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Space junk
via: Fast Company I like the symmetry in this infographic. The balance of black, grey and white, open and closed circles, and the open-wide font. A touch of bold wouldn’t go a miss somewhere me thinks. Perhaps more than loving the image completely it reminds me of all the research I did for a joke…
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It’s plane genius!
via: Fast Company I want to fly on this plane. I also want the opportunity to identify other things that need a similar treatment: My car engine – what the hell is all that stuff in there? My laser printer – everything looks like a drawer that opens…except when I just want to change the…
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Overheard on the train today, from an 8 year old
First day back at school for our protagonist, and she was telling her big sister (age 10) what she’d learned today. After describing in various forms all the day’s activities, she ended by saying “It doesn’t sound like I learned much but it’s all learning really”. S’funny because at work there’s the ongoing debate about…
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Presentation (not .ppt) about Data Vis, Info Des, Info Graphic et al
via Fast Company 5 minutes of your time for a relatively snappy and engaging view about the power of the visual by Alex Lundry. This is a perfect case for the designers job to understand, filter, translate so that users have the power for knowledge development in their hands (eyes and brains) to navigate through…
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Lord of the Rings and Napolean interactive marches
Top: Charles Joseph Minard’s depiction of Napolean’s losses during his ill-fated march in Russia Bottom: Randall Munroe’s (xkcd) depiction of Wizards, Men, Hobbits, Ents, Elves, Orcs and Dwarves adventure-filled march in Middle Earth.