Standing in one of the moss and dirt covered tunnels in Leeds, England, Paul Curtis, “Moose” as he calls himself, saw marks on the wall where the shoulders of unsteady drunks and the fingertips of curious children had exposed the shiny white tile. And with only a pair of socks as his tool, reverse graffiti was born.
No paint. No defacing. Moose makes his art by cleaning; removing the ills of dirt and pollution by de-defacing- wiping away dirt into large type and shapes, leaving nothing behind but a beautiful work of “green art.”

This is what it is:

This is how it’s done:

• The Projects Website is here: reversegraffiti.com
• via Martin Willms

The May 2008 issue of german PAGE magazin focussed on interactive information design. It’s the cover story, therefore the topic gets highlighted quite accurate.
The bottom line is: A change in the way we perceive information is happening right now, and the reason is web. I do emphasize this: With the help of accessible, structured databases and visualizing tools like Actionscript and Processing, there is more to charts then a bar graph.

Never before there was so much data to absorb and manage as it is today. Jens Franke talks about a generation of fresh designers who encounter the flood of information and the rising urge for knowlegde, using new, interactive media.

A few cool links from this essay:

British History Timeline The history of Britain broken down into bite-size chunks. Flash tool by which you can browse historical events or take a guided tour on topics such as Slavery or Technology.	Marumushis Newsmap Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.
Relation Browser: Visualization Toolbox for creating your own visual context system - based on a planetary design, ergo: circular shaped icons. This geographical demo was created in order to demonstrate the visualizations’s capabilities by displaying the CIA world factbook information about countries, continents and oceans.	Well-formed data | Elastic lists Example of the elastic list principle for browsing multi-facetted data structures, based on a Noble prize winners dataset.Elastic lists enhance traditional facet browsing approaches by visualizing relative proportions of metadata values by size and by brightness.

Unfortunately the essay is not yet available online.
You have to wait or order the printed issue here: PAGE magazine
The .PDF for download will be available around July 2008.

I didn’t realize it’s 2051 already:

Festo AirJelly

Quoting Engadget: Suffice it to say Festo’s AirJelly is powered by some magical jelly fish properties, a lithium-ion battery, an electric motor and a bit of helium. If that’s not floaty enough for you, there’s also a water version, Aqua Jelly

Festo Air Ray

via Geekologie

I love that graphic department at Twitter: Isn’t this a peachy illustration - consider that this was used during a database crash. Luvly.

Beautiful Twitter Mashup: Twistori. A content harvester that filters emotional twitter microposts. Made by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs.

A “first person” visualization of Twitter messages, inspired by We Feel Fine. Twitter messages are filtered by occurrences of the phrases:

• I love
• I hate
• I think
• I believe
• I feel
• I wish

which are placed in a visual scrolling message ticker. Similar to Digg Labs BigSpy.

via Information Aesthetics

Inflatable sculptures! A fine artwork by Joshua Allen Harris.

[via Wooster Collective]

Moritz Waldemeyer is a german designer based in London with a huge crush on tech gadgets. He created some really charmin items playing with lights, mainly using LED technology. They are attracting our nerdy eyes like shit attracts flies.
Start off with a portrait on BBC’s culture show here:

Here is the the last one, read more about Joyrider at Gizmodo. The bike that smiles when ridden:

Links:

• Dezeen on Moritz Waldemeyer
• Pixelsumo on Moritz Waldemeyer
• Moritz Waldemeyer on Moritz Waldemeyer [His own Blog]

That’s a free piece of candy for all blognerds and other design wannabes:
It is set up and installed in 14 minutes (I hit the stopwatch), and with my pics it looks like this:
[Feel free control the grid by clicking and moving]

View this in fullscreen

Your own gallery is set up in four steps:

• Download Tiltviewer here
• Customize the file “index.html”: Simply add your Flickr userID
• Upload the bulk to your webhost
• Embed it in your site or blog

That’s all.
Tiltviewer 3D Flash Gallery is provided by Airtight Interactive