Comments on: The World of 100

The World of 100

fourcheesemac — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:05:18 -0800

The World of 100 -- 20 Posters by Toby Ng (via Daily Dish and Made in England)

Toby Ng: This is a self-initiated project based on the scenario – If the world were a village of 100 people. There are a few different versions of this text in circulation about the world's statistics. I found the data very striking and neatly summarises the world that we live in. So I used information graphics to re-tell the story in another creative way. I designed a set of 20 posters, which contain most of the information. I used simple vector graphics that related to a statistic in order to present the information in the simplest and most accessible way.

By: Science!

Science! — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:24:07 -0800

World of extremely small text.

By: bardic

bardic — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:36:24 -0800

Yar. These look cool but I can't read them. Most of them at least.

By: cmoj

cmoj — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:16:53 -0800

These are kind of cool, but I would not hang any of them on my wall. Are they "posters" because they're vector graphics?

By: lucidium

lucidium — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:51:23 -0800

I could see these being really cute on a classroom wall. I think most of them speak for themselves, but for the less obvious ones with a lot of text:

Language 50 speak other languages. 6 speak Spanish. 6 speak Russian. 8 speak Hindi. 4 speak Arabic. 9 speak English. 17 speak Chinese. Freedom 48 can't speak, act according to their faith and conscience due to harassment, imprisonment, torture or death. 52 can. Fear 20 live in fear of death by bombardment, armed attack, landmines, or of rape or kidnapping by armed pgroups. 80 don't. Money 6 own 59& (all from USA). 74 own 39%. 20 share 2%. Food 50 don't have reliable source of food and hungry some/all time. 30 always have enough to eat (15 overweight). 20 undernourished (1 dying of starvation). Religion 33 Christians. 24 others / atheists. 19 Muslims. 13 Hindus. 6 Buddhists. 5 believe there are spirits in all natures. Energy 20 consume 80%. 80 consume 20%.

By: fleacircus

fleacircus — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:07:18 -0800

THIS.. IS.. SP!

By: hypersloth

hypersloth — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:44:11 -0800

AIDS no longer looks like a problem! Immunodefensive win!

By: wreckingball

wreckingball — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:56:02 -0800

This would be better if (1) if the illustrations were any good and (2) the posters bore out the idea of the "village of 100" in any discernible way. As things stand, they don't convey the information any differently than they would have if he'd just said "48% of the world's population is male, 52% is female." Also, the banana one is sort of offensive.

By: wundermint

wundermint — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:05:36 -0800

It's a neat idea to illustrate these facts, but the way it's been done makes some horribly disturbing statistics look... cute. It's also kinda misleading when you have a giant mortar board and the word education, then looking closely what it really means is "99 people out of 100 do not have a college education."

By: fourcheesemac

fourcheesemac — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:00:14 -0800

Gee, I thought they were kind of clever. But what do I know?