Posts Tagged ‘ Diagram ’
Good infographic on the history of type design and the anatomy of type through to the number of fonts available and their use on the web.
Below is a small portion of the full infographic. Click to go through the the website to view the full version.
Bold & Justified: The Typographic Universe in One Infographic | The FontFeed.
It is time again for the excellent Feltron Report, now up to it’s sixth edition. For those that do not know, the annual Feltron Report is a brilliant collection of infographics by Nicholas Felton usually about what he got up to during the year.
The 2010 report is slightly different, in that it is about his Father’s life, and all the resources he could find to report on his life.
As usual the graphics are top notch, and the typography is excellent.
The Typefaces of the World poster is a very pretty poster, highlighting the origin of 50 popular typefaces alphabetically, and listing the date and author.
The idea is to familiarise designers with the origin of the type, so as to be able to better use the different faces. I think a timeline element would add to this, maybe by lengthening the line accordingly.
WANKEN – The Blog of Shelby White » Showcased Work: Typefaces of the World Poster.
Nice chart by Jessica Hische on whether you should do free work or simply say no. Click on the image to view larger.
Jessica Hische
via Should I work for free?—a flowchart.
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Very humorous brand guidelines for *Santa* by the Quietroom, giving Pantone colours, fonts and extensive brand positioning.
Further to yesterday’s post showing the Facebook friend map, here is Thorsten Gaetz take. He created a map of the inhabited world, by plotting in red wherever the population density was higher than 2 people per square mile. Over this map he laid a grey scale version of the Facebook map. What you get it both the Facebook map, and a map of places that either have facebook blocked, or other social media is more popular.
facebook vs. the rest of the world | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
Great looking map which plots the location of a sample Facebook friends across the earth, clearly showing the map of the world, and how interconnected it is.
There is also an interesting commentary on how this was created.
Click the image below to view in high resolution (3.8MB).
As usual, the Guardian has some beautiful graphics for the Wikileaks Cables. Their map of locations is easily nicer and easier to read than the similar maps from El Pais and Der Spiegel. Though I do like the touch on Der Spiegel which shows links between embassies to show where the cables refer to.
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Great branding for the Norwegian University of Life Science. What is it with Norwegians and coming up with brilliant adaptive logos, such as Nordkyn?
The logo has the University’s name written in a Trajan in a circle with a Roman date – so far so boring, and celebrating 150 years.
However, in the circle, rather than a shield or crest, there are 21 circles in up to 7 different sizes in what they call a Biogram. These circles represent another date. This date can be some significant milestone or anything you want such as your birthday. They even have a nifty little generator to create your own (link in Norwegian but still easy to use).
Their logo changes every day to reflect the change in date, showing how life evolves and changes with the seasons and years.
Hopefully they start implementing more features of the logo in their website.
