In the visual syntax of infographics and maps, bigger equals… well, bigger. Large dots on a map or bars in a chart correspond to a proportionally large quantity of stuff being visualized–like, for ...

Entry in the 2011 Urban Water Design Challenge, sponsored by Visualizing.org and Circle of Blue. Alberto González submitted this infographic for the 2011 Urban Water Design Challenge—sponsored by ...

Minar, a self-described "computer nerd at heart," simply wanted to create a vector map (a map consisting of Geographic Information System data) using open source data. "The single All Rivers map was ...

The seven major river basins, as a whole, have had steady improvements in water quality over the past decade. The water quality of the Pearl River and the Yangtze River are the best among the seven ...

Rita Hayworth on the cover of TIME in 1941Cover Credit: GEORGE PETTY The following is an excerpt from the new updated and expanded edition of TIME: The Illustrated History of the World’s Most ...

As adept as humans have become at designing and building safer cities, we're still far from immune to the kind of devastation brought on by natural disasters. Americans received a reminder of this ...

As we've noted before (here and here, for instance), we love a good infographic. So we're pleased that Mint has allowed us to use their map of how much their users spend on gasoline--showing which U.S ...

Yesterday, Eric Fischer’s amazing Flickr set of maps illustrating the racial segregation and integration of various American city’s went viral. Using data from the 2000 census, Fischer’s maps ...

Infographics, an effective form of content marketing, are everywhere on the Web, but it isn't always easy to come up with good designs when you want to create one yourself, especially if you're not ...

In that light, Fathom’s choice to represent larger quantities (the aforementioned #$*&load of people) with smaller graphical elements (smaller, brighter circles on the map) ingeniously captures the ...