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 | [...]

The MigMap is produced by k3000 collective in collaboration with the Transit Migration project, in which researchers, media-makers, activists and artists conduct research on new border regimes in Europe. MigMap is a multi-layered, online visualization of the many complex processes, places and actors that play a role in the current dynamics of migration and the [...]

Now the 2010 has started and I wish everyone an exciting and challenging year again; I wish you be brave and question all the problem you will face, I wish you never stop till you feel it is good enough, I wish you find a way of lighten difficult situations and even more to fully enjoy the pleasant ones, i wish you will keep on telling amazing stories. happy 2010!

Last Monday the Fifth Edition of Frontiers of Interaction took place in Rome, confirming itself as one of the most interesting event in the panorama of interaction design. A rich schedule -full of people and thoughts to share- and a wonderful location -the Aquario Romano- to talk about how technologies are changing our life. The [...]

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 [...]

Density design is now joined the twitter community!

Our brand new PhD student Luigi Farrauto – one of the very first students of the Density Design Lab  – has been invited to give a conference at the “Ècole Biblique et Archéologique Francaise de Jerusalem” on the topic of cartography: “Vous êtes ici. Jérusalem dans l’histoire de la cartographie”. Luigi did his MA thesys [...]

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 [...]

Sustainability message , originally uploaded by Samuel Mann.

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Just used in a class about interactivity and engagement (and sneaking a dose of sustainability). Thanks folks.