Archive for the 'Design' Category

Data Visualization: The Three Trillion Dollar War

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An outstanding infographic by the Good Magazine on the true cost of the war in Iraq.

The image is based on work by Nobel Prize laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes who have together published a book on this subject earlier this year (link below). There is also a video narrating the key parts of the graphics on the Good Magazine web site.

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Data-Visualization: Ensuring the Future of Food

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A Sims style data-visualization by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery explaining some of the complex networks around how food arrives on tables in Japan and the food industry.

Worth watching for the graphics alone.

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Animation: Burn-E

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A great teaser for Pixar’s new DVD available from End of January 2009.

Like always from Pixar animation at its best.

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Gadgets: Sunshine wallsticker

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Great wallsticker from snoebi. Size varies up to 2 meter.

Available from German Online Shop a-better-tomorrow for about EUR 30.

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Animation: A Gentleman’s Duel

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A must see animation from Californian animation studio Blur.

Outstanding work.

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Data Visualization: U.S. States as N.Y.C. Boroughs

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The boroughs of New York City as U.S. states based on their closest population analogues.

Manhattan becomes Idaho, the Bronx becomes Maine, Queens has as many people as New Mexico, Brooklyn as Nevada and Staten Island as many as Wyoming.

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