It’s a diploma by Melih Bilgil.

History of the internet is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file-sharing, from arpanet to internet.
The history is told with help of the PICOL icons, which are also a part of my diploma. The icons are soon available for free on picol.org

The personal feeds from webapplications like Plazes, Flickr, and Last.fm tell much about the activity of an individual on the internet. In this project we aim to explore how you can visualize the changes of your web identity over time and create a physical link between your virtual and real identity. The interface consists of both a physical table and a web application. This direct feedback from your web identity is customizable and can be connected to any RSS feed.

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

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.

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

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

[via Wooster Collective]