Literal Augmented Reality Sandbox

This sandbox created by UC Davis is equipped with an Xbox Kinect camera and projector to create hands on museum exhibits as an education tool for freshwater lake and watershed science.

Soon screens will no longer be trapped by a device, where we can manipulate projections in front of us, like some display on a science-fiction starship. A time when we’ll design for data rather than devices. In a way, we’re halfway there — designing for four corners, no matter the size and not for any specific device. The future is creeping around the corner, it’ll be interesting to see how we meet it.

Via Zurb—Devices? Where We Go, We Don’t Need Devices 

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Between Five Bells

If I’m willing to buy a bottle of wine based on the typography alone, I’ll certainly buy wine with a data visualization graph made with Processing.  The visualization printed on the label is unique to each wine based on eight characteristics, and no two labels will ever be the same.  Fantastic work by Nicholas Feltron.

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Over a year after sharing a bit of process, the fruits of David Fesq’s labor and the label I designed for his wine are now available in Australia.

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Visual Nutrition Graphic designer Audrée Lapierre created this nutrition data packaging as a self-initiated project at the user interface and data visualization studio ffunction.  Using a clean graphic approach he visualized caloric ratios, nutrient balance, ingredients, and nutritional information. Although I think the packaging is an interesting exercise in data visualization it would leave most consumers thinking “ok, so what do I do with this information”.  The really great data visualization goes beyond presenting all of the information to digesting the information into an actionable presentation. What do you think?

Visual Nutrition

Graphic designer Audrée Lapierre created this nutrition data packaging as a self-initiated project at the user interface and data visualization studio ffunction.  Using a clean graphic approach he visualized caloric ratios, nutrient balance, ingredients, and nutritional information.

Although I think the packaging is an interesting exercise in data visualization it would leave most consumers thinking “ok, so what do I do with this information”.  The really great data visualization goes beyond presenting all of the information to digesting the information into an actionable presentation.

What do you think?

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