Visual Information Seeking, p. 450-456, introduces the notion of tight coupling of dynamic queries and starfield displays. The visualization videos demonstrate excellent examples of information visualization through animation, fisheye views, visual changes in large overviews of the data, and dynamic queries. The metaphor videos illustrate different metaphors and approaches to representations. The presentation is fairly straight-forward. To this purpose, I choose from the above videos to illustrate novel and creative interface designs and metaphors.
Students tend to be quite impressed by the ideas presented in the videos.
Handbook of Human Computer Interaction, North Holland. Edward Tufte's brilliant book set including The visual display of quantitative information and Envisioning information are required reading for anyone designing visual displays. The reading Tools and Techniques for Creative Design supplied pretty well all the raw material for creativity.