the obama infographic i made early last year got quite a lot of attention at the time from blogs, however i’ve just come across a similar but much more impressive interactive inaugural infographic from the ‘new york times’ design team, featuring the words of all US presidents right back to washington on a timeline…
fascinating, for example to see bush junior using the word ‘freedom’ so copiously…
here is a daunting infographic which maps the dazzling number of clandestine and public entities involved in the security of the united states of secret america, in order of least, to most activity… wow
unusual idea for a book on a narrow theme, or is it rather data visualisation in book form?
…all of the apples in this little hardcover book were printed at actual size. Every apple is a different variety (47 kinds total) and are labeled as such. On the left of every spread is the apple whole, on the right page, it’s the apple sliced in half. The author of this book, Jonathan Gerken, gathered all of these apples during the fall of a single year from local farmer’s markets, orchards and neighbors…
thanks to one of my favourite old interns ‘uwe’, who sent me some images and an update of his school projects this week
like his editorial/magazine project on the subject of enjoyment, issue one being the ‘sex’ issue plus a complicated infographic on his own weekly consumption patterns, looking good… time for a summer break mate!
two contrasting facets of the way google has changed our lives: firstly this collection of google related projects from around the world and secondly an infographic on the world’s goverments and their demands for google to remove data, with a surprising first place for brazil…
