http://folksonomy.co/?rss=1 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Fri, 17 May 2013 09:01:24 +1000 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:01:24 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=1 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3306 Information visualisation created in HTML5 by designer Luke Twyman http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3306 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:01:24 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3302 Not a chance The promoters of big data would like us to believe that behind the lines of code and vast databases lie objective and universal insights into patterns of human behavior be it consumer spending criminal or terrorist acts healthy habits or employee productivity But many big-data evangelists avoid taking a hard look at the weaknesses Numbers can t speak for themselves and data sets no matter their scale are still objects of human design The tools of big-data science such as the Apache Hadoop software framework do not immunize us from skews gaps and faulty assumptions Those factors are particularly significant when big data tries to reflect the social world we live in yet we can often be fooled into thinking that the results are somehow more objective than human opinions Biases and blind spots exist in big data as much as they do in individual perceptions and experiences Yet there is a problematic belief that bigger data is always better data and that correlation is as good as causation Kate Crawford 12 May 2013 Foreign Policy http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3302 Sun, 12 May 2013 13:30:31 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3296 Austin Kleon s talk Steal Like An Artist is a creative manifesto based on 10 things he wish he d heard when he was starting out Austin is a writer and artist He s the author of Newspaper Blackout a best-selling book of poetry made by redacting newspaper articles with a permanent marker Austin s talk was delivered as part of the TEDxKC presentation of TEDxChange Austin s work including his new book Steal Like An Artist has been featured on NPR s Morning Edition PBS Newshour and in The Wall Street Journal He speaks about creativity visual thinking and being an artist online for organizations such as SXSW and The Economist TEDx Talk 2012 Kansas City http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3296 Sat, 04 May 2013 14:49:59 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3293 Politecnico di Milano in order to present the School of Design in its own stand at Salone del Mobile 2013 asked DensityDesign to realize a 4 mt x 2 mt poster showing the structure and the efficiency of the School of Design system at Politecnico The visualization is a picture of the 2010 2011 academic year We began with the visualization of the figures related to students On the left side you can start following the students path from the admission test to their bachelor degree which is connected to data related to the type of contract one year after graduation data referred to a 2010 survey We decided to integrate the visualization with information related to credits distribution Every circle is a course of study and shows its typology of exams theoretical courses labs etc with related C F U university course credits Inside it is shown the average of earned credits by students every year In the right side you can see the same data related to master degree We also visualized how many teachers each department gives to the school of design The poster has been completed with information about PhDs technical and research labs and the number of students for each school of Politecnico The poster was realized in one week by Gabriele Calvi and Sara De Donno with the supervision of Michele Mauri Sara De Donno 24 April 2013 Density Design http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3293 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:56:40 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3288 The UK s creative economy is one of its great national strengths historically deeply rooted and accounting for around one-tenth of the whole economy It provides jobs for 2 5 million people - more than in financial services advanced manufacturing or construction - and in recent years this creative workforce has grown four times faster than the workforce as a whole But behind this success lies much disruption and business uncertainty associated with digital technologies Previously profitable business models have been swept away young companies from outside the UK have dominated new internet markets and some UK creative businesses have struggled to compete UK policymakers too have failed to keep pace with developments in North America and parts of Asia But it is not too late to refresh tired policies This manifesto sets out our 10-point plan to bolster one of the UK s fastest growing sectors Hasan Bakhshi Ian Hargreaves and Juan Mateos-Garcia April 2013 NESTA http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3288 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:07:33 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3286 Icograda is the International Council of Communication Design a partner of the International Design Alliance Founded in 1963 it is celebrating it s 50th birthday on the World Communication Design Day 27 April 2013 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3286 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:37:09 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3285 Produced by Larry Keating for AT amp T THE ARTIST AND THE COMPUTER is an excellent introductory informational film that dispels some of the mystery of computer-art technology as it clarifies the necessary human input of integrity artistic sensibilities and aestheticsa Ms Schwartzos voice over narration explains what she hoped to accomplish in the excerpts from a number of her films and gives insight into the artistos problems and decisionsa I would recommend THE ARTIST AND THE COMPUTER for all grade levels in classes on filmmaking art appreciation and human values - John Canemaker Film News Animation Jan -Feb 1978 Cine Golden Eagle 1976 New York Film Festival USIA - Animation and Education 1977 Annual Creative Problem Solving Institute 1980 Recent screening at the Museum of Modern Art New York December 10 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3285 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:01:50 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3284 This is a lecture given to MA students at the University of Hertfordshire It explores how contemporary kinetic typography relies on historical developments such as 3D woodblock print Romain du Roi and Modernist modular lettering Students are encouraged to let their design work respond to historical research This does not mean creating something that looks old or retro rather creating something innovative and new by re-imagining historical ideas in light of new technologies and contexts Barbara Brownie http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3284 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:20:19 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3283 Interface design has often been considered a subsection of interaction design Moggridge 2007 L ouml wgren amp Stolterman 2004 Bagnara amp Crampton Smith 2006 In the shift from designing objects to designing experiences interaction design needs to investigate temporal as well as spatial form Redstr ouml m 2001 Maz eacute amp Redstr ouml m 2005 and to see computation as basic material From a social cultural and humanistic perspective studies of the design of interactions and their contexts of use can be understood in terms of mediated communication and the historical social playful and aesthetic in digital design Blythe Overbeeke Monk amp Wright 2003 Lunenfeld 1999 This approach has been framed as Communication Design Morrison et al in press This mediational perspective of digital communication is informed by studies in new media social semiotics socio-cultural studies of learning and work and practice-based research into multimodal composition in which mediated discourse itself undergoes change through active use Jones amp Norris 2005 