Makeup Research

I looked up a couple of different places for infographics throughout the week and forgot to compile them into a presentation, but here are a few of the things that I looked at.

• This is from a blog that I found when I googled "school pictograms." The post was called The Importance of Infographics (click here). It has a few different examples from various magazines. I especially liked this one because it has SOOO much information and it really turns into a cool spread. Also, the pictograms are not your ordinary stick men, and they're detailed, but not in a bad way. It's unfortunate that I couldn't find a larger image though - sorry about that.



• I was also looking at a blog called DesignWorkLife. I realize that these are not pictograms, nor do they represent any data, but they're really beautiful and super enjoyable to look at. Click here
  
  Here is one of them from the blog:
  
  
  
  More of the nonsense graphics are listed on This Page
  
  



• This was something else that I found on google - apologies, this one is also really small. But I thought the set up was really cool. The game board representation is really interesting.
  
  



• This week I also browsed over another blog called Indienomics and saw this little diagram about street vendors which I thought was kind of cool. Apparently it's part of a book of rules and regulations for street vendors and I think that the design was done by Candy Chan? That's what I read on the blog that they link to.
  
  



• Okay, and one more cool one before I show you guys the ones that I liked off of Good magazine's website. This is an infographic about the costs of war in Iraq, which I've been really interested in lately since Zoya came to visit MICA - she's a speaker from RAWA, a women's rights activist group from Afghanistan... although, apparently this infographic also came from Good Magazine and I found it elsewhere... darn.
  
  



• My mom and I looked through Good's infographics together and we really liked this one which is the top 10 most and least carnivorous countries.
  
  



• Annnndddd since this one is pertinent to my family's situation at the moment, we looked at the best and worst cities to find work in as well. This reminds me a lot of some things I've seen on other blogs recently - a lot of people keep overlapping arial and helvetica in blue and red... But that's beside the point.
  
  

Okay, and admittedly, I never looked at bad pictograms, but I do have a few in mind.

This one always confused me when I was taking my learners permit test because I was thinking it was a truck area or something and then it turned out to be a warning sign for a hill? Okay, so that's probably a stupid mistake to make, but I always was tripped up by it.



I think any of these "reverse" curve signs also confuse the crap out of me. Honestly, if a lot of people fail their permit tests because they have to memorize the meaning of the pictograms, then the pictograms aren't doing their jobs.



And for the final one, I have no idea what this one is. None.