From his early childhood years sketching in the dirt to his final hours at age 91, Pablo Picasso was devoted to mastering his deeply personal art. Tens of thousands of works that touch on countless...
Learning about ancient history can sometimes feel like rote memorization: old names, old dates, etc.
For this visualization, I wanted to show the history of the Roman Empire in vivid color. It...
This visualization (interactive version here) is a musical history of one of my favorite artists: Bruce Springsteen. It focuses on his 200 songs and 17 original studio albums over a 45 year career....
Each piece of music has a key: the note on which the whole harmonic composition is built.
How can we use this information to visually represent the complexity of a musician's production over...
The lantern is also called the sky lantern, also known as the wishing lantern. It is an ancient Chinese handicraft and used for military purposes in ancient times. Modern people put the lantern as...
China has a long history, vast territory, diverse natural environment, and different social and economic environment. In the course of long historical development, different forms of residential...
In 2017, there are still directors who shoot on film (sometimes exclusively). Others use both film and digital when it serves a purpose. In this project, I explore the filmmaker's choices. When we...
A visualization of national anthems in the world.
Nowadays, a massive amount of data about the economy, education, environment, history, etc. were put together to recognize a country. A national...
Cardcaptor Sakura, written and illustrated by CLAMP between 1996 - 2000, is one of the most beautiful and adorable manga series ever created. This visualization is an ode to this series and brings...
Our ancestors conducted friendly exchanges through the Silk Road long time ago.Although it was named "Silk Road", in the trade on this artery, besides silk, lacquerwork and all kinds of rare...
Orchids are valuable, ornamental plants. In China, the orchid is called the national orchid mainly referring to the spring orchid, lily orchid, cymbidium, jianlan, cold orchid, merlan, spring...
It is a visualization of the national anthem of China. From left to right, top to bottom, it visualizes the entire song and lyrics. The lyrics of Chinese characters are not complete characters but...
All 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets were run through sentiment analysis to produce word and overall line sentiment (positive, negative, neutral). This was then visualized in large interactive format...
This work explores the relationship between the mathematical proportions of Buddhist images and geometric figures, allowing the public to understand the inner structure and standard paintings of...
“垃圾”与“美好”似乎是两条永远不可能相交的平行线,作品将身边的“有色垃圾”制成颜料,并用这些特殊的“油墨”记录身边的生活。此时,垃圾不再是人们疏远的东西,它不仅得到了再生利用,更成了记录情感的伙伴。海报将每种颜色的制作流程用信息可视化的形式表现出来。("Garbage" and "good" seem to be two parallel lines that can never be...
This project is an experimental generous interface to three editions of Guillame-Thomas Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes. It visualises changes, additions and deletions in the text at multiple...
Our group works mainly with illustrations to show the history of Chinese rice and developing rice varieties. From the discovery of early rice ruins in China to hybrid rice with high yield records...
The visualisation shows the 50 most voted animated feature films on Imdb (Internet Movie Database); for each picture are reported the number of votes received, the average value of the judgments,...
This interactive essay explores the 175-year performance history (as of 2017) of the New York Philharmonic, and takes a look at how some aspects of performances at the Phil have changed through the...
Tai Chi is a Chinese martial art practiced for its health benefits. The Chinese believe that slow body movement helps to gather invisible energy from the universe and harmonizes the body. We...
Walt Disney's water themed ride, "it's a small world", promotes world peace and unity. This visualization mimics Charles Minard's map of Napoleon's Russia campaign of 1812. The design juxtaposes...
The world famous Russian salad has a different name and a century long history in Russia, where it was invented by renowned french chef. This feature cherishes the favorite staple of national...
This interactive project uses text mining and data visualization techniques to reveal new patterning insights of the ancient Chinese text I-Ching from both divinatory and philosophical...
Missing masterpieces draw headlines, but most stolen art is crushingly quotidian-a family portrait "lost" by a moving company, a landscape snatched with the jewelry during a break-in. The FBI's...
A tribute to Anthony Bourdain, this work visualizes all the places that Bourdain visited and shared with the world through his television shows---A Cook's Tour, No Reservations, The Layover, and...