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This is an evolution of my first submission and it comes in two flavors: mini (shown above) and maxi--here's a comparison pic between them. Actually, maxi is a far better candidate for the challenge (I always present forty-plus-olds with mini first, and while they do like it, they're overjoyed when I show them maxi) but I just couldn't resist putting mini up there--I find it amazing that you can fit a full calendar into such an small space and still keep type at a decent size:

mini: 4.2cm x 6.1cm. Type 11 for numbers and monthnames, 10 for daynames

maxi: 5.2cm x 7.5cm. Type 15 for numbers, 14 for monthnames, 13 for daynames.

Size comparison with a credit card.

Mini compared with a normal calendar.

Maxi compared with a normal calendar.

The young and the good-sighted overwhelmingly prefer mini.

As for the design, I abandoned, reluctantly at first, the "wordless automaton" dream. Actually, I abandoned every design feature that I could and left only type and 3 colors. The result was surprising and refreshing, and in many ways much easier to understand. The way color links month end dates, one of my favorite features of the previous design is now even simpler--now there's only red for months with less than 31 days. Rows are now indicated by type color and that brought a huge improvement in contrast, which was more harmful to legibility than font-size in the original design.

Two other interesting things followed from the type-color rows. First, it forced me to use 3letter daynames, which is quite an unprecedented feat for calendars of any size that does help somewhat (particularly in a calendar like this, were daynames change position). Second, it allowed number columns to continue, greatly improving scanning, which allowed me in turn to drop the ~6 month split--at first a seemingly neat idea that eventually turned out to be somewhat distracting, an exception, one more thought step.

The one exception I haven't been able to depart from are the embedded monthnames. Placing them on Mondays (instead of Wednesdays), and thus marking the start of the week, was an improvement but I can't think of further ones (and I do think they blend a little bit too much with daynames). The obvious improvement, placing them all on an extra leftmost column turns out not to be that helpful. It doesn't look nearly as good for one thing, but it also seems to be strangely less usable--it's much easier to lose your place. You have to use them to notice the difference but here's a very lousy diagram of my current theory: basically, with embedded monthnames the eye can sweep upwards and almost unconsciously through the calendar, find the monthname, and usually have the dayname closeby; with leftmost monthnames the eye has to do a lot of tracing and retracing to be sure it's at the right place.

Btw, notice the middle column is slightly darker to ease scanning. Anything that can be done to improve column visibility and memorability helps a lot.

The biggest advantages of this design are legibility, size, and speed (it consistently beats normal calendars, any size, at dayname games). The biggest disadvantages are a(n albeit minimal) learning curve and (this one kills me) the inability to be able to mark holidays.

Here are the Excel 2007 source files --mini and maxi-- for you to play with the design. You'll need the wonderfully narrow Andale FB and Matthew Carter's Bell Centennial --a font designed specifically for AT&T's telephone directory and thought with concision and legibility foremost in mind.

And here are PDFs of mini, maxi, and left-column-mini in case you want to print the designs and test them.

So what do you think?

Juhan's 2008 Career Graph by Juhan Sonin

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I've been slowly evolving this graph for 6 years.

I just made it out of a Dip (see Seth Godin's The Dip); I'm now actually designing again. Feels good.

2009 career graph now available!

Info 1968 by Marco Vergotti

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Timeline 1968. Crédito: Marco Vergotti

Roger Federer - Head-To-Head Record Against Current Top 10 Players:Infographic by sacks08

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Full Size : img189.imageshack.us/img189/4872/headtoheadfinalw.jpg

This infographic depicts Roger Federer's head-to-head record against the current (as of December 2009) top ten players in the world.

This graphic depicts all matches played up until the end of 2009

Roger Federer - 10 Years of Grand Slam History:Infographic by sacks08

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Infographic depicting the legendary Roger Federer's performances at Grand Slam level over the past ten years.

Crochet project: 9 Days in Barcelona by ulaniulani

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This necklace is a conceptual project.

I was 10 - 18 May 2014 in Barcelona and crocheted in:

- in airplane (green)

- in bus (dark blue)

- in cafes (red)

- in my airbnb apartment (rose-pink gradient)

All together: 8 h 45 min crocheting

I went 80 km on foot in there 9 days,

it is also marked in the graphic.

Pabon-Sporka redesign by Eliazar Parra Cardenas

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This is some further play with Adam Sporka's wonderful remix of Luis Pabon's uncanny double-numbered calendar, all part of the Infodesign Callendar Challenge at my blog.

I loved how reducing the calendar size had the fascinating side effect of allowing one to use thumbs as month's separators, greatly improving the usability of the design. But I still thought that reading the calendar was not as easy as it could be and this is what came out. The month labels are placed so that thumbing won't hide them and several tweaks like column shading have been added to ease scanning.

Here is the CDR source file if someone wants to keep playing with it.

Oh, and yes, I only did half a calendar. I'm lazy.

My year 2014 by ulaniulani

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Work, Crochet, Sew, Ain't Magazine, Dance and Yoga - in hours per month.

New York Subway Map (1972) - Massimo Vignelli by D.so

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Original New York Subway Map signed by M. Vignelli

Social Values Study-What People Think Their Greatest Talent Is:Infographic 1/2 by sacks08

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Each coloured dot represents a respondent:

Infographic depicting a study that was conducted through 1000 online surveys. The objective was to determine if people were able to swap a talent/skill that they were good at for something else what would it be? The first graph depicts what respondents felt they were best at, while the second graph depicts the talent/skill respondents would swap their skill for.

Link to part 2 : www.flickr.com/photos/29071316@N06/4230283115/

(IN) Justiça Climática by Marco Vergotti

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Matéria infográfica produzida para a segunda edição de Um Só Planeta da Época Negócios. Infografia: Marco Vergotti. Textos: Martina Medina

(IN) Justiça Climática by Marco Vergotti

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Matéria infográfica produzida para a segunda edição de Um Só Planeta da Época Negócios. Infografia: Marco Vergotti. Textos: Martina Medina

Social Values Study-What People Would Trade Their Greatest Talent For:Infographic 2/2 by sacks08

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Each coloured dot represents a respondent:

Infographic depicting a study that was conducted through 1000 online surveys. The objective was to determine if people were able to swap a talent/skill that they were good at for something else what would it be? The first graph depicts what respondents felt they were best at, while the second graph depicts the talent/skill respondents would swap their skill for.

The results paint a pretty interesting picture...

Calendar Card by Joe Lanman

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This is my design for a calendar card - double sided with blanks for the days of the week.

In response to this challenge:

http://www.elzr.com/articles/2007/01/21/infodesign-challenge

My walks in Hamburg 2011 by ulaniulani

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mapping my ways in my city.

where I was

what I saw

at what days

and how long were the distances

(max. 11.1 km 25 days ago)

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