Have you ever been out shopping and noticed another customer staring over at you with a perplexed look on their face? You look over at them, give a small nod and smile, then go back to digging through the t-shirts at Urban Outfitters looking for the right size — even though you know everyone already has the ‘Pugs, Not Drugs’ shirt (since when did pugs become so cool anyways? Ugh, mouth breathers). They come over and kindly ask if you have x shirt in a medium. At first you don’t hear them, shrugging it off to them speaking a different form of English than you. But, it happens again; they ask the same question. Which is right around the time you begin losing your cool. [Read more...]
Who Loves E-Readers?
E-Readers have jumped onto the scene in a big way over the last year, with the iPad and Amazon Kindle Fire becoming the must have gifts of the 2011 holiday season. The population of bookshelves across the country are seeing less growth over the past year too, with more and more people purchasing their books on an e-reader. But what are the characteristics of the typical e-reader buyer, and could e-readers become the next big advertising platform in the years to come? [Read more...]
Graphic Quote #6 – Saving Silverman
A Visual News original series for lovers of infographics and cult movies. [Read more...]
What Do Musicians Know About Romance?
“You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love longs, but I look around me and I see it isn’t so,” wrote Paul McCartney in his now classic Silly Love Songs… and the statement grows more true every day. Music about love must be the largest genre ever… I mean what else is there to fuel such passionately emotional songs? With their joyful lyrics, animalistic screams and soft-whispers, love songs range from the sappy to the sentimental, to the dark and depressing. It’s all been done in the name of love. [Read more...]
Valentine’s Day: By the Numbers
With its roots dating back to the Ancient Roman fertility festival, Lupercalia, and the 400 A.D. Saint Valentine martyrs, Valentine’s Day has come a long way. Valentine’s Day has become one of the most romantic days of the year, if not the most financially driven, with couples in the United States showering their loved ones with flowers, gifts, chocolates, cards, dinners, and sparkling wine. [Read more...]
A Solar Report With Images Revealed by the Sun
You don’t get a much more appropriate use of technology than this booklet for Austria Solar. Using ink that remains invisible until sunlight touches it, this crisp design by Mathias Nösel and Matthäus Frost of Serviceplan, comes in a foil envelope only revealing its imagery when opened to the rays of the sun. It’s a lot like those 1990s shirts that exposed their sweet prints as you strolled outside… only this is a whole lot less cheesy. [Read more...]
Visualizing the History of Radio
Since its discovery by Nikola Tesla in the late 1800s, radio has vastly influenced the world, changing how we get our news, how we communicate and how we entertain ourselves. This informative and entertaining graphic looks at the evolution of the technology from its birth to the modern age of internet radio, looking at how it has adapted to different times and uses. [Read more...]
The Body is a Canvas: Tattoo Infographic
One of the greatest things about design is that people are constantly coming up with new and creative ways to solve problems, display information or convey a message in a better way. Paul Marcinkowski (AKA Kaplon) is the designer behind this tattoo infographic which he made for a class project at the Academy Of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland. While poorly made infographics have been called the ‘plague’ of the internet, it’s great to see an artist sink their teeth into the medium and create something truly original. [Read more...]
Who Works For a Startup?
In this evolving world of technology and business, there are businesses who seem to appear on everyone’s radar seemingly overnight… like magic (think Pinterest). However, there is far more than magic which goes on behind the scenes to bring these companies into our collective conscious. Startups are beginning to employ the best and brightest the job pool has to offer and, with the recession and economy the way it is, companies are able to take their time and grab insane talent on the cheap. Perhaps the best way to explain their employment tactics: it’s like fishing with dynamite. With this kind of job atmosphere, it’s no wonder the best startups who hired the brightest from the talent pool are able to quickly take their company from idea to acquisition. [Read more...]














