Category Archives: Visualizations

The O.G. infographic to end all infographics: Ray & Charles Eames’ “Powers of Ten”

By Vijay Mathew | Published: February 19, 2012
This film is a classic proto-info-motion-graphic dating from 1968. It’s a visualization of the universe from designers Ray & Charles Eames.  If you watch it closely, it will permanently ‘head-tilt’ you into understanding the abstract notions of space, distance, and relative scale in a new way:
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Data Visualizations in Performance

By Vijay Mathew | Published: February 5, 2012
Check out this older work (mid-2000′s) by UK theatre company Stan’s Cafe called “Of All The People In All The World”. Here’s a description: “Of All The People In All The World” uses grains of rice to bring formally abstract statistics to startling and powerful life. Each grain of rice = one person and you [...]
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Goal of a Knowledge Commons: Transformation and Innovation?

By Vijay Mathew | Published: January 26, 2012
For the past two afternoons, the HowlRound office has erupted into a truly raucous lab attempting to communicate concepts such as “knowledge commons” and “community sourcing” through one-take short videos made on FlipCams. We have a couple of guests, Jason King Jones and Laley Lippard, hanging out with us for a few weeks so we thought we should put [...]
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Visualizing Scale and Abstractions

By Vijay Mathew | Published: January 2, 2012
I remember renting “Koyaanisqatsi” from Blockbuster on VHS when I was in 6th or 7th grade and watching it with a friend while eating my favorite pizza.   And I remember the movie blowing me away.  The score by Philip Glass matched with the imagery is some of the most powerful cinema there is. The [...]
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