Information design
4 March 2011
Context is king
alexander ecob
Life-logging could be a treasure trove for information designers
Hardly a week goes by without a new story of someone’s personal data being left on a train or farmed by Facebook, but a new wave of solipsistic statisticians are taking advantage of their own to do some soul-searching, writes Alexander Ecob.
21 February 2011
God’s eye view
anne burdick
Anne Burdick navigates the hippy aesthetics of The Universal Traveler
Great moments in information design (continued).
I was cleaning out my father’s studio library when I found The Universal Traveler, writes Anne Burdick. Subtitled A Soft-Systems Guide to: Creativity, Problem-Solving and the Process of Reaching Goals, it sat alongside other books that Californian techno-eco-utopian designers were reading in the 1970s: The Gutenberg Galaxy, Paolo Soleri’s Arcology (read Rick Poynor’s ‘The designer as architect’ in Eye 32), Buckminster Fuller’s 4d Timelock, and The Whole Earth Catalog (see ‘Tool-shop for a counterculture’ in Eye 78).
14 February 2011
Billion-dollar brainteaser
gill ross
Gill Ross on David McCandless’s ‘beautiful’ Billion-Dollar-O-Gram
Great moments in information design (continued).
We have so much access to information now, writes Gill Ross. According to Kim Baer’s Information Design Workbook (Rockport, 2008), there are more than 3000 books published worldwide every day, and a week’s worth of The New York Times is estimated to contain more information than someone in the eighteenth century was likely to come across in a lifetime.
11 February 2011
Musicalculator
the music department
Let musical data communicate the sweet sound of information
The latest issue of Eye celebrates the visualisation of information (among other things), but let’s not forget our other senses.
9 February 2011
Seven-colour marathon
john l. walters, the production department
On press at Pureprint with Simon Esterson; printing the Eye 78 cover
A few weeks ago I went down to Uckfield, to see Eye 78 on press at Pureprint (below, the printers formerly known as Beacon Press), where we have printed Eye since the magazine became independent in April 2008, writes Eye editor John L. Walters.
8 February 2011
The numbers man
alexander ecob
Nicholas Felton talks to Eye about the allure of data-driven storytelling
As he reaches the final stages of his latest Annual Report, Nicholas Felton finds time to give Eye magazine an exclusive interview, writes Alexander Ecob.
3 February 2011
And more again
eye editors
Information design and graphics in Eye 78, our biggest ever issue
It has been printed, packaged and delivered to subscribers and bookshops all over the world. But if you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a taste of what to look forward to in Eye 78, our biggest ever issue.
31 January 2011
In with the old, in with the new
eva-lotta lamm, gerry leonidas
Thoughts (and sketchnotes) on the Design of Understanding conference
St Bride Library has been undergoing something of a renaissance in recent years, writes Gerry Leonidas. It is emerging as the place to host design-related events in London, and an increasingly wide audience guarantee sold-out events. ‘The Design of Understanding’ was sold out to a mix of regulars as well as new faces.
27 January 2011
Going overground
lulu pinney
Lulu Pinney on GlobalVision’s friendly tube map for the Piccadilly line
Great moments in information design (continued).
Compared with most other London Tube lines the Piccadilly line is one I actually like travelling on, writes Lulu Pinney.