Infographic Of The Day: The Magic And Madness Of The Creative Process Visual.ly has tipped us off to a fun little infographic by Virus Comix that uses the metaphor of a street map to show the many routes, stops, loops, and warning signs we encounter on the bumpy road to creative brilliance.
Updated Fri Jan 20, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: How Much Money Makes You Rich? Here’s a chart for Mint.com by Column Five Media that tells us as much about America’s fraught relationship to money as any sign at Zuccotti Park. That’s because it reveals how Americans perceive wealth. Is it earning $60,000 a year? A net worth of more than $5 million?
Updated Fri Jan 20, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: What Got Your Parents Knocking Boots? GE throws some mood lighting on the cultural moment, from the politics to the media events to the Marvin Gaye, surrounding your conception.
Updated Wed Jan 18, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: Which City Has The World's Most Expensive Real Estate? Credit Sesame offers a global perspective on America's (relatively affordable) real estate market.
Updated Wed Jan 18, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: Which Ivy League School Best Suits You? Harvard or Yale? The high-school overachievers’ nagging existential dilemma suddenly got a whole lot easier thanks to the taste-prediction startup Hunch.
Updated Tue Jan 17, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: A Video History Of The iPhone The first commercially available cell phone, released in 1983, weighed nearly two pounds, cost $3,995, and had a battery that lasted about as long an episode of Benson. Fast-forward more than 25 years to the iPhone 4, with its 1 GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera and HD video, 512 megabytes of memory, and (relatively) affordable price tag for texting, tweeting, talking, filming, mapping, and iTuning to your heart’s content. As far as technological progress goes, it’s like going from an arrowhead to a Swiss Army Knife.[vimeo 30195371]
Updated Tue Jan 17, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: What Are The Darkest Parts Of The Bible? We generally avoid featuring infographics about literature because they obfuscate the text rather than illuminate it.
Updated Tue Jan 17, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: What Countries Have Outlawed Abortion? Partial-birth abortion, conscience clauses, parental notification: Abortion regulations in the United States seem excruciatingly complicated. But they're nothing compared to the labyrinth of reproductive restrictions and exceptions in other countries, whether it’s a pass for women with mental health problems in Colombia or an absolute ban on all procedures in Chile.
Updated Tue Jan 17, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: What’s More Expensive, Prison Or Princeton? We’re all moderately aware that the prison system costs taxpayers a lot of money. But how expensive is it really?
More expensive than going to an Ivy League school.
Updated Fri Jan 13, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: The History Of Dance Music In One Handy Timeline Want to convince your friends you’re a bigger music snob than they are? Here’s a cheat sheet: an interactive timeline showing the birthplace and evolution of different genres of western dance music.
Updated Fri Jan 13, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: A Dynamic Map Of The Indie-Music Universe Indie-music snobs insist that they like bands no one else likes. But that’s hooey. They like bands other indie-music snobs like. A Finnish web service and app acknowledges that fact, and it does it a wonderful visual way: Hitlantis.com connects people to new music by promoting obscure artists, according to their popularity, on a live map of the indie-music universe.
Updated Fri Jan 13, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: What Time Is The Internet The Most Awake? Answer: 9 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. That’s when the largest number of people in the world are likely awake (and on their computers), according to designer Bård Edlund. How he arrived at that conclusion is in many ways more intriguing than the conclusion itself.
Updated Fri Jan 13, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: How Your Bubble Bath Ripples Around The World The planet is running out of clean water. We know that. New reports confirm it about as often as a full moon rises.
Updated Fri Jan 13, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: Walmart Dwarfs Entire Industries And Nations Walmart is always good for destroying your faith in humanity on Black Friday, and this year was no exception: By day’s end, reports emerged from stores across the country of biblical struggles over waffle makers, pepper-spraying, and even at least one shooting.
Updated Fri Jan 13, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: A Map Of NYC's Design Scene Pentagram partner Luke Hayman has designed a clever little guide to New York designers. Done up like Massimo Vignelli’s iconic NYC subway map, it assigns “subway stops” to key figures in the city’s design network, both past and present, from Sagmeister Inc.
Updated Tue Jan 10, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: How Drunk Can You Get At Your Office Xmas Party? It’s office-party season, which means, time to get your dranky-drank on!!
But wait! You don’t want to get so sloshed you end up doinking your secretary and accidentally running a lawnmower over someone’s foot. This stuff happens!
Updated Tue Jan 10, 2012
Infographic Of The Day: A Map Using Only Famous Streets From Songs Here’s a clever new poster for music freaks to nerd out on: a sprawling street map, by the British design collective Dorothy, made up entirely of geographically minded song titles.
Updated Tue Jan 10, 2012
How Infographics Guru Nicholas Felton Inspired Facebook's Timeline For those of us who’ve been wondering what info-design wiz Nicholas Felton has been up to since he lit out for Facebook in April, we finally have an answer: turning the way we consume social media completely upside down. Or, more precisely, on its side.
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Updated Fri Sep 23, 2011
