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Can You Tell a City By Its Blocks?
What if city blocks could be extracted, isolated, stripped of all but their essential form, and lined up like soldiers for inspection? Would we know Paris or Berlin by the sum of their parts?
French artist Armelle Caron has satisfied this curiosity in “Tout bien rangé,” an assembly of what Caron calls “graphic anagrams” of well-known cities. The series, whose title translates roughly as “All in order,” is composed of digital images of cities printed on canvas — cities whole and cities disassembled, catalogs of parts for some Borgesian Ikea project.
Read more. [Images: Armelle Caron]
Would we know Manila by the sum of its parts?
Villard de Honnecourt’s Diagram, via The Secret Law of Page Harmony
Practicing in 13th century France, Honnecourt was an architect who used a similar principle to design the pages of his Workshop Record Book that he did when working on his structures. (…)
This is a moment in which the boundaries separating graphic design and architecture were blurred, showing that the development of pleasing ratios, shapes and sizes is not dependent on the medium, but the mind.
It’s a trap! Oh, wait.
Gifs as ads? Tumblr experiments with new advertising format
Tumblr’s Director of Product Danielle Strle says that some of the animated GIFs have been really subtle, so users may not have even noticed the movement.
30-storey building. Built in 15 days. China. Here’s the time-lapse video.
CONFEDERATE HELLCAT X132
SIMPLICITY THROUGH VISUALIZATION
Sometimes complexities, when put into a framework, chart or infographic become pretty simple. I love how being happy is simple.
![The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design [Smashing Magazine]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt89euc6Bg1qctkspo1_500.jpg)
The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design [Smashing Magazine]
A word cloud business card.
Perfect for editors, data journalists, and hack/hacker types.
g’s that are constructed like this is my typographic porn…..
Get ‘em while they’re young – after graphic design for kids, HTML for babies (via)
Design in Action
Jess Bachman is known for creating fantastic infographics, one of which is a 2009 visualization of the US/China trade relationship that he did for Mint.com.
Take a moment and look at that work because the video above is Jess in action putting that visualization together.
More precisely, Jess took a screenshot every 10 seconds with SnagIt and then laid it out as a screencast. He calls the 3,657 frame result Flowcapping.
H/T: Cool Infographics.
