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Posted by on Jun 5th, 2007 | 0 comments

Design so bad it hurts

Jordan has directed us towards the 2012 Olympiad logo which rightfully made us cringe, especially after the revalation of the one year development process and the $750 000 price tag and also of course the horrible accompanying copy on the London 2012 website reading, “the new emblem is modern and will be dynamic, evolving in the years between now and 2012.” Nevermind the fact that it looks as though it...
Posted by on Sep 27th, 2006 | 5 comments

2006 Visualization Challenge

This year’s winners have been announced by Science magazine for the best information visualization of the year and there has evidently been fierce competition across all the subcategories this time around. Check out the winners including some representation from the National Research Council of Canada who scored second place in Informational Graphics. Congratulations to everyone involved. This looks like it...
Posted by on Jun 28th, 2006 | 34 comments

Thread Arcs

IBM Research has produced an interesting little piece on the visualisation of email threads which combines chronology with the branching nature of email communications. Visually it remains fairly simplistic with nodes and connecting arcs but allows you to find messages and see trends in the thread much easier. This has some nice...
Posted by on Apr 4th, 2006 | 0 comments

The thin blue line

The fuzz in Great Britain hopes to squeeze a confession out of you by using an actual thin blue line. Clich̩ euphemism aside this will actually be a thin blue line painted on to the walls of prisons. Of course being Great Britain, the line will not just be blue but royal blue. In other news the door frame will be a calming yellow. The cells are equipped to detect if breathing stops too Рpresumably incase...
Posted by on Mar 29th, 2006 | 0 comments

Nike Maxsight

Nike Maxsight
Nike wants to give you maximum vision with minimum slowdown from unnecessary spaces between words. Basically they are going to start selling blue-blocker sunglasses in handy contact lens format.
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