Food retailer Chipotle has an online animated map showing the locality and seasonality of produce used in their menu items. Though buried at the bottom of the page (click ‘integrity’, then scroll down), the graphic is a good educational tool: teaching about seasonality in produce. From the perspective of informational design, it would be great […]
A straw-bale bench and accompanying info-graphic is on exhibit all summer at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. As part of the Powerhouse Plants exhibit showcasing the super-human powers of plants. Entitled ‘Waves of [Multifunctional] Grain,’ this graphic installation shows the life-cycle of grain crops like wheat, barley and rye – and how the waste product from […]
A work-in-progress of the Grocery project is showing at Art-A-Whirl May 14-16. The installation will display a prototype of a system to trace the origins of grocery purchases at the point-of-sale. Preview: In Development: And in-store tracking system that will map a customer’s produce, meat and dairy purchases. An accompanying online portal will allow deeper […]
An Earth Day Campaign by online service yousendit.com calculates the savings of using digital file sharing vs. printing, burning CDs and shipping. Though a bit of a stretch to calculate environmental impacts in this fashion, it’s always good to see dynamically-calculated details on your own impacts (and those of all users of a service).
Arlene Birt will present April 22 at Pecha Kucha night in a joint MCAD/American Swedish Institute event on Earth Day.
‘Tacoshed’ tracks the journey (and miles) of all the ingredients from a taco produced by a specific taco truck in San Francisco. Compiled by students at California College of the Arts and design group Rebar, this info-visualization highlights the complexity of our food systems. Tough resulting in complex maps, the results accurately gives people an […]
Arlene Birt is named as a finalist for the 2010 Bush Fellowship.
The ‘Drinking Water Cycle’ glasses are on part of the ‘Water Rights’ exhibition at MCAD gallery 215 now through March 21. The glasses are part of ‘The Water Project’.
A local cafe has compiled a somewhat-visual depiction of their activities over the year. The focus is on communicating data as it relates to the sustainability initiatives of the cafe.
Sustainability: Measuring and Communicating Life Cycle online course through MCAD’s Sustainability program – registration open.