Matthew is the Director of the Collaborative. He writes rarely, and that makes him sad.
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Fresh Coat of Paint
Things were starting to get a little stale around here. There are a lot of things we've been meaning to do. One them is a new theme. The theme is a little ...
Simple Designs: Designing Coffee
Sometimes we get lured into the perspective that design is some complicated arcane art. The reality is often that good design is simple, informative and clear. I recently saw these two nice ...
My mail is evolving.
Anymails is an interesting email visualization work by Carolin Horn: Anymails is a visualization of my received emails. I have investigated how I can use natural metaphors to visualize my inbox, ...
Collaborative Communications - August 28th
Collaborative Communications is our semi-regular collaborative newsletter. It functions as an overview of the ongoing collaborative activity and offers some features of collaborative members, updates, and reports on research, education, and artistic ...
Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization - now available.
Graph Gear, an open platform for graph visualization (the mathematical kind, not the bar chart kind), is now available. It allows you to create an interactive graph with force directed layout that ...
Collaborative Conversations: Leonardo Bonanni
It is often difficult to capture the kind of conversations we have here at at the collaborative. This is an attempt to do that, in a quasi journalistic style. It does fail ...
Connor’s Kameraflage gets noticed
A little shout out to fellow collaborative Connor who's work on Kameraflage is getting a lot of attention today. For those of you who don't know: kameraflage is a context-Sensitive ...
Illustrating History
HistoryShots is a print shop that creates high-quality information graphics that provide context to interesting subjects, time periods and events. Most of these are original works of information design - although ...
Some Unusual Suspects
In case you haven't noticed, this space has become a lot more collaborative in the past two weeks. We've begun featuring some additional writers and cross posting some articles from other collaborative ...
A Kandid Look at Evoluntionary Art
Kandid is a program for understanding the evolution of graphics. Instead of relying on hand drawn graphics, Kandid grows graphics over time by using genetic algorithms. It simulates the process of ...
Visualizing Taste in Pixar’s Ratatouille
It's often hard to imagine how we could 'see' abstract concepts, sounds and even taste. People who actually have synesthesia usually taste shapes, so maybe the answer is to represent taste as ...
Web 2.0 Building Blocks
One of the interesting things we attempt to think about at Creative Synthesis is how the tools for pursuing artistic, social and scientific pursuits continue to evolve. The complexity of the tools ...
Mousetrack, now with visualization.
We've got the mousetrack visualizations working (go to the experimenter list here to check it out, follow the visualize link). Some notes: There are preferences, but I wouldn't even go into them right ...
iPhone Interaction Emulator
The iPhone Interaction Emulator is a reworking / expansion of David Cann's work intended to give you a sense of the kind of interaction users will have with your application ...
[graph-watch] All the President’s Graphs
The Wall Street Journal has a nice graph selection taking a look at U.S. presidents' job-approval ratings. The site showcases the average approval ratings over time of modern presidencies from ...