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 …

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 …

Sensory Fiction: A Wired Reading Experience

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

Reading a powerful book is sure to elicit an emotional, if not a physical reaction—a quickened pulse at suspenseful moments, a chill down your back. However a new project from students at MIT takes the experience to the next level. The aptly dubbed Sensory Fiction uses inexpensive technology combined with neuroscience to create a wired reading experience that allows the reader to share in the …