Archive for August, 2008

A terrible lesson in geography, brought to you by FoxNews

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Europe from a FoxNews perspective I’m on a quest, searching for data about the elections (if you know of any resources I should look at, send them over). One of my searches brought me to the FoxNews website. It shocks me that people actually use this as their reliable source of news. Before I go off on a tangent about my perspectives on Republicans and what they’ve done to this country (and the world), I will focus on a diagram I found on the FoxNew > World > Europe page.  This diagram tops my list of terrible diagrams that I’ve seen this year. The geographical representation of each country is an embarrassment and I’d love to hear from the person who came up with this what in the hell he was thinking. Anyway.. pretty funny…. and sad.

The first magazine with an electronic cover

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Esquire’s October issue will be the first ever with an electronic cover that will animate while on the shelves. There’s a New York Times article about it that’s pretty interesting. This caught my attention because Pitch, my company, is going to have some diagrams we designed in this 75th anniversary issue along with a contributor’s section. This is getting very exciting, especially because I’ve been wanting to move more into data visualization work for several years now. It looks like this year is the year of that transition.