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by Casey A. Gollan

It took me a minute to realize that this is a photo of a real thing. That is amazing. CP+B has a way less glamorous but also awesome version of this that tracks the projects for their larger company.

mrgan:

The Panic Status Board - one of the things I’ve been working on lately. Read Cabel’s writeup!

The ultimate collective mind-map.

bobulate:

Fear, organized. Brian Rea, organizer of worry, “I discovered like most people I had a lot of fears — after a few months, I began to catalog them: physical fears, natural fears, political fears, random, emotional.” After 11 years in New York, he made lists of his own and those of the people around him to fill up a 7-meter-by-3.5-meter wall, an exhibition at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona called Murals.

If I had to compare my spending on books to one of the states of matter (solid, liquid, or gas) it would probably be gas, because my book-buying consistently expands to fill my bank balance. What I mean to say is that I just bought We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris and it’s amazing. You can look at spreads from the book online and also play around with the wonderful application on which the book is based.

Tufte is probably going to put a curse on me for making an infographic that straight up lies, but I have seen these prints in real life and they are pretty huge.

The 20x200 Blog: Ginormous Prints, 20% Off Through Noon Tomorrow

We wanted to illustrate just HOW FREAKIN’ GINORMOUS our 40”x50” prints are so we whipped up this handy infographic for you. Somewhere between Canary Wharf and the Empire State Building in scale, these editions will fill even the loneliest wall space.

(via jenbekmanprojects)

Heinrich-Siegfried Bormann - Visual analysis of a piece of music from a color-theory class with Vasily Kandinsky. October 21, 1930

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The latest Feltron Annual Report has hit the internet and it’s the best one yet. I still maintain that next year’s cannot possibly be better.

feltron:

http://feltron.com/index.php?/content/2009_annual_report/

http://feltron.com/shop.html

Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey. These reports form the heart of the 2009 Annual Report. From parents to old friends, to people I met for the first time, to my dentist… any time I felt that someone had discerned enough of my personality and activities, they were given a card with a URL and unique number to record their experience. 

I kept track only of who I gave survey invitations to, the number of the card and where it was given. The surveys answers were submitted via text forms, allowing the respondee to write whatever they desired, and leaving the task of making comparisons between the data up to me. I have used only this information to create the report, however accurate it may be. I have strived to sort and collate the data in a clinical and repeatable manner that could be reproduced by someone looking for the same stories I have selected.

The data set itself was messy and overwhelming, and filled with enough information for several more reports. There are inherent shortcomings (like the unrepresentative amount of water recorded), and endearing strong suits (like the exploration of mood). I used several tools to make this task a more manageable, including Processing, which allowed me to map and explore alternate layouts much more quickly than previously, and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

The printed edition of the report is being letterpressed by Swayspace in Brooklyn, New York. It is 16 pages and printed using 4 colors on 80 lb. French Durotone cover stock, and will be individually numbered, signed and mailed in March.

One of the projects I’m currently working on is translating a piece of music into a color relationship, but I’m having trouble unpacking the dense composition.

I was looking for a specific musical analysis tool that I wanted to use today but I couldn’t find it, so I decided to take a shot at building it for myself. It’s a super-simple Processing app (tentatively given the imaginative title of “soundline”) that augments note-taking for time-based media.

How it works

1. Tape a blank piece of paper to the wall.
2. Set up a projector to project the soundline interface onto your sheet of paper.
3. Select the audio that you wish to work with.
4. Press play, listen, and start taking notes or doodling as the projected line and timecode scan from left to right, in sync with the exact duration of the song.

Why use it?

• Imagine that the paper represents the song as a timeline from the start (on the left) to the finish (on the right). The soundline helps you place your notes and doodles in the linear context of the song.
• Want to remember a specific musical transition or recurring pattern? It’s easy and totally painless to capture the tiniest details and then return to them later. Simply make a dot or hatch mark on the page and write or draw a short reminder. When you want to return to this point to study it further, just use your computer to scrub through the song until the soundline is touching the mark. Hit play and observe your notes in sync with the sound.
• Write, draw, paint, use different colors, paste stickers, draw connections, use graph paper. The possibilities are endless.
• If something isn’t specifically related to a point on the timeline, nothing is arbitrarily stopping you from noting it anywhere you want at any time.
• The simple animation transforms your blank piece of paper into a time-based notepad that allows for densely layered, unobtrusive, and organized annotating, second-by-second.

The concept is sort of like Muji’s brilliant Chronotebook, a daily planner with a clock in the center of each page, allowing you to make radial time-based notes about the day:

In fact, maybe a radial interface would be another good experiment! I’m going to actually play with this tomorrow and see if it helps me understand the song.

The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures «  OkTrends

I agree with Robin Sloan that the OkCupid data blog is awesome:

What I love is that any sin­gle one of the find­ings they present would have made a totally fine post. Totally link-worthy. But it just keeps going… and going… and going. Like they couldn’t stop themselves.

There’s actu­ally a really deep human­ity to this post, and to the OkCu­pid blog in gen­eral. It would be easy to talk about this stuff in a really crass, cyn­i­cal way. But instead, the blog over­flows with char­ity and nerdy enthusiasm—for all of us and all the weird things we do.

Crayon colors over time

Velo also calculated the average growth rate: 2.56% annually. For maximum understandability, he reformulated it as “Crayola’s Law,” which states:

The number of colors doubles every 28 years!

If the Law holds true, Crayola’s gonna need a bigger box, because by the year 2050, there’ll be 330 different crayons!

(via austinkleon)

CP+B Job Tracker

Keeping track of all the jobs flowing through is a challenge for every agency. For about a year we’ve been fantasizing about a huge status board that was accessible to the whole shop. Something that was live and constantly updating. Like the arrivals and departures in Grand Central Station. Unfortunately, the status of “Project Ticker” has been ON HOLD for about 9 months and then I looked up yesterday and it was done. Man, it is really cool. Here’s what Director of Integrated Production, Dave Rolfe, has to say about it:

“The ProjectTicker is the real-time inventory of all of the jobs active in the Integrated department. It can be filtered by job due date, by account, by job-type (video, interactive, experiential, internal prods), by completion status, by CD or by producer. It also features a status bar that indicates the completion status of the job. All of this is automatically updated through our existent jobflow status process. So not only is it a thing of pride for the agency— in terms of the volume of work flow, accountability for that, and the diversity of jobs— but it also helps to highlight the importance of documentation on production status. Plus it is poised to truly demonstrate momentum. The Ticker will be manageable via a kiosk as well, which will be positioned at the front of the department, and the view-type can be adjusted by anyone.”

This is intense.

(via Monoscope)

United States Postal Service - Sorting and Delivery Process

Every time I go to the post office (which is a lot, for work) I am amazed that sending a piece of paper from one coast to another for 44 cents is something that can happen…and then I get a logistical headache.

Jonas Buntenbruch

Every day I will flex my design skills by creating one piece in 30 to 60 minutes. The presented works range from scrap and sketches to photos, typographic experiments and random creative masturbation.

(via fuckyeahinfo)