Design Inspiration

It is only the second day of classes of the new semester, yet I am already finding my classes to be exciting and the prospect of what I am going to learn inspiring. One inspiring project I have stumbled upon in researching interesting things going on in the world of design and technology is Conductor, by Alexander Chen. This work-in-progress is a program/app/piece that visualizes and audio-izes the complicatedly beautiful NYC Subway system using SVG, HTML5, and JavaScript. The dynamic map will one day create a live performance of the subway schedule, hopes the artist, but for now it is just a sample video performance that I find interesting and inspiring. While the NYC Subway map is already useful and detailed, this project will allow the connections between the subway lines to be more apparent, interesting, and exciting. It could even be fun for riders to be able to record the musical sounds of their subway journey. Click the link above to see the artist’s project page, or check out Creative Applications Network’s coverage.