While visiting the UK recently I was surprised by a pervasive public service campaign aimed at curbing alcohol consumption. The government is educating consumers about the appropriate amount of liquor to consume based on a point system (2-3 per woman per day, 3-4 per man) which adorns every container of beer, wine and spirits (above […]
Category Archives: visualization
food life
Halfby’s latest animation takes their bird’s eye view to a national level: this public service announcement illustrates the impact of a shifting food culture. Japan’s diet has shifted away from rice, fish and locally farmed vegetables to include more meat, oils and fats largely imported from other countries. As a result, people are becoming unhealthy, […]
Also posted in energy, environment, food, futurecraft, supply chain
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watts up
Saul Griffith has just released WattzOn, a personal footprint calculator that allows you to account for everything in your life – including taxes and the embodied energy of the products you own. You can then compare your impact with other people in the world and start to understand how much alternative energy is needed to […]
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material extinction
Earth’s Natural Wealth: an Audit explores the depletion of exotic materials necessary for manufacturing high-tech products through a series of intense infographics. The lesson is that some of our most desirable elements (Indium for LCD screens, Gallium for lasers and LEDs) are set to become completely extinct with ten or twenty years with no substitute […]
Also posted in environment, fabrication, materials, supply chain, upcycling
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binary weather report
Last year Ambient released an umbrella with a handle that glows if you should take it with you – a lot of electronics for a disposable water defender (especially when you consider the resources required to make a single computer chip). A much more elegant solution: umbrellatoday.com, the same simple suggestion without all the complicated […]
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see-through walls
Chris O’Shea’s ‘Out of Bounds‘ is a gallery installation that allows you to see through walls by merely pointing a torch at them. Built in C++ with OpenCV and openFrameworks, it’s an elegant example of how Augmented Reality is becoming commonplace now that projectors and cameras are widely available. And with the advent of light-transmitting […]
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youtube your own adventure
One of the unexpected discoveries of the nightmarket.web workshop has been the ability to re-create a random walk through an urban space through youtube comments. The Bright Night team (Avalon, Odeson, Hung Hsiao-Mei, Jackie Yang and Jimmy), as part of the exercise of translating the unique experience of visiting a craft market in Tainan City, […]
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cartoon software
Google’s new browser is a nice design, but I was far more impressed with the design of the cartoon explaining the motivations, design and implementation of yet another new browser. It’s worth a browse if you’re interested in how to illustrate complex design decisions, especially in graphical user interface and human-computer interaction design in general.