2012-11-06
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Our Two Democracies At Work. - 06 (posted by Michael Stoll)
This is a nice way to show block information on a map, better than block cartograms in most respects I think though that eastern seaboard is still problematic…
It is a nice diagram- naturally, since it’s from the Isotype Institute. I’d love to see a version of this with electoral college voters instead.
It’s well worth looking at the set this is part of, too.
2012-11-05
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US election results - Electoral college cartogram (by toffeemilkshake)
My stab at an electoral college block cartogram from 2008.
I think we nailed the geographical likeness pretty well (aware obviously that the states are even more skewed in terms of vote distribution in 2012).
This was hidden behind a tiny radio button(!?) so very few people ever saw it.
toffeemilkshake also made some interesting comments on the previous non-geographic electoral college diagram I posted, as well as a US-style “swingometer”.
2012-11-01
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The official MTA post-Sandy map, 2012-10-31 (download PDF) (via) (previously)
2012-10-31
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London Underground map after the 7th July attacks and failed bombing attempt on the 21st July 2005. By Feòrag NicBhrìde.
2012-10-30
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M—-l:
Here’s the red ink guide to David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas that I drew and posted back in 2009. I deleted that post (along with 1,223 other ones), but now I’m feeling a bit of regret about it. The book has been made into a fancypants movie starring Tom Hanks, and I’m guessing that people all around the world will be searching online for a hand-drawn guide that they can print out and take with them to the movie theater…you know, for keepin’ the characters and multiple storylines straight.
via marginagloss:
A tutor of mine at university once referred to David Mitchell as ‘the poster-boy of British Postmodernism’, a tag which he probably made up on the spot — a little unfair to Mitchell, perhaps, but it made me smile at the time.
I really liked Cloud Atlas: it’s a masterful display of novelistic bravura which manages the trick of being moving as well as technically innovative, a book which works as a romantic thriller as well as a thoughtful novel of ideas.
2012-09-11
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Top: London Underground Circuit Map Radio by Yuri Suzuki, 2012 (more here, here).
Bottom: The Underground ‘straight eight’ all-electric skit-set circuit diagram by Harry Beck, March 1933.
2012-09-03
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Oskar Schlemmer, diagram for “Gesture Dance,” 1926 (via, via, via):
His work for the Bauhaus and his preoccupation with the theatre are an important factor in his work, which deals mainly with the problematic of the figure in space. People, typically a stylised female figure, continued to be the predominant subject in his painting. Influenced by Cubism, he usually integrated this figures into geometric structures.
