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I made a diagram about my crocheting in the last 3 Month.
You can see:
1. how long I crocheted on each day and how long each item was crocheted
2. how long each item was on etsy and on what day it was sold
3. in which city the item was shipped
More information in etsy storque article:
www.etsy.com/storque/etc/infographics-one-sellers-visuali...
I have knitted these wrist warmers on my way to Berlin and back.
Left: Hamburg > Berlin by car (3h 45 min)
Right: Berlin > Hamburg by train (1h 50 min)
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You have an opportunity to win these wrist warmers.
Just leave your comment here or on facebook (one entry per person) till 21th of December.
Finally I made a diagram about my etsy sales so far.
The sales are sorted by cities and connected with the map.
Unfortunately It was not possible for me to upload a
bigger picture as (9292 x 7481): see in big resolution.
Or here is possible to download the bigger picture.
More information in etsy storque article:
www.etsy.com/storque/etc/infographics-one-sellers-visuali...
See ‘Taught from a new angle’ – Oliver Byrne’s Elements of Euclid, 1847. Infodesign history by Alexander Ecob in Eye82
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 latest submission to the InfoDesign Calendar Challenge at my blog.
It works like this:
1. Locate the day-number.
2. Move upwards in its column until you find the month-row.
3. Read the day-name in the intersection (month-names always fall on a Monday).
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?
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!
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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
Infographic depicting the legendary Roger Federer's performances at Grand Slam level over the past ten years.
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.
Uma análise dos sites e redes sociais revela os parlamentares mais influentes no mundo digital. Revista Época 822. Crédito: Marco Vergotti (infográfico) e Felipe Germano (texto)
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.
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/
Matéria infográfica produzida para a segunda edição de Um Só Planeta da Época Negócios. Infografia: Marco Vergotti. Textos: Martina Medina
Matéria infográfica produzida para a segunda edição de Um Só Planeta da Época Negócios. Infografia: Marco Vergotti. Textos: Martina Medina
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...
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
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)
See also my walks in Hamburg 2012:
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
Matéria infográfica produzida para a segunda edição de Um Só Planeta da Época Negócios. Infografia: Marco Vergotti. Textos: Martina Medina
A decadência do tocador de música digital mais popular do mundo nos ensina muito sobre a Apple e sobre como cuidar das ideias originais. Revista Época. Edição 820. Crédito: Marco Vergotti (info) e Graziele Oliveira (texto)
Qualitative research was done (in-depth interviews and telephone interviews) around how the recession has affected female consumer buying habits within a two square kilometer radius of a specific area in Johannesburg, South Africa. This research was done for a final Honours Paper. I chose Information Design to represent my findings.
Full Size: img407.imageshack.us/img407/2746/buyingfinalw.jpg
Final for InfoDesign, organizing my morning routine. The assignment was to break the rules, so I did.
This was the direct outcome of the multicolored table after erasing weekends (they're are, after all, perfectly determined) and coloring the months with a rainbow scheme taken directly from Luis Pabon's fantastic calendar proposal. It looked remarkably like tetris, and that resemblance made me realize just how awkward the calendar looked horizontal--all the more awkward considering it made numbers run vertically when everyone expects them to run horizontally.
Verticalizing the design led me to my next version.
O banco emprestará dezenas de bilhões nos próximos meses – e se torna estratégico na cabeça de todos que têm pretensões eleitorais. Revista Época, edição 1010 - Créditos: Marco Vergotti (infográfico), Samantha Lima e Marcos Coronato (texto) e Aline Chica (design)
Text: GOOD.is (http://www.good.is/post/the-decade-in-design/) in my visual interpretation.
About a month this thing kept a gun against my head, I spent hours in trams and metro doing abt 10 pages of drafts and arithmetics, next time I'm using Excel or Processing. And it is barely readable I know. Actually it's the least readable thing that ever came out of my tablet pen, but. BUT. I love it. This noise, almost pixel-like, like a mac tuned to a dead channel, like a DNA-visualization noise. Pure brain sex.
Refs:
general
short intro in 60 sec
www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000095
what
public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html
how LHC works
public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/HowLHC-en.html
why/goals/aim
- lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/why...
- To smash protons moving at 99.999999% of the speed of light into each other and so recreate conditions a fraction of a second after the big bang. The LHC experiments try and work out what happened.
cutaway view
lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/ima...
beams/machine outreach
lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/
history
lhc-milestones.web.cern.ch/LHC-Milestones/LHCMilestones-e...
geo layer
pinoybusiness.org/2008/09/09/large-hadron-collider-business/
markdowe.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/lhc-in-diagramatic-form/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
wtf
universe-review.ca/I15-27-collider.jpg
beam dump is at point 6
www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/large_hadron_collider_r...
O Brasil tem um regime previdenciário injusto, ineficiente, caro e sem igual no mundo. O congresso tem o imenso desafio de mudar isso. Revista Época, edição 965 - Créditos: Marco Vergotti (infográfico), Daniel Pastori (design), Marcelo Moura e Marcos Coronato (texto)
Revista Época 793 - Crédito: Marco Vergotti (infografia), Daniel Pastori, CJ Burton (ilustração) e José Fucs (texto)
Nunca os céticos do aquecimento global pareceram estar tão certos - e nunca estiveram tão errados. Revista Época 784. Crédito: Marco Vergotti, Alexandre Lucas (Info) e Claudio Angelo (texto)
Uma faixa de renda capaz de definir uma "classe média global" mostra que o Brasil e o mundo têm muito mais pobres do que afirmam os governos. Revista Época 791. Crédito: Marco Vergotti (Info)
My (current) calendar proposal to my infodesign calendar challenge.
