Christina Merkley, Canadian Graphic Facilitator and the SHIFT-IT Coach (see www.makemark.com and www.shift-it-coach.com ) has some added some new downloads and freebies to her sites. Christina is big into education around the graphic facilitation and recording fields.
This intriguing chart was sent in by Mark A Hart. He describes it as "a traditional analysis and presentation compared to a Tufte-like graphic."
Of course, anything that mashes up information graphics and Captain Kirk, well, it's priceless.
Thanks to Kelvy Bird in Massachusetts for establishing the Graphic Facilitators Group in the ever popular social networking site, Facebook.
Check out the first commercially available digital table. It borrows heavily from the interface designed by Jeff Han (and currently available on the iPhone). However, it is the future. Especially for the neighborhood martini bar.
The man himself, Tony Buzan, shows how his computer program works with his principles of creating mind maps.
In this demo, Jeff Han shows off (for the first time publicly) a high-resolution multi-touch computer screen that may herald the end of the point-and-click mouse. The demo, which drew spontaneous applause and audible gasps from the audience, begins with a simple lava lamp, then turns into a virtual photo-editing tabletop, where Han flicks photos across the screen as if they were paper snapshots. (The Apple iPhone, to be released a year later, also does multi-touch -- but only with two fingers.)
Hosted and broadcast live by MTV in Times Square, May 2007, Art Battles showcased the work of 12 emerging artists vying for the opportunity to bring their work to the world. After two grueling hours, 8 finalists were chosen and the voting to determine the winner is now up to you. The winner was unveiled LIVE on TRL, June 11th.
For years, the human brain has been compared to a computer—but it is a computer without a wiring diagram. Researchers simply do not know how the billions of neurons in the brain are connected to one another, and without this information they cannot fully understand how the brain’s structure gives rise to perception and behavior. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have jumped what many believe to be a major hurdle to preparing that chart by identifying all of the connections to a single neuron and other cells—a discovery that could eventually lead to a 3-D map of the brain’s wiring.
Arlene Birt has begun designing communications campaigns for edible products; specifically, she has dragged the lifespan of a chocolate bar into transparency, from unharvested cacao bean to first delicious bite, by designing an easy-to-decipher graphic label for the interior of a chocolate bar wrapper. Check out the clever use of simple information graphics used in her project, Background Stories.
From Boxes and Arrows, this article provides a blow-by-blow description of how visual learning helped to easily explain a complex web strategy to a diverse client group.