MetaFilter posts tagged with graphic

You want to do WHAT with your sparkline?

shothotbot — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:31:41 -0800

Chartporn is a blog devoted to good graphics. Here are a few that stand out to me: environmental indicators, a beautiful graph of the time takes people to get to a good sized town, 2010 ski resort guide, who owns the US national debt, how to crack a master lock and - of course - a poster to hang in your time machine. The link to the time machine was was borked, so I took the liberty.

There's a Rendezvous of Strangers

mattdidthat — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:53:25 -0800

Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) a typographic music video by graphic designer Jackie Lay. Via.

Sit Down, Print Out, Cut Up & Fold On

mattdidthat — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:10:29 -0800

President Obama pencil topper. Olympic Mayor Daley. Parachuting Rod Blagojevich.(Acrobat PDF) Mayor Daley Parking Meter.(Acrobat PDF) Paper sculptures by illustrator and animation artist Joe Fournier.

Heigh-Ho, The Merry-O, The Designer Takes A Wife.

mattdidthat — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:28:55 -0800

Matt Dorfman is one of the creators of Mammal Magazine. Here's his client work, personal work, blog, and his wedding invitation.

But what would Frank Lloyd Wright say?

spiderskull — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:50:15 -0800

"[Jax de Leon's] last project as a student was a graphic representation of every note, word, instrument and voice from Come on, Feel the Illinoise! by Sufjan Stevens." Read an interview with him here.

Penrose Review of Graphic Arts

the cuban — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:15:57 -0800

From 1895 to 1982 the Penrose Annual showcased typography and graphic design.

SHAPES AND COLORS

The Whelk — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:38:07 -0800

Graphic Design Is: 50 Designs About Graphic Design

If I Had a Hammer

mattdidthat — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:13:21 -0800

Downloadable original logos and badges for restoring old woodworking machines. Via Old Woodworking Machines and the Draplin Design Co.

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.

Studio Veldkamp

netbros — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:46:00 -0800

Lars Veldkamp. I happened upon Lars through his Flickr sets, in particular Typocalypse.

World Mapper

y2karl — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:21:45 -0800

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 600 maps.

Worldmapper

"Corel Draw, With Gradients, and Blippo Fuckin' Bold, Man!"

optovox — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:37:39 -0800

The Draplin Design Company is embarking on the World's Longest Yard Sale. Also: The Draplin Project, by Jess Gibson, and Why America Is Fucked. Alternate YouTube link.

Design Ideas, Web Trends, and Tutorials

netbros — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:29:38 -0800

Web Designer Wall is the personal weblog of Nick La who is N.Design Studio. He talks about design ideas he has, design tutorials from Photoshop to CSS, etc., and trends in modern web design. (see previous)

Barack vs Clinton - a cool interactive graphic

storybored — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:22:47 -0800

Barack vs Clinton, a cool interactive graphic... What matters when it comes to which candidate people voted for? Race definitely mattered. Income matters sort of. And education. From the NYT, a fine piece of interactive illustration.

Shake Girl

kirkaracha — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:41:20 -0800

Shake Girl, a collaborative project by students in the Stanford Graphic Novel Project. Based on the true story of Tat Marina [caution: disturbing photo], the victim of a December 1999 acid attack in Cambodia. More background.

Volvelles

aeschenkarnos — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:15:38 -0800

What are those circular disc things that you rotate to look up information? Volvelles. The definitive book on the subject is Jessica Helfland's Reinventing the Wheel. The first volvelle was created by Benedictine monk Matthew Paris in 1250, to save rotating an entire book around. Most volvelles, historically, were designed for astronomical purposes. Recently we had an FPP about Ramon Lull, who seems to have been one of the earliest users of volvelles for purposes other than astronomy. Nowadays volvelles (or wheel charts) are rarely seen, but they were very popular between the 30's and 60's, the heyday of slide rules, before the invention of electronic calculators. The addition of multiple circles makes the volvelle capable of greater complexity, and they are ideal for codes and ciphers (Thomas Jefferson's cipher wheel, which is isomorphic to a 26-layer volvelle). Here is a description of the volvelle that came with the game Bard's Tale III in 1987 including a zip file with scans of it. For comparison, here is the complex table it equates to. More recently, the game HeroClix makes use of volvelles, as the combat dial base of the character miniatures. So, how to make your own volvelles? Here's an example of one (PDF). Here's a program for making simple two-layer volvelles, which I have tested and works, although it's probably better just to print out the example volvelle, work out how it works, and stick it to a paper plate. Or make this one. (More paper plate volvelles.)

Comic Sans is Illegal

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:25:03 -0800

Design Police : Bring bad design to justice

Layer Tennis

GuyZero — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:47:04 -0800

Layer Tennis. Head-to-head graphic artist competition!

arhiva7 - choose your destination

hama7 — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:02:47 -0800

arhiva7

September 11 Rebranded Everything

fandango_matt — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:23:09 -0800

Terrorist Organization Logos.

The labyrinth made simple

sneakin — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:07:25 -0800

Getting around underground in NYC is no longer only for people who already know how to get around underground in NYC. Graphic Designer Eric Jabbour has been spending his free time obsessively redesigning MTA transit maps. And the results are striking. Non-New Yorkers will undoubtedly be able to figure out what's what. Cleaner lines and neighborhood boundaries are just a few features. Also, one can clearly see and understand transfer points and more street names.

Tonight We're Gonna Design Like it's 1999

Chinese Jet Pilot — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:21:04 -0800

Where is Kai Krause? If you were a web designer back in the day, you probably used Kai’s Power Tools (my how web design has grown). A user interface visionary, Kai bailed at the dot.com peak (just in time) and retired to Byteburg, a 1000 year old castle in Bonn, where he peacefully lives and works today.

Cap'n Crunch is a gateway drug!

loquacious — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:22:38 -0800

Breakfast of the Gods: The Last Good Morning. A serialized webcomic featuring the sugary, crunchy stars of your childhood - destroying your childhood dreams one after another. Via Monkeyfilter.

Deus Ex Machina, an experimental online comic

jbickers — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:28:44 -0800

"Deus is an experimental, serialized online comic about myth, consciousness, death, and tomfoolery. Following a set of quasi-mythical gods and a poor fool named Cam, the styles and themes of Deus are constantly evolving." From the utterly talented Gareth Hinds, whose fully painted interpretation of Beowulf is about to be issued in hardcover by Candlewick Press.

One evening in November, 1914, I found myself in Calais

mwhybark — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:58:22 -0800

The Great War: "People at the time experienced it differently. We may think they were misinformed and deluded, and perhaps they were, or maybe we have become incredibly cynical and mistrusting. What were once considered to be civic virtues are now thought to be quaint anachronisms at best or grand delusions at worst. Things change." The site proffers an incredible variety of popular-press articles and imagery concerning the unfortunate European events of 1914 to 1918.