Great example of data design
Nicholas Feltron is a graphic designer who publishes personal annual reports. While the data therein is interesting enough, what I really like is the presentation. It reminds me somewhat of a good infoporn section from WIRED magazine.
Another classic example of thoughtful data presentation is Charles Minard’s map of Napoleon’s ill-fated invasion of Russia in 1812. He artfully combines the size of the army, the temperature, and basic geography of the invasion and subsequent retreat. Splendid design!
Filed under culture, sites i like : Comments (1) : Jan 13th, 2009 by tadfad
January 14th, 2009 at 22:00
The aestheticization of information? Hm, wonder if this is the 21st century version of the aestheticization of politics. And we all know where that leads…