Every day, millions of people check in on Foursquare. We took a year's worth of check-ins in London, Chicago and Istanbul and plotted them on a map. Each dot represents a single check-in, while the...
Everything that happens on Wikipedia is recorded, and as such, constitutes data - a signal that can be parsed for meaning. Looking at the number of times a given article is edited, only for the...
A set of icons that describes the stadiums used from 1993 to 2013 for the Champions League Final. The style, colors and shapes, is simplified to better describe the various features which...
Just because you're at work, doesn't mean you're actually getting work done. Between excessive emails, pointless meetings, and constant interruptions, your productivity takes a back seat. You're...
I wanted to map out the complicated and various notes, taste descriptions of wines and their food pairings. I created this to help me make better choices in bringing the right type of wine to...
R. Crumb was responsible for sparking the underground comix (with an x) revolution of the '60s and '70s that brought satirical and adult-themed titles into the mainstream. He was one of the most...
We analysed one day of news on Monday 19th March 2012 from three British newspapers The Sun, The
Guardian and The Daily Mail. Using the raw information, we broke down the genres and allocated...
The Governance Lab (The GovLab) aims to improve people's lives by changing how we govern. The research think-tank seeks new ways to solve public problems using advances in technology and science....
It appears that we are witnessing a global health crisis. According to the World Health Organization, malnutrition is the greatest single threat to human health in developing nations. Yet this...
Mobile advertising is on the rise. Millward Brown Brasil developed a study to understand more of this universe. Share of time spent has changed with the possibilities brought by smartphone...
Confessions of a Blog-a-holic is an infographic displaying the blogging habits (frequency and times of posts) of a Graphic Design student between 2009 and 2011.
Tech blogs. They don't agree on much. Apple Fanboys, Android Fanboys, Playstation Fanboys, Xbox Fanboys… the web is awash with people flaming each other about their choice of technology. If there's...
Concept and design of a full-page visualization on the topic of linguistic diversity for the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. The visualization shows the 99 most common languages in the form of speech...
The main idea of the project is to visualize statistical data, by translating it into an object's shape and behavior. The object in question is a spinning top, whose shape is generated out of...
Stadtbilder is an attempt to map the digital shape of cities. While traditional maps show us buildings, roads and physical infrastructure, these maps reveal where and in which form the city is...
A large-format educational poster, this timescape traces the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.
It is a presentation of major design movements emerging out of western Modernism...
Almost everyone has fond memories of Big Bird, Elmo, and the Cookie Monster. And it turns out that these programs were not only fun to watch, they actually help young children learn. Children under...
The Oberhaeuser calendar 2013 is a printed wall calendar 100x70cm big. Each color-ring represents one month of the year. Federal holidays (United States) are highlighted with an icon and white...
In two centuries, the world has been dramatically transformed by a series of interconnected moments-the breakthroughs, creations, discoveries, innovations, revolutions and momentous human...
Billionaires is a visualization of all humans with a capital over 1.000.000.000 dollar. The data comes from http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ but the way the information is visualized provides a...
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. No, an image showing the number of kills by James Bond in official movies. Using data provided by The Guardian Data Store, the image pays homage to the...
Concept and design of a full-page visualization on the topic of economy for the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. The visualization shows an interdependent network of 147 firms dominating the world...
This visualisation explores the phenomenon of global “brain drain” in science, with an eye towards understanding the reasons why researchers might choose to leave their countries of origin and...
A visualisation produced for Ofsted to accompany their Access and Achievement Report. The visualisation looks at how low income backgrounds can affect the employment prospects of students in England.
360 is an exploration into whether it
is possible to draw a perfect circle freehand. This idea was sparked after reading an article about a 15th Century artist named Giotto, who was able to do...
A modern graphic interpretation of the Paris mass transit system. It is original art inspired by the paths of the Paris metro and the RER railroad. LinePosters is the collaboration of a graphic...
Using one very familiar profile (Her Majesty), this visualisation reveals the breakdown of the modern British army's active/volunteer/reservist personnel – in direct comparison to the Roman...
Snakes reveal historical trend and highlight present situation. Snake heads (biggest bubbles) show current number while the tails show past. It balances the importance of present and history.
The foremost social network focused on professionals, LinkedIn gathers valuable information on individual job-seekers, job-holders, and businesses worldwide. We work with LinkedIn to highlight some...
Over the course of one calendar year I recorded all of the beer I consumed. Keeping track of particular brands of beer, the types of beer, when it was consumed, and how many were consumed, this...