Lord of the Rings Lego

This is something that I need to have in my life. Finally, The Fellowship can sit with me while I work at my desk and guide me on my way. 

(via Gizmodo)

Urbanflow Aims To Turn Cities Into Playgrounds For Interactive Infographics

A really great idea that utilises the power of beautiful data visualisations to help people get to know the city around them. 

Ever find yourself wandering around a new city (or even one you’re familiar with), and approach one of those handy urban info-kiosks only to find that it’s completely inadequate to the task of telling you where you are, where you might want to go, and what is going on around you? Urbanscale has the same frustration, which is why they teamed up with designers at Nordkapp to design a set of updated public signage called Urbanflow that’s as connected and interactive as the smartphone in your pocket. Here’s their concept video:

(via FastCo Design)

Need to create quick, simple charts? Well now you can with this amazing typeface, Chartwell, designed by Travis Kochel. Basically you type numbers and plus signs, and out pops charts. 

Chartwell is a set of three fonts that together create a remarkable set of tools for creating bar, line, and pie charts. It uses OpenType ligatures to perform its magic – a series of numbers can be transformed into clean, perfectly rendered graphs, as you type.

Read more about the typeface on Typographica

I found this lovely blog today, call Cartophile, which takes a look at all things map orientated (see what I did there?!?). There are too many examples to post, but here are some wonderful pieces that caught my eye this afternoon.

                                                                                Map in your coffee

                                                              A beautiful and fun DIY project, perhaps?

                                                          A map made out of moustaches? Why not?

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The largest solar storm since 2005 is now in progress, causing fluctuations on the power grid and disruptions to the Global Positioning System. But worst thing is the ongoing strong solar proton storm—ranking S3 on a 5-level scale—which is in full rage now and gradually increasing because of this Coronal Mass Ejection impact.

Oh Hai, Mark!

I was just writing an email to my colleague, Mark, and I broke into hysterical laughter as I wrote “Oh hai, Mark”.

Now, for those of you who don’t know, “oh hai, Mark” is a line from The Room one of the most, let’s say “interesting” movies of last year. Okay, it’s just plain bad, but that kind of bad where it’s actually pretty hilarious. Well, during the movie “oh hai” gets said quite a lot… particularly to Mark. Anyway, reminiscing about this while writing a work email made my morning.

I am now going to share with you this clip, compiling all the “oh hai” moments from the movie. Enjoy! (Contains a rather large spoiler!)

The Creative Life

This charming sketch by Christoph Niemann pretty much sums up my daily work life. The utter agony of creative block when I’m concepting right up to the sheer elation of finding an idea that works. Wonderfully summarised!

(via curiositycounts)

The Isle of Knowledge

Mapping the human condition, from the Empire of Love to the Kingdom of Wisdom

(via curiositycounts)