Paint with Your Feet

Nike + Paint With Your Feet [yesyesno.com] uses some clever data metrics captured by the Nike+ sensor, including speed, consistency and the unique style of each person's run to create a distinctive set of 3D visuals. Participants were able to play with the mapping rules and adjust the composition of their run, such as its color, texture, size and 3D rotation, which was then outputted as a high resolution print and an engraved shoe box to take home.
"If getting healthier isn't enough of an incentive to stick to your daily jogs, perhaps creating artwork out of your efforts will be."

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2011/04/nike_collab_paint_with.html
http://www.swiss-miss.com/2011/04/nike-collab-paint-with-your-feet.html

Paula Scher Artistic Maps

 

"a collection of artistic, information-loaded maps by Paula Scher that focus on the abundance of information that inundates us daily through newspapers, radio, television, & the Internet to reveal the fact that much of what we hear & read is strewn with inaccuracy, distorted facts, & subjectivity. " dynamic images are saturated with layers of elaborate line, explosions of words, & bright colors creating a plethora of visual information that produces an emotive response to places lived, visited, & imagined." See site here.

Paula Scher website

TreeHugger's Best of Green

Best of Green

Christy Oates' Tiny Home Living Project

Wallpaper Chair

The E-waste Project

UPCYCLING

30 Days 30 Things

Here we create one product per day out of discarded material. Our goal is to design beautiful and useful things for 30 days in a row. For everyone who collaborates and sends us their project, the blog will be extended for one day. Find trash, be creative and post your masterpieces!

 

Mapping the stars: The Great Bear (1992) ~ Simon Patterson

Constellation of connections: Simon Patterson’s The Great Bear – its title punningly riffs on the English translation of astronomy’s Ursa Major; click the image to see the full-size version

"So this is, yes, where The Great Bear comes in. What’s so great about it? Well, it doesn’t just rework the already brilliant Tube map, but manages to transform it dramatically – in a most entertaining way. In this artwork, Patterson importantly doesn’t change any of the map’s design features at all (the Tube lines’ colours all remain the same, the circle icons representing the stations are all intact and the fonts are all unchanged); what he does is simply change the stations’ names. He does it Tube line-by-Tube line, throwing in a great deal of wit as he goes." (Read the original post here.)

Here is another special map art piece modeled after the above example: Greater Shakespeare Map

 

"A recent publicity tool produced by Stratford-on-Avon’s world famous Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), it’s a fun and very accessible PR exercise for their theatrical efforts and the genius of the great man himself; the contours and colours of its lines and the font of its stations/ character names unquestionably Tube map-esque. "

mischer'traxler: ceramic badges & pendants

"These ceramic badges and pendants are made out of old, neglected porcelain plates (mainly single pieces) found on flea markets.

Selected areas are carefully cut out, sanded and glued to a pin. This way old ceramic plates are turned into fashion accessories. As simple as that."

Yellow Journal Project by Alison Ho

 what does it mean to be asian american?

Art-Production-Store

DECKPECK: THE ONLINE COMMUNITY THAT BRING CUSTOMERS AND ARTIST TOGETHER

Map Art

new map art by chris kenny

 

alex hammond: tubetable

Side Kick to Major Player

http://www.aestheticapparatus.com/

Personal Style

 

Wonderful work by Marian Bantjes

http://www.bantjes.com/

Art and funding

SoLoMo

Mary Meeker's Latest Amazing Presentation About The Future Of Tech

Multi-Layered Project

Good Enough?

Persuasion

Design Ignites Change

 

In an effort to raise awareness about gridlock and advocate alternative means of transportation, Break the Jam will hold street-side experiences featuring hand outs, large scale information street graphics, low-tech interactive experiences to attract the attention of vehicular drivers, passengers and pedestrians.

http://www.designigniteschange.org/projects/71-break-the-jam-save-money-save-time

Design Forest

 

The tree is a metaphor for sustainability and, in that spirit the banners at the close of each exhibition are recycled into totebags and auctioned off to raise money for a local environmental and urban forestry initiatives.  

http://www.ufp-global.com/

http://www.bmore-urbanforestproject.org/banners.php

The Joy of Stats

 

Hans Rosling's 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes 

Making Sense of Information

The Feltron 2005 Annual Report 

http://feltron.com/ar05_01.html

Mapping/Translation

 

Laia Clos’ beautiful design study of the music composition The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi

http://datavisualization.ch/showcases/motstudio

Research-Process-Present Information

 

Designer Paul Butt's commissioned work"Meet iPad's Competition"

http://sectiondesign.co.uk/meet-ipads-competition