BMW GINA concept
Looking back at latest BMW design trends, I couldn’t expect anything great from these guys. However, this time they have something really interesting.
More photos at Wired
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US average Joe spending
New York Times is really good in non-trivial yet useful data visualizations. Here’s a fragment of the most recent one (click to view full interactive version):
Visualising CO2 emissions
Australian eco-awareness ad, via O’Reilly Radar
And let them see what they do
Usually we think of the consequences of our actions after we act. Or maybe it’s not even us who acts, we just give them a silent permission. And maybe the consequences are unobservable if not looked for specifically.
The way the latest major US democracy export incident was conducted could have been evaluated more rationally by ordinary people, immediately after it began. If only what is pictured below had been installed in sufficient number of places.
That’s a Matthew Gale’s concept of a living memorial. The black liquid is oil and a gallon of it is added to the pool with every battlefield causality. The more cruel is the war — the more apparent, noxious becomes the memorial and the harder it is to ignore it.
Also be sure to check out Ambient devices and Nuage Vert which materialised just recently.
Visualizing music lyrics
They’ve gathered a big Flickr set of infographics related to music lyrics. The above is my favourite — Madonna’s “Don’t cry for me, Argentina”. Click the image to explore more than a hundred others. Via Information Aesthetics.
Hang drum
Sounds wonderful. Invented in the XXIst century. Art in its commonsense meaning is not dead yet. Wikipedia about hang drum
