Gestalten, creators of some fantastic visual oriented content including books, video & other media recently posted an episode of their Gestalten.tv podcast where they sat down wia couple of members of the New York Times infographics team to talk about …

March 22, 2010 was World Water Day an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and was intended to ensure that awareness was drawn to just how …

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 …

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 …

Just one for the inspiration files – not much to explain: a quirky, short video playing with visualizing sound.

With his webinar just an hour away (not too late to register) I thought it’d be fun to share this video that Karl posted about a year ago where he breaks down how to draw an eye (with a broken …

Last November Ryan Coleman, VizThink’s Community Evangelist, had the opportunity to speak at #IgniteTO, Toronto’s local gathering under the Ignite umbrella. This was the second ignite, following a highly successful, and entertaining evening back in September.

The talk looks at how we see and how knowing this can help us become better designers or visual communicators.

Tom Wujec, Autodesk Fellow and a facilitator at both VizThink 2008 & 2009, spoke at last year’s Ted conference – during his quick talk (~7min) he covers how our brains use what we see to create meaning. It’s a great topic as I …

Came across a fun little video today from the folks at Mindcastle a design/photography & film studio in Seattle. From their blog post: “This year we decided to design a holiday card to send out via mail. We desgned it …

Came across a great Ignite video through the Information Aesthetics blog today entitled “Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization”. Presented at Ignite DC by Alex Lundry,VP and Director of Research at TargetPoint. It’s an entertaining presentation that looks …