WSS2008 Postcard Front

Given all the web work I have been doing in the recent past, it feels good every once in a while to create something that gets printed. So here's my latest project - an announcement postcard for the 2008 Wood Structures Symposium to be held at UMass in Amherst, MA. Above is the front and below is the back of the card.

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Even beyond the great music, Radiohead's latest video "House of Cards" is simply amazing. And that for two reasons:

100% data-driven visuals. The entire music video was produced without the use of a camera. Instead, three kinds of (near- and far-range) laser scanners were used to capture the artists and several environments. That's just great fun from an engineering standpoint.

All data and code are open source. Not only are both the raw data AND the processing code freely available on Google Code, fans (at least the tech-savvy kind) are encouraged to remix the data and make their own visualizations.

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This one is just too amazing not to write about. If you haven't tried it yet, go to Wordle and give it a spin. All of these collages were created using their web service. My only suggestion for an improvement would be an option to keep punctuation. Oh, well - I am getting greedy...

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