Gerd Arntz
Posted March 3rd, 2009 at 3:07 pm. There are 0 comments.
food isotype samples
Gerd Arntz designed over 4000 isotype pictograms in his lifetime. Collected in the Gerd Arntz Archive, these drawings gave the proletariat knowledge of the world.
This knowledge should not be shrined in opaque scientific language, but directly illustrated in straightforward images and a clear structure, also for people who could not, or hardly, read. Another outspoken goal of this method of visual statistics was to overcome barriers of language and culture, and to be universally understood.
New York Times Map of Readers’ Photos of the Snow
Posted March 3rd, 2009 at 9:58 am. There are 0 comments.
The sparseness of the information on the map is almost unsettling. New York Times readers were asked to submit their photos from the snowstorm that came through the area on Monday, but it would seem that very few did.
100 matchsticks grid16: 16/28
Posted February 18th, 2009 at 10:26 am. There are 0 comments.
I glued 100 matchsticks in 10X10 grid.
my favorite thing-a-day made thus far.
vehicle motion drawings
Posted February 16th, 2009 at 8:54 pm. There are 0 comments.
Monaco Grand Prix Track Drawing by Tim Knowles
A series of drawings generated by an apparatus in the back of a moving vehicle, a system of sliding rails and elastic holds a pen
on to paper and records the forces at work within the vehicle. As the car moves much like a ball on the back seat of a car,
as you break the pen moves forward, you turn left the pen moves right, etc.
the ten commandments of design
Posted February 15th, 2009 at 4:39 pm. There are 0 comments.Good design is Innovative
Good design makes a product useful
Good design is aesthetic
Good design helps a product to be understood
Good design is unobtrusive
Good design is honest
Good design is durable
Good design is thorough to the last detail
Good design is concerned with the environment
Good design is as little design as possible
paper visualization of daylight
Posted February 13th, 2009 at 11:58 am. There are 0 comments.
Made by Charlene Lam the outer loop represents the 24 hours of the day for each of the 12 months. The inner loop shows the length of daylight for the first of that month.
Beautiful.
furniture made of ice and snow
Posted February 11th, 2009 at 9:55 am. There are 0 comments.
'ice and snow furniture' image © hongtao zhou
Furniture made from the surrounding terrain always excites me. Blending in to the surroundings and the manner in which it will return to the earth, or water in this case, make these even more beautiful.
Created by Hongtao Zhou on Lake Mendota at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
via designboom
Gore Mountain ski weekend
Posted February 9th, 2009 at 10:26 pm. There are 0 comments.
Wonderful weekend of skiing at Gore Mountain in the Adirondacks.
large version here
superbowl twitter timeline on nyt.com
Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 11:34 am. There are 0 comments.
Wonderful map + timeline showing most popular ‘tweets’ during the superbowl. You can look at all ‘tweets’ or seperate categories such as ads (Cash4Gold and GoDaddy being ones I personally contributed too, in as much as I thought they were aweful) or the ever useful emoticon map.
Grid: Thing-A-Day 1/28
Posted February 1st, 2009 at 9:00 pm. There are 0 comments.
Thing-A-Day 2009 kicked off today. This is my first of what will be 28 days of grids. Follow all the action at thing-a-day.com
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