February 2012
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Build Your Own Museum →
The Tokyo Ito Museum of Architecture has made a paper craft diagram available for download that will let you recreate the building at 1:150 scale. (Via Things Magazine)
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Boy Scout Hydration Chart →
“Optimal” is an interesting choice to describe urine. And not that we need to be scientific about this, but wouldn’t the color be dependent on how much water is in the toilet? (Via)
November 2011
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Susan Kare's Icons →
Good article by Steve Silberman on the woman behind Apple’s first icons, including some great concept sketches. (Via)
October 2011
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Occupy George →
This endeavor aims to educate through Infographics stamped on dollar bills.
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Racial Divisions →
Jim Valandingham animates the racial divide in cities using census data of their black and white populations. (Via)
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Worldwide Animal Sounds →
I went to the Talk To Me exhibit at MoMA this past weekend and I highly recommend it. There are too many great pieces to link, but one that’s viewable online is a project cataloging different animal sounds made by children around the world. They are surprisingly different, but mostly all recognizable. They’re also absurdly cute.
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September 2011
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Fairy Tale Posters →
These minimalist posters by Christian Jackson each represent a familiar children’s story. (from Papertastebuds, via @rosegarsch)
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The American Day, Remixed →
Nathan Yau of Flowing Data remixes this New York Times interactive graphic about how americans spend their day. His version breaks up the activity categories so they can be compared side-by-side. The original survey data can be found here.
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The Art of Clean Up →
In his new book, Ursus Wehrli takes the disorder of everyday life and organizes it. (Via Kottke)
July 2011
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Apologies
Due to some domain issues, I’ll need to relink many of the images on this site. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Update: Everything should be squared away now.
April 2011
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One Size Fits Nobody →
A good illustration and article in the New York Times addressing the variation in women’s dress sizes (via Flowing Data).
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March 2011
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van Gogh Pie →
Arthur Buxton’s beautiful piece shows Vincent van Gogh paintings as pie charts based on the most prominent colors used in them. (Via Flowing Data)
January 2011
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Pizzicato Trains →
Alexander Chen animates New York City’s subway system as if it’s a string ensemble. (Via Kottke)
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Charting Dexter →
This graphic created by Dehahs, a member at Deviantart, tracks all the deaths that Dexter is responsible for. There are obviously spoilers in this chart, so if you haven’t seen the show and plan to, then don’t click the image. (Via Flowing Data)
December 2010
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Visualizing Slavery →
The New York Times has a piece about this map from 1860. It’s the last visual record showing slavery from census data. (Via Flowing Data)
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Chained Melody
I had been playing with alternative (and possibly inaccessible) ways to visualize music notation, and came up with this. Theoretically, someone could play the melody from this single line if they knew the first note, though reading the subtle differences in radius would be a challenge. I may experiment with other songs in the future, but here is one for the holidays:
November 2010
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Portraits of the Mind →
Last night I went to a lecture by Carl E. Schoonover at Observatory. His new book has some breathtaking visualizations of the brain. The talk was great too if you get a chance to see it.
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Remnants of a Disappearing UI
Because the primary input method of the iPad is a single piece of multitouch glass, developers have incredible flexibility to design unique user interfaces. It’s hard to appreciate the variety of UIs though, since turning the screen off removes virtually all evidence of them. To spotlight these differences, I looked at the only fragments that remain from using an app: fingerprints.
My...
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WatchKnowing my obsession with charts, a friend recently brought to my attention that Jennifer Egan’s novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, contains a chapter in the form of a PowerPoint presentation. If you’re like me, you’ll have flashes of Edward Tufte’s condemnation and be skeptical of how this could work, but it does.
The presentation is from the point of view of a 12-year...
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A Hundred Million 311 Calls →
This Wired article charts the nature and location of calls.
(Via Infosthetics)
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October 2010
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The Satellite Collection →
Jenny Odell (via Things Magazine):
The Satellite Collection is a series of six digital prints that I made by collaging cut-out imagery from Google Satellite. Each one is printed and framed at 24”x24”
Note: The site seems to be down at the moment, so you can view the other images here for now.
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One Million →
From Think Studio:
The plan of the book is simple: two hundred pages; five thousand dots to a page. The result: one million dots. Notes that correspond to occasional numbers point out unusual and informative historical, political, anatomical and sociological information that add up to help the concept hit home. Author and New Yorker editor Hendrik Hertzberg wants the reader to actually see,...
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Taxonomy of Rap Names →
A complex charting of similarities in rapper names by Pop Chart Lab.
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"Listen here, Busker!" →
If you’re in the NYC area, go check out the Kiel Johnson exhibit at Davidson Contemporary.
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Software Evolution Storylines →
An interesting way to visualize software creation, showing the interactions of developers over time (via Flowing Data).
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Fascinating Interactive Map of Refugees →
From Niceone.org. They have a couple other ways to view the data as well.
(via Infosthetics)
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Now You Can Rebrand Yourself Badly... →
…but pay much less than The Gap.
(via The Awl)
Edit: found a better version here.
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Map of Online Communities →
By XKCD. My favorite part is Kanye’s Isle of Sadness.
(via Kottke, yet again)
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August 2010
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July 2010
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WatchAn animated version of my infographic for GOOD magazine.
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Typestaches →
(via Kottke, as usual)
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The Periodic Table of Swearing →
(via Kottke)
June 2010
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Folding Letters →
Instructions for an origami alphabet created by Erik Demaine, Martin Demaine, and Jason Ku. If you reference the diagrams for folding them, you may be able to decode this puzzle (Via Kottke).
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May 2010
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A classic:
April 2010
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Colours in Cultures →
Fascinating chart by David McCandless and AlwaysWithHonor.
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Chart Junk vs. Tufte
If you’ve heard of Edward Tufte, you probably know about his strong opposition to visual embellishment in charts. He refers to it as “chart junk” and argues that all ink not used to present data should be removed. No doubt he has some beautiful examples of this, but to use a baseball analogy, I see this as advice to “just make contact”. It’s good general advice,...
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Kashiwa Sato
His website lists projects by their color palette. Really nice. It’s in flash though, so for any mobile devices, here’s a screenshot:
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Bacteria Stories
An article about the massive number of microbes in the ocean (via Kottke again) reminded me of this mini (2″x2″) comic by Nate Dorr. All the Spirochaetes are going crazy for it.