bloodwork revitalized

david mccandless won a Wired competition for finding a better way to visualize severely outdated blood test results. they're tremendously important but tantalizingly annoying and difficult to read.


here's what they used to look like:



and here's what mccandless and his team designed:





hopefully hospitals and medical centers will use this as their standard means of presenting bloodwork... truly a matter of life and death.

stunning typography

Absolutely beautiful.
Jarret Heather's terrific "kinetic typography" for Coulton's "Shop Vac".
Jarret spent upwards of 1000 hours on this masterpiece.

college affordability

college costs have been soring at a rate higher than that of inflation and medical costs.
2010 marked a landmark in which the first public university hit the $50,000 mark (for out-of-state students) as the University of California-Berkeley increased tuition/room and board costs 6.1% to a whopping $50,649.

the world's facebook relationships

a pretty neat visual representation done by an intern at facebook that looks at the relationships that people have to one another globally.

IDEO at it again...

making music touchable again...
these guys rock my world.



c60 Redux from IDEO on Vimeo.

Google Autocomplete

A cool little infographic here about Google's autocomplete. 
It maps out all the states and tells you what Google autocompleted when you type in the state's name.

some cool design work

sorry i've been MIA with craziness at work.


i thought i'd share some cool visualization that have been popping up in my absence. 


enjoy!