Simple yet effective. Any questions? [via 9gag | Thanks, Barry]
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Category: Miscellaneous Visualization
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How Genetics Works
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Man as Industrial Palace, Animated
In 1926, Fritz Kahn illustrated man as a working factory in his famous poster, Man as Industrial Palace. Tiny guys in each body system perform their own specific job. A camera man controls the eyes, groups of thinkers sit up top, and the guys at the bottom handle the dirty work.
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Excessively Labeled Airplane Tells You Where the Big Cheese Sits
In case the in-flight pamphlet isn't enough for you, everything on this Kulula airplane is labeled for your convenience.
Look, there's even a spot to put your boots. So convenient.
[Thanks, Fernando]
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Dropped Food. Should You Eat it?
Since you'll be trying every single drink recipe in the engineer's guide this weekend, you're most likely going to drop some food on the ground. Consult this flowchart to decide whether to eat it. Results may vary by individual.
Food on the ground, food on the ground. Looking like a fool with your food on the ground.
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Timescapes to Compare Chopin Recordings
How do you compare music visually? You can break it down into data by quantifying the notes, volume, etc and then visualize it with timescapes (above). The horizontal axis represents musical time, from the beginning to end of a piece. Large blocks show similarities to other pieces and smaller noisy chunks show more "fleeting" similarities.
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Problem Comparison: Tiger Woods vs. Jay-Z
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Buzzwords in Academic Papers (Comic)
This comic was really amusing, although it might be because I'm a big nerd entertained by all things from PHD Comics...
It's my blog, and I can laugh if I want to.
Have a nice weekend, everyone.
[Thanks, Stephen]
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Information vs. Confusion
You gotta love Jessica Hagy. If you've got the skills you should be able to widen the valley in that curve significantly.
Have a nice weekend all.
[via Cool Infographics]
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An Addiction to Charts and Graphs
Haha, Jason Segel is hilarious. In this episode of How I Met Your Mother Segel's character Marshall has an interesting addiction that I think many FD readers can relate to:
I need a chart.
[Matthew Ericson via Economix]
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Google Acquisitions Subway Map
Tack another graphic to the growing list of subway map metaphors. Meet the Boss "maps" Google acquisitions and investments, color-coding tracks by industry. The maroon track, for example, represents video, hence YouTube, which also interconnects with advertising and web services.
The design is nothing new (and kind of overdone), but the data are pretty interesting. I've never even heard of most of the acquisitions.
Does anyone know who was the first to use the subway map metaphor?
[via TechCrunch]
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Getting a Good Night’s Sleep – Good Night and Tough Luck
Hilarious as always, Christoph Niemann illustrates in his graphical New York Times op-ed how getting a good night's sleep is easier said than done, especially when you have a small bladder, mosquitoes that won't go away, and a kid with nightmares. Enjoy.
I have yet to figure out the spooner's dilemma:
[Thanks, Justin]
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A Road Map to Success
May you make it to the top of the mountain of success. I think I'm somewhere around the mountain of lack of preparation. Where are you?
[via Strange Maps]
UPDATE: Here's the full-sized version, originally from The Etude in 1913. [Thanks, @idefine]
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Highs and Lows of Being a Young Man
i-am-bored graphs the horrible to awesome of becoming a man. Growing up ain't easy. So who's going to do the highs and lows of being a young woman?
Have a nice weekend all.
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Total Eclipse of the Heart (Flowchart)
Jeannie Harrell takes Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler, and puts it in flowchart form. Yes, you guessed it. It's Friday. And what better way to start the weekend with the music video in all its 1980s glory:
[Thanks, Sushmita & Fernando]
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Pepsi and Coca-Cola Logo Design Over the Past Hundred Years
There have actually been some subtle changes in the Coca-Cola logo but not nearly as dramatic as the Pepsi logos. I personally think the new Pepsi design is atrocious. They should have stopped in 1973.
[via clusterflock & Daily Dish & Consumerist]
UPDATE: As some of you pointed out in the comments, Coca-Cola has in fact made quite a few logo changes, and the evolution is probably not as straightforward as the above graphic suggests. No doubt there was some overlap as well as issues with stuff getting hand-drawn. There was probably a good bit of market testing in the later years too - which is why I put this in the "miscellaneous" category. In any case, here is a revised version from Brand New:
P.S. The new Pepsi logo is still ugly.
