I don’t remember which Twitter feed led me to this site but it’s definitely worth spending some time on based on variety alone. When it comes to infographics there are plenty of sites dedicated to them, such as graphjam and flowingdata, but few recognize and acknowledge the legacy of geographic maps, newspapers, and textbooks from which they originate. Little more than visual shorthand for displaying data sets these have become increasingly important as of late due to the scale of data points in the cases of finance and the environment. We all heart it when people get witty (or use super clean graphics) in order to enforce their point though.
Oh, if only you could apply ellipses and draw items like they were vector art…then you would have ‘Rhino Lite,‘ which isn’t such a bad idea with all the underpowered tablets that will be on the market this time next year. Via Zockey’s Twitter Feed.
About time someone mapped this out in order to explain it to the masses. Unfortunately the details are lost with a digital representation of the chart in question. Purchase one of the 200 print run limited edition here for $45. Via InformationIsBeautiful.
I would love to see using 3D objects as templates for printing as an emerging trend because on it’s own I wasn’t as impressed with the print above until I saw the image below. This got me thinking about my college printmaking class and how this would have been the ultimate low-input/high-output approach to a final project. Little effort compared to intaglio process, cheap, easy to alter, making it perfect for a series.
All that needs to be done in order to pull these off (no pun intended) is a slight adjustment in the distance between the roller and the print bed underneath, and a variance in the pressure applied to make sure the dice themselves don’t crack. Either way, it’s labor intensive as hell compared to a typical offset three color print but worth the effort. Get your own from each 100 print run of various patterns ($100-250) here. Via TodayAndTomorrow.
For £15 the Date Ruler by André Klauser is better than having a really expensive large scale screenprinted calendar up on the wall. The ‘calendaruler’ is made from polished 1mm stainless steel with 12 inch/months, 31 cm/days and two different colored magnetic rings. Love the magenta and teal since their position on a color wheel mimics their functional relationship. Via IanClaridge.
FlowingData has an excellent series of infocharts called Underloadbased on information culled from various sources. In the case of the image above, the blogger maps out Google responses to ‘Life is like….’ Sure, it’s a little bit ‘GraphJam‘ in nature but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Not sure why ‘Highway’ or ‘Board Game’ aren’t even .5 million data points though, suspect sample perhaps?
Throwback look/feel is definitely achieved here in an odd subset of American cities rendered in 14x 24 serigraph prints from design collective theheadsofstate. I heart the fact they only cost about $30 (before shipping) and would look very decent up on the wall next to some hipster concert posters. Via HypeBeast.
The perfect chart for diagnosing the denizens of the interwebs. Via 
Throwback look/feel is definitely achieved here in an odd subset of American cities rendered in 14x 24 serigraph prints from design collective