You can view the final interactive Flash version here: http://lab.zoho.co.uk/lab/nme-top-albums/ I had an hour to kill this evening so I added updated the NME Top Albums interactive visualisation to include the results for 2011 & 2012. “Dream Pop” seems to have become a popular genre for 2012. With “Indietronica“, “Neo-psychedelia“, “Psychedelic Pop” and “Psychedelic Rock” all doing well. [...]
The HTML5 interactive charts can be viewed here: http://lab.zoho.co.uk/lab/sandettie-lightship-buoy-data/ With this year’s late start to Spring the question was recently asked – “would this have an effect on the summer sea temperature?” This question was especially relevant to some friends of mine who are booked in for solo and relay channel crossings. Especially for channel soloists, where a couple [...]
Owswimming.com recently conducted a poll to explore how swimmers from different countries defined “cold”. They have posted the results on their blog and you can check it out here. “When I showed these results to my fellow swimmer (and wife) Susan, she said “Duh, so swimmers from cold weather can stand colder water”. Well, it is [...]
I started working on a new interactive dataviz yesterday and I am determined that this project is designed and developed using HTML5 rather then Flash. I have already started putting some bits together with Google Charts but just thought it might be useful to list some of the various dataviz open source tools/libraries that I [...]
The Flash based wireframe and CMS can be viewed here: http://lab.zoho.co.uk/lab/most-profitable-hollywood-stories/ I was going over some old ‘unfinished’ projects when I came across this interactive ‘wireframe’ and CMS that I developed. So I thought I would post it up. I was very disappointed I didn’t get to ‘skin this up’ but at the time I [...]
When I did the interactive “History of the Batmobile” I included as many different bat logos in the background as I could find. They were stylised as “bat signals” but they weren’t in any particular order and I don’t think I had specific information on their origin to tag them up to the appropriate year. [...]
Hopefully the title says it all! Icons for the “Ten Laws of Simplicity” by John Maeda “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” — Hans Hofmann “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to [...]
Bandlines: Sparklines Enriched with Information about Magnitude and Distribution. The latest newsletter from Stephen Few of Perceptual Edge is out today and it looks quite interesting. I would love to do an interactive version of this. “In the last edition of this newsletter I wrote about the many ways in which sparklines can be scaled [...]
I must confess, as strange as it sounds, I have never been very comfortable with receiving gifts and I am especially uncomfortable about telling people what I would like for Christmas. My wife comes from a large extended family and every year I struggle to think what to say when people ask me. This year [...]
Creating contact sheets in InDesign is another one I am always forgetting the short cut keys for. 1. Choose File > Place, select multiple images, and choose Open. 2. Hold down Ctrl+Shift (Windows) or Command+Shift (Mac OS) and click or drag. 3. While still dragging, release the other modifier keys and press the arrow keys [...]
