Category: graphics

  • Love movies, Like info-graphic-tainment

    Presented without comment. Except ‘cool’   Source: Flowing Data

  • How you doin’

    It’s been around a while but one Newspaper Magazines I read when I arrived in Canberra had an article called ‘The Rise and Rise of the Infographic” (The Weekend Australian Magazine April 9-10 2011). I chose to see it as a good sign of my decision to move. In the article – which was a…

  • The stamp: able to stick to one thing till it gets there

    Love these stamps commemorating Expo 2010 – Shanghai. Designed by Chris Bleakley, John Plimmer from The Assignment Group and Geoff Francis (not sure if he’s from TAG). I’m mesmerised going back and forth with the visual matches – so stylish, subtle and well – no other word and used in the article, elegant. I particularly…

  • Ahhh, I am re-orange-yellow-red-ised

    Another brilliant piece from David McCandless (and Always With Honor for this piece). Colours for 62 emotions by 10 cultures. I have been doing much intellectual reading and musing about user experience/service/design/strategy lately so it was nice to come across this infographic in my feeds list. Ahhhh, so nice to get my head out of…

  • I don’t care – and then something comes along to remind why I do

    Sometimes, with all the twitter, and RSS, and blogs, and books, and observations, and media, and feeds, and subscriptions and conversations I ocassionaly am struck by a deep, yawing, eye-squinting, cheek-raising “i don’t care”… and then I look at one of those tweets or feeds and I remember why I do. Check out the video…

  • Alexander McQueen R.I.P

    From Givenchy and all that gold with the cupids on the pillars – I remember there was a story in the news about it – in New Zealand for goodness sake. From chunky to slim, from skulls to aliens, from amputees to live graffiti, shows as amazing as the clothes – I used to actually…

  • Why staplers run out before you’ve finished

    These staples are free-standing so the image is extra mesmerising. There’s something about a full stack of staples – like a full tank of gas. You can take on the world when your machine is full. via: Daily Icon

  • Victorian information design par excellence

    Great collection of Victorian charts and graphics at BibliOdyssey. Also see Minard’s cartography and Flo Nightingales ‘Coxcombs’

  • Eight ways to kill an idea

    Original work by Scott Campbell via: Fast Company