10 Dec 2009
Showcases
News, Radial
To celebrate their fifth birthday, the folks at digg released another labs application to the general public. It's called digg365 and lines itself up next to digg stack or digg swarm from previous years.
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06 Oct 2009
Showcases
API, News, Typography
Does the web really need yet another news aggregator? Interactive Designer Brendan Dawes answers this question with an enthusiastic "No Sir". So he created Doodlebuzz – an entirely new way of exploring information.
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08 Apr 2009
Showcases
Feed, News
I've continuously worked on the LizardReader concept we've created for Mozilla and presented a few weeks ago in a past article. While I'm currently working on an interactive prototype I thought it would be great to take the time and refine the interface choices and explain some of the features and flows in more detail.
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19 Mar 2009
Showcases
API, News, Processing, Radial
Jer over at blprnt.com played around with the newly launched The Guardian API and created some great looking visualizations. He already did similar visualizations with the NY Times API and again he's sharing his experiences working with the API.
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17 Mar 2009
Datasets, Notes
API, News
The Guardian is the next newspaper to open up their content following the example of The New York Times.
The platform consists of two major components:
1. The Content AP (Access their content database)
2. The Data Store (High quality and curated datasets free to download)
The platform is currently in beta trial and only limited acces will be granted.
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04 Mar 2009
Showcases
Feed, News, Wearables
News Kitter is a data visualization project which focuses on knitted garments as an alternative medium to visualize large scale data. This means you can physically wear your favourite data – tell us this ain't phenomal!
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21 Feb 2009
Showcases
Feed, News
Mozilla recently made an open call to designers to get involved in their project "Lizard Reader". Lizard Reader was created by Les Orchard and is an aggregator for various new feeds from the Mozilla community. The opportunity for designers is to submit concepts, sketches or prototypes of a intuitive, easy readable and fun frontend for the engine. We present here our submission with sketches of a frontend concept.
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09 Feb 2009
Showcases
Flash, Media, News, Physics, Twitter
We Are Instrument teamed with Grid/Plane to build a new website and data visualization for San Francisco based agency Venables Bell & Partners, highlighting a new Audi Super Bowl TV spot. They visualize the online chatter just in time for the Super Bowl.
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