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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore. Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on. ★ The no #1 Book app for the iPad in 18 countries ★ “Book Creator makes e-book publishing easy” – wired.com ★ One of the Top 50 Apps for the iPad – The Guardian 2011
5 Apps for Creating Interactive Books and ePubs on your iPad
Click for App Store Page Original Counter and Post from 24 Sep 2009! June 2012 ‘Social’ Update (mobile, games & heritage to come)
Gary's Social Media Count
Typographical Infographics That'll Make You Go "Wow!"
Apr 11 2012 Words are a really powerful tool to express what you think, but an even more powerful weapon to visualize your main thoughts and concept are graphics. To be more specific a rich combination of beautiful typographical signs, letters and symbols.
Guggenheim Museum Makes 65 Exhibit Catalogues Free Online
The Guggenheim is one of the real standouts in the global modern art arena.
Subway Map Visualization jQuery Plugin » TechBubble
I have always been fascinated by the visual clarity of the London Underground map. Given the number of cities that have adopted this mapping approach for their own subway systems, clearly this is a popular opinion. At a conference some years back, I saw a poster for the Yahoo!
The top 50 iPad apps | Technology | The Observer
It's easy to forget that when Apple 's first iPad was unveiled in January 2010, there were plenty of cynics questioning the need for a slate-shaped device sitting somewhere between a smartphone and a laptop computer. Microsoft had pitched tablets a decade before, to little interest.
Start An Education Revolution In Seven Steps | Co. Design
First, a little background: We’re three undergrad industrial design students at the University of Cincinnati who teamed up for an experiment in education. We set out to partner with our university, a high school, and several footwear companies to create a curriculum that would engage and empower inner-city youth through footwear design. We titled the experiment the Tread Project.
Klencke Atlas (1660) is one of the world's largest atlases. [ 1 ] It is 1.75 metres tall (about 5 ft, 9in) by 1.9 metres wide when open (about 6 ft, 3in), [ 2 ] and so heavy the British Library reportedly had six people to carry it. [ 1 ] It is a world atlas , made up of 37 maps on 39 sheets. [ 3 ] The maps were intended to be removed and displayed on the wall. [ 1 ] The maps are of the continents and assorted European states [ 3 ] and it was said to encompass all the geographical knowledge of the time. [ 4 ] Dutch Prince John Maurice of Nassau is credited with its creation, [ 4 ] and it contains engravings by artists Blaeu and Hondius and others. [ 3 ] It was presented by a consortium of Dutch merchants, led by Professor Johannes Klencke , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] to King Charles II of England in 1660 to mark the occasion of his restoration to the throne. [ 1 ] Johannes Klencke was the son of a Dutch merchant family.
Klencke Atlas
This cartoon map shows the relative sizes of social networks based on real 2010 user data, and does so in a quirky and amusing way. The quirky and amusing aspect is hardly surprising, because this map — titled the " 2010 Social Networking Map " — was inspired by geeky-yet-popular web comic XKCD's once sort-of-viral " Map of Online Communities ." The original was made based on the whims of XKCD's author, but marketing firm Flowtown took the idea and ran with it for this 2010 variation, sizing the various regions (each named after a social network) based on info collected or published by USA Today, Alexa, Compete and other sources.
XKCD-Inspired Cartoon Maps the World's Social Networks [PIC]