I love Information Graphics. In some ways there is nothing quite as beautiful. Graphic designer Nicholas Felton has released his fourth installment in his own Annual Report project, which visually represents his time and activities for that past year. Each year his Annual Reports have attracted more and more attention, and perhaps as a result, Nicholas has taken each past report to new heights. This year is no different. From the books he has read to the places he has been and the music he listen to along the way, each piece of information has been laid out beautifully in the form of charts, graphs, and even his own version of an atlas map. Available in both folded and unfolded versions, it is available here.

What an amazing concept. Visually beautiful, and factually hard-hitting. By using a familiar image like a country’s flag as a way to illustrate the unsettling statistics, this campaign connects so easily to the viewer. There is a good write-up about campaign here.

This fourth day of July, as Independence is celebrated across the US, let us all remember the things we take for granted—one of the greatest being the right to choose.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Fantastic Poster. Here’s a description of the project from Peter Crnokrak: A_B_ is a geopolitical survey of the 192 member states of the United Nations with regard to the quantitative degree to which each contributes to peace and terror in the world. The project is a dual-sided poster where the A_ side displays measures of peace, while the B_ side, measures of terror. For each of the A_B_ measures, the graph is divided into 3 rings (3 separate indexes for peace and 3 separate indexes for terror) that are themselves individual quantitative measures obtained from researchers working in the field of geopolitics. The quantitative variation for the peace and terror measures is represented as variation in line thickness: thin line=low value, thick line=high value. The functional nature of the poster becomes poignantly relevant when one makes detailed comparisons across nations for the various measures—many of the results are quite surprising and stand in contrast to prevailing norms of collective national perception.

Poster by Peter Crnokrak of Plus Minus
Available at Design Supremo.