Examples:
Say you want to find out what day of the week February 2 falls on. First, find the 2. Now, move up to the FEB row. You find an F, that means Friday. February 2, 2007 falls on a Friday.
Another, more detailed, example: find out what day of the week August 25 falls on. First, again, find the number--25 in this case. Now move vertically to find the month's row. It's a little below, labeled AUG. The cell where the 25's column intersects the AUG row is empty and right next to an F. This means it's a Saturday. August 25, 2007 falls on a Saturday.
Description:
There are twelve month rows, 7 above the numbers, 5 below. They alternate between blue and red. Blue means the month has 31 days; red, that it has 30 (or, in the obvious case of February, somewhat less--28 in 2007).
Each month's row has 7 cells representing the order of that month's daynames. The two empty cells correspond to the weekend, Saturday and Sunday. The month's three-letter abbreviation always appears, highlighted, in the Wednesday cell--thereby neatly dividing the weekday.
The year of the calendar is shown in light-gray numbers just after the 31.
The calendar measures 66x53mm, just within the goal of 86x54mm.
Download:
Download the Excel 2007 source file here. Print it, tweak it, redesign it, build on it (and send your proposal to the challenge!). It's under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.
Critique:
This version has really grown on of me after days of unsuccessfully trying to improve it. First and foremost, it's very compact yet still manages to have a huge 11-point type for the numbers (and a 9-point elsewhere). At first it seemed too cluttered, but while there are more elegant versions (see below), I think none comes close in usability. The dayname letters are indeed obvious from the context but it's still a nice cognitive crutch to have them visible--and a calendar is nothing if not a cognitive crutch. Plus, it makes the design much easier to explain.
The colors were a weird decision. I tried to avoid red and green because so many people are colorblind to them, but except for that I just tried to go with what looked best for me. I ended up with this Flickrish bluered scheme by chance and haven't found something that matches it yet. I really like how both colors have a more or less equal "weight" (that is, none of them stands out meaninglessly) and yet how they are perfectly distinct.
Month rows are a bit too crowded, a little too narrow, but the flipside of that is you need to travel much less vertical distance to find out a date's dayname. So I think it's a good compromise, the less vertical distance the eyes have to travel, the less likely you are to confuse columns.
My main complain with the design is it provides no ready way to annotate days. No way to highlight official holidays, no way to scratch, circle, or otherwise mark important dates.
Other versions:
Check out the whole set for painstakingly described photos of all the other versions.
The digital version of this calendar is available here. Here's also an Spanish translation.
Turns out with a little practice you don't need dayname labels that much, as shown in this version. If you want even more elegance, you really don't need the numbers in the gray columns, they're obvious from the context--check this version.
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
Nunca os céticos do aquecimento global pareceram estar tão certos - e nunca estiveram tão errados. Revista Época 784. Crédito: Marco Vergotti (Info) e Claudio Angelo (texto)
I have knitted this scarf on my way from Hamburg to Leipzig and back.
And changed color with each stop of the train.
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You have an opportunity to win this scarf.
Just leave your comment here or on facebook (one entry per person) till 12th of January.
SML Pro Blog: SoundCloud = Innovative Social Network for Musicians
SoundCloud is a social network startup for musicians based in Berlin. Originally from Stockholm, the founders created the site after they have grown "tired of getting emails with YouSentIt links or FTP log-ins just to be able to check out our friends latest soon-to-be released tracks."
Just a couple of years ago, when you mention music and social networks, the first site that came to mind is MySpace. Yes, MySpace is a social network and they do put much weight on music and musicians, but MySpace fails to innovate beyond implementing comments + music player, and that is barely social. In this blog post I will go through the many innovations SoundCloud brought to the music scene and explain why I like it so much.
Read full blog post with screenshots + videos »
SoundCloud Innovations
+2 Continuous playback from people you follow
+3 Push to other social networks
+4 DropBox
See ‘Lady with the diagram’ on the Eye blog. Florence Nightingale on Crimean War mortality, 1858 – infodesign in Eye 82.
SML Pro Blog: SoundCloud = Innovative Social Network for Musicians
SoundCloud is a social network startup for musicians based in Berlin. Originally from Stockholm, the founders created the site after they have grown "tired of getting emails with YouSentIt links or FTP log-ins just to be able to check out our friends latest soon-to-be released tracks."
Just a couple of years ago, when you mention music and social networks, the first site that came to mind is MySpace. Yes, MySpace is a social network and they do put much weight on music and musicians, but MySpace fails to innovate beyond implementing comments + music player, and that is barely social. In this blog post I will go through the many innovations SoundCloud brought to the music scene and explain why I like it so much.
Read full blog post with screenshots + videos »
SoundCloud Innovations
+2 Continuous playback from people you follow
+3 Push to other social networks
+4 DropBox
Same as the last calendar, but, well, better. Or at least, more interesting, design wise.
You could also say, it's the difference between designing on a Mac, versus a PC.
Based on, and color scheme stolen from, the curiously excellent Pabon-Sporka redesign.