A few nice bing image images I found:
Stephanie Posavec & Greg McInerny's '(En)tangled Word Bank' in the Main Dining Hall, Cambridge University Centre, Granta Place, Cambridge
Image by dumbledad
Like me, anyone working on the abstract visualization of book texts will have been inspired by Stephanie Posavec's "Writing Without Words" (2006), a project she did on the Central Saint Martins MA in Communication Design. A friend from work took that inspiration several stages further. Since reading and rereading Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species" during his doctorate Greg McInerny has been obsessed by the text: the ideas contained in Darwin's book, and the history of the text itself. Being an ecologist/biologist Greg is also obsessed by those old botanical collection book plates by the like of John Stevens Henslow and Ernst Haeckel. So Greg pored over the text using R to analyse and build Posavec-style diagrams of the developments and changes Darwin made between editions of his book. But the links are tighter. Stephanie is Greg's sister-in-law and so they teamed up to take Greg's analysis and render them with the exquisite beauty we're use to in Stephanie's work, both spending time on the design details needed to present the visualisations as if they were part of those old botanical collections. The whole venture was spurred on by the realisation that they were not the only ones working on this. Like Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, Ben Fry came to a workshop Greg organised for doctoral level ecologists and after Ben's talk they realised that they were both working on visualizing changes between the editions of Darwin's work. Ben's just put his visualization up online: http://benfry.com/traces/. Stephanie and Greg's work is also online (http://www.itsbeenreal.co.uk/index.php?/on-going/about/ & http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/TextVis/) but to see it at its best you have to see the huge prints they made for the Darwin 2009 exhibition at the Cambridge University Centre. The exhibition ran from the 3rd of July 2009 to the 20th, but luckily for me Stephanie and Greg have been tardy in removing their work so you can still see them hanging in the Main Dining Hall, Cambridge University Centre on Granta Place, Cambridge.
N.B. I also took some photos of the work Stephanie and Greg did for the RA Summer Exhibition (though it was rejected) using what Greg and I call Posavec Diagrams, what Stephanie calls Sentence Diagrams: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dumbledad/sets/72157619825788142/. And Stephanie's husband / Greg's brother Steve took some great shots of this '(En)tangled Word Bank'exhibition at the openning: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharp-sharp/sets/72157621146041024/.
Stephanie Posavec & Greg McInerny's '(En)tangled Word Bank' in the Main Dining Hall, Cambridge University Centre, Granta Place, Cambridge
Image by dumbledad
Like me, anyone working on the abstract visualization of book texts will have been inspired by Stephanie Posavec's "Writing Without Words" (2006), a project she did on the Central Saint Martins MA in Communication Design. A friend from work took that inspiration several stages further. Since reading and rereading Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species" during his doctorate Greg McInerny has been obsessed by the text: the ideas contained in Darwin's book, and the history of the text itself. Being an ecologist/biologist Greg is also obsessed by those old botanical collection book plates by the like of John Stevens Henslow and Ernst Haeckel. So Greg pored over the text using R to analyse and build Posavec-style diagrams of the developments and changes Darwin made between editions of his book. But the links are tighter. Stephanie is Greg's sister-in-law and so they teamed up to take Greg's analysis and render them with the exquisite beauty we're use to in Stephanie's work, both spending time on the design details needed to present the visualisations as if they were part of those old botanical collections. The whole venture was spurred on by the realisation that they were not the only ones working on this. Like Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, Ben Fry came to a workshop Greg organised for doctoral level ecologists and after Ben's talk they realised that they were both working on visualizing changes between the editions of Darwin's work. Ben's just put his visualization up online: http://benfry.com/traces/. Stephanie and Greg's work is also online (http://www.itsbeenreal.co.uk/index.php?/on-going/about/ & http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/TextVis/) but to see it at its best you have to see the huge prints they made for the Darwin 2009 exhibition at the Cambridge University Centre. The exhibition ran from the 3rd of July 2009 to the 20th, but luckily for me Stephanie and Greg have been tardy in removing their work so you can still see them hanging in the Main Dining Hall, Cambridge University Centre on Granta Place, Cambridge.
N.B. I also took some photos of the work Stephanie and Greg did for the RA Summer Exhibition (though it was rejected) using what Greg and I call Posavec Diagrams, what Stephanie calls Sentence Diagrams: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dumbledad/sets/72157619825788142/. And Stephanie's husband / Greg's brother Steve took some great shots of this '(En)tangled Word Bank'exhibition at the openning: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharp-sharp/sets/72157621146041024/.
337 of 365: Me looking at Stephanie Posavec & Greg McInerny's '(En)tangled Word Bank' in the Main Dining Hall, Cambridge University Centre, Granta Place, Cambridge
Image by dumbledad
Like me, anyone working on the abstract visualization of book texts will have been inspired by Stephanie Posavec's "Writing Without Words" (2006), a project she did on the Central Saint Martins MA in Communication Design. A friend from work took that inspiration several stages further. Since reading and rereading Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species" during his doctorate Greg McInerny has been obsessed by the text: the ideas contained in Darwin's book, and the history of the text itself. Being an ecologist/biologist Greg is also obsessed by those old botanical collection book plates by the like of John Stevens Henslow and Ernst Haeckel. So Greg pored over the text using R to analyse and build Posavec-style diagrams of the developments and changes Darwin made between editions of his book. But the links are tighter. Stephanie is Greg's sister-in-law and so they teamed up to take Greg's analysis and render them with the exquisite beauty we're use to in Stephanie's work, both spending time on the design details needed to present the visualisations as if they were part of those old botanical collections. The whole venture was spurred on by the realisation that they were not the only ones working on this. Like Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, Ben Fry came to a workshop Greg organised for doctoral level ecologists and after Ben's talk they realised that they were both working on visualizing changes between the editions of Darwin's work. Ben's just put his visualization up online: http://benfry.com/traces/. Stephanie and Greg's work is also online (http://www.itsbeenreal.co.uk/index.php?/on-going/about/ & http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/TextVis/) but to see it at its best you have to see the huge prints they made for the Darwin 2009 exhibition at the Cambridge University Centre. The exhibition ran from the 3rd of July 2009 to the 20th, but luckily for me Stephanie and Greg have been tardy in removing their work so you can still see them hanging in the Main Dining Hall, Cambridge University Centre on Granta Place, Cambridge.
N.B. I also took some photos of the work Stephanie and Greg did for the RA Summer Exhibition (though it was rejected) using what Greg and I call Posavec Diagrams, what Stephanie calls Sentence Diagrams: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dumbledad/sets/72157619825788142/. And Stephanie's husband / Greg's brother Steve took some great shots of this '(En)tangled Word Bank'exhibition at the openning: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharp-sharp/sets/72157621146041024/.
