Design

Ben Saunders: North 3 is a great looking project designed by Applied Works in collaboration with Studio8 Design which will present live updates of intrepid explorer Ben’s record-attempting solo walk to the North Pole in just 36 days. Launching on Tuesday 18th March, the day Ben sets of on his trek, the site will present […]

Lonely Planet are working on an exciting new visual guide to the world, titled “How to Land a Jumbo Jet” based on a unique collection of cultural and travel-inspired visualisations. To help create this book they want to crowd-source innovative ideas and creations from across the visualisation and design community. As noted on Infosthetics, visualisation

In advance of President Obama’s State of the Union address this evening, the BBC web graphics team has published some analysis of the usage of the 10 most prevalent words and phrases in every address going back to 1790. The selection is specifically based on nouns, adjectives and a pro-noun, with the most popular words

Through an article on Fastcodesign, I have come across BibliOdyssey, a wonderful blog dedicated to unearthing and sharing some of the finest and most unique illustrations to emerge from the 19th Century/Victorian period. Given this was the age of industrial revolution and scientific curiosity, a significant number of these illustrations are vintage examples of visualisations

Edinburgh based developer Steven Kay has created a fascinating calendar wheel visualisation of the seasonal colours in Norway. The colours are derived from individual frames taken from a time lapse movie by Eirik Solheim of a view of his garden over a single year. One year in 2 minutes from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo. Each

In a week that has seen a great deal of debate and coverage of the GOOD chloropleth map, another attempt to innovate a map-based visualisation has landed on my desk in the shape of the FedEx ‘Our Changing World’ visualisation. The concept of this dynamic visualisation is similar to the idea of last year’s Visualisation

Not strictly a piece of data visualisation but I can’t avoid sharing this wonderful demonstration of how visuals combined with slick interactivity can provide an extremely compelling and impactive story. They come from a pair of presentation packages on the ABC News website (part one and part two) about the recent floods in Brisbane. High-resolution

Inspired by the great work done by Paul Butler to visualise Facebook friendship connections across the globe, London-based web developer Jim Holden has produced some great mapping visuals of the UK using postcode, bus stop and road network data. Click on the images below for larger more detailed image versions, which do the visualisations more

Its been a great start to the week in the world of visualisation with Paul Butler’s terrific design showing some fascinating patterns of Facebook friends and Nathan Yau reminding us of some of the best work that has taken place this year. Now, the New York Times graphics team have joined the party with the