I’ve finally seen the Electric Dreams exhibit at the Tate and it did not disappoint. I just wish I had more time to finish poring over the showcased documents in the last few rooms. This exhibit was also the theme behind the latest session at Creative Coding Crafts Space in Hackney Wick. More insight on these later when I do find time to write. What I’ve done for the meantime is this reel on Instagram.
While waiting for the next FFF DataDev video, I’ve started Curran Kelleher’s course on d3 and am still on SVGs and a bit of Figma for this episode’s project replicating the art of Sol Le Witt, I’ve also watched how Frederika Fragapane cleans data and will soon see how she starts the visualization process. I haven’t forgotten my final project for the course I took under Stefanie Posavec, that’s just relegated to the back-burner after I got some data to work with out of it. Meanwhile I’ve booked yet another Design course from BriefBox (there was a discount) just to keep up to date in that field am working in and come up with a portfolio and case studies. Am not juggling impulsively (at least on the dataviz front) I promise it will all add up like a wonderfully curated multi-disciplinary curriculum that should be complemented by a satisfying and useful portfolio. Or maybe am just a MOOC addict.
Food for thought
Is 2025 the year of the Design Engineer?
Current learning
Frederika Fragapane Course
GSAP.
https://musingswithcode.github.io/rit-workshop/explainers/
https://blog.datawrapper.de/prepare-and-clean-up-data-for-data-visualization/
More bookmarks from previous weeks than I know what to do with
UXtools
https://whimsical.com/docs. — collaboration
https://maze.co/integrations/figma/. — testing
Learning Wishlist
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/courses/phd/digital-culture-and-communication
https://codefirstgirls.com/courses/coding-kickstarter/#ckstopics
https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/communication-and-graphic-design/postgraduate/ma-design-for-data-visualisation-lcc
Dataviz
https://pudding.cool/pudding-cup/
https://flowingdata.com/
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/dataviz-books/
https://datavizproject.com/
https://the-shape-of-dreams.com/#/chapter1?section=read
https://reuters-graphics.github.io/example_svelte-graph-patterns/
https://www.hervisions.world/
https://100seatsofin
https://50years.diaart.org/
https://amdufour.github.io/organizations-against-polarization/
https://visualisingdata.com/2020/12/the-complete-season-2-of-explore-explain/
https://flowingdata.com/category/guides/
https://nightingaledvs.com/
https://medium.com/@federicafragapane/visualizing-the-shape-of-dreams-for-google-trends-5164c3c4e382
https://the-shape-of-dreams.com/#/chapter1?section=read
Digital Arts Resources/Inspo/Events
Public domain image archive - love the vintage mushrooms and botanicals!
Mix 2025 conference (I wish I could justify this as an annual leave)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/series/software-studies/
http://lostritto.com/
https://madebyon.com/case-studies
https://treesof.life/
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-coding-crafts-space-meetup-3-electric-dreaming-tickets-1143059364329
https://musingswithcode.github.io/electric-dreams/
https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/digital-art-design
https://bak.spc.org/index.cgi
https://www.vam.ac.uk/research/projects/hubs-nodes-and-networks-a-new-history-of-british-digital-art
https://field.io/work
On the introvert’s heavy rotation
Because I miss being with Aldo at meetups….
‘....Now I thought about what I wanna say/ But I never really know where to go / So I chained myself to a friend /'Cause there's nowhere else I could go’