Comments on: Culture in real time: data visualization and the CCO http://cultureby.com/2009/09/culture-in-real-time-data-visualization-and-the-cco.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 23 May 2012 20:32:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grant McCracken http://cultureby.com/2009/09/culture-in-real-time-data-visualization-and-the-cco.html/comment-page-1#comment-477 Grant McCracken Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:35:30 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=47#comment-477 Steve, done! thanks for the spot. Best, Grant Steve, done! thanks for the spot. Best, Grant

]]> By: srp http://cultureby.com/2009/09/culture-in-real-time-data-visualization-and-the-cco.html/comment-page-1#comment-476 srp Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:15:44 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=47#comment-476 Go back! "This blog sits..." has a bold, self-referential zing. Plus, a lot of rankings and bookmarks have "this blog" stored as the title. Go back! “This blog sits…” has a bold, self-referential zing. Plus, a lot of rankings and bookmarks have “this blog” stored as the title.

]]> By: Grant McCracken http://cultureby.com/2009/09/culture-in-real-time-data-visualization-and-the-cco.html/comment-page-1#comment-475 Grant McCracken Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:14:59 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=47#comment-475 Christopher, thanks, lost the book and the type is too small but otherwise better. Best, Grant Christopher, thanks, lost the book and the type is too small but otherwise
better. Best, Grant

]]> By: Grant McCracken http://cultureby.com/2009/09/culture-in-real-time-data-visualization-and-the-cco.html/comment-page-1#comment-474 Grant McCracken Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:58:32 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=47#comment-474 Steve, Oh, f*ck, no, this is what happens when you fiddle with blog design late at night. Thx for the spot. Now to decide: do I leave it or go back? Your thoughts, sir? Best, Grant Steve, Oh, f*ck, no, this is what happens when you fiddle with blog design
late at night. Thx for the spot. Now to decide: do I leave it or go back?
Your thoughts, sir? Best, Grant

]]> By: srp http://cultureby.com/2009/09/culture-in-real-time-data-visualization-and-the-cco.html/comment-page-1#comment-473 srp Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:12:06 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=47#comment-473 The updated design of the blog is great. Was the change from "This blog sits..." to "The blog sits..." intentional? The updated design of the blog is great. Was the change from “This blog sits…” to “The blog sits…” intentional?

]]> By: Christopher Edwards http://cultureby.com/2009/09/culture-in-real-time-data-visualization-and-the-cco.html/comment-page-1#comment-472 Christopher Edwards Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:47:42 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=47#comment-472 By the way Grant, I had noticed the new site design. Slick! Nice update. By the way Grant, I had noticed the new site design. Slick! Nice update.

]]> By: Christopher Edwards http://cultureby.com/2009/09/culture-in-real-time-data-visualization-and-the-cco.html/comment-page-1#comment-471 Christopher Edwards Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:47:08 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=47#comment-471 Grace -- I was just thinking about how this could upset the, very pricey color forecasting industry. Of course Pantone does some of this themselves, but their are organizations like the Color Forecasting Group who charge quite a hefty sum for their work (and others too, I remember a job where our marketing director subscribed to a French publication, I believe she paid $5K a year for that subscription). So perhaps this would allow a DIY approach. Giving product planners their own tools. Decentralizing the data. Which would then become a specific value add for a design department. Just like the spread of data from organizations like Bloomberg and SNL Financial have allowed smaller and smaller institutions and individual investors to play games where they used to not be able (because they weren't big enough to have a research department to track that information. Oh and one other thing, I noticed when I was at the Murakami Takashi show at the Brooklyn museum last year that his paintings anticipated color trends by about 3 years. So, alternately, instead of a machine, companies should just hire artists. Grace — I was just thinking about how this could upset the, very pricey color forecasting industry. Of course Pantone does some of this themselves, but their are organizations like the Color Forecasting Group who charge quite a hefty sum for their work (and others too, I remember a job where our marketing director subscribed to a French publication, I believe she paid $5K a year for that subscription).

So perhaps this would allow a DIY approach. Giving product planners their own tools. Decentralizing the data. Which would then become a specific value add for a design department. Just like the spread of data from organizations like Bloomberg and SNL Financial have allowed smaller and smaller institutions and individual investors to play games where they used to not be able (because they weren’t big enough to have a research department to track that information.

Oh and one other thing, I noticed when I was at the Murakami Takashi show at the Brooklyn museum last year that his paintings anticipated color trends by about 3 years. So, alternately, instead of a machine, companies should just hire artists.

]]> By: Grace http://cultureby.com/2009/09/culture-in-real-time-data-visualization-and-the-cco.html/comment-page-1#comment-470 Grace Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:04:47 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=47#comment-470 BTW, the Chico's storefront in Manhattan Beach, CA had a uncharacteristically subdued color theme last weekend. Everything on the mannequins was burgundy and gray. Where have I seen that recently? Oh, yes! The MIT bookstore. BTW, the Chico’s storefront in Manhattan Beach, CA had a uncharacteristically subdued color theme last weekend. Everything on the mannequins was burgundy and gray. Where have I seen that recently?

Oh, yes! The MIT bookstore.

]]> By: Grace http://cultureby.com/2009/09/culture-in-real-time-data-visualization-and-the-cco.html/comment-page-1#comment-469 Grace Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:03:07 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=47#comment-469 Pantone sends out the color predictions to industry 2 years before they are released to the public. That gives industry enough of a heads up to produce the dyes, dye the fabrics, get them to the designers, the factories, etc. ADM would be a visualization tool for early adoption instead of a predictor of new color trends. But, if you could filter for DIY home dyers like myself, who can produce any color and not just those in the stores... <a href="http://badmomgoodmom.blogspot.com/search/label/Dyeing" rel="nofollow">http://badmomgoodmom.blogspot.com/search/label/Dyeing</a> Pantone sends out the color predictions to industry 2 years before they are released to the public. That gives industry enough of a heads up to produce the dyes, dye the fabrics, get them to the designers, the factories, etc.

ADM would be a visualization tool for early adoption instead of a predictor of new color trends. But, if you could filter for DIY home dyers like myself, who can produce any color and not just those in the stores…
http://badmomgoodmom.blogspot.com/search/label/Dyeing

]]> By: Grant McCracken http://cultureby.com/2009/09/culture-in-real-time-data-visualization-and-the-cco.html/comment-page-1#comment-468 Grant McCracken Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:57:37 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=47#comment-468 Sarah, fab, a kind of deep burgundy fab, thx! Grant Sarah, fab, a kind of deep burgundy fab, thx! Grant

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