From Newscientist comes this inspiring infographic.
America, are you happy? The emotional words contained in hundreds of millions of messages posted to the Twitter website may hold the answer.
Computer scientist Alan Mislove at Northeastern University in Boston and colleagues have found that these “tweets” suggest that the west coast is happier than the east coast, and across the country happiness peaks each Sunday morning, with a trough on Thursday evenings. The team calls their work the “pulse of the nation”.
Second of three snowflakes. This one has a definite New Zealand touch, with the koru at the end of the gun’s barrels.
Marcus Sakey reads As Breathing
Like the other short stories As Breathing is available from amazon.com. To hear Marcus read the story, click here for the audio version.
Gravity and Need, a Marcus Sakey story, is available from amazon.com now. Four of the covers I designed for Marcus carry my photography. This is one of them.
University of Otago wayfinding design
While working as creative director at Gibson Rusden Wellington I did a brand survey for the University of Otago. One of the conclusions was people got lost quite easily on the Dunedin campus and didn’t understand which buildings were part of the campus and which not. As a result I designed a wayfinding system, including Meeting Points with a complete map of the grounds, so students, staff, suppliers and visitors would be able to easily find their way outside (and inside buildings), saving time, limiting frustration and increasing a sense of security. At the same time the Otago brand became prominently visible, increasing brand awareness and creating a positive brand perception. The system has been implemented on all the university’s locations around the country.
Ebook covers for Marcus Sakey
Award winning and best selling author Marcus Sakey is putting his short stories online. The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away is the first of six covers I created. As with the covers for Blake Crouch Marcus’ covers are clearly part of the same series, using straight forward and powerful photographic images, with a layout and typography to match.
Now also available from amazon.com
A great benefit of ebooks (and their covers) is if something needs updating it can be done in a matter of minutes. A few weeks ago Blake’s latest novel Snowbound was launched (you can buy a signed copy here). The title now features on the banner on the cover of his ebooks.
Previously some of Blake Crouch’s short stories were only available from his website. With amazon’s changed royalty structure all are now available there too. You can buy *69 here.
In 1987 Kees Endenburg (then of NRC Handelsblad, a quality newspaper in The Netherlands) invited me to design and illustrate infographics for the daily - a first for the country. Admiring the infographics of Nigel Holmes (at Time at the time) it is clear where inspiration came from. This infographic above is about the production of semiconductors (we call them chips now) in various regions. As the concept of chips was relatively new the idea was to illustrate the amount of information one could put on a tiny chip. Good times!
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