Super Sundry, Vol. 4
Super Sundry, Vol. 4
Charts and maps and diagrams, beautifully illustrated.
Welcome to Chartography: insights and delights from the world of data storytelling.
Tomorrow, I will take the train down to Stanford ahead of my Thursday-morning technicolor rant about circular diagrams at the Rumsey Map Center’s Ruderman Conference. I can’t wait to see so many of you there in real life!
In-person tickets are gone, but you can still watch from afar: register (free).
In celebration of the event I am extending the same Visionary Press conference-discount to you: free domestic shipping + $10 discount on original books and print information graphics.
This code will be active through the end of the week, so please take advantage soon. Contact me directly with any questions.
This week: A basket of pumpkin-spice sundries. Let’s go!
Charts
Emoji kitchen lets you combine emoji, to delightful results.
Shown here: 📉+🥺 and 📊+🎊
Weatherspark allows sophisticated comparisons between locations ↕across the day and ↔throughout the year.
Don’t miss the daylight saving time jog in the city detail maps:
Maps
Detail of Lucien Boucher’s cosmos for Air France (1951). BnF
Jill Hubley recently unearthed isometric diagrams from the USGS archive. See them all on Twitter
Eclipses
Scroll through the elegant, technically impressively, and earnest guide to eclipse-watching by Andy Woodruff: story
Kenneth Field’s map have elevated beyond needing anything other than symbols. Twitter
Minimal design
Alisa Burzic has completed a series of fantastical characters. IG
Ben Aldis’s menacing griffon vulture evokes the Reichsadler heraldic eagle. IG
Malika Favre snuck a map of Africa in her portrait of W.E.B. Du Bois for a new edition of The Souls of Black Folk. (She told me putting America in the goatee was attempted, but too much.)
In the next issue we will return to the TIME magazine vault.
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.