Zuccotti Park has been all over the news the past few weeks due to the many people living there as part of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. And it would make sense that many would assume that this park is one of the many public parks in New York City, but in this instance that …
READ THE ARTCILE In thinking about transit , we sometimes forget to recognize that a map is what takes us through every touch point of our daily journey. Whether we’re trying to avoid a transfer, or picking the most direct line, the map holds the power to persuade us on how to travel. It’s gone …
We came across a great post from Matthew Ericson from the New York Times who works there as a Deputy Graphics Director. His work seems to fall into the geographic space but also the graphic space and he offers some great insights into when you should and should not create maps. This is a topic that is …
At UC-Berkeley the incoming freshman class was asked to participate in a project when they arrived on campus: say several sentences in to a recorder. Here is the coverage from KALW News in San Francisco: UC-Berkeley Linguistic Mapping (KALW News) The result is a map and continuing project to map linguistics across the nation. We heard a …
The Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority (or the Metro for ease of use) announced it was expanding its Yellow and Orange Line Service earlier this year, which lead several DC based blogs to ask the question who would be redesigning the Metro map and what might it look like. This question was quickly resolved as Lance …
If you have turned on a Pop/Top 40 radio station in the past year or so you may have noticed that more and more songs are featuring upbeat tempos and synth lines. This is a result of the ever growing and expanding genre of dance music which has broken into mainstream music only relatively recently. This …
Although the NACIS conference was nearly a month ago, I have been stumbling on bits of the presentations and papers presented at the event ever since. Patrick Hofmann, a designer for Google Maps and the keynote speaker at the conference gave a particularly fascinating talk about Swiss design in a session “Art in Modern Cartography”. …
While I would have never thought to map profanity usage on twitter, Little Earth, a GIS consulting firm out of Lantzville, BC did. The map they created is embarrassingly fantastic and charming. Over the course of 90 seconds, a month’s worth of little explosions of profanity dot the western half of the US and Canada. This screen shot really …
