Digitalism Video: Promo for ‘Idealism’
Posted by Emily | Filed under design, digital, music, video
Electronica bands always seem to have the best computer generated artwork and videos… though maybe I’m just prejudice?
Data Visualization is for lovers
Posted by Emily | Filed under data visualization, ideas
If you’ve ever heard of or seen present-day approaches to data visualization, they can be really fascinating to look at. Awhile back Smashing Magazine posted an article ‘Data Visualization: Modern Approaches’. It has some great links and resources. VisualComplexity.com also has a huge database of projects.
In short, data visualization is the process or art of presenting data - whether through conventional forms like tables, charts, graphs, or in more advanced ways using the latest technologies.
Examples:
Visual Display of Human Emotions Project:
source: wefeelfine.org
Visualization of the Bible Project:
source: www.chrisharrison.net
“Functional visualizations are more than innovative statistical analyses and computational algorithms. They must make sense to the user and require a visual language system that uses colour, shape, line, hierarchy and composition to communicate clearly and appropriately, much like the alphabetic and character-based languages used worldwide between humans.”
Matt Woolman
Digital Information Graphics
Infosthetics, Visual Poetry Project:
Resources:
- www.visualcomplexity.com
- www.smashingmagazine.com
- www.mashable.com - data visualization tools
Sleevage, a decent website for album art
Posted by Emily | Filed under art, design, music
www.sleevage.com - “a blog all about music cover art. From the LP’s of the 60’s to the digital artworks of now.”
Album: Unklejam
Artist: Unklejam
Cover Artist: Andrew Murabito, Rachel Thomas, Dan Tobin Smith
Record Label: Virgin Records
Year: 2007
More where that came from, here…
Artist Video: David Carson
Posted by Emily | Filed under art, david carson, design, video
From the Hillmancurtis Artist Video Series:
Check out the rest of the video series on hillmancurtis.com or AIGA’s inspiration archives.
‘Sweet: The Graphic Beauty of the Contemporary Rock Poster’
Posted by Emily | Filed under art, exhibit, music
On February 6 the University of Maryland’s Art Gallery will be opening its latest exhibit, ‘Sweet: The Graphic Beauty of the Contemporary Rock Poster’. An excerpt about the exhibit:
“…features twenty-nine of the leading artists/groups of silk-screened contemporary rock posters, on view Wednesday, February 6 through Saturday, March 29, 2008. Artist Jesse LeDoux creates a site-specific installation in the back gallery that displays the versatility of the screen printing technique, and artist Tim Gough creates unique signage for the exhibition utilizing silk-screening and other media applied directly to the walls.”
More info can be found here on the gallery’s website. Should be a great show!
Desktop Backgrounds 1.25.08
Posted by Emily | Filed under desktop backgrounds
Below are some more desktop backgrounds. As always, feel free to download and use them. I created these particular backgrounds using some images I’ve taken in the past around the Pittsburgh, PA area (my hometown) such as bridges, random telephone wires, electrical boxes, etc.
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Follow On
Posted by Emily | Filed under music, website
Another small work in progress (currently very rough on the edges):
My dad is a musician (folk, blues, rock, whatever) and in the next few months I will be looking for ways to promote music online through various avenues. I’ve already gone the Myspace route with other bands but am looking forward to seeing what else is out there. Last FM and CD Baby seem promising.
In the process of building the temporary site I discovered a cool favicon website where you can either create your own icon or download free icons that others have published under the CC (Creative Commons) license, like this nifty little guitar favicon, for example.
Oh and I almost forgot, Happy 2008 to all.
Happy Technolidays
Posted by Emily | Filed under dctech
It’s been awhile since I’ve updated, the last two months have been very busy but in a good way. Looking back on the year I have also met a lot great people in the tech community here in DC, like the folks over at Nclud, Jared at SET Consulting, Justin Thorp, Nick ONeill, to name a few. Oh and thanks to the creator of DC Tech Events, who helped me to realize that rarely a week goes by without a technology event in the area.
On that note (and in relation to the title of the blog), tonight is The Technoliday Party that I will unfortunately be unable to attend. The event is also supporting the One Laptop Per Child cause, more info here: technoliday.eventbrite.com
Until next time, which is hopefully sooner than later!
“2nd Sight”, an experimental graphic design film by David Carson
Posted by Emily | Filed under david carson, film, inspiration
Excerpt 1:
Excerpt 2:
Another website in the making
Posted by Emily | Filed under design, freelance, personal, website
I am working on developing a website and more artwork for a band that I used to be in. It’s still a work in progress, but coming along pretty well. I decided to develop the whole thing in WordPress, for now at least. Suggestions/improvements are more than welcome.
Screenshot:
Old Poster:
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