Brands Simplified
October 27, 2010 –If these dots look strangely familiar, it’s because you’ve probably seen them before – they’re the logos of famous international brands, simplified to groups of circles by designer Graham Smith.
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Dress Up Dollars
October 26, 2010 –Trick-or-treat! Come this Sunday, happy kids dress up for Halloween, and geo-statistics firm Esri has mapped how much Americans are spending on their costumes:
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Zoom The Universe
October 22, 2010 –Ride the slider bar – from the edges of known space to the infinitesimally-fine bubbles of the quantum foam – with Cary and Michael Huang’s The Scale Of The Universe!
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The Value Of A Dollar
October 21, 2010 –To visualize the The Value Of A Dollar, artist Jonathan Blaustein purchased exactly one-bucks-worth of nineteen different foodstuffs, and photographed each, stripped from its packaging, on a plain white background. Blaustein explains:
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Turn It Off
October 19, 2010 –You hear a lot about fuel-efficient cars, smart thermostats, and changing out the incandescents for compact fluorescents – but not so much about one of the easiest energy-savers: turning your computer off at night!
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Old Weather
October 19, 2010 –As the Royal Navy chugged into the far-flung waters of World War I, diligent sailors recorded the time, position, temperature, and wind – every four hours, even while under fire!
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R.I.P. Mandelbrot
October 17, 2010 –Benoît Mandelbrot – brilliant mathematician, premier visualizer of his namesake Set, and inspiration to untold budding scientists – has left us for the great research center in the sky. He will be missed.