Visualizar'11: Understanding Infrastructures aims to tackle the big questions around infrastructures — the big systems that support global processes such as the production and transportation of energy and water or the provision of global communication and mobility. Read more
The Design Division of the University of Washington presents its best work at UW Design Show 2011, their annual exhibition of student's work. Read more
A one-day conference organized by Visualizing.org, Information Aesthetics and the Open Knowledge Foundation that takes place on June 14 in Brussels, Belgium. Read more
Postgrad.com and David McCandless from Information Is Beautiful have teamed up and put together a new data visualization competition. The lucky winner will take home a brand spanking new iPad2! Read more
Jan Willem Tulp, a freelance information visualizer based in The Netherlands has recently published his submission for the Eyeo data visualization challenge by Visualizing.org that analyzes the numbers of homes in proportion to the population in the USA. Read more
Lauren Manning, a New York based designer, explores various methods to visualize one single data set for her thesis. The data at hand is as basic as it gets: food consumed and has been gathered from two years of meticulous life documenting. Read more
Wouldn't it be nice to have a tangible record of your social networking activities? Let's say a collection of your most awkward photos, hilarious rants and embarrassing events that you could share many years from now with your grandchildren. Read more
Atipus decided to put what's inside Celler el Masroig's Vi Novell 2010 bottle on the outside and created an infographic-like visual design for the package. Read more
Planetary by Bloom Studio turns your music library into a virtual galaxy of suns, planets, and moons and the excitement of musical discovery. Read more
The Open Data Challenge motivates designers, developers, journalists or researchers to show the general public what's possible with open public data. Read more
For the recent launch of the Nike Free Run+ 2 City Pack series, YesYesNo was invited to work on a series of custom visualizations based on GPS data like speed, consistency and the unique style of people's runs. Read more
With 400+ people in the audience and experts from Foursquare, JESS3 and Visualizing.org on the microphones I had my debut at SXSW this year. Here's how it went down. Read more
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