I haven’t seen any good examples recently of workflow diagrams, at least not more technical ones based around software, services and workflow.

Creating a diagram like this its always nice to see other examples of how people have approached the problem but in this scenario I have yet to see anything. Even Edward Tufte came short on this, though the diagrams and illustrations he provides examples for are excellent.

So this is what I came up with to illustrate a workflow with our software in a newsroom environment.

So now we have moved in the decorating is in full swing. There has been lots that we have done, but much still to do. K and I have been talking about building a floating wall for the living room, I think that needs some more thought but first off its the easy things like curtains. So last night we went to Marimekko and chose a design by Erja Hirvi called Lumimarja.

There are plenty of other really nice fabrics and designs in there, but this will probably go really well with the Sofa, floor and the colour we are thinking of having in the room.

This is a blog page to some data visualisation places for future reference:

http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/2008/04/16/data-visualisation-blogs-you-might-not-know-about/

I have also cut+pasted them in to the extended entry in case the blog goes down.
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I am loving this short movie entitled “Delivery” by Till Nowak over at Framebox.

Check it out: http://www.delivery.framebox.de/

Its worth the download of the Divx version

Recent posts have been alittle dry and techie recently so here is something a bit more creative, a new Spike Jonze Adidas Ad ad - very beautiful it is too.

http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/1586/

Really interesting interview with Lindon Leader; the designer of the FedEx logo, IMHO one of the best logo designs yet, and one that continues to cause much debate over the infamous hidden arrow.

Another awesome clip put together by Ben Dawkins

http://www.bendawkins.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ps2_stork.html

This is a really nice link that was posted up on humhum the other day, and adds to the other branding sites that I have put the other day: http://blog.timc3.com/item.php?entry=195

http://giam.typepad.com/the_branding_of_polaroid_/

Well yesterday was my Birthday and amoung other things we went to see shhh… at the V&A yesterday, and it was really quite good. Its an exploritive of music composed by various musicians with varying degrees of success. Of the highlights was Roots Manuva and a long time favourite of mine, Cornelius. Just walking around looking at the exhibits with music gave quite a different feel to the whole museum and I really recommend that even if you didn’t get to see this, take an iPod around and try and make your own soundtrack - the results are outstanding and sometimes felt like I was involved within a movie

Just a couple of branding sites that have been posted on the renascentfused board that I thought would be very useful for future reference.

http://www.ge.com/brand/design_library

http://www.cidoc.net/

http://users.ncrvnet.nl/mstol/57.htm

I am particularly impressed with a corporate like General Electric putting their brand tools on a very public part of their site.