Tag: visualization

Comparing cities

this is really awesome, and the first time in recorded history where ESRI produced maps that don’t suck.

The Urban Observatory is an interactive exhibit that gives you the chance to compare and contrast maps of cities around the world–all from one location. It aims to make the world’s data both understandable and useful. Brought to life by Richard Saul Wurman, RadicalMedia, and Esri, it is the first exhibit of its kind.

Unrealistic dinosaurs

I can’t say why, exactly, but the illustration of the dinosaur doesn’t seem realistic enough. Can we use a photo instead?

that site is both really funny and also depressing. i can understand my friends getting out of the industry due to a) clients being morons, b) race to the bottom from worldwide competition on the one hand and increased automation on the other.
2017-09-23:

One of his main points of contention is the way that we consider dinosaur heads. “The reference has always been crocodiles. The biggest thing is teeth and facial fat. Readers have to be aware that all dinosaurs they see in all media, and especially in popular culture, seem to have their heads flensed. They’ve always got these weird grins with only the teeth visible.” Most animals have lips and gums and lumps of facial fat that change the profile of the head, and cover the teeth. But in many predatory dinosaur illustrations, these are usually missing, making them look fierce, if improbable. “Another trope is what I like to call the ‘roadkill hair’ trope”. Some fossils show signs of hair, which Kosemen says can lead to artists illustrating their creatures with hair only on the parts where it was found on a fossil. However, it’s possible that some dinosaurs had much more hair that they are usually shown to have. “Imagine if you found a raccoon, and only half of the tail was covered in hair, so then you carry that over to a living reconstruction.”


Swans imagined as though they were featherless dinosaurs.

World visualized

This is pretty awesome as far as infographics go. presumably the usual warnings about infographics accuracy apply.

This is a self-initiated project based on the scenario – If the world were a village of 100 people. There are a few different versions of this text in circulation about the world’s statistics. I found the data very striking and neatly summarizes the world that we live in. So I used information graphics to retell the story in another creative way. I designed a set of 20 posters, which contain most of the information. I used simple vector graphics that related to a statistic in order to present the information in the simplest and most accessible way.