Measuring men Drove past this on holiday. Shows the price of a room. For one or two. Unambiguously and instantly. Black on white. Have a look. I already liked signs with multiple men in the [...]

Have a look: next to each other? Apart from one another? Inches on the left, centimeter on the right. Source: Catalog Swiss Shop Duty Free, Summer 2014. Pretty much apart. Although, the same belongs [...]

Once again at the airport. Where there's lots of information. Or no information. Useless.

A friend sent me this: From London. From the airport. It shows how long you have to wait. At security. Have a look. London Heathrow, Terminal 5. North and South have the same length. But – how long [...]

The stock market in the Financial Times is funny as well. Thanks to the headings. It gets even more funny when there is no heading at all. Have a look. A DIY-chart: You have to think about it what it's [...]

I looked at them again. At the stock exchange prices in the SZ, the German newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung". Always funny. For a long time now. Again and again. Have a look. Source: SZ from 2014-05-15 [...]

There is a new magazine. For economy and stuff. BILANZ (in German only). In it, there was this bubbling water spout. Have a look. Profitability of the various business segments of Thyssen-Krupp. Source: [...]

He had to get money. For my food. Waiting outside I looked in the display window. There were houses and apartments for sale. And the stock market. Have a look. Seen at the Sparkasse Nuremberg, Äußere [...]

You mustn't chop the feet of columns. And you mustn't hit them on the head either. Have a look. Source: Hans Zeisel, Say it with figures, New York, 1985, page 128. This should have been fill columns [...]

Symbols are difficult. Some symbols can only be understood when they are next to each other. Have a look. Source: my photos. Orangerie, Paris. I thought I was right. Because it's for girls here. I [...]

Today, there are more Caesarians than years ago. A whole lot more. Says the German newspaper "SZ". Because senior college graduates don't want to suffer. Because parents think that a birthday on 2012-12-12 [...]

Last time but two: Crushed bars and jumping columns. Next to last time: decrushed bars. This time: columns that don't jump anymore. Data from 2004 until 2013: Money for software companies, that are just [...]

Found this, the other day. In “Die Welt”. A national, daily German newspaper. It’s scaring its readers. With a dumb chart or, as they call it, "Chart of doom". For stocks. Like in 1929. A memorable [...]

I said: I draw that again. Now have a look. Redesign: me. Look how it works. In "The Economist" it looked like that: Source: Same as last time. "The Economist", Special Report "Tech Startups", 2014-01-18 [...]

One of my intentions for 2014: I'll stay dog-matic. Because... data are cruel. Have a look. Source: "The Economist", Special Report "Tech Startups", 2014-01-18, page 5. Two values were too big. The [...]

Wolfhart gave me a book. As a present. From Eduard. About maps. I flipped through the pages. Then I got hungry. The dog food is sent by post. Produced in A. I live in D. In B and C, there are hungry dogs [...]

The German newspaper "Die Welt" has drawn circle on stick. I couldn't stop thinking about it. Because: data was missing. I straightened it out. Debt (in billion Euro). Source: "Die Welt", 2013-12-10 [...]

German cities have lots of debt. The German newspaper "Die Welt" says that. Have a look. Cities with the highest debt - debt level from loans, bonds and cash credits Source: The German newspaper "Die [...]

Today, something from the past. A graphic table from the German newspaper SZ. From the year 2005. Revenue as bar. Share as pie, for the most important product. Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2005-06-15 [...]

Drawing the same things in the same way is good. You remember it easier. For example: Current-numbers are always filled. Forecast numbers are always hollow. Also works when it's pretty small. Source: [...]

I said: Measuring with things that you know is good. Painting with them is also good. That's what Otto, Marie and Gerd are doing since 1920. Have a look. Headline: Progression of railways. Source: [...]

Toby has drawn the world. As a village. Among others like that. Funy. The village is a zebra. More black than white. Black is not always black. Black is non-white. Toby has more funny ideas. Source: [...]

Time runs from left to right. Same with text. Sometimes time and text are in the way of each other. Then you rotate it. Have a look. Source: WSJ Europe, 2013-04-26, page 32. Funny, what do you [...]

I like self-confidence. But the German retail trade association HDE exaggerates. Have a look. Headline: Economic achievement by comparison. Left total turnover in retailing, right total turnover in automobile [...]

Small is often difficult. Small differences as well. Especially big differences between small ones. Have a look. Here is how it works extremely bad. Unemployment rate in August 2013. Source: the regional [...]

He has been at the Hoover Dam. On the bridge, in front of it. There was a chart. In bronze. A real Gantt-chart. With time periods for construction phases. Casted in bronze. A chart for eternity. It [...]

At Xing, time is a balloon. The longer your stay the more air is coming in. If you didn’t stay that long, the same air is coming in. There is the same amount of air for two months, thirteen months and [...]