Archive for the “Representation” Category

Music

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Music, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

“players may not fly above the audience during performance”

Abstract art

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Abstract art, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

An interactive, clickable, version can be found here

Tantra

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Tantra, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Diagram illustrating how the transcendent system of Cosmic Space is subtly related through layers of matter and space to the world of Jambudvipa

World Economic Forum

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

WEF, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

World Economic Forum site provides a insightful visual summary about how global economic decision makers look at the world… and what they see.

Teeth graphic

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Teethgraphic, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

This graph is a visual record showing the health of a patient’s gums.
The red dots indicate bleeders that appear as the dentist probes the gums for their health. The graph-like bars that over-lay the teeth are measures of the gaps between the teeth and the gum.

(via Communication Nation)

Music map

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Music map, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

A wonderful visuals from the NYT’s coverage of Andrew Kuo covering Bright Eyes’ covers of Neil Young.

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”.

(via Infographicsnews)

Architecture of density

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Architecture of density, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

(Give a look)

Graphic language for touch

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Graphic language for touch, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC.
As mobile phones are increasingly able to read and write to RFID tags embedded in the physical world, I am wondering how we will appropriate this for personal and social uses.
I’m interested in the visual link between information and physical things. How do we represent an object that has digital function, information or history beyond it’s physical form? What are the visual clues for this interaction? We shouldn’t rely on a kind of mystery meat navigation (the scourge of the web-design world)