I couldn’t be more happy and excited about the result of this year’s Malofiej Awards. The Malofiej Awards are the international Grammies of the infographics world.

I’m most excited about receiving a Peter Sullivan Award, or best in show, for the Ebb and Flow in the Box Office published in Feb 2008. I worked on this graphic with Amanda Cox, who did very well overall at Malofiej.

In addition to this, Map of Olympic Medals, a graphic I put a lot of time into, received a Silver Medal in the “Features” category.

These graphics, as well as the other award recipients, will be published in a book in the near future — I recommend keeping an eye out for it!

This past week the Economist published a piece entitled Primates On Facebook that described some research done by the Facebook Data Team. Since there have been a number of questions throughout the monkeysphere, we thought we would take the opportunity to describe our approach, the data, and our analysis.

Read more about our findings (and become a fan) at the Facebook Data Page
and my coworker Cameron’s blog at Overstated.net.

Almost two months gone by without design process updates. I’m really busy, and a lot of the things I’m busy on I just can’t show off the progress work. I’m excited about a handful of projects that are coming to fruition in the next month or two.

Until then, a teaser.
I just spent a moment tonight making this:

Every year for the last few years, my family has sent increasingly more complex and interesting Christmas cards. It’s become tradition to put well over 60 collective hours of production time – half of which past midnight (and not just by myself), hundreds of dollars and a frantic last minute mass mailing just to hear the words “best card yet” from our family and friends.

This year, instead of shipping out a hundred hand-made books or three-foot-long fold outs, we decided to save our fingers from the paper cuts and our wallets from the printing costs.

We had Kinkos whip up a box of these…

The inside reads: “Find them this holiday season at byronmurray.com”

Happy Holidays to you all, and thanks for a great year! Here’s hoping that 2009 is as fruitful as the last.

If you live in San Francisco, come out for the release party tonight!

After the release party, you will be able to download it for yourself!

Fireflies is a game using anaglyph red/blue 3D. Joannie Wu and I designed and developed the game over the last two months for Kokoromi’s Gamma3D exhibition, this upcoming Wednesday, Nov 19th. If you’re going to be in Montreal for the MIGS video game creators conference, be sure to check out Gamma3D and play Fireflies!

After the exhibition, you can download and play Fireflies yourself. Fireflies runs on Mac OSX, and we recommend an Xbox 360 controller for the best gameplay. You’ll need anaglyph glasses, which you can get for free online.

A prototype interface for a touch-screen ’surface’ application for sampling a video portfolio I created for Rehab Studio in February. This interface would be displayed on a 60″ LCD touch screen embedded into a table surface.

Evolution of the shapes on the surface show and hide new clips available to watch. The clips available may change throughout the course of the day.

Watch it in HD.

A week ago I got a shiny new iPhone. A few days later I got my Developer’s Certificate and the API. Two days after that, today, I’ve got the first app up and running!

It’s a port of Golan Levin’s Yellowtail with the small addition of multi-touch.

OF and Processing nerds read on
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