association is archiving some examples. We agree with them that the stories behind the maps...
Posted by on Sep 17th, 2008 | 0 comments

Retro-Modern Videogame Remix II

Retro-Modern Videogame Remix II
We have already seen what people think some modern videogames might be like if produced on the original Gameboy but lets take yet another step further back in time to see what they would be like on the Atari 2600. There is some pretty good box art here even though they’ve taken some artistic license with the actual technical abilities of the Atari 2600 console. It’s a charming trend and maybe one which...
Posted by on Sep 16th, 2008 | 2 comments

Britain from Above

Britain from Above
The BBC and English television in general has a knack for providing us with some great documentaries. There is a new one worth checking out for all you information visualization fans called Britain from Above. It’s basically all about visualizing geographic information from an overhead (orbital style) view, revealing traffic patterns and other trends layered over Great...
Posted by on Sep 10th, 2008 | 0 comments

DW-16

DW-16
David Wiggins Has built this monster DeWalt-16 which is some type of unholy lovechild between a DeWalt nail-gun and an M-16 Rifle. If he could make it shoot nails, we could drywall like a pro. As it is, it shoots bullets. the Magazine is even edited to mimic a DeWalt battery pack. Nice work...
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