good news, the quality video site ‘vimeo’ is switching over to the HTML5 standard, which means it will be browser aware and now work on all of your favourite i-devices…
me news
cell cycle
interesting early, prototype version of an ipad app
‘beguiling’ infographics
it’s not very often that graphic design gets a serious item on TV, let alone infographics or ‘data visualisation’ if you prefer the term… and it generally ends up being the sort of ‘non-topic’ which just baffles the general public:
what on earth are they talking about? who cares? this isn’t important… etc
this week new RCA head ‘neville brody’ and ‘david mccandless’ (from ‘information is beautiful’) clashed on the BBC newsnight
current affairs programme on that very subject: a lively comment discussion has also picked up on the CR blog, the BBC ‘iPlayer’ doesn’t unfortunately work outside the UK but without having heard the talk i kind of feel inclined to agree with neville brody… although i can just picture my mother watching this, shrugging her shoulders and thinking ‘boring’…
update: an amusing footnote to this story, point taken :)
make maps
make maps…is a project by Adam Hayes featuring a selection of the most talented contemporary artists and illustrators.
Each artist has responded to the task of making a map of somewhere that they feel they belong. Responses can include maps of places they live or grew up in, maps of the future or even of fictional locations and even maps of nowhere…
pretty vacant
i’m not sure what really differentiates an interactive graphic designer from a non interactive one, but if you do and you understand dutch… my friends from grrr might just have a job for you…