Super Sundry, Vol. 2

It's time to fire up you inspiration collecting machine!

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

A whopping 27 of 28 of you requested more frequent “super sundry” editions. So here we go, a new parade of exceptional information-design and more that warrants your attention. As much that will fit in an email.

Fire up you inspiration collecting machine and let’s roll!

by Marc Johns

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Color Design

Shoes that reveal a four-color heat map as you wear them down. “If you don’t wear down your shoes fast enough, learn to skate or buy a Dremel.” MSCHF

Anamorphic painting by TRULY Design. Behance

Charts

Cinzia Bongino visualized moon data. Here we see lunar features by diameter, grouped by ethnic origin. Behance

Americans moved from mental hospitals to prisons. The Economist

Stadium seating bar charts show how most pop-song writers are still men. The Pudding

Alyssa Fowers crocheted a chart. Washington Post

Maps

Enormous compass rose at NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Planet

Endpaper map from Pilot on the River (1924). Internet Archive

Diagrams

The new International African American Museum features Tide Tribute, “an ephemeral presentation of the ‘Brookes’ slave ship diagram.” Relief figures each represent a man, woman, or child who laid shackled in the bellies of ships that were once anchored steps away in Charleston Harbor. As the tide changes, the shallow pool of water fills and empties, covering and revealing the shapes of those it honors. IAA Museum

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Subscriber Mark Palmer has shared his own musings on analog and digital workblends, inspired by previous issue Analog Dreams.

Where Do Digital and Analog Creativity Meet?

Have you collected a delicious morsel of information design? Please share it with me to be featured in a future super-sundry edition. Until then.

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.