Archive for the 'Information Design' Category



A Very Unique Clock

03Jun07

An Action­script (Flash) pro­gram­mer who has a blog called ‘Pix­el­Breaker’ has built a very clever clock that uses a polar plot to show the pass­ing of time. Here’s a cap­ture, with a link to the real thing: A great exam­ple of good infor­ma­tion design, if there ever was one. I’m think­ing that it might be easy […]

The Future, as it Looked from 1987

03Jun07

An oldie but goodie has resur­faced on YouTube, at least for peo­ple who were in Boston in 1987 and attended Mac­World Expo (or were fol­low­ers of Apple Com­puter, as it was called back then). At that event, then CEO John Scul­ley showed a ‘The Knowl­edge Nav­i­ga­tor’, a short film pro­duced by The Ken­wood Group for […]

Quickly Explaining Tech in Plain English

01Jun07

A web site called Com­mon Craft has been doing a nice ser­vice for us techie types by pro­duc­ing clever lit­tle videos that explain some rather arcane sub­jects like RSS: And now they have a new video that explains the con­cept of Wikis and why you would use one: They are well done, and charm­ing the way that […]