Archive for November, 2006

Dance of the Flight Attendant

For Californian Artist Jen Wang the pre-flight safety routine “performed” by cabin staff is the most exciting about flying. It reminds her of maiko dance routines. Have a look at the beautiful sequence of drawings she has created to depict this. See the drawings and more information at her web site. click on the image [...]


Worldprocessor: Data as Globes

Ingo Guenther’s “Worldprocessor” project that started in 1988 has created some of the most outstanding globes. Currently there are more then 300 different designs visualizing world statistical data as globes. This project has been going for quite some time but the online catalog with hundreds of globes is still worth a look. We have selected [...]


Online Quiz: What American accent do you have?

We normally don’t like online quizzes or surveys because you never know what happens with the data on the other end of the line. But Goto Quiz has created a few funny ones that will still pass for a good time waster and some smiles. Their currently most popular quiz is What American accent do [...]


Do not compute or watch TV!

Two gadgets no office warriors or couch potatoes should be without. Both objects are created by French designer Matali Crasset who worked for Philippe Starck before opening her own studio in Paris. Available online from Made in Design for about EUR 33. click on the image for the jump


Outstanding Street Paintings

Outstanding temporary street painting Photos: Max Borge via Flickr


The BEST Interactive Image Interfaces on the Web

To create this list we have been looking at dozens of data visualization, image mapping and picture mosaic solutions plus piles of descriptions. To make the list most useful we came up with the following criteria for the tools: Should be online and actively maintained by the site owner Should be interactive Should use photos [...]