david gale studios
fine art and ideology since 1978

radarqnet:

An Infographic of Travels on Foursquare
Esta infografía refleja el movimiento de las personas que usan Foursquare en un sólo día. Es una unidad de análisis (las personas) diferente de cualquier otras infografías en las que observamos cómo viajan los paquetes de datos o un censo estático de la residencia de los usuarios.
Las posibilidades que se vislumbran, de poder pronosticar las cargas en los medios de transporte mediante el uso estadístico de estos datos eran inimaginable hace años.
/via laughingsquid

(via Architecture in Charts | Coffee with an Architect)

50 Most Influential Designers in America

Co.Design’s influence matrix tracks designers from the virtual (websites and information) to the physical (cars and even spaceships). Thinkers wield influence through writing and leadership, while makers exert it through their work.

Infographic by Kristina Dimatteo

smarterplanet:

The Really Smart Phone - WSJ.com
Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from our cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of our social lives, travels, risk of disease—even our political views.

“sharing, celebrating and enhancing the world’s visual language”
The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world’s visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.

IKEA Stonehenge part II
Published in the QI H Annual. Written by Justin Pollard with input from John Lloyd and Stevyn Colgan.
via How to be a Retronaut

IKEA Stonehenge part I
Published in the QI H Annual. Written by Justin Pollard with input from John Lloyd and Stevyn Colgan.
via How to be a Retronaut

enviropolicy:

From population to McDonald’s: rate of change in human activity since Industrial Revolution.
From Steffen et al. 2011 here.

infoneer-pulse:

The Secret Histories of Those @#$%ing Computer Symbols

It’s plastered on T-shirts; it tells you which button will start your Prius; it’s even been used on NYC condom wrappers. As far back back as World War II engineers used the binary system to label individual power buttons, toggles and rotary switches: A 1 meant “on,” and a 0 meant off. In 1973, the International Electrotechnical Commission vaguely codified a broken circle with a line inside it as “standby power state,” and sticks to that story even now. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, however, decided that was too vague, and altered the definition to simply mean power. Hell yeah, IEEE. Way to take a stand.

» via Wired

infoneer-pulse:

A Fascinating Communications Map

Via Richard Forno, of Infowarrior, this interactive map of the world’s undersea data-cable architecture. You can zoom the map in and out and click on any individual cable to see its routes and landing points and other technical info. Eg the trans-Atlantic cable highlighted in white, known as FA-1, has two landings on the U.S. East Coast (on the north and south sides of Long Island) and one each in England and France.

» via The Atlantic

World Cup Fever sends Internet usage to record levels, according to measurements by Akamai.
via ZDNet

iron-on:

Entire World Cup 2010 schedule in a single-page interactive infographic
Includes all matchups with dates, cites and stadium locations, all the way from group stage to round of 16 and onwards to the finals.

poljaff:

Walhattan@A Daily Dose of Architechture

The above is from Jesse LeCavalier’s essay “All Those Numbers” at Places: Design Observer. In it, the architect investigates “the design possibilities latent not only in Walmart’s building types but also in the organizational practices — especially its unparalleled expertise in logistics.” LeCavalier’s essay is recommended for clearly explaining how Walmart works, its number-centric approach that makes it so BIG but also so fiercely loathed by supporters of the local, especially in cities. This last frontier, the urban market, is partly the focus of LeCavalier’s piece.

surp:

The New York Times has created this fascinating infographic that looks at the price of gas and its relationship with vehicle miles traveled (VMT) since 1956. Interestingly, according to the Urban Land Institute’s Growing Cooler: Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change report reducing VMT is the single greatest way in which urban planning can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The study projects that overall North American emissions will decline by 10% if 60% of new development built between now and 2030 is compact as opposed to conventional low density sprawl. Compact development (i.e. blended densities, mixed land uses, interconnected street patterns) reduces dependence on automobiles because distances between destinations are shorter, making sustainable mobility options like walking, cycling and transit more attractive. Finally, this brings to mind the question of whether urban planning or peak oil will be a stronger driver in changing how we get around and where we live over the coming decades. My money is on peak oil.
SG