Max is an award-winning strategic web designer located in the SOMA district of downtown San Francisco.

Here & There - A Horizonless Projection in Manhattan

Posted: June 15th, 2009 | Author: max | Filed under: Vizlist | Tags: ,

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“Here & There is a project by S&W exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th. They’re intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward.”

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Huge Collection of T-Shirt Design Mockup Templates

Posted: June 14th, 2009 | Author: max | Filed under: Bookmarks

Templates are a handy resource for any apparel designer to mockup your awesome tee design and show it off in all its glory. Such resources can be a little tricky to come by, especially those high quality files, but check out this huge collection of T-Shirt mockup templates, featuring plenty of highly useful files in both vector and PSD format for use in your future apparel projects.

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Visualization of Large Social Networks

Posted: June 14th, 2009 | Author: max | Filed under: Vizlist | Tags:

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“For a long time now I have been a great admirer of Matthew Hurst’s work and I’m continuously impressed by the works posted at visualcomplexity.com. So I decided it was time for me to try something like this myself.

What I did is write a program that is able to log in to a very popular German Social Networking website and grab some data from it. I grabbed the friends of my profile (only 2) their friends (about 100) and the friends of their friends (about 5000). I used PHP with cURL for that and saved the data to a MySQL database.

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geoGreeting - Messages Created From Aerial Building Views

Posted: June 14th, 2009 | Author: max | Filed under: DesignDemo | Tags: ,

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Your greeted with the cryptic message, “The surface of the earth holds a message for you. You just need to look a little closer.” Very Matrix like, but true with this very clever visualization. As the Jesse Vig the developer stated, “While working on a different Google Maps project, I noticed that a number of buildings looked like letters of the alphabet when viewed from above. This is the point where I should have just said ‘hmmm, good observation’ and gone on with my life. But I didn’t and that’s why this website is here.”

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Major Site Overhaul of Max Kiesler Has Now Been Completed

Posted: June 9th, 2009 | Author: max | Filed under: News

Over the course of the last week I’ve been working on a major overhaul to my website. You may have noticed some issues, however, most if not all updating has been completed now. The overhaul included switching my site to a new platform. This meant lots of redirected url’s including all site pages, permalinks, and rss feeds. If you have linked to me in the past all of your permalinks should be working. If you find an issue with any of my permalinks please let me know via my contact form and I’ll change them immediately. Also, all of my feed links have been updated. If you subscribe to my feedburner feeds you should notice no difference in your content. If you subscribe to any of my blogs via rss 1.0, 2.0 or atom all of your feeds have been redirected to my new rss 2.0 feed. You could also use the subscribe links at the top of the sidebar to re-subscribe to my feedburner feeds.

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Telecommunications Visualization

Posted: June 24th, 2008 | Author: max | Filed under: DesignDemo

image “New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world. In an information age, telecommunications such as the Internet and the telephone bind people across space by eviscerating the constraints of distance. To reveal the relationships that New Yorkers have with the rest of the world, New York Talk Exchange asks: How does the city of New York connect to other cities? With which cities does New York have the strongest ties and how do these relationships shift with time? How does the rest of the world reach into the neighborhoods of New York?”

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Mapjack - Street View Mapping Visualization

Posted: June 24th, 2008 | Author: max | Filed under: DesignDemo

image “Mapjack.com showcases a new level of mapping technology. What others have done with NASA budgets and Star Wars-like equipment, we’ve done on a shoestring budget, along with a few trips to Radio Shack. Specifically, we developed an array of proprietary electronics, hardware and software tools that enable us to capture an entire city’s streets with relative ease and excellent image quality. We have a complete low-cost scalable system encompassing the entire work-flow process needed for Immersive Street-Side Imagery, from picture gathering to post-processing to assembling on a Website.”

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Jiffy Web - Google Code

Posted: June 24th, 2008 | Author: max | Filed under: mHub

“Jiffy is an end-to-end real-world web page instrumentation and measurement suite. The first beta was released on 6/23/2008, as announced at O’Reilly Velocity 2008. Jiffy was built and is maintained by the WhitePages.com team.”

Website: http://code.google.com/p/jiffy-web/


Phototype - Image Manipulation with Javascript

Posted: June 24th, 2008 | Author: max | Filed under: mHub

“Lately I had same crazy thoughts on coding a javascript wrapper to manipulate images rendered on the server-side. I decided to do some test which eventually resulted in phototype, a client/server-side library, based on prototype, which supports all kinds of image manipulations. On the serverside the library is powered by combination of PHP/GD that renders the image. With phototype, you are able to rotate, resize, flip and do some other cool effects to images.”

Website: http://ajaxorized.com/phototype-image-manipulation-with-javascript


MIT Reality Mining Visualization

Posted: June 23rd, 2008 | Author: max | Filed under: DesignDemo

image “Reality Mining defines the collection of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior. This new paradigm of data mining makes possible the modeling of conversation context, proximity sensing, and temporospatial location throughout large communities of individuals. Mobile phones (and similarly innocuous devices) are used for data collection, opening social network analysis to new methods of empirical stochastic modeling.”

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