Tiffany Farrant - Infographic and Web Design: Archive

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Masquerade Hen Party

At the end of June this year I will be attending a murder mystery hen party on an old steam train. Theme = masquerade. Now, I know it’s a fair way off, but I’ve been thinking long and hard about what kind of costume I would like to wear as “masquerade” is pretty open. So after much deliberation, I’ve decided to go with steampunk. Okay, so maybe not the most logical in...

Feb 24th

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Feb 22nd

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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster...”

– Isaac Asimov (via sirmitchell)

Feb 21st

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Feb 16th

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The Coffee Cycle

Grant Snider explains The Coffee Cycle on Incidental Comics. Brilliant! (via laughingsquid)

Feb 16th

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Feb 15th

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Bonsai Tree Castle

My life will not be complete until I have one of these in my office! How intricately stunning! Japanese artist Takanori Aiba built this unbelievably intricate mini-castle in and around a potted Bonsai tree using stone clay, epoxy putty, copper line, plastic, and resin. I can’t get over the amount of time and effort this must have taken. (via Dangerous Minds)

Feb 14th

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“Not all who wander are lost”

– All That is Gold does not Glitter, a poem by J. R. R. Tolkien

Feb 13th

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Feb 10th

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Feb 9th

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Amazing Photography of Yan Yongliang

These photos by Yan Yongliang absolutely blow me away. I love how he has mixed traditional techniques with modern photography to create these haunting, powerfully, moving series of images. The image above come from a series based on Shan shui paintings. These type of paintings stem from a history that goes back more than 1,500 years ago and the images often depict scenes of natural landscapes...

Feb 9th

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Feb 9th

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“Infographic thinking doesn’t let designers to interpret a narrative visually; it...”

– Interview with Francesco Franchi, FastCo Design

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Welcome to Tokyo

I love this book by Elena Frielinghaus! Welcome to Tokyo explores, through a plethora of visualisations, the city of Tokyo, taking a look at demographics, geography and history. In the words of Elena: I dealt with visualizations of geographical, demographical and historical facts and figures about the japanese metropolis Tokyo. For an optimum comprehensibility I‘ve been experimenting with...

Feb 7th

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“If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of...”

– The wise words of Zapp Brannigan, Futurama

Feb 3rd

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The Miss-Representation of Women in the Tech World →

I wrote a short piece about the mis-representation of women in tech over on the JESS3 blog this afternoon. It’s a little bit of a rant, but it’s something that I feel quite strongly about.

Feb 2nd

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Jan 31st

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The Complete History of Tokyo

Japanese graphic designer, Bunpei Yorifuji of Bunpei Ginza, has created these delightful illustrations capturing in an instant the complete history of Tokyo. In 10 frames, Yorifuji captures the most defining moments that built up to modern day Tokyo—from the birth of life, through to modern day. Evolution and dinosaurs Feudal era and the impact of religion The makings of a metropolis, and...

Jan 31st

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City Transit Line Posters

Gorgeously simple line art of some of the most complicated city transit systems in the world by John Breznicky. London Paris Tokyo It is a collaboration between graphic designer, Cayla and engineer, John. In searching for modern and clean New York City transit artwork for their apartment, they came up empty handed. John recalled a line drawing of the subway system Cayla had created...

Jan 30th

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Charles Dickens in Information Graphics

Check out these totally inspiring infographics by Density Design, all about Charles Dickens. Places mentioned in his books The connection and repetition of words throughout some of his most popular works View them all on Behance

Jan 29th

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Jan 27th

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Jan 26th

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Chartwell: A Typeface for Creating Charts

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...

Jan 26th

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Cartophile

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...

Jan 25th

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Jan 25th

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Biggest Solar Storm In Seven Years Is Hitting... →

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.

Jan 24th

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