Every visual thinking blogger in the blogosphere is going to be blogging about it, but it’s just so damn cool that I have to do it too. Information Architects have just released their Web Trend Map 4. Popular domains on the Web are mapped to the Tokyo Metro and [...]

At VizThink ‘09, Ole Qvist-Sorensen challenged the audience during his general session presentation, “Survival Academy: Imagining a Better World with Visual Language, Thinking and Practice,” how we as visual thinkers could contribute to saving the world by putting our talents to work on global problems. That struck a chord with me, so one of [...]

This is cool. New York designer Nicholas Felton has created a 2007 annual report of his life, The 2007 Feltron Annual Report, full of infographics, such as number of vacation days taken per month, itunes tracks played, miles traveled, subway trips, dining (including most bizarre – [...]

At the recent VizThink conference, I attended a couple of breakout sessions on mapping; Bruce Daniel’s “VizMaps: An Alternate Approach to Describing Where” and John Grimwade’s “Mapping the Possibilities.”

At the time, I wasn’t really sure what attracted me to these two mapping sessions, but reflecting upon it now, I think I was hoping that one [...]