amMap, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Data charts and diagrams are used when statistical data has to be presented in the most convenient and usable way. Visual charts are clear, visually appealing and easier to perceive than some simple enumerations or tables – mainly because users don’t have to analyze the meaning of presented facts, but can perceive main tendencies through the visual weight of the facts — directly.

times cancer chart, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Chris Gemignani was impressed by the particular information graphic in the Sunday New York Times about cancer care

londons kerning, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Dog thinking, originally uploaded by densitydesign.
“When you live with a dog for five years, as I have with Mister President,

oil, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

RAINFALL, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

The poster follows on from the light calendar series, and is a graph that charts average rainfall in the UK between 1971-2000. The graph itself is styled to resemble a downpour of rain. The bars are plotted directly over the weather station’s that they relate to, which gives an abstracted map of the UK.

Flags by Colours, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag.

Using a list of countries generated by The World Factbook database, flags of countries fetched from Wikipedia (as of 26th May 2007) are analysed by a custom made python script to calculate the proportions of colours on each of them.

Social Circles – Venn map, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Brad Firzpatrick recently wrote an elegant and important post about the Social Graph, a term used by Facebook to describe their social network In his post, Fitzpatrick defines “social graph” as “the global mapping of everybody and how they’re related”. He went on to outline the problems with it, as well as a broad set of goals going forward…

FF Mt, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

FSI FontShop International proudly announces FF Mt™, Erik Spiekermann’s most economical typeface ever. Employing obscure but powerful techniques like vwl mmssn and cap reduction, FF Mt uses up to 50% less paper, screen real estate, and wall space than other text faces without a single condensed letter.The German government has already incorporated FF Mt in their road sign system.