well, it seems that my Teeshirt design has been picked up by the nice people over at Whispermag, who have featured it along with Spreadshirt as site of the day.
This is my first and as yet only outing into the world of e:commerce and not 5 days later it already seems to be making headlines.... God Bless the in ter net
ENOUGH I SAY! To the planners, producers and A/C directors who work in Interactive media, seated conveniently across from designers and art directors aplenty - there is simply no longer an excuse for stuffy diagrams, obscure charts and concentric circular diagrams which are supposed to tell us something about the nature of the industry within which we work.
Why are we are still presented with a page of Bar Charts and Pie Graphs from M.S. Excel as the "interesting" parts of presentations that are supposed to be conveying information about media which is inherently non-linear in nature.
I stand very much with Tufte on this matter of making the information representation medium suit the subject matter. At the same time I have very few great examples of interesting statistical presentations. However, I now have one Brilliant one:
Old news it is, but since the original breaking news regarding the riot on Digg a few weeks back, I was browsing a few hacker forums hoping to pick up some snippets of information regarding how to Crack HD-DVD DRM in the interest of keeping information free, and being able to back up any HD-DVD content that I purchase. Suddenly is dawned on me - the interweb is a great thing.
