Understanding why it takes so long to produce and distribute vaccines on a national level.
How the H1N1 vaccine is made
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Ben Fry and GE Visualize…
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Projects Update
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Some typography posters I made last year for the Ivy Film Festival.
Additionally, I’ve finally got around to updating and documenting my projects with sketches and final product pictures. I think I did a pretty good job with just my desk lamp and floor. I really need to take some professional photography classes…
Darren Firth
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Make Something Cool Everyday
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Art that speaks to the subconscious.
Visualized: Choose Your Own Adventure Books
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Definitely one of the most intriguing items to come out of the 80′s were the Choose Your Own Adventure books. As tacky as they were, it was a very interesting effort to make books more “interactive.”As a kid, they offered countless hours of entertainment. I would read them over and over again so that I could figure out every possible ending. Recently, Christian Swineheart put together a very elegant visualization and analysis of the beloved CYOA books.
NyTimes – Interactive Narrative about Jobs
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Statistics can be boring. It’s crucial that we have them in news articles to put facts behind the story but I always though reciting numbers in a paragraph is such a waste. Statistical data takes a lot of work to generate but when you just list the numbers, it’s a bore to readers who view the data more as a necessity than part of the story. The New York Times shows us again that the numbers themselves can be the story.
Update: Find how people like you have been affected by the recession.
A Step into Sustainable Eating
Friday, November 6th, 2009It was probably a bad idea, in retrospect, to start by telling everyone I would become a vegetarian. I was half-way through an environmental science class my last year at Brown University and I had just discovered how environmentally unsound meat-consumption could really be. Recently, Michael Pollan asserted, “A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a meat eater in a Prius.” While this might not have been factually sound, it’s hard to deny that with the astronomical amounts of food that the human population consumes, what we choose to eat can have a large impact on the environment. I have always strived to be a pretty environmentally conscious human being (coming from Berkeley, its hard not to) so I decided that I needed to think more about my eating habits.
Meat Appreciation
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Back Forty is a restaurant in New York that strives to provide local and sustainable meats. In this video, the chef, Shanna Pacifico, demonstrates how she tries to use every part of an animal in her cuisine. I have always been very fascinated in how different parts of animals turn into different types of food. I admire that she is so knowledgeable about the entire food process and not just the preparation. That is a quality all great chefs should have.
Silly Diagram of the Day
Sunday, November 1st, 2009