My three kids make me especially interested in the topic: could anyone help me with the meaning of the pictogram in the middle? As the third one could suggest, they are located beside the door of a male bathroom equipped to support fathers with children.

From our friends at Domus Academy. “Beauty will save the world” Feodor Dostoevskij, The idiot, 1868-69 “If anything can save us: that will be beauty!” Ettore Sottsass, 2001 In a time in which World and Design are concentrated on reflections on the major issues of sustainability, energy and globalization Domus Academy’s international students and Alumni [...]

After the Density design course I start a thesis about form design and the relation between people, bureucratic structure and information. In the beginning of April I went to London to partecipate at the information design conference 2009, held in Greenwich. Not only the visualization of complex data, but also the simplification of complex informations [...]

Finally we’re able to show the result of a side project, part of the DensityDesign Lab teaching program: the visualization of complex experiences and processes. Our students faced the preparation of “Risotto al radicchio tardivo”, a traditional Italian dish. Like any cooking experience, it can’t be exhaustively represented by linear languages (i.e. textual recipes). It’s [...]

It’s a great pleasure for us and a great boost to our work being reviewed ten times as great infographers and knowledge visualizators

After Samuel Granados, I’ve to compliment two other talented graphic designers that passed through our Density Design course: Francesco Franchi and Luca Pitoni (is also Ilaria Tomat still part of the staff?). They are in charge (Francesco is the art director) for the design of the magazine “IL – Intelligence in Lifestyle”, edited by Il [...]

I couldn’t agree more with one of the last post of Nathan in FlowingData: “Basically, what I’m trying to say is that design can do wonders for visualization, yes, but so can analysis. Put the two together, and you’re going to gain a much better understanding of a dataset than if you were to have [...]

According to the article of Veronique Greenwood in SEED Magazine about data visualization, complication is the problem, and interaction is the solution: “One way to solve the problem of overly complicated diagrams is to introduce interactivity.” Interactivity is also a way to escape the flatness of certain maps: “interactive displays may be much more useful [...]

From NewYork Times Interactive comes this simple visualization of the “common mood” during last SuperBowl. As the Steelers and Cardinals battled on the field, Twitter users across the nation pecked out a steady stream of “tweets.” The map shows the location and frequency of commonly used words in Super Bowl related messages.

Mozzilla is calling for Designers to answer the question: What if there was a way to show people how the Mozilla project operates?