Manuel Lima: The Book of Trees: The data visualization master’s new work gives a history and analysis of leafy diagrams

Manuel Lima: The Book of Trees


Data is a powerful tool. Whether it’s used for education, research, policies or everyday decision-making, numbers hold power—and often a simple value doesn’t best convey their meaning. Portuguese-born and NYC-based designer, researcher and author Manuel…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Data for cash, the world’s first paper snowboard, reviving the extinct passenger pigeon and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Design & Fiction: Panel Discussion Bringing together heavy hitters across numerous industries, the IDEO-hosted panel Design & Fiction explored the relationship between technology, design and fiction—all in the context of the past, future and present….

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DataStickies for USB

DataStickies, c’est un projet génial voulant réinventer le concept de clé USB, en imaginant la déclinaison des capacités en différents coloris et proposant de poser ceux-ci sur une surface ODTS, permettant le transfert de données comme s’ils s’agissaient de post-its. Un concept innovant à découvrir dans la suite.

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Gerrit Rietveld reissued, a virtual reality gender swap, NASA in art and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Paper Planes Designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart has crafted a stunning 1:60 scale replica airplane model of an Air India 777-300ER from bits of manila folders. Over five years he measured, cut and glued tiny pieces…

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Illuminated Data Map of the World

The Global Data Chandelier est une installation artistique créée pour le cercle de réflexion et d’influence sur la politique étrangère des États-Unis, basé à Washington DC. Imaginée par Sosolimited, Hypersonic Engineering & Design, Plebian Design et Chris Parlato, elle est composée de 425 lampes et distribue visuellement en temps réel des informations économiques et écologiques.

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Jawbone UP 24 Data Visualization: Their VP of Data partners with NYC artist Shantell Martin to bring sleep data to life

Jawbone UP 24 Data Visualization


As noted before, not only is information useful, it’s also beautiful. Recognizing this, the recently appointed VP of Data at sleep and health data tracking device Jawbone, Monica Rogati, has partnered with artist Shantell Martin…

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Nike FuelBand SE: A review of the powerhouse’s second iteration in tracking fitness and activity

Nike FuelBand SE


Following up last year’s launch of the industry-changing Nike FuelBand, the global athletics and lifestyle force recently released their follow-up, the FuelBand SE, to a very eager market. After its high profile launch last month,…

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Information is Beautiful Awards 2013: A global competition recognizing the best in infographics and data visualization

Information is Beautiful Awards 2013


We’ve been slammed with facts, statistics and reports for as long as we’ve known how to ingest and interpret them. There’s a reason why infographics have surged in popularity and been mobilized by the news media; no trick can plant a fact more…

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The USB Drive

Sometimes innovation is about coming up with new ways to do the same old chore. For example, if you need to access files from your portable Hard Drive and transfer them to a USB key, then you need to route it through the Laptop or PC. Without PC is a device that eliminates this step; it features a touchscreen that facilitates easy transfer of files from the Hard Drive to the USB.

Without PC is a 2013 iF design award – concept design entry.

Designer: Dongwook Kim


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Global Rich List Redesign: The decade-strong income visualization tool gets a real-time update

Global Rich List Redesign


Reading accounts of the world’s wealthiest, it’s easy to feel poor. But few think about how their own income stacks up globally, something that Global Rich List (GRL) has been educating people on for a decade…

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