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
The portfolio of Peter Crnokrak contains some imressive visualizations with a strong focus on reduction, typography and visual aesthetics. Read more
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
In the tradition of FollowFriday on Twitter and in response of Randy Krum’s post listing 37 people you should follow for infographics on Twitter I thought it would be nice to extend this list with some of my favourite Twitter users in the field of data visualization. Read more
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
Mark Sinclair from Creative Review interviewed Ben Fry, co-creator of Processing and Director at Seed Visualization. Fry answers questions about his learnings from the MIT, his working process when visualizing data, the Processing scripting language and the importance of understandable data in the future. Read more
As part of the ongoing series "An American Summer" from The French Creative Connection, Thibaut Estellon has interviewed Paul Kahn, information archtitect extraordinary. Read more
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
We've recently come across the personal blog of Max Gadney. Max is Information and Interaction Designer from London, UK and works as Commissioning Executive in BBC Vision. Prior to that he was Head of Design and Audience Insight at the BBC News website. Apart from that he's an enthusiastic illustrator and writer for the WWII Magazine – his blog is like a sneak peek into his scrapbook. Read more
There are super smart people working in the field of data visualization and explore new ways to gather, mine, refine, display or beautify data. We think it’s time to shine some light not only on their work but also their background, work processes and work philosophies.
