Why should we all care a little more about design?
Well, if you’re talking about the design of Alexander McQueen stiletto shoes that look like upside-down armadillos, I’m not sure we should care more. But if you’re talking about the kind of design that can help solve problems, we should care because we’ve got a hell of a lot of problems. The McQueen shoes being one of them.
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.
Source: ravenouslo
A creative use of paper engineering to advertise a folding chair
Source: 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
Flight of fancy…
Envisioning information, in this case US flight patterns, created by Aaron Koblin using Flightview’s flight tracking information. The result is informative and graphically interesting.
From Wired magazine, if you click throught to the article you can toggle the view between altitudes of flight, model and make.
Richard Neutra designed Camel Table for Moore House, Ojai in 1952 converts from coffee table height to dining table height (the moniker refers to the inbetween kneeling dromedary pose).
Source: youmightfindyourself
