Design and the NYC Subway Map
Following his extensive work on the New York City subway signage in the late 1960s, Massimo Vignelli, inspired by Harry Beck’s 1933 London Underground map, simplified New York’s tangled subway map into a clean, readable system. Idsgn writer Skylar examines Vignelli’s map and how the Metropolitan Transit Authority scrapped [...]
Continue ReadingTrack Your Way Through 2010
According to Steve Rubel, it’s become easier than ever to implement data-driven tools into your daily life. “Self-tracking goes beyond just capture, though. You need to use the data to glean insights. Google Spreadsheets has a great way to do this with their gadgets. You can even set up forms for to make capturing the data even [...]
Continue ReadingUp 0.1% from August.
As I mentioned in a post I wrote a few days ago, the U.S. unemployment rate is now at 9.8%. The image above shows who among us is affected by these numbers and how things progressed; it’s also a nice piece of data visualization, too. Via Nathan from Flowing Data. View a large, zoom-able version of this piece here. You can check out some [...]
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