Signs and portents

‘See this’ calendar design

An old idea, perhaps, but a nice idea as a calendar.

9gag:

Elegant Chair design

evrt:

Cord Chair by Nendo

Probably one of the more phenomenal chairs I have seen in recent memory. The wood legs are only 15mm in diameter (about 5/8”). To achieve this, the chair is entirely hand made. The workers (nay, artists) actually hand carve and hollow out the wood to wrap around steel rods for this chair to work. All joinery is hand made as well. Stunning, and time consuming no doubt.

As one who is seen to be critical of our road signage, it is important to note we are not alone. But, really, did someone make this up for the photo?

From 9gag

Confused about targets?

A visual representation of Kyoto Agreement targets, and how close, or far, we are from reaching them. Unfortunately, in this case the metaphor of a target dominates the information and this becomes something other than ‘information design’, but a noble effort, maybe it’s art?

From Information is beautiful

True north

As a lover of simplicity, clarity and information graphics, this has it all. A diagram representing the distribution of Olympic cities shows something of a bias to the northern hemisphere, don’t you think?

From Good Magazine

Witty design that proports to create something of an ecosystem.

From: chasecatchrun: Mathieu Lehanneur.

A creative use of paper engineering to advertise a folding chair

From 9gag

Interactive information design…

…in the form of a graph from the New York Times based on a time use survey.

Click the image above (© NYT) to see the graph working. Clicking on the top right classifications will show changes in the pattern/data and mousing over the segments gives you more information.

A ceramic kitchen radio, designed by Studio Lama, via Dezeen