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March 10, 2008
From D&D to decapitations, in infographics & maps
- Sam Potts has created a hilarious infographic for Sunday's NY Times, part of their sendoff for D&D creator Gary Gygax.
- The NYT has been posting other interesting graphics lately, including How Americans Spend Their Money and the Flash-enabled Ebb & Flow of Movies.
- In Rudimentum Novitiorum, Bibliodyssey surveys maps & other infographics of antiquity.
- With a more modern spin, Colourlovers talks about the use of color in transit maps, offering a number of cool examples.
- How about a world map made from musical notes? [Via]
- What does an hour's worth of movement in front of the TV look like? One Flickr user endeavored to find out, using a video camera & a grid of masking tape to plot the positions of dad, kids, and cat. [Via]
- For the greater good:
- Easier voting through graphic design: Marcia Lausen is "determined to apply the highest possible standards of information design to make [voting systems] clear, accessible, easy to use and the results accurate." [Via]
- John Emerson's Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design offers a guide for NGOs, non-profits and advocacy groups. [Via]
- If you can't go another day without knowing how to stage a realistic decapitation, well, consult these graphics.
Comments
Edward Tufte shouldn't be left out of the information design lineup...
Though I found his one-day class a little lacking, the information and references are pretty solid. Note that he is not interested in usability - just making information displays as dense as possible, but still useful.
[Oh, don't worry--Tufte gets more than his fair share of love on these here internets. I saw that guy in New York years ago and came away unimpressed. --J.]
How about this retro "transit map" on a national scale:
http://www.chrisyates.net/store/fullinterstatemap-web.jpg
Found here:
">http://www.chrisyates.net/store/toys.html
And I found it while reading:
http://jalopnik.com/364921/and-now-your-jalopnik-moment-of-zen
--Bill
[Cool, thanks for the links. --J.]