Archive for the 'Information Design' Category

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 […]

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 […]

Another Restart. This time, Something Interesting

12Jan09

HAL 9000 Rather than try to write some­thing pro­found (at least on the sur­face), I thought I’d start writ­ing in this blog again with an obser­va­tion about today’s date, at least in terms of the His­tory of Com­puter Sci­ence: On today’s date, HAL, the com­puter from 2001: A Space Odyssey turns 17 year’s old, as […]