Designing Information 2

En mi segunda parte de “Designing Information” (primera parte aquí) os presento un libro que acaba de salir.

Data Flow 2 amplía la definición de los gráficos de información contemporáneos. En este libro se presentan las nuevas posibilidades que ofrecen diagramas, mapas y gráficos, e investiga la representación visual e intuitiva de procesos y datos. En ocho exhaustivos capítulos, se muestran técnicas como la simplificación, la abstracción, la metáfora y la dramatización. El libro incluye entrevistas con expertos como Steve Duenes, de New York Times, y Joachim Sauter, de ART+COM, en las que tratan el desafío que plantea la creación de obras eficaces.

Designing Information

We are in the middle of a revolution of information design. There is an information overflow, we´re living in a knowledge society and we´re interacting with our media.

I remember during my time at Roland Berger [1994 -1998] as graphic designer we designed tons of strategic papers and thousands of data diagrams. The thing was that all of them were printed out on paper. And all the information were static. We didn´t deal with dynamic data.

Now, as the possibilities changed and we have access to dynamically changing data, visualizing data became a lot more interesting for the client. He can interact with diagrams, in some cases the diagrams are connected with online data sources so you can see a development just-in-time.

Here I have a cupple of very interesting links for you with the latest works on designing information.

1. First of all there´s a great presentation of Eric Rodenbeck about his studios’ work. Visit here.
2. MACE (Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europ) from the Interaction Design Lab of the University Potsdam (Germany).
3. Information Design Patterns
4. Well Formed Data
5. A great tool from Digg. >>
6. And there is an conference about this.
7. “British History Timeline”
8. A new interpretation of the cake diagramm. Theme: US elections.
9. Who is still using Excell diagramms?! See this.
10. If there is a museum that inspires, alive, futuristic and most modern, than it is the MoMa.
11. Inspiring – visual complexity.
12. Eager Eyes
13. Flowing Data
14. Simple Complexity