Posts tagged with ‘information graphics’

Fast Company Design: Pasta, Not Bacon, Makes You Fat. But How?

One of the most utterly surprising scientific findings of recent decades has got to be that fat isn’t so bad for you after all. (Apart from, you know, potentially bringing on serious heart conditions.) In fact, if you’re looking for a reason for America’s ballooning girth, you’ve got to lay the blame on carbohydrates—in other words, bread and pasta, the very things that the government once advertised as the foundation of a healthy diet in the food pyramids we all grew up with.

The funny thing is, though, that those low-carb diets, at this point, probably feel like another fad. The Atkins rage came and passed, after all. So it’s worth recounting the science behind how carbs make you fat, and it’s all laid out in this infographic created by Column Five for Massive Health, and based on Why We Get Fat by noted science writer Gary Taubes. (click to read article in full)

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Section of a large and entertaining infographic titled “What if social media sites were your neighbors?” In this instance, your Twitter neighbors subject you to a constant cacophony of chatter (not unlike my real neighbors!). The poster is from Column Five Media, whose blog is full of data visualizations.

Section of a large and entertaining infographic titled “What if social media sites were your neighbors?” In this instance, your Twitter neighbors subject you to a constant cacophony of chatter (not unlike my real neighbors!).

The poster is from Column Five Media, whose blog is full of data visualizations.

An endearing and visually engaging information graphic telling the story of how a young couple met and fell in love, part of a single-page website announcing their marriage. While this type of website has become almost a cliché, this one is full of design and coding goodness: great color palette, typography, and writing; use of jquery slideshows, a persistent page navigation bar, and html5 elements.

An endearing and visually engaging information graphic telling the story of how a young couple met and fell in love, part of a single-page website announcing their marriage.

While this type of website has become almost a cliché, this one is full of design and coding goodness: great color palette, typography, and writing; use of jquery slideshows, a persistent page navigation bar, and html5 elements.

Detail of a poster showing the results of a project to visualize movies in terms such as their action, color palettes, and editing structure. The result is “fingerprints” of movies. The project, called Cinemetrics, was Frederic Brodbeck’s graduate project for Denmark’s Royal Academy of Arts. Brodbeck notes that the tool could be used to visualize differences in an original movie vs. its remake; the work of one director; or films of one genre.  An article about the project appears at Fast Co. Design.

Detail of a poster showing the results of a project to visualize movies in terms such as their action, color palettes, and editing structure. The result is “fingerprints” of movies. The project, called Cinemetrics, was Frederic Brodbeck’s graduate project for Denmark’s Royal Academy of Arts.

Brodbeck notes that the tool could be used to visualize differences in an original movie vs. its remake; the work of one director; or films of one genre. 

An article about the project appears at Fast Co. Design.

The biggest cliches of web infographics, in an infographic. My favorite: “A crapload of irrelevant data put together in a big vertical image.” An article about the infographic of infographics was posted at FastCo Design. Alberto Antoniazzi created the amusing chart.  Lead via Brain Pickings.

The biggest cliches of web infographics, in an infographic. My favorite: “A crapload of irrelevant data put together in a big vertical image.”

An article about the infographic of infographics was posted at FastCo Design. Alberto Antoniazzi created the amusing chart. 

Lead via Brain Pickings.

“Front Page Fingerprint” is a data visualization executed by Derek Chan, a student in the University of Washington design department, in which the formal elements of the New York Times front page—such as white space, headline size and length, body copy, imagery and color palette—are shown for each day.

“Front Page Fingerprint” is a data visualization executed by Derek Chan, a student in the University of Washington design department, in which the formal elements of the New York Times front page—such as white space, headline size and length, body copy, imagery and color palette—are shown for each day.

Grad students at the School of Visual Arts created a series of infographics for the New York Times’ Education Life. Among the topics covered: what led to the decision to attend grad school, and the daily mood swings of an M.F.A. student.

Grad students at the School of Visual Arts created a series of infographics for the New York Times’ Education Life. Among the topics covered: what led to the decision to attend grad school, and the daily mood swings of an M.F.A. student.

Fly squishers are dog people. Fly shoo-ers are cat people. This graphic is one of many to be found @Hunch, a recommendation engine similar to Netflix’s, but to share and discover people’s favorite restaurants, books, music, fashion, websites, and the like. Lead thanks to @BrainPicker. Infographics from Column Five Media. In an aside, sites like Hunch and Netflix have made data science and data forensics truly sexy, which, as someone with a PhD in sociology, I find kind of cool!

Fly squishers are dog people. Fly shoo-ers are cat people.

This graphic is one of many to be found @Hunch, a recommendation engine similar to Netflix’s, but to share and discover people’s favorite restaurants, books, music, fashion, websites, and the like.

Lead thanks to @BrainPicker. Infographics from Column Five Media.

In an aside, sites like Hunch and Netflix have made data science and data forensics truly sexy, which, as someone with a PhD in sociology, I find kind of cool!

An infographic illustrating the German vs. Chinese approach to problem-solving, one in a series by Yang Liu, a Chinese designer who emigrated to Germany. Thanks to the inestimable Brain Pickings blog.

An infographic illustrating the German vs. Chinese approach to problem-solving, one in a series by Yang Liu, a Chinese designer who emigrated to Germany.

Thanks to the inestimable Brain Pickings blog.