Who sang what?

Sometimes you discover online something that combines two things you love and then you realize that all that procrastination was actually worth it. So for today’s pleasure combo I present to you one three Beatles infographs, charting the instrumentation of all of their songs, in their three phases.

I consider the haircut chart a bonus:

By Pop Chart Lab

See also:

• A girl with colitis goes by…
• The Beatles, more popular than Jesus?
  
• The Beatles in the year 3126
  

David Bowie’s been busy

Alice in the Subway

Would you imagine Alice taking the subway to wander around Wonderland? Perhaps not, but this transit map identifies the key locations of Lewis Carroll’s inspiration.

Well, if you don’t know where you want to get to, it doesn’t matter which way you go as the Cat would say…

See also:

• The drugs of Alice in Wonderland
• The strings of the NYC subway
• Strings of words
• The dark side of a fairy tale

Wild is the wind

This is amazing and I urge you to click on this link because the screenshot really doesn’t do justice to this. Hint.fm has created these beautiful, real-time, animated wind maps.

See also:

• The windmills of our city
• Your eyes, a whole world
• Nuit blanche

A girl with colitis goes by…

In the early days of the web, Am I Right was one of the funniest sites there was: a database of misheard lyrics. The misunderstanding of the psychedelic Beatles lyrics “A girl with kaleidoscope eyes” with the absurdist “A girl with colitis goes by” is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

And now there is a wonderful infograph by direct lyrics, to summarize the most common mistakes. Wasn’t it about time?

By the way, Am I Right has also published a collection of misheard lyrics in Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza: And Other Misheard Lyrics.

See the full infograph after the jump.

The crazy world of visual hallucinations

An infographic on hallucinations? Well yes. Insanely cool.

See the full infographic after the jump

The history of Western typefaces

You know it already. itsasmallweb loves words and their design, we are obsessed with fonts and typefaces and that is why we got really excited with Mashable’s infographic: A History of Western Typefaces. Here is their story:

See the full infographic after the jump

How music travels in space and time

We all know that music as we know it in the 21st century originated in Africa, but what routes did it go through?

Travel experts Thomson sponsored this wonderful interactive infographic following contemporary music genres as the traveled from Africa to the US to Europe and beyond. From Swing to Disco and from Hip Hop to Trip Hop, check out the history of music.

Six degrees of artistic influences

We have seen her work before, illustrating the food habits of famous writers and poets.   Now Wendy MacNaughton illustrates in a visually engaging manner the Circles of Influence, created by Michelle Legro and Maria Popova, which reveal the creative encounters and intersections of different writers, scientists, genres and eras.

See also:

• Food for inspiration
• I shall not live in vain
• Social networks from the Enlightement

Infographics: now and then

Yeah , we live in the age of infographics. We know it, already. It is the new way to convey information from the most trivial to the most complex. However, the need to visualise data doesn’t seem so new after all. From the beginning of the last century, artists and designers were looking for new ways to share information in a visually engaging manner, as these 1940′s copies of the Fortune magazine reveal. It seems that the only things that have truly changed are the techniques and the media.

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1984, A brave new world

How did the future that George Orwell and Aldous Huxley visualised turn out to be? The following infographic, created by Column Five for Akorn Entertainment, compares the concepts of 1984 and Brave New World to the current state of the Internet, as it has been evolved through the Internet censorship techniques of the East and the continuous stream of trivial information of the West.

via Visual News

See also:

• Free the internet
• If you can read this you are very lucky
• The Internet in 2015

Making (non) sense

There is an infographic for everything. From comparing the most controversial figures, like the Beatles & Jesus or even Kanye West to Bob Dylan, to unraveling the universe of your social self and from exploring theories, genres and art movements, such as science fiction or graffiti and street art to explaining the form of the infograph itself in a rather self-referential mode.

It is the new form of conveying easily and visually appealing information, but Chad Hagen’s ‘Nonsensical Infographics’ convey no information, they play rather with form than function and remain visually challenging.

It’s all about me

OK, we all know that Facebook is the shrine of narcissism and self-reference. And the apps that I am going to present are a tribute to the “cult of me”. But they are so well done that they are practically irresistible.

Deutsche Post’s Social Memories creates a booklet filled with infographics based on the public info on your Facebook profile. While the digital version of the booklet is free, you need to pay 19 € for the bound version in glossy paper.

Intel’s Museum of Me, on the other hand, is a virtual exhibition of, well, you. Again using data from your public info it creates 3D gallery views of your photos, friends, words most used on your status updates, etc.

See also:

• Would you tell a stranger what you tell Facebook?
• At night your facebook profile comes to life
• Don’t give up on facebook just yet

If the world were a village of 100 people

If the world were a village of 100 people, how things would be divided?

We have seen all sorts of infographics, but these infographs in the form of a poster by Toby Ng Design display the spread of population around the world under various classifications.

The internet in 2015

How different will our digital life be in just four years from now? Watch this superb infographic video, “Digital Life: Today and Tomorrow,” created by NeoLabels and Inés Leopoldo to find out. It lasts almost 8 minutes, but worth every second.

via Fastcodesign

See also:

• The universe of social networks
• 57% of people talk to people more online than they do in real life, part 2
• Why crying?
• The sarcastic meta-infographic

Help the semicolon not to become extinct

Out of all the punctuation marks the semicolon is my favorite; semicolon is the shit. And here’s how to use it:

by the Oatmeal’s grammar series 

See also:

• “Pun,ctu.a’tion?”
• Say it with an e-card
• I shot the serif

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The medium is the message

Or in this case, the message is the branding. Another confirmation of the fact that the best ideas are the simplest. Case in point: a milk carton that wears its nutritional facts as its branding. Aka, infographic packaging.

By information designer Audree Lapierre for ffctn.

See also:

• The end of computers
• Don’t stuff yourself on this one
• The thread of hypertextuality

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The universe of social networks

Infographic created by JESS3

See also:

• The art of visual storytelling
• The sarcastic meta-infographic
• The meta-infograph

The sarcastic meta-infographic

Well, I could explain myself, but the title says it all.

See the full image after the jump

How big is our universe?

We often feel alone and unprotected in this vast universe. But really, how big is our universe? This fascinating interactive animation explores the known universe, from Quantum foam to the Virgo Galactic Group.

via PSFK

See also:

• The evolution of the theory of evolution
• Science distilled in a phrase
• A tale of twins (or how to explain relativity theory)
• The meta-infograph