infographics

Track Thyself: Quantify Your Life For Productivity, Fun

BY Kevin Purdy | 04-18-2012 | 11:30 AM | WORK/LIFE

There are plenty of tools for tracking just one thing you care about and regularly update on your own--exercise, eating, places you feel comfortable “checking in.” But well-kept personal data is useful, revealing, and hits a sweet spot between curiosity and action.READ MORE›

Don't Look Now, But There Is Poison In Your Lipstick

BY Morgan Clendaniel | 02-17-2012 | 8:56 AM | INFOGRAPHICS

In fact, there is poison in a lot of stuff you rub all over yourself every day, from shampoo to deodorant to, yes, lipstick. This infographic lays out some of the dangers lurking in the drugstore. READ MORE›

UPS Air and Ocean Freight

UPS Supply Chain Solutions offers a full array of global air and ocean freight transportation services. With the ability to handle almost any size shipment, including thousands of small products to oversized cargo, from almost any ...READ MORE›

An Infographic Tells You How To Make Your Tweets More Clickable

BY John Pavlus | 11-08-2011 | 4:29 PM | SPARKLINES

How tiny can a data visualization be and still be meaningful? Edward Tufte pushed the limit of infographic density with his "sparklines," and now Dan Zarrella of Hubspot does something similar--with a micro-sized heatmap of a ... READ MORE›

An Infographic Tells You How To Make Your Tweets More Clickable

BY John Pavlus | 11-08-2011 | 1:56 PM | SPARKLINES

How tiny can a data visualization be and still be meaningful? Edward Tufte pushed the limit of infographic density with his "sparklines," and now Dan Zarella of Hubspot does something similar -- with a micro-sized heatmap of a ...READ MORE›

Infographic: Who Is Occupy Wall Street?

BY Sean Captain | 11-02-2011 | 10:40 AM | DESIGN

Visualizing the results of 5,006 completed surveys at occupywallst.org, data shared exclusively with Fast Company.READ MORE›

Infographic: America's Energy Prices Vs. The World

BY Morgan Clendaniel | 10-27-2011 | 10:27 AM | ETHONOMICS

Think your electricity bill is high? It's not. Neither is your heating bill or the price you pay at the pump. In the grand scheme of things, in fact, you're getting a great deal.READ MORE›

The Ad Men Behind Occupy George, Occupy Wall Street Infographics Printed On Dollar Bills

BY Morgan Clendaniel | 10-18-2011 | 4:32 PM | ETHONOMICS

By making the facts simple to understand--and putting them in a rather prominent, poignant place--two creatives offer their skills to fight wealth disparity. READ MORE›

Infographic Of The Day: Starter Upper Auto-Generates Your Dot-Com 2.0 Business Plan

BY John Pavlus | 10-06-2011 | 5:19 PM | VITAMIN T

Are we in the Second Great Dot-Com Bubble, or has the Internet Economy actually just become . . . the economy? With tech bloggers suddenly morphing into venture capitalists and social/mobile/geo-located/gamified startups springing up ... READ MORE›

Infographic Of The Day: Starter Upper Auto-Generates Your Dot-Com 2.0 Business Plan

BY John Pavlus | 10-06-2011 | 11:15 AM | VITAMIN T

Provided, of course, that your business plan consists of mixing and matching tech buzzwords at random.READ MORE›

Can Your Job Be Done By A Robot?

BY Mindflash | 10-04-2011 | 5:09 PM | LEADERSHIP

Sure, everyone at work may like you, but is there a chance you could be replaced by a robot? This (humorous--but informative!) infographic will give you a clue if your profession makes you particularly at risk to losing your job to a cyborg. READ MORE›

IBM Puts On A Big Data Viz Show, Streaming Real-Time Data About NYC

BY Linda Tischler | 09-27-2011 | 4:11 PM | RAY AND CHARLES EAMES

[figure=inline-large][caption][/caption][/figure] Ever since Diller Scofido & Renfro unveiled their sexy new rehab of Lincoln Center, the place has been a magnet for surprising design: Wet’s frisky fountain, Fashion Week’s ... READ MORE›

Infographic Of The Day: The Biggest Cliches Of Web Infographics

BY Belinda Lanks | 09-27-2011 | 12:11 PM |

At Co.Design, we pride ourselves on uncovering the best infographics--meaning the ones that they convey complex information with easy-to-understand visuals. There’s usually no shortage of choices--there’s a data boom, after all, ...READ MORE›

IBM Puts On A Big Data Viz Show, Streaming Real-Time Data About NYC

BY Linda Tischler | 09-27-2011 | 11:42 AM | RAY AND CHARLES EAMES

Ever since Diller Scofido & Renfro unveiled their sexy new rehab of Lincoln Center, the place has been a magnet for surprising design: Wet’s frisky fountain, Fashion Week’s footwear fetishists, the bizarre spectacle of ...READ MORE›

Infographic Of The Day: The Formula For Keeping An Online Comic Alive

BY Belinda Lanks | 09-26-2011 | 2:04 PM | INFOGRAPHICS

Looking at 36 popular Web strips, Slacktory finds that there's actually no common recipe. READ MORE›

Infographic Of The Day: Does Innovation Flow From Cities?

BY Cliff Kuang | 09-12-2011 | 12:16 PM | TECHNOLOGY

Invention and innovation are huge enough subjects that you rarely get any sense of their grand organization--instead, you have to settle for telling bits and pieces, like a blind man palpating the proverbial elephant. But occasionally ...READ MORE›

Mapping The Recession's Absurdity, Using D&D Dice

BY Alissa Walker | 09-09-2011 | 10:47 AM | JAMES BILLS

You only need to look at one of Co.Design's most popular features to see that society is inundated with information. Artist James Bills has a different take on our info-overloaded culture. He creates art that nods to our desperate ... READ MORE›

Infographic Of The Day: How River Names Reveal Our Cultural Roots

BY Suzanne LaBarre | 08-31-2011 | 9:49 AM | DEREK WATKINS

The list of words for America’s watery topography is as long as the Colorado. The terms vary wildly from region to region, and culture to culture: “brooks” in New England; “sloughs” in the Pacific Northwest, and ... READ MORE›

Visualizing Data And Telling Compelling Stories With OkCupid And FlowingData

BY Kevin Purdy | 08-08-2011 | 7:13 AM | WORK/LIFE

Execs from two of the web's leading names in making data interesting and accessible, OkCupid and FlowingData, give candid advice on how to make your own presentations and graphics more appealing.READ MORE›

Voyurl Watches Your Web Browsing, To Create Custom Infographics

BY John Pavlus | 07-27-2011 | 7:53 AM | VOYURL

When we first reported on Adam Leibsohn's online startup Voyurl, we were a bit flummoxed by its pitch: The service asked users to install a browser extension that tracks their web-surfing activity and broadcasts it to the outside ... READ MORE›