We tend to forget how complicated our technology has become and how even relative simple things require a whole infrastructure to be available. In this Ted.com video Thomas Thwaites took it upon himself to try to build a toaster from scratch, starting with collecting the raw materials. It shows not only how difficult it is … READ MORE…

In the Life lessons from an ad man video at www.ted.com Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider “real” value — and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life. The part about the commercial for Shreddies is … READ MORE…

A powerful way to show the relative importance of amounts is to use a treemap. A treemap is a hierarchical (tree-structured) display of data as a set of nested rectangles. Each data element is represented by a rectangle that is proportional in area to the size/amount of the data element. Individual elements can be subdivided in further … READ MORE…

October 2010 the Guggenheim museum presented YouTube Play, a selection of 25 videos out of 23,000 entries. The videos are of very different nature but all very creative. Please sit back and enjoy.