As infographics go mainstream, infographic designers grow bolder. Some of the most tantalizing projects we came across this past year stretched our understanding of what a data visualization can be..READ MORE›
For most of computing history, interfaces have been about function. Word processing programs help you compose documents. Banking websites help you make transactions. Sites like Flickr help you display and share photographs.
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"How do you live in the moment when the moment changes every second?" That's the question that was nagging Scott Thrift, a filmmaker and inventor at the Brooklyn-based creative agency m ss ng p eces. (Yes, that's actually how they ...READ MORE›
People often talk about Apple's rebirth under Steve Jobs as if it were purely a matter of design innovation and brilliant products. (I know: We're guilty of this too.) But the fact is that the Second Coming of Jobs owed a large part ...READ MORE›
I dutifully sort my recycling, shun Styrofoam, and buy biodegradable detergent. And while I wouldn’t consider doing otherwise, sometimes these efforts feel like casting a vote in the 2000 presidential election: for naught. I might ...READ MORE›
Kill your maps. They’re useless. What you need, says Vincent Meertens, a recent graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven, are time maps. “Everybody thinks in time rather than distance,” he tells Co.Design in an email. “That is ...READ MORE›
We all know that men and women approach most everything in life slightly differently--and sometimes, wildly differently. How does this affect the way they each do business?
Rarely do you get a data set that reveals much about that ...READ MORE›
Running has always seemed like pure masochism to me, but for many urbanites it's the best and only way to get daily exercise. Seeing a whole city's worth of this activity, over a whole year, paints the urban landscape in a whole new ...READ MORE›
When you visit the doctor complaining of a cough or stomach pain, they usually seem to know what to do: They'll ask if you have trouble breathing, or check your heart rate. But it's all a little baffling: What are they checking for? ...READ MORE›
That map you see above isn't a picture of the earth, seen from space. Rather, it's a map of the locations attached to every tweet and Flickr photo. What results is a remarkable picture of how each service has spread across the ...READ MORE›
The lines between states and even countries are pretty arbitrary: The ties you have with people 50 miles away aren't going to be too-much affected by some imaginary line drawn up 200 years ago. What if you could remap the United ...READ MORE›
Planetary, a free iPad app from the data-artists at Bloom, is jaw-droppingly, eye-poppingly gorgeous. It analyzes your iTunes music library and visualizes it as a 3D galaxy, where artists become stars that form constellations, albums ...READ MORE›
We take it for granted that water comes from the tap, but we don't appreciate that it often has to travel hundreds, even thousands of miles from its source to get where it's ultimately consumed. David Wicks, a masters student at UCLA, ...READ MORE›
Today, leaders from the G12 countries--the 12 largest economies in the world--are descending on Brazil, to dither and whine and bicker stroke their chins about the world's economy. But it's safe to say that the number one concern for ...READ MORE›
Up in the cloud-piercing reaches of the New York Times Building, Jer Thorp is breezing through the particulars of a grand experiment in data visualization, one designed to unpack the mysteries of social media for the Times and, ...READ MORE›
Flight to the suburbs, urban decay, ruin porn--we've all become yawningly familiar with these tropes of modern migration. But a set of fascinating new maps based on data from the 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census shows that, if you look ...READ MORE›
It's a common trope of the action-thriller: A secretive government agency is tracking someone using just their cell phone. But it's not just in movies. Every few seconds, your phone is looking for the nearest cell tower, and each time ...READ MORE›
It will be days or even weeks until we know the full extent of the destruction caused by today's earthquake and tsunami that originated in the seas off Sendai, Japan, but new infographics by the scientists at the National Oceanic and ...READ MORE›
Artist Ward Shelley has produced another fine, fine, fine hand-drawn flowchart that will blow your mind: This time, it's dedicated to the 2,500 years of intellectual history that have produced the modern sci-fi genre.
Which sounds ...READ MORE›
Each year, graphic designer Nicholas Felton creates an "annual report," summarizing an entire year of life in a series of beautiful charts and graphs. For 2010, he's created a masterpiece. Instead of looking at his own life, he's ...READ MORE›
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