The fine folks over at Interactive Things interviewed a few great designers and hackers for their substratum interview series. I also answered some questions — read the interview here.
Background IPPR, the Institute for Public Policy Research, is the UK’s leading progressive think tank, producing rigorous research and innovative policy ideas. IPPR publishes more than 50 reports each year and it uses its website as a hub for progressive thinking. Getting started One of its recent projects was supported by the City Bridge Trust – a charity [...]
Another big event in 2012 has just been announced: Resonate New Media Festival combines talks, workshops, panel discussions by concerts, DJ sets and performances with some of the leading digital artists.
At home with InstantAtlas in Edinburgh As the festive season approaches we have brought a little bit of Edinburgh to your doorstep to give you a feel for what happens in Scotland over the holiday break. You may not know that until the 1950s Christmas was not celebrated in Scotland. Oliver Cromwell, who ruled United [...]
Here's how a rookie experienced his first introduction to visualization from Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky's new book Designing Data Visualizations. What he learned and how this helps him to move forward.
Due to the fantastic success of our Local Information System Workshops over the last couple of years we have decided next year to run our first ever Free User Conferences for all UK customers of InstantAtlas. The InstantAtlas User Conferences (IAUC) will offer a mix of presentation and open discussion style sessions to help delegates [...]
Students from the greater Berlin area gathered together last Saturday well prepared to design and code away for the coming 24 hours. Let's have a look back what went down.