Spend Money. Long Live Walmart.

The findings of this Walmart/Sam’s Club growth pattern chart may have been compared to the spread of wildfire but our first impression was the proliferation of an aggressive, deadly disease. Props to FlowingData for keeping us up to speed on the invasion.

Appetite for Destruction

This unique infographic takes a creative approach to illustrating wartime bloodshed from 1915-present. Using approximation, the 100 Years of World Cuisine aims to “put a picture on these digits. A shocking, gory picture, like the reality of war. We wanted to give context, like a scale on which we could visualize each conflict next to […]

The Components of a Designer

In response to a healthy discussion on Core77, Michael DiTullo over at Design Mind visualized the ‘components of a designer’ as a Venn diagram seen above.

What did you pay attention to today?

Here’s one more infographic for the books. We get a kick outta GOOD’s latest effort which makes one wonder if in fact nihilism is a widespread epidemic in our culture (given the over-exposure of one particular recent event, that is).

The Goods on How your taxes are spent

In honor of tax day the people over at GOOD visualize ‘how our taxes are spent’. To view the infographic in actual size, you know what to do.

Daytum: An App to Visualize Your Life’s Statistics

For the last couple of years Nicholas Felton has obsessively documented his daily life with arbitrary statistics—the eventual result of his data collection are stunning visualizations in infographic form. With the release of his Daytum iPhone App you can now do the same. Daytum enables you to record and visualize data about your own life. […]

Let the Games Begin

Follow the games in style with David Watson’s double-sided poster set in Gotham. The piece was developed for Soccer Aid, a British charity that raises money for UNICEF. No doubt we will be following the U.S./England match come this Saturday.

Front of Poster

Back of Poster

About the poster:
A doubled sided A1+ typographic World Cup poster designed for Soccer Aid | UNICEF, by David Watson | Trebleseven printed on 170 gsm PhoeniXmotion Xenon.

Soccer Aid raises money for UNICEF to help children around the world.

The Poster was produced in collaboration with G&B printers and PhoeniXmotion paper.

All poster sale profits will benefit Soccer Aid | UNICEF.

Visualizing the cost of the Oil Spill in the Gulf



Good Magazine
has posted an informative infographic on the present cost of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. See the expanded version here.

Adidas vs Puma vs Nike

In a few months the world will have its eyes on South Africa—the country hosting the largest sporting event in the world—the 2010 World Cup. The info graphic (seen above) depicts the three athletic footwear brands (Adidas, Nike, Puma) that will be battling for best representation, and visible association with top teams and players, during and after the global championship.

The graphic informs on the size (revenues), leadership, acquisition history and brand portfolios of Adidas, Puma and Nike—with Nike still being the global lead (in terms of revenue), but with Adidas catching up quickly.

Go here to view infographic at larger size.

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Visualizing Aid to Haiti

Since the earthquake hit Port-au-Prince earlier this month many entities have pledged money, GOOD Magazine’s latest transparency visualizes a list of those—through January 19—that have actually given $1 million or more. For the big view jump over to GOOD.