Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain are a pair of young Brazilian artists, working in their home country and in France. Some of their work explores fonts and maps. Typography meets cartography in this little work, entitled ‘The World, Justified’.
It shows the world we live in as only one of four possibilities, the others being a left-aligned, centred and right-aligned world. Our world is a justified one, i.e. aligned with both left and right margins.via bigthink.com
This map shows the global state of the planet in relation to forest fires in "real time".
via firefly.geog.umd.edu
This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, "12 Events That Will Change Everything," which appears in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American. The presentation was created by Zemi Media.
via www.scientificamerican.com
This map was a promotional e-card for the book, the caption at the bottom reads: “This playful diagram shows all the cities which have, are building or are planning to construct an urban rail system. It is the opening page of a new book about the graphic design of subway, metro, underground and U-Bahn system maps and diagrams.”
via bigthink.com
Each red dot on this map shows where spam messages are originating in real time. Saturated areas show high concentrations of malicious IPs.
via www.google.com
The Political and Economic Risk Map is Aon's benchmark review of political and economic risks facing corporations doing business globally. It provides an invaluable guide to trade credit and political risk insurance markets' perceptions of key risks around the world. Specific risks featured in the map include government interference, legal and regulatory risks, currency and credit risks.
via www.aon.com
The global economic crisis has had little impact on world military spending in 2009. Nine of the top 10 spenders increased military spending in 2009.
via www.lowvarates.com
Which are the 15 countries with the biggest prison population? What is the National Detention Rate and how does it range? How much the United States spends for the prison system or to maintain one person in prison?
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The map provide an indication of overall levels of terrorism threat in over 200 territories world wide, as well as information on active group type in individual countries.
via www.aon.com