BibliOdyssey has put together a fantastic collection of vintage Victorian Infographics. All illustrations are collected from books like Mitchell’s New General Atlas or General Atlas Of The World from the time between 1830 to 1890. The visualizations are great examples of how abstract representation let’s a viewer grasp quantities that are hard to imagine. I strongly recommend to have a look at all of the images on Flickr.
In every design project, at some point we quit what we’re doing and share our unfinished work with colleagues or clients. This begs the question: Just what does the critique do for the design and the rest of the project? Do critiques really help and are they necessary? If so, how do we use their inconsistencies to improve our creative output? Cassie McDaniel explores how critiques can help us navigate complex processes and projects and collaborate effectively to create original and engaging work.
The New York Times has a piece about this map from 1860. It’s the last visual record showing slavery from census data. (Via Flowing Data)
Unique times require unique thinking, right? We’re under the cosh here in the UK with unprecendented public cuts and austerity measures. Is there a potential revenue stream we’re missing? One right under our noses? One that could solve the university tuition fees crisis? And leave around £75M left for a very, very good party. My latest graphic for The Guardian Datablog puts the case.
Data: http://bit.ly/drug_deal
While on the subject, I wanted to mention a great exhibition in London. It’s called High Society. Curated by writer Mike Jay and the Wellcome Trust, it’s about the influence of (illegal) drugs on society and culture. It’s free. And features a couple of commissioned wall-sized graphics from me, including Drugs World and this Billion Drug-o-Gram.
In the course of preparing and researching the images, we came across a ton of interesting facts and figures about the drugs world. They’re all in this spreadsheet.
Did you know…
More here: http://bit.ly/drug_deal
Particularly liked the data on which countries like which drugs.
Users expect websites to work on their mobile phones. In two to three years, mobile support will become standard for any site. Web developers must add mobile web development to their skill set or risk losing clients. How do you make websites mobile compatible? The simple answer is to test on all mobile devices and fix any problems you encounter. But with at least ten operating systems and fifteen browsers out there, it is impossible to do that. Nor can we test only in iPhone and Android and expect to serve our market. PPK surveys the mobile web market, as well as phone platforms and their browsers, and shows how to set up a mobile test bed that works.