cool things, in case anyone still cares

Games

RISD + Hasbro, a Multidisciplinary Studio in Game Design

RELABLE EGS

Maira Kalman
Promo for the Royal Shakespeare Company
The Great Bear by Simon Patterson

Charley Harper Flow Chart

I was just looking at some Charley Harper stuff and came across this flow chart!

Check out the rest of the page on Flickr.

Feltron

Quantitative wine label for an Australian biodynamic wine


Did we look at this guy? Nicholas Felton:
http://theofficeof.feltron.com

Nicholas Felton spends much of his time thinking about data, charts and our daily routines. He is the author of several Personal Annual Reports that collate countless measurements into a rich assortment of graphs and maps reflecting the year’s activities. He is the co-founder of Daytum.com, a site for counting and communicating daily data, and frequent designer of information graphics for numerous corporations and publications. His work has been profiled in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Wired and Creative Review.

Also check out his blog http://feltron.tumblr.com/

for great imagery .

Susan Farrington

Lydia Nichols

Hugh Casson for Janna

Hugh Casson, drawing showing stage design for 'The World of Paul Slickey', 1959

Hugh Casson, Stage design for ‘Alceste’, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1954

Shannon May

Venn Diagram

Possibly the greatest infographic ever made.

Largest Bankruptcies

I thought this one was kind of interesting, especially the play on the sinking ship. This was done by Always with Honor. First, I linked their article, and the next one has a link to their site with some of their other infographics.

Link is here.

Link to their other work.

Infographics

Three really cool drawings and four super tacky/lovable jokes:

1 Родион Китаев
2+3 Antoine Corbineau

Mims

MIMS' "This is why I'm hot" explained through maps.

Brian Rea

A one year list :

The Map Sap

Hi everyone!

Being in this class has caused be to start seeing maps everywhere, and I've become pretty excited about them! I've posted some of the maps I've found here on the Mica Maps blog but I see so many things that interest me that posting them all here would constitute major spammage. Therefore, I've decided to make my own blog, The Map Sap, specifically for sharing illustrative and/or conceptual maps! There are already about 30 posts. The most recent one is a beautiful map of Europe by Sanna Mander:

Hope to see at The Map Sap!

PS: You will notice a couple of our classmates' work on The Map Sap. I'm not playing favorites! I only blogged them over others because their work was already posted on Tumblr and it was easy to reblog!

Freaky Fauna

One of my spring break missions (along with completing some unfinished work for classes and cleaning my bedroom) is catching up with all the blogs I follow on Tumblr, an activity I generally don't allow myself to indulge in when school is in session.

While checking one Tumblr, Freaky Fauna, I came across some wonderful maps I thought I'd share with you! (Click here if you want to see everything tagged under cartography, but I suggest checking out the rest of the blog. Awesome stuff!). All these images and their descriptions are copied from Freaky Fauna.

West side to East side.

From The Stars: A New Way To See Them by H.A.Rey (1952).

A Burmese map of the world, showing traces of Medieval European map-making

Endpapers from The Bamboo Bird by Melville Colley (1947).

SYNTHETICA, the relationship between the synthetic substances.

Map of an invented land by Boris Arztybasheff, Fortune magazine October 1940.

EDIT: Looky what I just found! They've got a tag for infographics, too! Not a huge collection but still some pretty cool stuff!

EDITEDIT: It just occurred to me that I should post a link to my tumblr! Please add me! Like I mentioned earlier, I don't use it much during the semester but when I do it's pretty swell, I must say.

Celestial maps

http://www.ianridpath.com/atlases/urania.htm

jochen gerner

Some fun pieces: the last image is by Charlie Roberts:

http://kravetswehbygallery.com/artists.php?artist=Charlie%20Roberts&painting=1234559582.jpg

Heart of the Nation

I was looking through past American Illustration pieces the other day and found this map. Unfortunately they didn't include the artist's name next to the work, only an email: maren@redeyereps.com

Also, I found these two on Print and Pattern. I think they're sold at Ikea.