Look at this. What a great photo for this headline on the January cover of National Journal. You gotta see it up closer, but everyone else is leaning forward, and Romney almost looks like he’s moonwalking … and he’s doing so with a great big campaign trail smile on his face.
Regardless of your politics, this is just a nice piece of design.
These are on the wall beside my computer at work.
(With apologies to A.A. Milne.)
This is only the best infographic of all time, and it was made by a man named Charles Joseph Minard. To quote from Tufte:
Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, this map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon’s army in the Russian campaign of 1812. Beginning at the Polish-Russian border, the thick band shows the size of the army at each position. The path of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in the bitterly cold winter is depicted by the dark lower band, which is tied to temperature and time scales.
My co-worker just gave me this poster, free of charge. It is now displaying in my cubicle, directly to my right.
I am very happy.
I’m a sucker for grid-based text in rubrics, and this design for Bruno, a Swedish art/architecture/fashion/design magazine is a pretty stellar example of that. Well played, Morris Pinewood Stockholm. Well played.
(PS — go to the Morris Pinewood link above. I dare you not to love their work.)
Here’s another beauty. (Yes, I’m a nerd who likes maps.) This ZipScribble Map by Robert Kosara is beautiful in black and white as well as color. What he’s done here is connect sequential zip codes (so there’s a line from 20879 to 20880, etc). I love the accidental look of something with so much architecture behind it.
Well, you can add this Map of America to my “I will own this at some point” list.
(Thanks, HLN via CNN, for the tip.)
Guys, there’s so much good work on Tang Yau Hoong‘s site that if I tried to put up everything I liked … well … it would pretty much just be his site. Please take the time to check him out, it’s well worth it.
These have been around for a while, so you’ve probably already seen the amazing poster work by Olly Moss — but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy them all over again.
I just spent some time browsing my design history book and thinking about the trend right now of text set in a box (as seen all over my site here).
Coming up big next year is diagonal text. Watch for it … design history says it should be coming around as people get grid-happy, but static-tired, and HTML5 makes it not only possible, but easy.
It’s a good day for predictions here at Smrvl.
