The brazilian news site Estadão.com.br created a sankey visualization that analyzes the composition of the national football teams partecipating the world cups from 1994 to 2010. Thanks to this visualization it is possible to understand the import and export rates of each national team: it is in fact possible to relate the composition of the [...]

Data are everywhere. Many disciplines are addressing the issues of giving access and making sense to all these data. What can and should (visual) design do? “VisualEyes / The Role of Design in Data, Information and Knowledge Visualization” Open Seminar Thursday 20 May 2010 | 10.00 – 13.30 Politecnico di Milano | Campus Bovisa | [...]

Here in Boston, we participated at the Art and Humanities Complex Networks satellite conference at the Northeastern University. We had the amazing opportunity to present the Map of the Future and to share with this remarkable audience the experience of creating a narrative approach for understanding complex systems. We got a lot of feedbacks and [...]

On november 2009 Density Design has been invited to take part to the first italian TEDx event on Lake Como. What’s a TEDx event? It’s a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience, as told in the official website. Our research group was there (represented by Paolo Ciuccarelli) to [...]

What challenges are we going to face in the next 10 years? And what kind of ideas are going to help us in overcoming them? Even though predicting the future is not a game, a game is exactly what the Institute for the Future used to answer these dilemmas: 8 October 2008, Jane McGonigal, reasearcher [...]

We have been officially invited to present the CityMurmur project at the Emerging Technologies conference at SIGGRAPH09. Citymumur NewOrleans will be launch on the 3rd of August on the occasion of the first day of the conference. For those who have never heard anything about the SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and [...]

The main focus of DD4D Conference (Data Designed for Decisions) organized by OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and IIID (International Institute for Information Design) was to understand the process involved in the transformation from data to information and how to present them in order to facilitate the decision-making process. An impressive and variegate [...]

The Design Research Map (DRM) initiative has been included into the ADI Design Index 2008, the annual selection that leads to the biennial Compasso d’Oro Award. We contribute to DRM with a intense and very demanding activity on data and information design and visualization. You can see the results also in the official DRM website [...]

This is the DensityDesign’s whiteboard, as usual, full of projects and thoughts.

Density design is now joined the twitter community!