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 display about the scenery and other details [...]

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 the movie [...]