Tag Archives: infographics

Friday Make a Chart Day v.7!

Woo woo! We’re going on two months! If you don’t know how it works… you better ask somebody. Or just send me your charts via Twitpic, yFrog, Flickr, email, whatever. Bud drops some knowledge. Mike talks etiquette. Sam Chotiner, our newest Undercurrenter, describes a hotly debated topic from last night’s beer-ing session. Mark explains how to make a million dollars. I […]

Posted in Wading | Also tagged , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Innovation, Money-Making, and Public Services

Yesterday we were talking about the state of patent and copyright law, and whether it helps or hinders innovation. Generally, the thinking was that “creator’s rights” encourage people to make things – if your invention is protected, you’re more likely to profit from it – but that after a certain point, competition-eliminating or world-changing innovations ought […]

Posted in Wading | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Stupid Movie Quote Infographic

I stole the very good idea and even better design from FlowingData’s Data Underload section to create this “info” graphic about some of my favorite movie lines, from some of the stupidest (and awesomest) movies of all time. I hope you enjoy it. I enjoyed making it. It was a long, tiring, good week, and doing […]

Posted in Design, Wading | Also tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Barrier-Utility Cheater’s Hypothesis

In theory, people maximize their lives by weighing costs and perceived utility for goods and services. What this chart presupposes is…maybe they do the same when it comes to (a) Sex and (b) Digital Things? This isn’t groundbreaking stuff, but it was worth a quick discussion yesterday at work and (as usual) a quick whiteboard diagram. […]

Posted in Digital Thinking, Wading | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Universal Monetary Naming Hypothesis

We were talking today about Ma$e, that other mononymous superstar. Remember him? He was awesome. We were also talking about the relative stupidity of all the theories and hypotheses spreading around teh internets lately. The result is the above. Have a good week.

Posted in Wading | Also tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

FEED’s Irresponsible Infographics

There are two kinds of infographics: The kind that deceive The kind that clarify This is the former. Shame on you, Razorfish designer. EDIT: My friend and colleague-from-another-agency, Guthrie Dolin (Odopod), helped me get in contact with Garrick Schmitt, the publisher of the FEED report. His tweet in response to my post is copied below. I appreciate (a) the understanding […]

Posted in Design | Also tagged , , , , , | 9 Comments

Little Red Riding Hood, in Infographics

Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo. Not a whole lot to say here, other than: This is amazing. This is how I want to present my ideas to people. This is a lot harder than it looks. Seems simple, but it’s an epic story told by a master information designer/animator.

Posted in Cool, Ideas, Inspiration | Also tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment