Vectorial Subway Maps

The most fascinating maps are the ones made for the subway, and they are for a lot of people the basic inspiration to create diagrams. I found this web with plenty of them and you can even find them vectorial instead of pictures.

This is an example of one picture of one of the many many subways listed:



Design Around the World Metro Maps

Sort Structure by Ditte Hammerstrøm

"strips of foam woven around a steel frame"

How easier could a chair be?
Designed by Ditte Hammerstrøm

Information is Beautiful

I see this as a web you should be keeping an eye at least once in a while. Basically its information presented in complex graphics that simplified the way of understanding the information provided. Most of them really well done, graphically speaking and also the information that they provide is really useful.
I think it's called "data flow"









Information is Beautiful

It would be like Visual Complexity but with worthy information to check and compare.

Automatic Internet and the Internet of Things

A Smarter Planet

Ecological Footprint

After searching Mathis Wackernagel I have to keep these link:

footprintstandards
footprintnetwork

Augmented Sculpture by Lichtfront and Grosse8

Just watch it, it worths the effort.


Augmented Sculpture by GROSSE8 & LICHTFRONT / Passagen 2010 from Lichtfront on Vimeo.


Lichtfront
Grosse8

#climatedata "data activism" by Manuel Lima and Jer Thorp

Very well graphed (or maybe is illustrated I am not sure of what's the regular word to use in this cases). It's easy to understand and it shows you a part of history in almost no time. You can see evolution in technology first and then the globalization of the 20th century with a clear expansion after the 50's. Also this is very useful information.



#climatedata from Michael Schieben on Vimeo.


"The video tracks monthly mean temperature readings as measured by a (gradually expanding) network of weather stations over the course of three centuries. This visualization was produced with data released by the United Kingdom's Met Office a few months ago as part of the #climatedata "data activism" initiative proposed by information designers Manuel Lima and Jer Thorp."


Update: I found out that Manuel Lima is the one who carries the web Visualcomplexity which for many it's almost an Icon an maybe I shouldn't even use the word "almost"

NASA Earth Observatory

Usefull web if you are a mapping addict.



NASA Earth Observatory

The Do Lectures: Tim Ferriss; Rolf Potts autor of Vagabonding

Certainly inspirational both videos.







The Do Lectures

Sourcemap or mapping resources worldwide

Great web for finding from where and in which conditions our realities are made of... I can see getting myself addicted to it!


Getting Started with Open Supply Chains from Matthew Hockenberry on Vimeo.


Soucermap Web

Flavor Combination Inspiration

"Tastebuddi.es - flavour combination inspiration and a mission to find the best unusual sweet/savory flavour combinations"




Have a look




It's also interesting, because it's social in the way that you can contribute to their results..

Via Edgar Gonzalez

No need to presentation really... Anyone that is from Spain (or knows spanish) and has something to do with architecture knows that Edgar Gonzalez Blog is a MUST.


I found his two latest post really interesting and useful, even though I knew them since a long time a go. Specially interesting the one about typography, because I just finished a couple of books about that topic and I usually think that is one of those things that architects don't really know how to manage. The tendency is more about visual impact and being "cool" rather than make it work properly.

First web page recommended is the biggest free 3d materials web page, cgtextures




The second link is a really interesting web page about typography (as I said before), unostiposduros


Then I recomment Myfonts


And the book I just finished about Typography

(amazon)