Music map, originally uploaded by densitydesign.
A wonderful visuals from the NYT’s coverage of Andrew Kuo covering Bright Eyes’ covers of Neil Young.
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Music map
Sunday, June 24th, 2007Music map, originally uploaded by densitydesign.
Chocolate
Sunday, June 24th, 2007
chocolate, originally uploaded by densitydesign.
One of the running themes at Worldchanging is the importance of knowing the backstory of the things we use and buy. There’s no better incentive to be a responsible consumer than seeing previously invisible (and frequently unsavory) aspects of our commodities. 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,
Icon?
Sunday, June 24th, 2007
todoscontralfuego, originally uploaded by densitydesign.
If design and graphics are “visual languages”, chinese also. Here you are an example:
Forest + Flame = Fire
But, with a little of imagination, you can see it yourselves:
This character is mu (wood) means tree and, its shape could have a remembrance to one of them.
This is lin (forest), and it’s just to “mus” together. Logical.
Huo means flame, and looks like one (OK, you need some perspective)
And if we add a flame to the forest we got… Fen, which means “burn” or “fire”.
Similarity between characteristics of a complex adaptive system and a wicked problem
Sunday, June 24th, 2007Jeff Conklin nicely summarises wicked problems as follows: You don’t… more
The wisdom of crowds
Sunday, June 24th, 2007
While our culture generally trusts experts and distrusts the wisdom of the masses, New Yorker business columnist Surowiecki argues that “under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.” To support this almost counterintuitive proposition, Surowiecki explores problems involving cognition (we’re all trying to identify a correct answer), coordination (we need to synchronize our individual activities with others) and cooperation (we have to act together despite our self-interest). His rubric, then, covers a range of problems, including driving in traffic, competing on TV game shows, maximizing stock market performance, voting for political candidates, navigating busy sidewalks, tracking SARS and designing Internet search engines like Google
Language is vital for addressing complex issues
Sunday, June 24th, 2007Dave Pollard is highlighting the similarities between wicked problems and… more
WorldMapper
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
ADV Vol.VI
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
ADV Vol.III
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
Architecture of density
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
