Circles & Joy

Super Sundry, Vol. 5: maps, diagrams, charts, and more.

Welcome to Chartography: insights and delights from the world of data storytelling.

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Today, grab our really really ridiculously good-looking information graphics at Cyber Monday prices (our lowest ever, up to 50% off!). No discount code needed when you shop directly at:

Now, on with the show. We have maps, diagrams, charts and more in this super-sundry edition. Let’s go!

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Maps

2016 ad campaign designed by Steve Quint (Cap Q) featured a series of route maps made by overlaying Apple products atop bird’s-eye views. more

Heather Chamberlain cleverly overlays cyan-magenta-yellow dots to highlight co-centricity of state centers. Twitter

I typed another elevation map on my antique ROYAL Quiet De Luxe. In an homage to mid-century concrete poetry, this one uses only three slugs: U S A

Diagrams

Ministry of Supply’s “ours vs theirs” pairs durability and performance testing with visual comparisons to showcase its garments’ superior qualities. Includes several cute GIFs. website

There are forty San Francisco cable cars used in regular service: 28 single-ended cars that run on the Powell Street lines and need a turntable to reverse direction; and 12 double-ended, slightly longer cable cars that run on the California Street line.

Market Street Railway illustrated all of SF cable-car liveries. The Powell Street line is below, see the rest here.

The recent annular eclipse gave us fantastic photo viz, photographed by Marybeth Kiczenski (Ieft) and Alexander Spahn.

Circular Charts

Elena Mejía, Jennah Haque, and Denise Lu charts survey answers to

Generally speaking, would you say the economy in each of the following places is going in the right direction, or is it going off on the wrong track?

with a clever circular diagram for Bloomberg.

Bev McDonald designed the perfect visual metaphor on the cover of the Emissions Gap Report 2023: Broken Record – Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again) for the UN.

Last month, I delivered my Don’t be a square presentation of weird and wonderful circular diagrams at the David Rumsey Map Center’s conference on cartography. Watch it, and all the other talks, here.

Joy

Vizier Amenemope’s paint box—over 3,400 years old—is beautifully preserved in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s collection.

Cornelia Parker’s Breathless is made of 54 defunct brass band instruments. They have been squashed flat and hung from wires, with polished upper surfaces and tarnished undersides. See it at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Andreea Robescu’s bold colors and abstract shapes attract attention to brands around the world. portfolio

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That’s nearly all the inspiration that can be crammed into a single email. Paid subscribers, please keep scrolling for your bonus graphic.

I appreciate everyone’s enthusiasm as you consider gifting Visionary Press this holiday season.

Onward!—RJ

About

Data storyteller RJ Andrews helps organizations solve high-stakes problems by using visual metaphors and information graphics: charts, diagrams, and maps. His passion is studying the history of information graphics to discover design insights. See more at infoWeTrust.com.

RJ’s recently published series, Information Graphic Visionaries, a new book series celebrating three spectacular data visualization creators. With new writing, complete visual catalogs, and discoveries never seen by the public. His first book is Info We Trust, How to Inspire the World with Data., is currently being remastered for a new edition.

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