Stop motion advertisements

Two beautifully made stop motion advertisements for Brother printers from the UK designer Noah Harris.

Horizonless projection of Manhattan

These horizonless perspectives of Manhattan, reminding one of the interior of the cylindrical spaceship in Arthur C Clarke's story "Rendezvous with Rama", were created by James King, a British designer, for the design consultancy BERG. A more detailed discussion of the project is here.

Public visualization

A beautiful example of data - in this case a fire station's callouts - presented publicly as mural art. Why don't more public bodies do this?

Google Elements

The Periodic Table of Elements revisited at Google's Mountain View offices. Nice work.

How data changes how we live

The UK Daily Telegraph has an article showing ten ways in which innovative data collection and presentation is changing the way we live. It includes a link to the UK Government's new open data site, something I'll look at more closely in a later post.