Born out of the Rome Reborn project, CityEngine is a powerful tool for modeling entire cities in perfect detail. Because of its roots in art history the aims of the project are to render every building, not just the most important landmarks. Their digital model contains 200 monuments painstakingly modeled by art historians, and over […]
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being wrong
Patagonia’s Footprint Chronicles is a remarkable feat for a fashion company: a visualization of their products’ global supply chains on a map, along with videos of each step in the manufacturing process, and descriptions of each item in terms of distance traveled, CO2 emissions, waste generated and energy consumption. Not only is it impressive that […]
Also posted in blogogracy, fabrication, fashion, free & open, futurecraft, marketing, materials, open objects, product design, supply chain, traceability
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touch map 2
Another beautiful bronze map in Braille – this time in my favorite city (Firenze), in the middle of Piazza Repubblica, a large cast map of the city center with tactile labels on monuments and ridges on the river to indicate the direction of the current. More on Flickr.
Also posted in 3d, architecture, perception, tangible, universal design
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personal climate
Saul Griffith has made available his notes and slides for a powerpoint entitled ‘The Game Plan‘ detailing the necessary steps to be taken as individuals and society to reverse climate change. He begins with a logical framework (including an introduction to energy measurement) to talk about climate change based on the temperature increase we are […]
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webs of influence
I’ve been interested in depictions of the evolution of ideas and cultural movements since posting about Timothy Stotz’s amazingly complex evolutionary diagram of 500 years of art. Here are some other inspiring diagrams of evolution, culminating in the genealogy of Linux distribution, which is the clearest and most accurate because it’s built in to the […]
Also posted in 2d, art, traceability
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visualizing influence
timothy stotz has made a stunning diagram called ‘the flowering staircase‘ to depict the chains of influence in european art from 1435 to 1935. the single image (4 MB download) links well-known painters and sculptors who were in direct contact, collaborated, and influenced each other positively or negatively. while most evolutionary diagrams (aka cladograms or […]
layered media
one of the best aspects of mashups are the way that collective intelligence can be leveraged to add meaning to web-based media. overstream is a web-based subtitle tool for youtube videos that allows anyone to contribute captions for existing videos. this has a lot of significance for the hearing impaired, as well as anyone who […]
Also posted in augmented reality, blogogracy, open objects, universal design
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trashcam
nico van hoorn documents one piece of trash a day on his trashlog. the pieces of trash are carefully selected and shot, which makes them seem clean and pretty, and the website itself is compartmentalized and orderly, so nothing about it has the feel of trash. it would be nice if the items could accumulate […]
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