Innovative - Chart Porn

The content is a bit pointless, but the post on Information is Beautiful goes into interesting detail on the processes and choices that go into making one of these data dense designs.

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Art and Culture Timelines

In: Culture Innovative

5 Feb 2010

Some beautiful and fascinating hand drawn/painted timelines from artist Ward Shelley on a wide variety of topics. Interesting write-up on motivation and methods from the artist. (via)

The evolution of the Avant Garde art scene:

Frank Zappa:

Rock genres:

Andy Warhol’s world:

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Data Fiction

In: Culture Graphic Design (general) Innovative

5 Feb 2010

Something a little different today: A fictional story told through data visualizations. The link below goes to the flickr version, while a larger presentation appears on designer Kim Asendorf’s website. I definitely love the idea and the execution — of course, visualizations are probably a little easier to create when you get to make up the data. 🙂

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India Macro Indicators

In: Emerging Markets Innovative

22 Jan 2010

I’d like to see something like this (a little less cluttered) for the world. (via)

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Bing Destination Maps

In: Innovative Interactive Maps

20 Jan 2010

Sending directions to a party? Want to embed a funky map somewhere? Bing now offers “Destination maps” that look like a choice of four stylistic hand drawings. The production interface is a little clunky, and the result doesn’t appear to allow for quick access to directions, but I think the result is pretty cool. Apparently this is only one of Bing’s new “Map Apps” (click on the button at the bottom of that page)

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Harvest Timeline

In: Culture Food Innovative

19 Jan 2010

I like these. They should be on the front door of every supermarket. (via)

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The Comprehensive Beatles

In: Culture Innovative

19 Jan 2010

Michael Deal has produced an impressive assortment of diagrams and charts examining the Beatles’ music and careers.

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History Shots

In: Culture Innovative Politics

12 Jan 2010

History Shots has a number of beautiful classically designed infographics that are very much worth browsing (and/or putting up on your wall).

Conquest of Everest: the expeditions leading up to the successful 1953 assault.

Race to the Moon:

History of the Political Parties:
1992-2008

1730-1982

Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music:

History of the Union and Confederate Armies:

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Auto Charts

In: Environment/weather Innovative Science

12 Jan 2010

The UNEP GEO Data Portal has recently automated some chart production with a custom Illustrator script, for cross-country comparison purposes. The below example is for total CO2 emissions vs per capita. While I really like the waveform-type display aesthetically, I’m not sure of it’s analytical value compared to a bar chart.

It works a little better here (Total Final Energy Consumption):

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Infographic Resumes

In: Culture Employment Innovative

8 Jan 2010

Cool Infographics has culled together 16 examples of using infographics as resumes/life timelines. Below are a few of the nicer looking ones, but I recommend reading Randy’s whole article.

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2010: A Formal Display of the Obvious

In: Culture Graphic Design (general) Humor Innovative

7 Jan 2010

An entertaining compendium of visualizations about the upcoming year, created for Chronogram Magazine. The magazine write-up included a wonderful self-denigrating statement from designer Jason Cring: “Cring believes infographic purists like information design guru Edward Tufte would be appalled. ‘Tufte’s very opinionated about the right and wrong ways to present information. He would not approve of any of this, I’m quite sure.'”