Browsing the Web, I recently discovered Andy Gilmore's Design Works. Like Victor Vasarely, Andy Gilmore is inspired by Technology and Geometry, its works look futurist and sacred in the same time. A great Inspiration for Visual Thinkers.
Using Nova Mind, I tried to create a map with an Andy Gilmore's image as background.
Last month during the first Mapping Experts Conference in Paris, I made a Presentation about the intersection of Mind Mapping an Web 2.0 This is the English version of the Presentation.
For the first time ever, the Grand Prix for Film has gone not to a TV ad, but to a captivating, interactive online video for Philips. This video simulates the exploration of a 3d scene. I wonder if in the future we would be able to create 3d maps merging information and images, distributing the knowledge into a virtual space.
Last week I attended a business meeting near Madrid.I took my notes using a Mindmap. It 's a lot more fun and pleasure to read my notes when they are turned into a Mindmap. Colors, imagination, structure connect with both sides of the brain. Linear notes don't give us this creative dimension and are more difficult top memorize.
NovaMind announced, a few weeks ago, the release of NovaMind 5, due to ship in September/October 2009. Included in NovaMind 5 is a wide range of new topic shapes, providing the opportunity to create more visually rich Mind Maps. The new design elements include things such as floating topics, attached shapes, callouts, and “FlexiLine” topics which can be shaped as desired, and have the text flowing smoothly along the line. This applies also for the link lines which are used to show secondary relationships between topics - these now have a choice of over 30 terminators for the start or end of the line to indicate the nature of the relationship, as well as the ability to scale the terminator to show the relative importance of the relationships. Text labels can flow along the lines or be attached to the line at any point along the line, and multiple labels can be used per line.
The video below shows various o those new features :
