Exhibit your hard drive!

Always wanted to show your hard drive in a museum? This is your chance.

Our new exhibition ‘INFODECODATA: not words, but images' will start February 20th 2010. At this exhibition on data visualization we want to show a large collection of images of hard drives.

Jack van Wijk, Professor Visualization at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and his group have developed a visualization tool that enables you to generate a single-picture overview of the contents of your hard drive. With this tool, named SequoiaView, you can find out why your drive is full or what folder is taking up the most space. Since it's launch, the program has been downloaded over one million times.

We are curious what the images of our museum visitors' hard drives look like. Will they all look quite similar or will wild variations occur?

We have prepared a special INFODECODATA edition of SequoiaView to support this, which can be downloaded here. Send us the image of your hard disk and come to admire it at the Graphic Design Museum from February 20!


This is what a Visualization Professor's hard drive looks like.