Motion infographics including the most popular Halloween costumes and how to measure the universe. 

http://blog.visual.ly/20-great-motion-graphics-of-2012/

Handmade Thinking: A Picture Book on Reading and Drawing by Lawrence Musgrove

http://www.handmadethinking.com/?page_id=586

Information Is Beautiful 

Information Is Beautiful 

Amy Sly workshop: Make It! Share It! Hope people like it!

fogdpsu:

Hey! There is a newly added workshop thisFriday!

Please comment to sign up! The first fifteen people will be accepted!

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November 30th 2012 
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Portland State Art Building, Room 320

35 Amazing Graphs That Show How Your Spending Habits Change With Age

It’s that time of year again when Americans spend like crazy for their loved ones and themselves. But everyone’s needs and wants evolve dramatically with age.

The charts couldn’t be more plain. But with a tiny bit of imagination, the curves offer a vivid look at how spending patterns change over time.

What are some things we learned? Well, men spend less on underwear as they get old, but spending on robes spike near the end of life. As we get older we use a lot less plastic cutlery. And alcohol consumption stays pretty steady from the day we turn 21 until we turn around 70.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/35-amazing-graphs-that-show-how-your-spending-habits-change-with-age/265575/

stefania-spano:

The Story of Human Rights

Your daily dose of data visualization, mixed in with some global health history. I especially love the string-as-timeline graphic cue.

SCHEMATICS

A Love Story in Geometric Diagrams

The mathematical poetics of time, or what matrices reveal about the matters of the heart.

Somewhere between the psychology of love and the intricacies of romance lies a vast and unmapped territory of abstract and subjective existential paradoxes. That’s precisely what New-York-based British photographer Julian Hibbard sets out to map in Schematics: A Love Story — a truly unique, in the most uncontrived sense of the word, project exploring love, memory, and time through 43 schematic diagrams drawn from old books and paired with poetic text that gleans new meaning from the geometric forms.