MetaFilter posts tagged with graphic

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.