Jonathan Corum: For Your Information

A Ken Burns iPad app, touchscreen subway maps, swapping sexism and more in our weekly look at the web

Gestalten digs into the work of the NY Times’ Science Graphics Editor, Jonathan Corum, who outlines his process for creating the newspaper’s highly regarded interactive graphics. Corum explains his main mission is to seamlessly integrate words with art, and to translate very detailed data into a medium that can be easily understood by all. Whether referred to as data visualization or infographics, the core of …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

A Ken Burns iPad app, touchscreen subway maps, swapping sexism and more in our weekly look at the web

1. The Office Meets International Development The mockumentary genre continues to be a major force in both TV and movies around the world, and now Kenya is getting its first comedy-doc series, tacking issues that are both local and international. As one of the major hubs for international development, there are over 4,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) registered in Kenya who work across a wide variety …

Richard Hamilton’s Braun Admiration

A Ken Burns iPad app, touchscreen subway maps, swapping sexism and more in our weekly look at the web

The late British artist and Pop Art pioneer Richard Hamilton is currently the subject of a major retrospective at London’s Tate Modern. Surprisingly, as Phaidon points out, Hamilton’s interest in the ready-made was keenly focused on all things Braun, among other consumer objects. The former electrical apprentice even wrote the text for a Berlin exhibition on Braun in 1980, in which he explained, “My admiration …