Hierarchy Of Visual Understanding?

swissmiss often have interesting, smart people come visit Studiomates (our studio collective) and they’ve been talking for a while that they should simply start a digital guestbook of all the fantastic people that stop by.

This week guest was David McCandless a London-based author, writer and designer. This is his virtual Guestbook entry on swissmiss studio-ideapaint wall.

via www.informationisbeautiful.net

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The world is warming

The world warmed by about 0.7°C in the 20th century and by the end of the 21st century temperatures will be 3°C warmer than at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Increases in average temperature will be less noticeable than those in extremes. According to a 2009 comparison of over 20 climate models by David Battisti and Rosamond Naylor, by 2050 there is a 10-50% likelihood that the average summer will be hotter than any summer recorded until now. By 2090 the likelihood of this happening rises to 90% in many places.

via www.economist.com

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The Evolution of Writing and Printing from 3000BC to 1500AD

Although nobody knows the true origin of writing and printing for sure. Charles Kantz a aspiring graphic designer from San Francisco Bay Area tried to point time and place of some remarkable discovery in history of writing and printing.

This is an infographic map he created in his History of Graphic Design class. It shows the evolution of writing and the development of printing from 3000BC to 1500AD.

via Charles Kantz

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