Come to the Datavis Tweetup!
Join the good folks from Datavisualization.ch at SEE#5 for a chat & cold beer! We hope to finally meet some of our readers finally in person. Read more
Design for America
Sunlight Labs, a part of the Sunlight Foundation, recently announced their "Design for America" competition. It aims to connect the talents of art and design communities to the wealth of government data and to help nurture the field of information visualization. Read more
Tim Berners-Lee on Open & Linked Data
In 2010 Tim Berners-Lee returned to TED to follow up his great speech about open and linked data from 2009. At this years conference Sir Berners-Lee presented some of the results that sprouted from open data. Read more
7 Conferences to Attend in 2010
I've compiled a small list of conferences definitely worth visiting in 2010. Events like this are a great way to see, learn, connect and be inspired. If you're lucky enough to get a ticket, be sure to let us know so we could meet up and have a chat. Read more
Call For Entries for Malofiej 18
The Society for News Design has published the call for entries for the 18th International Graphics Awards. The deadline is February 5th and only works that were published between January 1 and December 31, 2009 may be submitted. The winners will be announced at the closing dinner during the Infographics World Summit, on March12, 2010. Read more
Designing for Visual Efficiency
Ryan Coleman gives a brief but inspiring presentation about the process of how we see and how that knowledge allows us to create designs that are more visually efficient. This is a nice introduction to a field every information designer should look into. Read more
Jonathan Harris’ Talk on Web Stories
Get inspired by the talk of Jonathan Harris at the 2007 Pop! Tech event – educative and entertaining, amusing and touching at the same time. Jonathan is the creator of inspiring and playful applications like "We Feel Fine" or "I Want You To Want Me". Read more
Workshop: Living With Information
On October 16th 2009 the FH Potsdam will host a workshop examining questions about how information visualization influences design, architecture and technology. The workshop will be hosted by Prof. Boris Müller (esono.com) and Moritz Stefaner (well-formed-data.net). Read more
ID Symposium 09
Communicate effectively with interactive Information Visualization – 8th Symposium for Information Design at the Media University Stuttgart, Germany. Read more
Visualizar’09 · Call for projects and papers
This year's Visualizar workshop by the Medialab Prado comes with a very intruiging tagline: Public Data, Data in Public. Accordingly the focus areas are Free Data for Better Science, Open data for a transparent government and Data for Public Debate. Read more
CAT 2009 Video of Aaron Koblin
The video capture of Aaron Koblin's presentation at CaT has been published on Creativity-Online.com. Aaron, who's currently working at Google's Creative Lab shows some of his latest projects including Flight Patterns, NYTE, TheSheepMarket.com and his work on the Radiohead video clip "House Of Cards". Read more
Video Interview with Aaron Koblin
Étapes has published a comprehensive video interview with Aaron Koblin. In the interview he talks about his interest in generative art and information visualization as a way to display cultural tendencies and models emerging today. Read more
Events
Data visualization is still a niche and thus networking a crucial part of the daily work. Events are great to stay up-to-date with current developments as well as meeting peers and cultivate connections.
