The New York Times wows again with an impressive organic visualization of the national emotional response to the death of Bin Laden.

American Rustic. Even though this style goes completely against my general design principles, I feel that there is definitely a place for these types of objects in the world. Functional design makes the world run – but this type of design gives the world character.

Chartwell font by TK Type. An innovative way to quickly build infographic charts using font ligatures. I particularly love the stylings of their bar graphs.

Instead of working on visualization a different idea, I wanted to flush this one out more. I realized from some of the comments that I received that the graphic was probably too simplified for anyone who was not familiar with the subject to understand the scope of the issue. So with the idea of brushing [...]

BaseNow comes up with a thoughtfully redesigned image for NASA.

Many times, I find myself thinking about what the numbers actually are when reading about environmental claims. I’ve decided to start making information graphics illustrating answers to these questions. Here is the first in, hopefully, a series of many. It follows the trail of industrially produced nitrogen and the inefficiencies in the process. If you [...]

Will more people take the stairs if they act as a giant piano? Will more people use public recycling bins if it also becomes an arcade game? Fun Theory shows that you can make the world better and have more fun at the same time.

Abigail Uhteg brings us through the process of handmaking her own book in this delightful stop-motion video and reminds us how much thought can go into a process that we rarely stop to think about.

Understanding why it takes so long to produce and distribute vaccines on a national level.

1. The cost of particularly ailments as you get older: 2. How different risk factors, demographics, and diseases correlate to each other: 3. The chances of that you will get a certain disease:

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. Modern swiss style design at its best.

Art that speaks to the subconscious.

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 [...]

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 [...]

It 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 [...]

Back 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. [...]

Even after graduating with a Sc. B in biology, sometimes even the most conceptually simple things go unnoticed – for example, the size of a single cell. Sure, we discuss distances and sizes in nanometers, but nothing is as convincing or clear as a great visualization. For those of you who always wanted to learn some [...]

It is said that a good design/idea is often the simplest one – but they also have to be simple in implementation.

10/GUI is a proposal for a new type of human computer interface that has been getting a lot of publicity on design blogs recently. It offers a unique perspective on both the hardware and software of future computer interaction. I think that it elegantly solves the problem of body/neck strain that would undoubtedly exist with [...]

The Tone Matrix is one of those ingenious programs that make you into an instant electronica artist. You can try your hardest to sound bad but, even at its worst, it would make a decent soundtrack for a documentary.

After countless hours of sketching, designing, and coding, I, Norris Hung, am very happy to welcome you to his own personal website! I am starting this, one, because I feel that I have accumulated a large enough amount of knowledge and work worth sharing. My hope is that what I write, do, or observe can [...]

David McCandless is a “data and visual journalist” based in London. I think he makes some very compelling visualizations. More often than not, I see information designs that dress up the information but don’t particularly make a concept any clearer or easy to understand. McCandless has really done a great job to clearly illustrate a [...]

Wes Anderson is the master of set design (and awkward humor). I can’t wait until this comes out.

It has always been said that the key to good typography is the ability to deftly design white space. Here’s some great examples of white space design in logos. This one also reminds me of my Enigma Twist logo. Sweet.

A primer by AIGA on graphic design and sustainability. It was a major issue at this year’s Better By Design Conference and here it is again. I’m really glad that the design community is embracing these ideals. I hope someday my work will revolved centrally around this theme.

The Ivy Film Festival is the largest student-run film festival in the world. Every year, they receive hundreds of film and screenplay submissions from undergraduate and graduate students from around the world. The Festival has also featured prominent and acclaimed speakers such as Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, Adrian Brody, and Oliver Stone. In 2009 and [...]

Back in the days when I was a student at Brown, I always used to look forward to reading the Brown Daily Herald. One reason was because my friend, Dustin Foley, had his own daily column called “Enigma Twist.” Enigma Twist was ambitious project to come up with a new type of puzzle every day [...]

I spent my entire weekend this week volunteering and sitting in at events for the Brown/RISD joint conference, A Better World by Design and, I have to say, I enjoyed every moment of it. Not often enough have I felt this sense of community where everybody was on the exact same page and here to discuss [...]

When I took a course on information design last year at RISD, my professor, Krzysztof Lenk, introduced in the first class the idea of Aristotelian aesthetics. He described this notion as the ability of good design to evoke intense emotion in its audience. He said this reaction should not be caused by the design of [...]