visualizing online comment spaces

How do you capture the essence of a conversation online? How can we visualize chats and forums? How can user generated content that usually follows news articles and blog posts take a more substantial role in the online conversation?

I am fascinated by the conversations formed in the comment spaces around articles and blogs. [...]

Playing with Text

I’ve recently been inspired by some text visualization methods. Of specific interest to me are Edward Tufte’s Sparklines, simple word sized graphics, which allow their users to get the gist of what’s happening with the data without needing to fully read it all. The graphic below is a 13th century manuscript bible with these amazing [...]

Project Living Profiles :: the moodmeter

For the past several months I’ve been working with the living profiles team at the Art Center College of Design. The project is part of the larger HealthDesign initiative, designing new open-source methods for keeping personal health records and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Here’s a framing of our project:

The [...]

One Day Poem Pavilion

A beautiful project by Jiyeon Song of the Media Design Program, Art Center College of Design.

Check out the video here

I was impressed by its simplicity, yet powerful message. It is a patent pending method, where Jiyeon takes advantage of the changing angle of sunlight to project different messages within the pavilion throughout the [...]

Inspiration :: ACCD end of semester show

Just got back from the Art Center College of Design end of semester show, extremely impressed and inspired. These kids do an amazing job setting up the space, really thinking about the information design and the viewer experience in the space. Much of the work is conceptual (imaginary products or environments). But the effort placed [...]