The crucial advantage of the handmade map is that it is designed for a particular person confronting a particular task

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The Billion Dollar Gram:

This image arose out of a frustration with the reporting of billion dollar amounts in the media. That is, they’re reported as self-evident facts, when, in fact, they’re mind-boggling and near incomprehensible without context. But they can start to be understood visually and relatively, IMHO.

Information Is Beautiful

Then they put me in a truck… (Canal+ advert)

Never underestimate the power of a good story.

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Klas Ernflo, Campaign to keep Barcelona parks clean.

Beach speech bubbles! Think before you act. Very clever.

ht: verymuch.

Klas Ernflo, Campaign for the Government of Catalunya to keep the Mediterranean sea clean

… is human refuse. Interesting how refuse is treated as if they were living, breathing things with biological shapes, origins, behaviours, and average lifespans.

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Charles Addams, New Yorker, 1949

Context is everything.

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What birds hear.

Source Creative, Going for a song

The importance of context.

Flightcard, Fox Movies, Fight Club

a collection of the more familiar in-flight safety cards

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