Filing this post in the “just plain old fun” category,  this brief video by Kyle Downes runs through this history of videogames (or more accurately, video gaming systems). Created as a school project everything in the video was built from the ground up by Kyle using a combination of Maya 8.5, After Effects, Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop and Flash.
It all comes together as a great example of visual story telling:

This week on vizThink Rewind we’re looking back at our Idea Mapping webinar with Jamie Nast and Chuck Frey. Jamie literally wrote the book on Idea Mapping and Chuck is the man behind the popular blog “Mind Mapping Software. During this webinar jamie and Chuck take us through the basics of idea mapping through to unique and innovate uses to the approach. There’s also a great Q&A session where they tackle questions from the viewers …

Frequent VizThink contributor, and founder of The Grove International Consultants, David Sibbet recently spoke at TEDxSOMA. In his 10-minute talk entitled “Visual Meetings: A Revolution in Group Productivity” he quickly outlines some of his thoughts and insights gleaned from his 38-years of experience as a visual facilitator.
In his own words:
“My own ideas have formed over the 38 years I’ve been a visual practitioner and are condensing into a book for Wiley & Sons on …

This week we’re looking back at an early VizThink podcast with Luke Wroblewski, Chief Design Architect at Yahoo! – this podcast specifically took a look at Luke’s (then) new book “Web Form Design”.

Between his current work at Yahoo! and past experience at eBay there’s a good chance you’ve all interacted with interfaces that Luke has designed, or had influence over at one point or another. In Web Form Design, Luke Wroblewski shares his insights from his considerable experience at Yahoo! and eBay, and combines it with his own original research and the thoughts and ideas of other leading designers in the field.

Last week Ben Sandofsky, a Twitter engineer, kicked off Twitter’s new Engineering blog with a visualization he created that shows Twitter’s development from it’s earliest days up until it’s latest variations.
Initially only a couple of developers the swarm continually grows as Twitter picked up momentum (and additional developers). The result is an interesting visualization showing the rapid rise of one of the web’s hottest properties:

Ben’s description from the blog:
“As a fun way to kick things …