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Convergence, Culture, Design, Science
NYT Has First List of the Season
Interesting bits that have caught the eye(s) of the NYT this year include:
Eye-recognition advertising technology… Bicycle Highways… Man-made Trees… Zombie defense strategies… and more.
Not necessarily the most mind-blowing stuff in every case, but many are things that I had not seen in 2009…
A nice opening of the Year End ‘Lists’ season…
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Convergence, Offline Design, Presentation, Science
More Visualization Platforms and Techniques
Was talking about visualization the other day with Art Director extraordinaire Woody Batts and how graphic visualization of data often reveals patterns and structures that we would not have been able to recognize previously…and how those patterns are often ones immediately recognizable in other contexts (and because of those contexts). Example: The Golden Ratio.
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Design and Creative, Science
A Brain Test Vexes…
From the ‘I thought I Posted This weeks ago’ department:
Ostensibly, this image of a turning dancer, will appear to rotate clock-wise if you’re right brain dominant (creative) or counter-clockwise if you’re left brain and analytical.
What surprised me when I passed it around the creative staff, was not the individual answers, (though I now have categorical [...]
