Jonathan Cousins 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. read more
Visualization for the World Economic Forum, Dubai
Created for Phyllotaxis Lab at SEED Media Group
Details coming soon: in brief, another collaboration with Nick Sears for the forum's summit in Dubai in November. We created the piece in a little over a week. The Phyllotaxis Lab's design director is Ben Fry, co-creator of Processing programming language.
The ABACUS piece was created during a brief residency at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) with additional support from the Center for New Performance at Cal Arts. After a performance at RPI's new EMPAC facility, ABACUS was presented at the REDCAT Festival in L.A. My work on the project consists of data visualizations and data animations ranging from the traditional to the abstract. It was, and continues to be, an excellent opportunity to experiment with new visualization and computational social science techniques and ideas.
TRIPLEDEX: OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE INITIATIVE
Tripledex is working on a Department of Homeland Security-sponsored site to help government technologists learn about how open source software is used in the public sector. My role in the project is as lead UI and data visualization designer/programmer. It's another fantastic opportunity to work with the Tripledex team (Patrick Dwyer and Nick Sears) headed by JC Herz.
Trust Art is a social platform that is commissioning ten public artworks over the next year. Users are invited to become shareholders with $1, plus there are a variety of mechanisms to accept non-monetary resources as well. My work on the project is a simple, fun visualization of the shareholders. The founders of this project (Jose Serrano-Reyes and Seth Aylmer) are also the founders of Fame Game.
Edopter is an online service that tracks the spread of new trends around the world in real time. The goal is to combine user insights and worldwide buzz to "tap into the next big thing." The project is headed and co-founded by Matthew Rosenberg and Andy ThompSon of One Blue Brick. They commissioned me to create a fun, but informative, analytical space to allow users of the edopter service to track in depth the progress of trends.
Earlier this year, Nick Sears 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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