visualization
Visualize your economic standing in the world:
http://www.globalrichlist.com/
The NYT on The Great Subway Map War:
Nonetheless, Mr. Vignelli offered a parting thought. “Look what these barbarians have done,” he said as he examined his copy of the current map. “All these curves, all this whispering-in-the-ear of balloons. It’s half-naturalist and half-abstract. It’s a mongrel.”
Blow an hour or so browsing this comprehensive collection of […]
Kapitaal - “a brilliant vision of the world stripped bare of everything except corporate identities and signage”
from coudal
Geographical information can now be added to flickr photos, complete with permissions and more! Start exploring here.
Design Observer on library organization.
Questionable personal beliefs aside, I have never found the Dewey Decimal Classification system to be an accurate reflection of how books are organized in my own mind — or anybody else’s for that matter. Certainly I understand the DDC’s advantages when when it comes to large-scale collections, but if how we […]
A visual representation (flash) of what’s currently playing on US radio stations.
from plasticbag.org
This is one of the best mash-ups I’ve seen.
On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons […]
Wrap your head around this. Check out this wonderful flash visualization accompanied by audio description of 10 dimensions: Imagining the 10th Dimension
WORDCOUNT - An interactive, searchable presentation of the 86,000 most common words in the English language
This is incredible. Though not yet perfect, the system does a pretty good job of visually mapping locations from books on a map.
Gutenkarte is an effort to map books by MetaCarta. The website takes text from books in Project Gutenberg, searches them for the appearance of place names, and plots them on a map […]
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