Posted by: ufang on: May 25, 2009
MIT SENSEable City Laboratory has developed some awesome ideaas to understand cities since 2004. The increasing development of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years allows a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way they describe and understand cities is being radically transformed- alondside the tools they use to design them [...]
Posted by: ufang on: May 24, 2009
There are different types of great maps that we can get some inspiration from… 1. Tokyo Otemachi station map Tokyo Metro 2. Airport map- Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de 3. Zoo map- ZSL London Zoo 4. Zoo map- Singapore Zoo 5. Event map- 2008 Urban simple life map 6. simple transit stop map 7. [...]
Posted by: ufang on: May 23, 2009
The London Underground’s Tube Map is one of the best examples of interface design. The map’s original designer, Harry Beck, broke the most hallowed rule in the cartographic textbook when he created the map in 1933- that geographical accuracy is fundamental to a map. Harry Beck used only 45° angles, strait lines, and markers for [...]
