Data Visualisation and tools

In a previous Article I pictured Data Presentations of Visual Complexitiy It intends to be a resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. And to present complex network structurs in a visual language system. Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive.
In the following article I want to show you interactive tools working for example with music like this one narratives2.0 and tools for creating your own visualizations. Most Data Graphics are unfortunately not for free but they allow us an insight in visual and structural thinking an inspiring graphic work. Thats why I am posting these information graphics, there are beautiful though they have so many details to capture. Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information. The best are summarized here.

Visualizing The Bible

Digg labs

Kunal Anand – looks del.icio.us

well-formed

Tags: Data Tools, Data Visualization, Delicious, design, Digg, Information, Twitter

MUSA: Portuguese Design Collective

I’d like to indroduce you to MusaCollective. I found these guys  in the IdN 15th Anniversary Edition, where you can find 250 highly talented creators who have collaborated-sharing their thoughts on the past; and their visions of the future.

And I thought maybe one of our authors, Lukas, is interested in their work. He is currently visiting his homeland Portugal, staying in Lisbon. Maybe he knows these Designers.

MusaCollective was formed in 2003 by Raquel Viana, Paulo Lima and Ricardo Alexandre, a Lisbon-based collective of graphic designers. Musa works with as many aspects of design as possible, from artistic/experimental to commercial. The first headline-making event that the collective was involved in was the “MusaTour” in 2004, in support of the MusaBook project, the first Portuguese emergent graphic-design book ever compiled, published by IdN.

For more inspirations visit their website

Tags: design, Musa, Musa Tour, Portugal, T-Shirt Art

designshard.com – inspiring tutorial blog

The purpose of design shard is to produce a valuable resource for designers ranging from design tips, inspiration and free resources such as photoshop brushes or textures to be downloaded.

Max owner of this blog, a web designer who specialised in css and xhtml, love to be inspired either by web designs or digital art and had a passion for illustration and typography. A few guest authors on the blog each writing articles about what they are intrested in, in the design world….so watch out & get inspired

Tags: design, designshard, inspiration, Photography, photoshop, Tutorials, webdesign

1 + 1 = 3

Just yesterday i had a chat with some Friends about what incredible Artwork can be created with right perspective / viewpoint. I remembered that i had seen this Video from the final-year students in Product Design at Beckmans College of Design and couldn´t find it. So here it is…1 + 1 = 3!

via fabrikproject.com

Tags: Art, Beckmans College of Design, design

Non-Format | Design+Music

I am not sure how well known this talented graphic design duo is. But I don’t want to miss the chance to introduce you to them. Non-Format is an Graphic Design Agency leaded by Kjell Ekhorn (Norwegian) and Jon Forss (British). Now their studio is based in London, UK and in Minneapolis, USA. They show us how outstanding and contrasty puristic work can be. Some of their work is published under ” Die Gestalten Verlag”.

And I just think the title of this piece is suitable for this blog.

Enter here

Tags: design, Illustration, Non-Format, Typography

Your business card is crap!

Tags: Advertising, business card, design

Retro digital Player

A Cassette Tape construction that is actually a digital player. The funny thing is that they mantained the 45/60/90 minutes norm…by the Designers: Stefano Pertegato, Massimiliano Rampoldi, Eloisa Tolu, Francesco Schiraldi & Giovanni Mendini.

›› Read the whole Article…

Tags: design, retro

100 Websites With Outstanding Artistic Design

Here is one of the best collections i have seen so far…
Thanks to the guys from http://www.webdesignerdepot.com.
By the way a very good Link collection…well designed sites mostly offer some good content…

Visit >>

Tags: creative, design

Inspiration Series II – 3 design blogs you should know about

Its time to continue with my Inspiration Series. Again in english to be able to reach more users with my articles… Actually it might be quite confusing for the readers of this blog to have it mixed up in english and german. We have to decide what it is going to be..

Nevermind, thats not the subject of this post.

Surfing the web you will discover that there are many blogs referencing resources, tutorials, freebies and much more. Here are 3 i consider a good option to gather information and resources for your Work.

- http://www.designobserver.com/ – Design Observer – all aspects of design

- http://www.smashingmagazine.com – Smashing Magazine  – more Web and Photoshop orientated

- http://ilovetypography.com/ – I love typography – all about typography

Any suggestions about other cool design blogs are welcome.

Tags: blogs, design, inspiration, resources