New Year, New Company: Introducing The Office for Creative Research by Jer Thorpe.
From the post:
In the fall of 2010, my friend Mike Young invited me to come to the New York Times R&D Lab, to discuss a new visualization project that was just starting to get off of the ground. That project became Cascade, and that meeting led to my two-and-a-half year stay at the R&D Lab, as the first Data Artist in Residence. Yesterday, my residency at the New York Times came to an end. This morning, I’m thrilled to announce the official launch of my new company: The Office For Creative Research.
My 28 months (the residency was originally set for four months) at the New York Times was transformational in many, many ways. Cascade, which I initiated with Mark Hansen as a conceptual prototype, became a full-fledged project supported by an entire team of designers, developers and engineers. Along with Jake Porway, Brian House, and Matt Boggie, we built OpenPaths, which continues to be an exciting model for personal engagement with data. Mark and I, working with Alexis Lloyd, also made Memory Maps, a prototype for archive exploration, in which news stories are interwoven with the personal history of the user.
A company to watch for innovation in “…he borders between data, technology & culture….” Seminars and a journal at the end of 2013 are forthcoming.
I have posted about some of Jer’s work:
Infinite Weft (Exploring the Old Aesthetic)
Data in an Alien Context: Kepler Visualization Source Code
Jer Thorpe on “Data” and “History”
That is very little of all there is to see.
Certainly a likely partner/resource for complex topic map visualization projects.