Die Gestalten: "The New York Times: All The News That's Fit to Post"
From the "I thought this was a good idea" department, the New York Times today, in writing about a new exhibit in London, recognizes the incredible growth in information design. The exhibit in the new Galleries of Modern London in the Museum of London features the seminal maps of philanthropist and social reformer Charles Booth created from 1886 through 1903. The maps, called The Descriptive Maps of London Poverty, color each street to indicate the income of its residents. If it weren't for pioneers like Booth, information design wouldn't be anywhere near what it is today.
Nike launched a lovely eye-popping twitter tracker called Nike NBA today to track the popularity of the teams in the playoffs, measured by tweet frequency.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=8f548f45-37f7-4d84-bde6-4425465923a1)
Sometimes I feel like this blog is a booster for the New York Times Interactive Graphics team but it is difficult not to write about such great examples of interactive data visualizations. Today's map is most likely only of interest to dataviz geeks and New Yorkers. It is a simple visualization of the subway ridership numbers for last year by station. It accompanies an article explaining some of the huge swings and how they correlate to the local economy. Let me know what you think.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=a01dd77a-3e78-402c-850a-5d46071bf6ad)
A simple concept, Solar Beat is a music box looping the orbital frequencies of our own solar system. Created by Luke Wyman's of Whitevinyl, the UK-based designer translated astrophysics into a pleasing ambient soundtrack for a musical experience. While it may take 248 "earth years" for Pluto to chime in, it seems worth it.
The relatively obscure and multi-talented illustrator, photographer, web developer and musician behind the band Neverest continues to fly beneath the radar despite some rave reviews.
An idea I've been talking about for at least a decade is for a hotel or a health club to hook up their exercise machines to generators and capture the energy being produced by users and giving rebates to them. The BBC reported earlier this week that the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen is about to launch the world's first version of such a program by offering meal vouchers to guests who produce energy on an exercise bike. The bikes are using iPhones to monitor and display usage. The program launches this weekend and will continue for at least a year. If a guest generates 10 watt-hours of energy, which should take only about 15 minutes, she gets a $36 meal voucher. ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=78cf3785-f762-4cdb-9e74-b303fb3f6fd6)