Morrison in press This view is distinct from the structuralist and directional or transmission models of communication e g Crilly Maier amp Clarkson 2008 that are not rooted in cultural and mediational theory From a Communication Design perspective the interface itself mediates it is understood as socially and culturally constructed and situated Such a perspective is not very widely articulated in discussions of the interface in design research Further few studies exist of dynamic digital interfaces and their multimodal characteristics from a specifically media and Communication Design view e g Skjulstad 2007 In their design activity interaction designers invest heavily in the shaping of interfaces as symbolic and cultural texts Alongside this attention to design and with reference to user-driven studies we also need to unpack the features and possible functions of these emerging forms of mediated communication The proliferation of movement in the interface demands that we pay attention to a variety of media types genre conventions and earlier media and to the ways that elements of these are combined in different configurations Social semiotics provides some means for relating the various graphical animational and kinetic aspects of dynamic interfaces within a wider communicative perspective 3 Jon Olav H Eikenes and Andrew Morrison 2010 Jon Olav H Eikenes and Andrew Morrison 2010 Navimation Exploring Time Space amp Motion in the Design of Screen-based Interfaces International Journal of Design Vol 4 No 1 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3283 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:14:04 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3252 As design-led and practice-based research institution CIID has expertise in directly engaging with design and technological materials to produce prototypes Prototyping is at the center of CIIDos design culture it provides us with the methods and means to probe future scenarios situate design discourses and test design and technical implementations in real world contexts Our prototyping methods range from simple paper based co-creation props to functional physical prototypes of complex systems In addition video scenarios and various experience prototyping methods are employed in the early stages of our research in order to bring forward surprisingly foundational insights about the EroleE a technological object or system may have in the real world Overall insights derived from all prototypes feed back into our research process to re-iterate over its concepts or focus With clear probing or prompting goals we can better use sketches in materials hardware and software to think and communicate about research technologies and their societal impacts http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3252 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:50:06 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3234 Uploaded via SlideShare as Adobe PDF http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3234 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:44:44 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3205 This newscast from KRON in San Francisco in 1981 has been making the rounds recently It s labeled primitive Internet report but what it presents is actually one example of the many pre-Internet efforts that the newspaper industry made to try to plan for an online future - and stake out its own turf in that forthcoming world In the video you can hear Dave Cole say of the Electronic Examiner he was demonstrating We re not in it to make money At the end the announcer points out that an entire edition of the paper takes two hours to download at a 5 hour cost - making this telepaper little competition for the paper edition For the moment at least the reporter declares over the image of a sidewalk news vendor hawking the afternoon edition this fellow isn t worried about being out of a job Though the piece does say that Engineers now predict the day will come when we get all our newspapers and magazines by home computer its underlying message is - Don t worry This crazy computer stuff isn t going to change anything much for now And indeed it took 10 years for any sort of online service to become even remotely popular Almost 30 years later newspapers are still in business some are even still sold by guys on sidewalks It has taken this long for the technology to transform the newspaper biz in a big way But even as the downloads sped up and the connect-time costs dropped the industry held onto that approach instead of coming to grips with the fundamentally different dynamics of a new communications medium What had made sense in the early days over time became a crippling set of blinders The spirit of experimentation that the Examiner set out with in 1981 dried up replaced by an industry-wide allergy to fundamental change Let s use the new technology editors and executives would say but let s not let the technology change our profession or our industry They largely succeeded in resisting change Now it s catching up with them Scott Rosenberg 29 January 2009 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3205 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:15:48 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3204 Scene is dedicated to a critical examination of space and scenic production The journal provides an opportunity for dynamic debate reflection and criticism With a strong interdisciplinary focus we welcome articles interviews visual essays reports from conferences and festivals We want to explore new critical frameworks for the scholarship of creating a scene http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3204 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:09:11 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3194 The Knight Ridder Information Design Lab is developing a newspaper interface for the tablet device The tablet newspaper draws on the strengths of print and on the strengths of electronic forms It is both browsable and searchable both broad-reaching and customizable It offers pages with story abstracts linked to more detailed stories background material photos sound and video People can ran read as deeply or as casually as they want Stories are no longer limited to news hole the space allotted to editorial content after press configurations and advertising have been considered The tablet newspaper includes editorial content and advertising both important components of a local information package Like editorial content advertising can have many layers and can be searched and sorted as well as browsed Additionally ads can have transaction hooks so that readers can make reservations or purchases Teresa Martin 1995 CHI Conference Proceedings http www sigchi org chi95 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3194 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:02:24 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3188 After debuting at the Expo 2010 Shanghai China 2010 amp 19978 amp 28023 amp 19990 amp 30028 amp 21338 amp 35261 amp 26371 and traveling to Hong Kong and Macau an animated version of the Song Dynasty painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival amp 28165 amp 26126 amp 19978 amp 27827 amp 22294 by 12th-century artist Zhang Zeduan amp 24373 amp 28580 amp 31471 is on show in Taipei The 25cm by 529cm original is a panoramic portrayal of everyday life in Bianjing amp 27764 amp 20140 todayos Kaifeng amp 38283 amp 23553 the capital of China during the Song Dynasty Despite its name the scroll depicts the architecture and scenery of the period and the apparel and activities of the rich and poor not the rituals of the Qingming Festival amp 28165 amp 26126 amp 31680 otherwise known as Tomb Sweeping Festival Thirty times larger than the original painting the animated version which is titled River of Wisdom is beamed onto a 6m by 110m screen by 12 projectors The entire work was digitalized by Crystal CG amp 27700 amp 26230 amp 30707 amp 25976 amp 23383 amp 31185 amp 25216 amp 20844 amp 21496 and its subjects and backdrops move and make sounds Lin King 29 July 2011 Taipei Times http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3188 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:16:46 +1000