This is quite an impressive chart on animal longevity. Go turtles!
(via Maria)
“In Caffeine We Trust Poster”
The “In Caffeine We Trust Poster” lets you track your monthly coffee consumption on a beautifully designed print. The poster is offset printed on 18×24 Strathmore 140 lb. acid-free heavy weight cold press watercolor paper with black ink. A product by Column Five.
(Thank you Lauren)
Sunscreen
An in-depth infographic on how much sunscreen you should wear by Information is Beautiful.
(via coudal)
Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity
Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data — and at times vast numbers of people — and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the “Wilderness Downtown” video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human. Watch his TED Talk below.
(via Brain Pickings)
DrawHappy
In asking [100] people, locals and tourists alike, what made them happy, Catherine Young realized that one of the most universal and clearest ways to record their responses was to ask them to draw what made them happy. Drawing is one of the earliest skills we learn; its basic elements are comprehensible to people of all ages, cultures and nations. Catherine reasoned that if people knew that they were happy, they should be able to identify the source and moreover, visually embody this joy.
Here’s one the submitted drawings that made me smile:
Eating with friends by Desire Go.
One hundred six submissions into this project, she has decided to visualize what she has learned so far. Behold, an infographic:
(click to view large)
Catherine presented this as a final project for Nicholas Felton’s Information Visualization class at the School of Visual Arts’ MFA Interaction Design program.
This is an ongoing project. If you would like to Draw Happy, yes, please do! Check the Submit page for details.
(thank you Liz)
how to credit?
Brilliant and necessary! How to properly credit an image visualized in a flowchart by Pia, Erin and Yvette.
(via designsponge / thank you Maria)
Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule
(originally uploaded by Nick Bilton)
Studiomate Chris pointed me to Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule. The non-clutter-person in me loves that he alloted time in the evening to ‘put things in their places’…
Do what you like. Repeat.
Found this over on ThinkingAloud. Not sure who to give credit to. The graphic is by Austrian based Moritz Resl and available for purchase.
Typefaces of the World
Typefaces of the World is a poster Shelby White created to show the typefaces that are most commonly used in a lot of today’s design. The poster includes information for each typefaces such as the year it was made, the location and the typographer. These 50 typefaces were chosen based on popularity and usefulness in present design. It was by mere coincidence that the typefaces were nearly split 50/50 between Europe and the United States. But it does show that the most prominent locations for typographers were in these areas.
What a beauty! I would love to hang one of these in my studio. Shelby says he is toying with the idea of adding a store to his site. Let’s hope he does soon! Typefaces of the World! Wishlisted!
Should I work for free Flowchart
My former studiomate Jessica Hische put together this flowchart answering the question “Should I work for free?“
The Universe and Forever
Today’s 20×200 edition by Wendy MacNaughton made me smile: The Universe and Forever.
A world of tweets
A World of Tweets shows you with a heat map visualization where people are tweeting at from the past hour. The more tweets there are from a specific region, the “hotter” or redder it becomes. This continuous collection of Twitter statuses shows in what an incredible tweeting world we live in. Check out the 3D view!
A project by Frog Design.
(thank you fabulous John Ford)
Lunchguest: David McCandless
Today, I am finally starting the long overdue “LunchGuest” category here on swissmiss. We often have interesting, smart people come visit Studiomates (our studio collective) and we’ve been talking for a while that we should simply start a digital guestbook of all the fantastic people that stop by.
Today’s studio lunchtable was more than packed: Studiomates were excited to meet and lunch with David McCandless, force behind Information Is Beautiful and this amazing TED Talk by David called The beauty of Data Visualization.
David McCandless is a London-based author, writer and designer. He’s written for The Guardian, Wired and others. These days he’s an independent data journalist and information designer. A passion of his is visualizing information – facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, questions – all with the minimum of words. He’s interested in how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through BS and reveal the hidden connections, patterns and stories underneath. Or, failing that, it can just look cool!
More about David:
- A book of his information designs is published by HarperCollins in the US and UK in 2009.
- In the past, he has worked as a journalist, video games writer, satirist, copywriter, and creative director. His personal site.
- Check out his Google Shared Items scrapbook (Be warned: it’s mostly funny viral chaff and bizarro pictures)
Here’s David McCandless virtual Guestbook entry on our studio-ideapaint wall (link to view large)
It was great to have you, David!
Everything Explained Through Flowcharts
How is the world going to end? What’s the best way to win an argument? Which heavy metal band name is right for you? Learn the answers to these questions by reading Everything Explained Through Flowcharts by Doogie Horner.
Journalism in the Age of Data
Journalism in the Age of Data from geoff mcghee on Vimeo.
If you have a spare hour, then feast your eyes on Geoff McGhee’s video documentary “Journalism in the Age of Data,” which explores the exciting potential and occasional pitfalls of modern data visualization.
(via GOOD)
The beauty of data visualization
David McCandless shows how design can make sense out of the overwhelming amount of information in today’s world. He turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
Matt Might, Assistant Professor at the School of Computing University in Utah, explains to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is.
It’s hard to describe it in words, so he uses pictures.
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (also as a PDF)
(via @sandbox_network)
The Four Seasons Visualized
Laia Clos’ studio mot designed this data visualization of The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. lesquatrestacions is a graphic information system for visualizing the lead violin of Vivaldi’s masterpiece. The work consists of four posters, a set of stamps and the documentation of the system.
(via datavisualization.ch)
Storytelling visualized
Kurt Vonnegut explains storytelling through Cartesian graphs on a blackboard. Read the Article: Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard
(via @brainpicker)
What are you?
Made me chuckle. Couldn’t make up my mind yet which category I belong to. (Tempted to redo this graphic with a less painful font choice)
Found this over on Red’s photostream. Can anyone point me to the original source so I can give proper credit?
Where Americans Are Moving
More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves. Click on map to be taken over to Forbes.com and then click on any county to see comings and goings: black lines indicate net inward movement, red lines net outward movement.
(via JayParkinson)
