Periodic Table Printmaking Project

Promoting both science and the arts, The Periodic Table Printmaking Project is a collection of 118 prints. BoingBoing posted this with links to an interview with AzureGrackle, the organizer of the project, in Etsy.



The Periodic Table Printmaking Project is an international collaboration of 96 artists who produced 118 prints, each representing one element. Each print is a unique woodcut, linocut, monotype, etching, lithograph, silkscreen, or a combination of these techniques.

Check out the Flickr photo blog with additional images.
Find out more about the project in the AzureGrackle blog.

The 96 artists came from 8 countries - Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Scotland, USA (with 29 states & Puerto Rico from the USA: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin).

Breathingearth.net

Since we started the Sustainable Futures Foundation last year, I have been tracking what people are doing about implementing sustainable ideas. That brought the New Zealand company Celsias onto my radar, and I blogged last week about their website to track and trade carbon credits. I've been reading their very informative Celsias blog. Today, Craig Mackintosh spotlighted the Breathing Earth site in their Celsias blog.

Breathing Earth maps the carbon emissions and birth and death rates of every country in the world. Just mouse-over any country and see what is happening. This is a very interesting visualization of data.



David Bleja from Stillwater Microcosm has taken data from Wikipedia, the World Factbook and the United Nations. If he were able to map the real live data into this map, it would give us a live tool for watching our impact on the earth.

Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

The VisualLiteracy.org focuses on visual ways to create and communicate knowledge and insights. They use a didactic approach to teaching people how to develop their own visualization formats. They offer an e-learning course for building skills in visualization in order to build competence in communication.

They have developed an Ajax based Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. There are 6 different cell colors:
> yellow = data visualization
> light green = information visualization
> aqua = concept visualization
> light blue = strategy visualization
> pink = metaphor visualization
> light purple = compound visualization

Just mouse-over any of the cells and discover another way of charting, mapping or visualizing knowledge.

We Feel Fine

Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar have cultivated an online space - We Feel Fine - that that is a garden of human emotion pulled into in six creative movements titled: Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics, and Mounds.

It is actually a series of interfaces that cull and sort through “feelings” posted by people in words and images. Just click on Madness, a swarming mass of colorful particles, each one holding the key to a particular moment. In one mad moment, you click on one of those dots and “voila!” - a peek inside someone’s feelings. You can even check out the weather in your own city - or somewhere else.

With all the work, the stress, the traffic, the noise, isn’t it charming to find something like this once in awhile?

Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar have also partnered on other web applications like Love-lines. Jonathan Harris has been on my radar ever since he developed 10x10 and created the Yahoo Netrospective of 10 Years 100 Moments of the Web for Yahoo's 10th anniversary in March 2005.