Monthly Archive for August, 2008

Historical SenseMaking Research


One of the research projects underway in Humantific | UnderstandingLab is finding, studying and documenting early examples of Visual Social SenseMaking. At this moment we are particularly interested in 18th and 19th century examples from North America and Europe. Shown here are some amazing examples from the Rand McNally World Atlas designed and published in the United States in 1890. If anyone out there has or knows of other early Visual SenseMaking examples please feel free to let us know. Contact: research (at) humantific (dot) com.

WorkshopONE Summer Session Wraps

Making cross-disciplinary innovation understandable, the OPEN summer session of NextD WorkshopONE wrapped up on Saturday July 26. A diverse, energetic group of participants from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Spain, and the US attended a full day of cross-disciplinary skill building led by the NextD / Humantific team. Thanks again to Martha Stewart OmniMedia for hosting us!

This session was specially crafted for the design community in that we talked about and modeled Design 3.0 cross-disciplinary transformation methods. If you would like to attend the next WorkshopONE session in the US or in Europe send an email to programs (at) humantific (dot) com.