{"id":12660,"date":"2008-02-15T00:26:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T00:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/02\/fun-clever-recent-infographics.html"},"modified":"2008-02-15T00:26:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T00:26:52","slug":"fun_clever_recent_infographics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/fun_clever_recent_infographics\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun &#038; clever recent infographics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m endlessly fascinated with how people display information visually.&#160; Here are some cool recent examples: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JamPhat features a hilarious (and huge!) collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamphat.com\/rap\/\">hip hop-inspired infographics<\/a>.&#160; Images are helpfully linked to YouTube vids of the related songs. <i>It was a good day&#8230;<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Fun with Venn diagrams: I love the simplicity of this clever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dieselsweeties.com\/shirts\/indieshirts.shtml\">music elitism t-shirt<\/a>.  (Compare to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamphat.com\/rap\/index_files\/image129.png\">Wu-Tang Clan<\/a>.)  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/12\/03\/music-snob-tshirts.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>What if we regarded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brazilianartists.net\/home\/flags\/\">flags as info visualizations<\/a>?&#160; That&#8217;s what Brazilian designer Icaro Doria did for the magazine Grande Reportagem.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/archives\/032064.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Call it &quot;Most Inscrutable. Karaoke Interface. <em>Ever.<\/em>&quot;&#160; Or just call it pretty.&#160; Robert from Flight404 (see previous) has used Processing to create the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/658158\">lovely video <em>Solar<\/em><\/a>, incorporating lyrics from Goldfrapp. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.k10k.net\/news\/14968\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>HistoryShots sells prints of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyshots.com\/store.cfm?s=sas\">really cool infographics<\/a>.&#160; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armsflow.org\/\">ArmsFlow<\/a> presents global arms transactions, visualized in an interactive map.&#160; Clicking individual countries shows their import\/export flow for a given year.&#160; Interesting concept, but the lines overlap so densely that it&#8217;s hard to see what&#8217;s happening.&#160; I&#8217;d love to see the whole thing taken further.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/02\/01\/global-arms-transact.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Knowing things Biblically:\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Harrison pours ancient texts through graphical filters in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisharrison.net\/projects\/bibleviz\/index.html\">Visualizing the Bible<\/a> project.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/01\/14909.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>In the early 20th century Clarence Larkin turned his scriptural knowledge into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preservedwords.com\/charts.htm\">Biblical infographics<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/229086553\/early-20th-century-c.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Virtual China features a Chinese diagram on <a href=\"http:\/\/iftf.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/02\/14\/sabrinabeerchicken.jpg\">how to cook chicken with beer<\/a>.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/235158471\/chinese-diagram-cook.html\">Via<\/a>] \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m endlessly fascinated with how people display information visually.&#160; Here are some cool recent examples: JamPhat features a hilarious (and huge!) collection of hip hop-inspired infographics.&#160; Images are helpfully linked to YouTube vids of the related songs. It was a good day&#8230; Fun with Venn diagrams: I love the simplicity of this clever music elitism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}