Jonathan Cousins is a designer and programmer specializing in the creation of information visualizations and user interfaces. Although he focuses primarily on social network analysis, global migration and the promotion of government transparency, his design practice extends to other kinds of commercial, philosophical and artistic enterprises. His efforts on projects have been presented at various conferences such as ETech, Where2.0, SIGGRAPH Asia and the Lightwave Festival in Dublin.
Nick Sears recently asked me to develop some content for his completely amazing Orb project. Orbs are part of a series of collaborations between Nick and his father, Ron Sears, under the name Art Magnitude. They are spherical displays built entirely from scratch. Nick's talk from the TED conference about an earlier version of the Orb gives you a good idea of how they're made and where they're going with the project.
The software I've developed is a visualization about global immigration. It's a variation on work I've been doing since 2007.
The Orb was most recently on display at the SIGGRAPH Asia Conference in Singapore. Photos (5):
SIGGRAPH Asia Installation
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