I have no immediate plans to visit the UK but when I do I’ll know exactly where to go to see some of the city’s most impressive graffiti. The savvy web folks at Bristol Street Art have put together a lovely interactive map that allows users to browse locations of the city’s pieces via Google Maps.

The app also lets you to filter the results by status (active vs. buffed), time period, type and artist. For traveling artists, the app may be useful for getting a lay of the land and quickly finding work from their favorite UK artists but I am a little worried this information would give Joe Law a good idea of frequently hit walls. Not to mention giving away the geo-specific location of Bristol’s best hidden spots.

Bristol Street Art Map »

After seeking out a number of recommendations from the seedy underbelly of Denver (my friends), I’ve finally found an artist I trust to continue with more black work up my right arm.  Who, you ask?  It’s Joanna Steele of Sol Tribe. Her black work is remarkably clean and I have a feeling she’ll be the light-handed style of artist that’ll make the fills look perfect.  On top of that, she seems to have a lovely soul and was very personable when we sat down to chat.  Sadly, I’ll be among her last clients here in Denver as she’s off to ink the lucky citizens of Oahu later this summer. Guess I’ll be visiting Jennifer’s family a lot more often than usual.

Peep some of her work below. Masterful.

One of the best books I read in 2009 was Miggy’s copy (presumably from his MIT days) of Edward R. Tufte’s Envisioning Information. The book is a plethora of infographics — both gorgeous and terrible — spanning the history of modern man. In as little as the 2 months I’ve spent with this treasure, I learned many of the principles that have helped me understand what makes a great representation of data shine and how to avoid the pitfalls of those that leave users confused or misinformed.

So today, when Awesome Jon told me about this one day course with Edward Tufte, I couldn’t help but start planning my trip to the Big Apple for a day of cartography, statistics, art, complexity, symbolism and cognitive science explained by a master Information Designer.

New York, here I come.

In our quest to track down a copy of Super Mario Bros. for the Wii last weekend Jennifer, Tona and I were reminded of just how close we are to the subtle, western beauties that I wish were more discoverable in and around Denver, CO.

We never did get a copy of the game but our travels gifted me this snapshot of our diminishing cow town aura. Yeehaw.