The movie “Epic time-lapse map of Europe” fast forwards a map from the year 1000 AD until 2003 to reveal the dynamic nature of Europe’s borders, alliances, unions, territories, and occupied lands. An alternative movie takes a bit longer, but contains useful textual annotations such as the actual year that is shown and the events ...
A few days ago, we posted the website Easel.ly, a new web-based service that aims to empower lay users to design infographic-like illustrations within the browser. Unfortunately, Easel.ly seems more apt in combining infographic-like images on a canvas, than to link real numerical data to a graphical form. So here comes Infogr.am [infogr.am], another competitor ...
After 2 very similar posts in a very small timeframe, featuring Easel.ly and infogr.am respectively, I seem not to be able to follow the ‘automatic infographics editing’ scene fast enough. Automatic resume infographics creator visualize.me has just launched Venngage [venngage.com], which aims to empower people to create beautiful infographics in minutes, so that “creating infographics ...
FatFonts [fatfonts.org] is a novel numeric typeface for data visualization purposes. The design of FatFonts is based on Arabic numerals, but the amount of ink (i.e. dark pixels) used for each digit is proportional to its quantitative value. This font enables the reading of numerical data while still preserving an overall visual context. The typeface ...
The series of infographics titled “The Iranian Internet” [this-is-maral.com] by master student Maral Pourkazemi combines an aesthetic sense of (greyscale) infographics with the serious topic of international politics. Maral designed six different content panels that each explain a distinct theme, such as Iran’s general Internet usage, their concept of a “Halal” or “national” Internet, how ...
San Diego-based start-up Easel.ly [easel.ly] is offering a beta service that allows lay people to design and implement their own “infographics” via an online editor. The user-based customization of infographics seems to be the next phase after the automatic generation of infographics, and has already been promised by community websites like visual.ly. For now, easel.ly ...
The series of infographics titled “The Iranian Internet” [this-is-maral.com] by master student Maral Pourkazemi combines an aesthetic sense of (greyscale) infographics with the serious topic of international politics. Maral designed six different content panels that each explain a distinct theme, such as Iran’s general Internet usage, their concept of a “Halal” or “national” Internet, how ...
The Brazilian arm of international fashion retailer CA has launched a custom-made clothes rack [facebook.com] that shows in real-time how many Facebook “Likes” a particular clothing item received on Facebook. Accordingly, customers present in the physical store can better estimate how popular a specific clothing item is perceived by the masses through the smart use ...