Archive for March, 2009

Information Design Gone Wild

30Mar09

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
— from Ariel’s Song, The Tempest by William Shakespeare

I loved the almost anal-retentive display of data through a heads-up display about the scenery and other details [...]

Will Japan Take Off Because of Broadband Price and Speed?

28Mar09

I noticed a fascinating couple of graphs in an article on the blog World Politics Review, Top 30 Countries for Broadband Internet Access. One of them showed Japan’s astounding average Internet speed:

Japan shows an impressive 60 megabits per second speed (I’m assuming this is for download as well as upload?) with Korea not far behind [...]

Robert Fabricant says ‘Behavior is our Medium’

21Mar09

I was lucky enough to be in the audience when the Executive Creative Director at frog Design gave a spectacular keynote with tons of fascinating notions and examples at the Interactive Design Association (IXDA) Convention in Vancouver last month. In fact, there’s proof I was there, at about the 19th minute, when the camera caught [...]