The Flicker Blog and Podcast

Smashing Magazine run a nice feature on creative use of grid-based layouts - with some great illustrations of how a grid need not be constrictive.

Absolutely stunning kinetic sculpture that utilises magnetic particles in oil and water. I recommend watching the video.

Elegant, simple and accessible data visualisations using nothing more than the data and CSS.
See www.alistapart.com/d/accessibledata/ for instructions.

A rather impressive prototype from Mozilla Labs that (to my mind) takes the idea of the semantic web, and brings a great deal of contextual utility to users via language based instruction. Put simply - embedding relevant material from the web (instead of links) becomes trivial and very, very useful. Exciting stuff!

Great idea - and taking a cue from Marty Neumeier's statement about brand - 'it's not what you say it is, it's what they say it is':
User generated tag clouds created for established brands that can give insight into public sentiment.

A rather useful photoshop template for designing iPhone applications.

Great piece on the benefits of content owners relinquishing control online, and opening up content for distribution on the terms of the consumer.

Trouble, in this case, meaning lack of viable business model that can be retrospectively strapped onto a speeding juggernaut.

Context over dogma. A rather inspirational look at a BMW design concept where the entire approach to car design is overhauled by eschewing traditionally used materials.

Marty Neumeier’s simple and powerful presentation on the definition of brand - covering the benefits of strategic and creative thinkers being in alignment (and based on the book of the same name).

A great illustration of the end-to-end redesign of a major media site. Vision, personas, ideation, business and user goals are all covered in the presentation.

The title says it all. Plenty of reading matter and food for thought if the visualisation and communication of complex data is of interest -which of course, it should be!

Interesting (if a little complex) presentation of content in relation to a timeline. Exploring the view and zoom options is interesting, even though it is ultimately changing only the spatial relationship between items.

I’ve seen some of these before, but this is a wonderful and diverse selection of info graphics.

Whilst we’re on the them of info-graphics, here’s another powerful visualisation of data.