This is childish nonsense. Healthy dose of salt req'd. Click for Serious Cosmo.
Huffington Post front page.
Wow. ALL CAPS Arial and a chart saved as a lossy-ass JPG instead of a PNG. This might just be my least favorite thing on the Internet right now.
(source image - from here, blame HuffPo for the Arial and at least some of the generation decay)
I just want to make charts.
The left-leaning chart is quite pretty—the rich dark red and powder blue balance well. The thick bars and all-caps Gotham Black lettering add to legibility and the perceived weight of the stats. X-values are clearly delineated by year and month, y-values require no mental math. It’s just nice to look at.
On the other hand, if the text weren’t written in Helvetica, I’d say the right-leaning chart was fired out of Excel using the default settings. #FF0000 and #0000FF look super harsh together and the rotated text, “(in millions)” denotation, and nearly empty x-axis make me feel like the designer was rushing to meet a deadline.
And—at least online—I’m being punched in the eyes with a whole lot of flickering whitespace 24 times/second.
I can’t get around the near-perfect correlation between political alignment and design sensibility. Is it that the arbiters of style and fashion are almost entirely lefties? Reflective of an educational gap between the two parties? Linked genetic traits?
Someone help me out here.
Opportunity + Hard Work = by Nick Gatens
Don’t forget “talent”. So, so, so many people forget talent—producers and consumers.
(via papertissue)
This would have been a much more appealing chart with this source image. Hell, I cc0’d the damn thing so you wouldn’t even have to attribute it to me.
Maybe I will do this later today.
If you put as much energy into the projects as you do being a dickhead you would be a lot more successful
Story of my life.
On a serious note, craigslist is chock full of job proposals like this. Sometimes I want to flame them and make a blog of my correspondances. After I win the lottery, of course.
(source is the same guy who did that spider thing. via Dave Chiu)
I’m especially enamored with the implication that “feminism”, “postermodern” and “blog” are interchangeables.
I often get asked things like “What do you actually do?”
The answer: Make line drawings in Word that illustrate what I’m trying to say in writing.
The Star is very academic. Well done, Malone. Bonus points for png.
Gonna have to feature this in my own chart series someday.
Doing some catching up
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