Category Archives: critique

Thoughts on Kyoto: Who’s On Target from Information is Beautiful

9th
Oct. × ’09
If you haven’t seen it already, Information is Beautiful posted a wonderful inforgraphic the other day on the Kyoto Protocal Targets. (I’ll just reproduce a fragment here). I KNOW! I did diss Information is Beautiful previously, but I like this one. (Which is odd, because there are comments about readability). It shows how the design decision to [...]
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The Epitome of Information Aesthetics (according to A. Lau)

29th
Sep. × ’09
What are the ‘best’ or most representative examples of information aesthetics visualisation? It of course depends on your definition! So, first thing’s first: here was mine/our definition*: Between the information visualisation research and visualisation art communities lies the emerging phenomenon of information aesthetics. Information aesthetics is proposed as a field which adopts visualisation techniques exhibiting both informational [...]
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Why The Outliers Is Here #1: Fighting On Our Territory

16th
Sep. × ’09
There are a few reasons why The Outliers needs to be here. And I want to be quite frank about this. I’ll be posting five points (starting with most important) for the next week or two. (Also coming up is a post about Graphic Presentation once the book arrives!! woop!)
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