Comments on: Writing Without Words: Visualizing a Book

By: Writing Without Words | The Data Art Review

Writing Without Words | The Data Art Review — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:27:47 +0000

[...] Without Words received tremendous praise in reviews from Notcot and Brain Pickings, and her own commentary on the work can be read here. Also see this video from Flowing Data in [...]

By: Mitchel Ahern

Mitchel Ahern — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:57:00 +0000

Novel as data visualization; rather Gysin-esque in its own way I think.

Attached for your amusement is another visualization of On The Road:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7m5NoKKCyo&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J6fOMQOby8Mitchel Ahern

By: Stefanie Posavec Visualizes The Best of Brain Pickings | Brain Pickings

Stefanie Posavec Visualizes The Best of Brain Pickings | Brain Pickings — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:02:18 +0000

[...] them one at a time over the coming week, starting with crown jewel Stefanie Posavec, whose Writing Without Words project is one of our most popular articles of all time and whose more recent work you may have [...]

By: Poetry On The Road's VisualPoetry | Brain Pickings

Poetry On The Road's VisualPoetry | Brain Pickings — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:45:44 +0000

[...] 2003 theme was reminiscent of Stefanie Posavec’s Writing Without Words project, which you may recall from a couple of months ago. Here, Müller explores the nature, [...]

By: jess .

jess . — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:47:01 +0000

Wow this is really interesting! Thanks. Is this data visualization?

Also did I miss it or what are the key themes identified? I really liked the photo of her highlighted book. I thought she would have searched the text with computers.

By: Interview with Dava Viz Star Pedro Monteiro | Brain Pickings

Interview with Dava Viz Star Pedro Monteiro | Brain Pickings — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:18:21 +0000

[...] see what IDEO is doing with their design thinking approach. The work that Stefanie Posavec did with Kerouac’s On The Road, it changes the world and the way people [...]

By: (verlate) Visual Friday: Jack Kerouac’s On The Road – carrièremagazine Spotlight Effect

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:36:49 +0000

[...] en de Verenigde Staten maakte. Deze datavisualisatie is van Stefanie Posavec en is onderdeel van de serie ‘Writing without words’, een project waarin woorden uit boeken worden weggelaten om het [...]

By: Nonsequential Narratives: Hypertextual Books | Brain Pickings

Nonsequential Narratives: Hypertextual Books | Brain Pickings — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:44:57 +0000

[...] visual dissection of literature reminds us of Stefanie Posavec’s Writing Without Words, though Swinehart’s approach is much less abstract and far more technically [...]

By: Maria Popova

Maria Popova — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:09:29 +0000

Amanda: Very interesting. I’m a big believer in gut reactions, so there must be something deeply valid about your response.

But what I’m most fascinated by in this project – and what I feel gives it the rich emotional dimension that saves it from simplifying the book – is the color-coding she uses to match the visual to the theme. I wish there were more information about her methodology on the site, but there’s something about the color-based representation of semantic context that gives it precisely the emotional quality that’s missing for you.

But, of course, that’s just my own subjective gut-driven interpretation.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:02:24 +0000

Something in me viscerally hates this – reducing the complexity of a book to a representational image. Intellectually I think it’s interesting, but emotionally, I actually find it pretty upsetting, for some reason.