An article called “The designers doing a 360″ which features designs and designers using the form of the circle and the sphere, can be found in the March ‘09 edition of the computer arts magazin.
Of course I had to have a look at it and althought I appreciate the feature of the circle and its powerful ability to give an easy overview over complex information contexts, I quite frankly found it very lame and out of date. Already in September ‘08 “Die Gestalten” published a book called “Data Flow”, which already featured most of the works the computer arts magazin now features in the “Output Section” that deals with “design trends, the hottest illustrations and the best new work from around the world” (?!).
I’m not talking about the featured work, which is great and features one of my alltime favourite information design groups called “Catalogtree” from the Netherlands. I just wished the editor of this article would have done some better research, showing some recent stuff and what’s really going on with the circles used as information graphics and interactive information graphics.
Melanie
Johannes