There’s no such thing as Data Visualisation. Strictly speaking, there are only surfaces covered with marks. The rest is a human interpretation of them.
This could be argued that “there are examples of graphics where shapes and colours are not employed to represent data”.
The answer to this might be:
“We agree that any conscious design activity implies some kind of analytical thinking. And where there’s analysis, there’s data. Therefore, any graphic design is dealing with representing data, and so there’s no entity as Data Visualisation which would be separate from any other designing activity. And in turn, this proves that Data Visualisation is a term which was created artificially”.
I.e. we came up with term “data visualisation” so that, on one side, we’d have a certain theoretical framework to facilitate working with what interests us most, and on another, to make sure clients pay us more and with greater ease.
— Zhenya Vasiliev
What is this
For those who assume that the frequency of updates on 56stuff.com is too low, we made this simple yet effective illusory pseudoupdate.
Using the illusory pseudoupdate is as easy as child’s play. The only thing you have to do in order to get fresh, original, and definitely new page is just to press “refresh” button. Wow?!
As you understand, we killed two birds with one shot: visitors don’t get bored anymore, and we have a neat confirmation of our never-ending hard-working process.
The content of this page
is obviously original. We use this instead of blog or, if you wish, a diary. Also you can find here some fragments from various interviews and a number of answers to frequently asked questions.
By the way,
another entertaining way to use this pseudoupdate is to play it like a game. For example, you can think of a picture and then keep clicking refresh until it loads in both slots. You can also compete with your friends: the one who gets the wished combination first wins!
And yes, you definitely can tell someone’s fortune using these pictures and words. For sure.
As for non-illusory updates,
they usually appear in our updates history.