37Signals has now come out with their second book, Rework. I had 3 people in my social stream talk about it in the same day; two of said it was life altering. After reading it I have to agree. Needless to say, I’ve also gone back and started reading Getting Real as well. Both books are well written on point.

Bottom line? Pick up a copy.

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The difference between Infographics vs Data Visualization is the difference between using small vs large datasets.

Wonderlic Test

In most systems you will never have less data – determine better ways of hiding it by finding out what is relevant.
Remember, audience is everything.

aquire -> parse -> filter -> mine -> represent -> refine -> interact

KISS = Keep it Simple Stupid

Visualizations create conversations.

No exploring – doesn’t get anything done. Get to the point – do it.

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This is a full listing of credits of the people who put it together, but only look at this after you go to the show.

Bauhaus has always served as an inspiration and this exhibit helped to put it into perspective.
Exhibit ends this week – be sure to catch it if you can. If you can’t, then may I suggest the following Bauhaus Book, written by the curators of the show.

This survey is MoMA’s first major exhibition since 1938 on the subject of this famous and influential school of avant-garde art. Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology. Aiming to rethink the very form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that have profoundly shaped our visual world today.

The exhibition gathers over four hundred works that reflect the broad range of the school’s productions, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater design, painting, and sculpture, many of which have never before been exhibited in the United States. It includes not only works by the school’s famous faculty and best-known students—including Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, and Gunta Stölzl—but also a broad range of works by innovative but less well-known students, suggesting the collective nature of ideas.

Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010

Aside from making me feel really old in comparison to the high school aged audience, it was an amazing show and was all that I thought it would be.