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New Year’s resolutions

Gaia Scagnetti — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:27:30 +0000

In 2009: decrease graphing addiction
and increase attention to coincidences.
happy new year!

Election Day

Donato Ricci — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:43:47 +0000

election day, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Density Design (GS+DR) is returning officer and secretary in one of the polling station during the italian election day 2008.
The compulsive obsession for graphs and diagrams led us to draw this…
As soon as possible a more detailed piece about the experience that made envy all others polling places

Skyvideo.gotoAndPlay(1’18”)

Skyvideo.gotoAndPlay(1’30”)

Chemical Atlas

Donato Ricci — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:31:27 +0000

Chemical Atlas, inserito originariamente da densitydesign.

Some nice infographics from ‘Chemical Atlas or The Chemistry of Familiar Objects’ by Edward Livingston Youmans (1855) at Strasbourg Universities.

Flower Ænigma

Donato Ricci — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:28:58 +0000

Flower Ænigma, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

The riddle may be solved in a 6×6 matrix, where each row and each column must have the entire numeric sequence 1 to 6 ( a small “sudoku”). The numbers in the matrix are the “flower” that the column label number -a single lady- give to each rows label element. If a lady can’t send nor receive the flowers that have her
name (e.g, miss Daisy can’t have daisies), it could be meant that she would “send herself the flowers”. Thus the main diagonal elements have the same values their
respective column and row labels d o. If we represent the matrix with a colour for each number we obtain the color matrix.
Every coloured rectangle represents a lady. On the map we recognize the colour of the color matrix and the relationship that occurs. Each rectangle is divided in two half: on the left one there are the flowers she send (up-arrow symbol), on the right the flowers she get (down-arrow).
The semicircles in the representation are the “flower shifts” from one lady to another.
The numeric progression in solution set elements represents my step sequence in finding the solution of the riddle.
The three hypothesis set are the three unique possible answer to the question the riddle pose. We begin developing the hypotesis untill she is invalidate (in the numeric matrix, that occurs when in a column or in a row we find the same number. The solution set is filled only by the sequence steps of the abduction process that belong to the sole possible hypotesis.

All the other solution as usual are strored on flickr

how make the city a safer place…

Gaia Scagnetti — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:47:45 +0000

crime spotting, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

The ads I wrote to rent the flat near mine said “looking for open couple, freak single, student only if amazing, young people with particular night life…”. I thought it would help me to find a special and funny neighbour, someone you feel free to ask an egg for your midnight pasta.
But maybe I was wrong: I should use the USA methods. I should check if my borough was safe visiting crimespotting, where you can find an interactive map built on the local police department database that shows the crime situation of your borough. It use different colors code: red for murders and theft, blue for prostitution and drug dealing, and green for vandalism and car stealing. Or I could use offender locator a software that aggregates data (that in USA are public!) on the so called sex offender and visualises them on your city’s map. It shows you where people convicted of sex offence are living and it warns you if their move to your neighbourhood. In the creators opinion these are the right methods to make the city a safer place. But I want to suggest a new code for this map, more respectful to privacy and definitely more funny: yellow, for people who want to sleep during the weekend, red for lovers of smelly food as cabbage, and blue for house night party addicted. Maybe it wouldn’t make the city a safer place but it would prevent you to be woke up by the your neighbour’s new 10000 watt hoover at 7 o’clock on Sunday morning. Or, as Donato suggests, we should all live close to our city mafia boss: surely, nothing could happen there.

Flags by Colours

Donato Ricci — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:36:29 +0000

Flags by Colours, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag.

Using a list of countries generated by The World Factbook database, flags of countries fetched from Wikipedia (as of 26th May 2007) are analysed by a custom made python script to calculate the proportions of colours on each of them. That is then translated on to a piechart using another python script. The proportions of colours on all unique flags are used to finally generate a piechart of proportions of colours for all the flags combined. (note: Colours making up less than 1% may not appear)

(Give a look and try to recognize them)

alchool!

Donato Ricci — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:12:01 +0000

alchool!, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Icon?

Donato Ricci — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:11:00 +0000

todoscontralfuego, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

If design and graphics are "visual languages", chinese also. Here you are an example:

Forest + Flame = Fire
But, with a little of imagination, you can see it yourselves:

This character is mu (wood) means tree and, its shape could have a remembrance to one of them.

This is lin (forest), and it's just to "mus" together. Logical.

Huo means flame, and looks like one (OK, you need some perspective)

And if we add a flame to the forest we got... Fen, which means "burn" or "fire".

(via Infographicsnews)

Partiti?

DensityDesign — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:35:00 +0000

Partiti?, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

A semi seriuos interview with David Hillman, one of the Pentagram partner, about italian party logos

Graphic language for touch

DensityDesign — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:58:00 +0000

Graphic language for touch, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC.
As mobile phones are increasingly able to read and write to RFID tags embedded in the physical world, I am wondering how we will appropriate this for personal and social uses.
I’m interested in the visual link between information and physical things. How do we represent an object that has digital function, information or history beyond it’s physical form? What are the visual clues for this interaction? We shouldn’t rely on a kind of mystery meat navigation (the scourge of the web-design world) where we have to touch everything to find out it’s meaning.

This work doesn’t attempt to be a definitive system for marking physical things, it is an exploratory process to find out how digital/physical interactions might work. It uncovers interesting directions while the technology is still largely out of the hands of everyday users.

by Timo Aranaal