IBM Smart Planet

Check IBM's Smart planet website. Not only see beautiful icons and posters, but also motion graphic.
Joe Makower from The Energy Collective wrote an insightful story about this IBM ad campaign that explains its goals and strategy and includes interviews with Rich Lechner, IBM’s VP of Energy and Environment and John Kennedy, VP of Integrated Marketing Communications.
also check it from DataVisualization.ch website

Mixtape Club (YG7)

Too technical for the arts, too creative for the sciences, YG8 Jurors Chris Smith,
Jesse Casey, and Michelle Higa funneled their collective love of music, computer
science and semiotics into the world of animation, and Mixtape Club (YG7) was
born.

Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics

Behind the scenes

Sony Ericsson MH907 - Behind the scenes from ljudbilden on Vimeo.

Visual Flow

I was talking about music being a great metaphor to describe the flow with graphics and design, Noah Kareus sent me the perfect sample after class. Thanks, Noah.

More resource for infographic

visual-literacy.org
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

You’ll find many more amazing infographics on the following websites:

• Info Graphics Flickr Group
  Charts, graphs, facts, anything that is about information or visualizing information.
• InfoVis Flickr Group
  Information Visualization: The creation of something visual from something abstract. Graphs, maps, charts, numbers. The compression of data and the expansion of meaning. Scientific, creative, useful, worthless.

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• Showcase of Data Visualization and Infographics
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Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization

{Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization}
An illustrated chronology of innovations by Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis
A good web reference for graphic designers who want to study info-graphic. It is interesting to check both their old web site and the current one to see how the idea was developed and visualized.

New technology

Amazing technology from Japan . . .
You've just seen something that will replace your PC in the near future.
Here is how it works.

OCR Terminal: Convert Scanned Images Into Editable Text

OCR Terminal is a free online Optical Character Recognition service that allows you to convert scanned images and PDF's into editable and text searchable documents. It accurately preserves formatting and layout of documents. Read mor