At least 100 years ago I ran a website much like this one. Actually it was this one. I had a little section on the homepage dedicated to showing cool stuff I found online. In an effort to bring that back, I thought I'd just post up gigantic screenshots of sites I found cool. This is one of them.

It’s not every day you see a site and go, “I want those graphs to have my babies.” Alright, you probably never say things like that.

I happened to run into this site by complete accident and once I saw the pretty pictures I was immediately drawn to stay. The design itself isn’t why this site is being featured, it’s the graph work, the print work.

I have this odd affinity for graphs and visualizations. So much so that I wanted to start a blog on it. Where is it you ask? I’ll just defer the question for now.

I’ll leave it at that. But if you can take Illustrator, slow it to a crawl, and do that with it, my god you’re good.

Visit Designing the News (http://www.designingthenews.com/) »

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  1. #001 • Hamish M • April.17th.2008 • 2:31PM

    I’m a sucker for beautiful data visualization as well. This is a great find, thanks for sharing Bryan.

    I’m sure you’ve seen it, but the Feltron Annual report is a great source of visualization love: http://www.feltron.com/index.php?/content/2007_annual_report/ — I couldn’t resist a printed copy. Haha.

  2. #002 • Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer • May.1st.2008 • 3:15AM

    I went ahead and clicked on the screenshot without bothering to read through the entire post, resulting in a “WTF is so special about this site?” reaction. Then I read the part about the graphs. All I’m saying is you could have attached a screenshot of the graphs instead of the website, you know?

  3. #003 • Maksym Taran • May.14th.2008 • 8:36PM

    アバロンスターへようこそ <- the へ should be transliterated as “e” in that phrase, since it’s pronounced that way. It’s true that the character is usually pronounced he, but as a particle it reflects pre-WWII orthography. This only really happens with the particles へ, は, and を, which get pronounced as e, wa, and o (arguably that one really is wo).

    This whole thing tripped me up when I was learning too, so don’t worry about it. Still, it’d look a lot nicer if you fixed it ;)

  4. #004 • francis molina • May.23rd.2008 • 11:02PM

    i salute you! people like you make me proud to be filipino =]

  5. #005 • Janice • May.23rd.2008 • 11:05PM

    I also love the pretty pictures on your site and am glad you decided to keep it going! Looking forward to many more pretty pictures to come and reading your blog about graphs and visualizations

  6. #006 • Gordon Brander • May.28th.2008 • 8:43AM

    Those colors are gorgeous. Reminds me of…

    I love that hazy glow around everything, too.

  7. #007 • Henry • June.8th.2008 • 2:16AM

    Awesome theme you choose the colors are very pleasing to the eyes.





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