As computer-aided design continues to advance, high-quality infographics have sprung up all over the internet. Photographer Jose Duarte is doing something different. His “handmade visualizations” incorporate balloons, string, tape, sidewalk chalk, and — most remarkably — his plant-filled surroundings, both indoors and outside. A series on the state of the internet in 2010 compares Lady Gaga’s number of Twitter followers to Al Gore’s, reveals that 90 percent of all email is spam, and more. Click through a gallery of Duarte’s images after the jump, and if you’re interested in making your own lo-fi infographic, you can write to the artist for a free tool-kit.
Feel the need to make a movie but have no idea where to start? French television channel and film production company Canal+ is here to help with these flowcharts slash advertisements made by Euro RSCG. For an even bigger version click here. You can also figure out how to make an animated movie, a horror flick, an action movie, and um, a porn. Go wild.
If you’re sick of hearing Frank Sinatra tell you that he wants to be a part of it, or Alicia Keys gushing about how these streets will make you feel brand new, then rejoice – here’s an alternative musical history of the Big Apple. Ladies and gentlemen, get your walking shoes on for a journey through Flavorpill’s essential Manhattan lyrical topography. Click here for a larger version of our rock ‘n roll map of the borough and take our guided tour after the jump.
After the viral success of a map assigning each state its own movie comes this new graphic, which does the same thing for TV shows. Since the movie map provoked much debate, we’ve done some in-house analysis of the TV version as a conversation starter. See a bigger version here, read our observations after the jump, and discuss amongst yourselves in the comments. Read More »
[Editor's note: It's the last Friday of the summer, so your Flavorwire editors and writers are taking a much-needed break. We'll return to our normal publishing schedule on Tuesday, but in the meantime, we'll be revisiting some of our favorite content from the past few months. This post was originally published July 23, 2010.] We’re at T minus two days until Mad Men season four takeoff, and we know that after several months of down time, many of you may need a crash course on (or, for the newcomers, an introduction to) the show’s complicated plot. But instead of boring you with a point-by-point summary of three years’ worth of material, we’ve reduced it to its component particles to make this here Periodic Table of Mad Men. Click here to see the full-size graphic. For added fun, chase it with a midday martini.
Last week’s annual Salone di Mobile furniture fair in Milan was overshadowed — quite literally — by Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull, whose ash obscured European skies and stranded editors and designers in Italy’s most industrial city. Reports from the fair are now trickling in, and there’s a lot to parse. How to best make sense of all that design-y furniture? A Tumblr-er named Fueled by Coffee (aka Creighton Berman) has one meta idea: iPad illustrations doling out bits of pithy advice. Originally commissioned by design blog Core77, Berman has posted a few outtakes and greatest hits from his fair coverage — click through for more.
What does Jonathan Safran Foer have to do with cocaine? Well, probably not much, but his wife (and fellow author) Nicole Krauss is repped by William Morris agent Bill Clegg, whose forthcoming memoir Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is about a particularly nasty crack habit. Vanity Fair‘s Claire Howorth, in her insidery yet engrossing infographic which explores how “ten potential best-sellers coming out this spring and summer fit into the [publishing industry] firmament,” relates that theme back to the Saturday Night Live crew associated with Simon Rich, whose first book Elliot Allagash comes out May 25. Got all that? Peep all the interconnectedness after the jump. Read More »
