Sci-Fi Stylings From A Legend Of Architectural Fantasy – upcoming exhibition (Feb 16-June 2, 2013) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Lebbeus Woods, Architect, will feature the visionary architect’s work since the mid-1990s (he died late last year as the exhibition was being planned). There aren’t many built projects by …
102 Visual Phenomena & Visual Illusions – website of Michael Bach, a German professor of ophthalmology. Each illusion or phenomenon is explained, includes references, and an interactive way to convince yourself of what’s really happening. Absorbing and fascinating, especially for anyone involved with design, color, signage and wayfinding. Shown here …
INFOGRAPHIC: The Ultimate Complete Final Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet – from LunaMetrics, a cheat sheet for sizing images on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest. What’s even better is that this link will always take you to the latest information, a really great idea. Via ResearchBuzz. We also …
What Twitter Really Looks Like – about Tweetping, a visualization of Twitter activity in real time. Tweetping is a visual reminder of the distribution of Twitter, the flow of it, the scale of it. It tracks straight-from-the-API info like total tweets (and words, and characters) per …
Chart Focus: How to compete in emerging markets – from McKinsey Quarterly’s Chart Focus newsletter, a recommendation for international companies to group cities in an emerging market by shared characteristics as a way to more efficiently expand into that region. …in China, to give just one example, …
Take a peek at the next 150 years – post on Urban Times about predictions of our future. One of the featured infographics is from BBC Future called Tomorrow’s World, looking at computing and robotics, politics and business, science and nature, society, and technology it puts them all on a …
The ABC Of Architects: An Animated List of Famous Designers And Their Buildings – one and a half minutes of fun, famous buildings by famous architects animated by Andrea Stinga and Federico Gonzalez of Ombu Architecture. Their tumblr site has more famous architects condensed to a wonderful graphic essence. It’s worth browsing through …
[You don’t need to] understand music – take a break, watch this beautiful short (2:12 min) animation from German design studio finally on enjoying music no matter how complex it is.
Study: School Design Can Significantly Affect Children’s Grades – UK study of primary schools finds that the design of the physical learning environment can influence children up to 25%. The results, published in Building and the Environment, revealed that the architecture and design of classrooms has a significant role …
All you need to know to get the library card right now [infographic] – shows statistics about librarians (salary, age, type of library, what they do) and libraries (number of visits, number of libraries, transactions). A couple of interesting points: Each day, U.S. libraries circulate nearly 4 times more …
Check out PhiMatrix, software that applies the principles of Phi, the Golden Ratio – PhiMatrix is a design and analysis software application for Windows and Mac. The PhiMatrix grid system quickly overlays any image in any software on your screen to identify or apply phi proportions in various …
The website Find a Spring lists natural springs from around the world. As you can see from the map, North America and Europe have by far the most listings, but it looks like other regions are starting to be filled in – India, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, …
Living Architecture Monitor magazine – if you’re into green roofs and walls, take a look at the quarterly publication Living Architecture Monitor. It works with the organization Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC), and is focused on North America. Scroll down on the home page to see past digital editions. …
Australian Energy: Greening ‘Oz’ Infographic – Australia has punched above its weight in the global energy sector for years, with its huge natural resources providing a platform for the country’s economy that allowed it to outperform much of the world throughout the lingering post-crisis recessions in the developed world.
5 meta-trends underlying almost all of modern marketing – wonderful infographic of marketing technology firms illustrates one of the five trends. All the others have good graphics as well. The great digital migration of marketing (and business). The convergence of paid, …
Exhibition in San Francisco – Grand Reductions: Ten diagrams that changed urban planning – “suggests the simple illustration’s power to encapsulate complex ideas.” You can see the ten in this post from The Atlantic Cities. “The diagram can cut both ways: It can either be a distillation in …
Mapping tool reveals all of NYC’s secret public spaces – post on PSFK about the new website, POPS, from APOPS (Advocates for Privately-Owned Public Spaces) showing the location of all 500+ privately owned public spaces (POPS) in New York along with descriptions, including scaled site plans. Skyscraper developers cut a deal with …
Resizing the Global Contract R&D Services Market – good overview of a study of the market done by Tufts CSDD. A 2011 analysis by Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Tufts CSDD) found a nearly four-fold increase in the number of contract research organizations (CROs) in the …